Sentences with phrase «from accumulated mutations»

Hutchison and Edgell guessed that this was because the switch that allows a gene to be turned on or off — the so - called promoter — has become faulty from accumulated mutations.

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Each genetic mutation produces only a very small change in the biological features of the organism, but such small changes accumulate over immense periods of time and lead to the evolution of new species from old.

The body wears out, mutations accumulate faster than can be repaired just through the natural process of cell division, cancer grows, arthritis wracks the world worn joints, the child born with tetralogy of Fallot away from surgical care dies.

Excoffier and his colleagues developed theoretical models predicting that if modern humans migrated as small bands, then the populations that broke off from their original African family should progressively accumulate slightly harmful mutations — a mutation load.

Chan's laboratory uses genomic analyses to identify neoantigens — novel peptides found only in tumors that arise from mutations accumulated by cancerous cells.

While those viruses reproduced and spread from host to host, their genomes accumulated a pattern of mutations that told a story.

«We began with stem cells taken from cord - blood, which have fewer acquired mutations and little, if any, epigenetic memory, which cells accumulate as time goes on,» says Zambidis, associate professor of oncology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and the Kimmel Cancer Center.

Most spontaneous mutations do neither harm nor good but simply accumulate in the genome, one at a time, as they are passed from one generation to the next.

And judging from the small number of mutations it had accumulated, it came from there only about a thousand years ago.

«We set out to determine why some grapevines accumulate salt and others don't, and found a specific mutation in a sodium transport protein found in grapevine roots, which prevents it from working effectively.

«Since random mutations accumulate over time, males who originate from a common patrilineal ancestor will share a particular collection of Y chromosome mutations,» Wallner explains, forming what's known as a haplogroup.

This stirring of the genetic pot allows the offspring to be unique while preventing any harmful mutations in the parents» genes from accumulating.

Normally, healthy cells have their own protective mechanisms to prevent mutations from accumulating.

These rare VDPVs arise when a virus used in the live vaccine reverts from its weakened form and regains its virulence — a danger when vaccination rates are low, as they are in both places, allowing the vaccine strain to circulate and accumulate genetic mutations.

«So the eye isn't destroyed because of accumulated mutations but is destroyed from the outside,» Jefferey says.

There, with help from Wasser and his colleagues in Seattle, geneticist Al Roca sequenced introns — vestigial sections of DNA from the nucleus that accumulate mutations quickly because they don't code for any physical traits — and confirmed that forest and savanna elephants diverged at least 2.6 million and probably more than 3 million years ago — long enough to render them separate species.

«These kinds of mutations accumulate over time — whenever our skin is exposed to sunlight, we are at risk of adding to them,» explains Dr Phil Jones, a corresponding author from the Sanger Institute and the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge.

Mitochondrial DNA in these rhinos has evolved rapidly enough to reveal mutations that have accumulated since the Bornean population was sundered by a sea - level rise several thousand years ago from rhinos to the east on Sumatra and the Malaysian peninsula.

By obtaining the entire mitochondrial genome sequences from cells of ME / CFS patients and an age - matched cohort, it is possible to determine whether cases have accumulated more somatic mutations in mitochondrial DNA than expected.

On the one hand, it regulates progression from premalignancy to malignancy, most likely by preventing oxidative stress - induced death of HCC - initiating cells, thereby allowing such cells to accumulate multiple oncogenic mutations, while promoting their growth through mTORC1.

Kwiatkowski suspects that these parasites descended from some lucky genetic lottery winners that accumulated the right sets of mutations for evading artemisinin.

Using postmortem tissues, Gan's team found that lipofuscin deposits also accumulated in neurons from the frontal cortex of people carrying progranulin mutations.

Because these regions are normally not expressed, they don't face selective pressures that prevent mutations from accumulating.

The aim of WICT is the removal from the organismal environment of accumulated cellular and intracellular damage present in the patient's endogenous cells, including telomere depletion, nuclear DNA damage and mutations, mitochondrial DNA damage and mutations, replicative senescence, functionally - deleterious age - related changes in gene expression and accumulated cellular and intracellular aggregates.