Using a combination of techniques,
they found abnormal expression of more than a half - dozen myelin - related genes in the mental patients.
Not exact matches
Using RNA sequencing, the researchers
found multiple genes whose
abnormal expression could lead to the high rate of death for cloned embryos, including failure to implant in the uterus and failure to develop a normal placenta.
The
finding wasn't surprising, Fallin explains — numerous studies have identified
abnormal gene
expression of immune genes in autism samples and environmental experiences such as prenatal infection or prenatal exposure to pollutants that can ramp up immune responses are risk factors for ASD.
A University of Tokyo research group has discovered that genome - wide epigenetic disorder is behind patterns of
abnormal gene
expression found in adult T - cell leukemia - lymphoma...
In fact, a recent study by Arakawa and colleagues of thyroid patients with Hashimoto's and Graves»
found that polymorphisms — that is, gene variations that may lead to the
abnormal expressions — were as common in autoimmune thyroid disease as they were in the normal population.
No genes that produce
abnormal proteins were
found, but instead the elevated risk appears to come from groups of tightly - linked DNA sequences called «haplotypes» that regulate the
expression of protein - coding genes.