Sentences with phrase «gene map»

He is also interested in gene mapping approaches to genetic and cultural factors implicated in antisocial behavior.

As the cost for a full gene map approaches $ 1,000, the opportunity increases for business owners to get in on the genome mapping industry.

Therefore, traditional gene mapping studies might overlook that mutation.

Because some of the partners have already begun preliminary gene mapping and sequencing, a «rough draft» of the full sequence could be completed by year's end.

Like gene mapping, part of the reason for this evolution is the dramatic advances in information technology in recent years.

The Human Genome Organisation, which aims to coordinate research on gene mapping worldwide, has condemned the patenting of gene fragments as a hindrance to research (This Week, 18 January).

Using gene mapping techniques, the researchers zeroed in on a mutation in the gene for hypocretin receptor 2.

«A three - dimensional map of the genome: Gene mapping technique promises to unlock the power of proximity to find genes implicated in diseases.»

Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8 - year - old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

After gene mapping we had several candidate regions to choose but exome sequencing quickly identified the actual mutation.

In this month's issue of Genome Research, Elizabeth Stewart and her colleagues at Stanford University present this new map, which places about 8000 landmarks along the genome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of gene maps currently in use.

«Gene mapping lays groundwork for precision chemotherapy: First - of - its - kind study maps links between 625 genes and 31 different chemotherapy treatments.»

CEPH's involvement in gene mapping goes back to 1980 when Jean Dausset, a Nobel prizewinning immunologist and geneticist, set up the institute with a 50 million franc bequest from a wealthy art collector.

Chromosomes are double - stained with different fluorescent substances (red and blue) for the precise gene mapping.

Tomofumi Otake and Asako Kuroiwa of Hokkaido University in Japan performed gene mapping to determine the chromosomal locations of sex - related genes in the T. osimensis genome.

The late - onset gene maps to a different location than a known early - onset Parkinson's gene on chromosome 1, Hicks says.

A spruce gene map infers ancient plant genome reshuffling and subsequent slow evolution in the gymnosperm lineage leading to extant conifers.

Interestingly, the RNase L gene maps to the hereditary prostate cancer 1 locus and may have a dual function in both suppressing hereditary prostate cancer and viral infections.

After extensive gene mapping on the woman, scientists zeroed in on a variation in CRY1 as a possible culprit.

Before starting her consulting business, Be Well By Kelly, she worked in the medical field for Fortune 500 companies like J&J, Stryker, and Hologic, eventually moving into personalized medicine, offering tumor gene mapping and molecular subtyping to oncologists.

Despite strong evidence that genetics is important in determining the risk of idiopathic epilepsy, numerous gene mapping studies have failed to identify a locus that accounts for that risk in either dogs or humans.

Various components of this collaborative gene mapping project are being conducted by at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the National Cancer Institute, the University of Missouri, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Gene mapping such complex behaviours and disorders relies on the assumption that some proportion of the genes influencing these traits is fixed, and so the remaining polymorphic risk genes may then be more readily identified within this quieter genetic background, typically using within - breed mapping approaches.

Using gene mapping and gene validation, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) were able to identify cytoplasmic FMR1 - interacting protein 2 (CYFIP2) as a major genetic risk factor for binge eating.

His research focuses on gene mapping, gene modification, and cloning disease genes.

The Genome Data Base is the linchpin of international efforts in gene mapping, locating genes on the human chromosomes.

Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides George J. Annas and Sherman Elias, Oxford University Press, pp 291, # 35

The current discussion and debate on policy concerned with mental illness represents one peak on the tip of the iceberg explored by the 17 contributors to Gene Mapping.

Basically, I'm interested in the same old problem: How do the genes map onto the phenotype?

A gene map of the pattern of rearrangements could allow doctors to measure more precisely how far a cancer has progressed.

Unborn children will soon have their genes mapped.

Gene mapping and gene transformation are priority research areas of rice biotechnology in China.

Recently published in Cell, the team's major finding is the identification of the gene map kinase 4 (MPK4) as a regulator of resistance to a range of pathogens including bacteria, viruses or fungi.

So, with National Science Foundation funding, we developed a set of laboratories illustrating key concepts of gene analysis in plants, including the relationship between phenotype and molecular genotype, genetic modification of plants and detection of transgenes in foods, and linkage and bioinformatics methods for gene mapping.

Robert H. Waterston, a Pioneer and Leader in Gene Mapping and DNA Sequencing, Wins International Genetics Prize PR Newswire / Peter Gruber Foundation - June 28, 2005

The hereditary prostate cancer 1 (HPC1) gene maps to RNase L.

With the current advances in molecular biology, gene mapping and differentiation markers of the cells» maturing process from undifferentiated stem cells to differentiated tissue cells, it is now possible to trace down the origins of brown fat all the way back to its precursors.

In 2010, writer Rebecca Skloot wrote a book about Lacks detailing how her cells were used without her consent — while she was dying of cancer — to contribute to scientific discoveries like the polio vaccine, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.

He showed me a gene map once.

And since we are a breed still small in number, DNA testing and gene mapping is a realistic goal.

Muscular Dystrophy was eventually dismissed from consideration by UC Davis, but not before samples were also tested by the Lisa Project in Florida to see if the gene mapping was similar to those mapped in human Muscular Dystrophy.