Sentences with phrase «gene levels rather»

Hurley said adaptation to salt is likely affecting Daphnia at the epigenetic level, a heritable change in gene levels rather than genetic code.

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Now, new research suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be driving childhood ependymomas.

«The genes which these miRNAs regulate also had increased levels, indicating that these gene expression, indicating that these gene products were likely targeted for storage and for possible future use within the brain cell, rather than for destruction.

England's theory is meant to underlie, rather than replace, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, which provides a powerful description of life at the level of genes and populations.

Homozygous lethality of the XPCS allele is likely due to reduced levels of expression of this essential protein as a result of gene targeting (Figure 1A) rather than to the mutation itself.

Rather, HAR2 functions as an enhancer, a DNA sequence that works to increase or decrease the level of a gene's expression.8 An enhancer can be located thousands of base pairs away from the gene it regulates.

Surprisingly, whether or not a gene's expression was regulated by MeCP2 did not depend on its mCG content; rather, genes with high levels of mCH tended to be most affected by alterations in MeCP2 expression.