Sentences with phrase «gene responsible because»

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The researchers caution that this study is only a starting point in the long process of finding the gene or genes directly responsible for longevity because the implicated area of chromosome 4 may hold as many as 500 genes.

It seems females are promiscuous simply because they inherit many of the genes responsible for male promiscuity.

Because many rabbit genes are similar to their human counterparts, manipulating disease genes in rabbits, like the one responsible for cystic fibrosis, may permit researchers to track the disease's onset and better understand what goes awry.

Because the clarity of emotional memories varies from person to person, a team of European and African researchers set out to determine whether a common deletion in a specific norepinephrine receptor gene called ADRA2B might be responsible.

Just because scientists know the gene responsible for a rare disease doesn't mean they know what's going on.

Finding the genes responsible for the increased risk is not straightforward because small sequences of DNA can interact with completely different parts of the genome through a strange phenomenon known as «DNA looping».

In breast cancer research, the gene BRCA1 has received the lion's share of attention because mutations in that gene are responsible for about three percent of all cases of breast cancer.

And because finch populations in the Western United States and Hawaii were not affected by this bacterial outbreak, genetic comparison can help determine whether Mhc genes were responsible for protecting finch populations on the East Coast after the initial disaster in 1994.

«We have found that the same genes responsible for tamoxifen resistance in our animals are also turned off in human breast cancer cells that do not respond to the drug,» she says «Because these genes were epigenetically silenced — meaning they were not irreversibly altered, just switched off — it was possible to turn them back on.

Of course, we know that genes alone are not responsible for cancer because we share many of the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going up.

Because there are some health risks associated with the gene responsible for the merle coat pattern, the AKC does not accept Chihuahuas that have a merle coat for registration.

(All responsible breeders carefully place their dogs in new homes, but breeders of rare breeds are even more finicky about where their pups go because they are guardians of a small gene pool and need to make sure that all breedable dogs are kept intact and that buyers understand the consequences of owning a pet that is also the repository of genes from that limited pool.)

Because they are less likely to have the defective genes responsible for these conditions, many mutts avoid health problems that are more common in their purebred cousins.