Sentences with phrase «gene pairs»

In doing so, they found that many genes thought to be nonessential to life were actually one - half of gene pairs with the same function.

Similar mergers between other gene pairs, they hypothesized, could account for a significant portion of those with the disease.

Building upon existing knowledge about gene pair interactions future drugs will be created.

The SEngine founders used a unique arrayed siRNA screening approach to specifically identify such gene pairs (6,7).

Pleiotropy means one gene (or identical gene pair, if recessive) gives rise to more than one disease or characteristic; Alaskan Malamute dwarfism / anemic blood disorder is another example.

Considering that there are over 957 gene pairs discovered (in humans) through 2012 that regulate the innate immune system alone, there are many more ways that things can go wrong.

It is an unusual one in that most genetic defects I discussed up to now require both of the two members of any specific gene pair to be defective in order for the disease to occur (= a recessive trait).

Since hip dysplasia is a polygenic disorder controlled by several gene pairs, the disease affects individual dogs due to different genetic combinations.

If scientific observation shows that a genetic condition follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, this determination implies that the manifestation of the condition is controlled by the presence of one recessive gene pair.

Each gene pair is contained on a single piece of DNA that also includes a six - base - pair barcode for each gene.

The researchers then delivered the gene pairs into drug - resistant bacteria and treated them with different antibiotics.

But for some gene pairs, one gene has preserved the ancestral function while the other is free to evolve, sometimes taking on entirely new roles.

We have hundreds of these gene pairs in hand and are now developing drugs targeting the synthetic lethal partner of major oncogenic drivers.

The abnormal gene dominates the gene pair.

There is another gene pair in labs that typically does not influence the color.

This gene pair is made up of the D allele (or its recessive counterpart d).

That explosion of knowlege began about 1990, when Congress, through the NIH, increased funding for the human genome project — a project to name and map each gene pair within us and describe its function.

If one of those gene pairs is defective, the lysosomes can not digest the particular substance under that enzyme's control and that substance can build up within the cell — eventually killing it.

Most dogs have a gene pair that prevents ivermectin from entering the pets brain (penetrating the blood brain barrier) and doing damage.

Although the visual effect can be the same, it is easy to confuse this with the subtle hint of bronze (liver) that shows through in coats of some black dogs that carry an incompletely - masked recessive allele (one of the gene pair) for «a dilute» such as liver - chocolate.

While the color black in the Boerboel, Labrador, Great Dane, or some other breed is caused by a gene (more accurately, a gene pair) on one locus of the chromosome, such a gene can have a variation (allele) that codes for a minor difference in how the pigment granules are arranged in the hair shaft or the integument cells.