Sentences with phrase «gene responsible for the disease»

A team of physicians and laboratory scientists has taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease, using CRISPR - Cas9 gene editing to fix the mutated gene responsible for the disease in stem cells from the blood of affected patients.

This inheritance pattern, as well as the equal distribution of the disease in males and females, indicated that there was a single gene responsible for the disease and that it was autosomal (i.e. that the gene was not on the X chromosome).

Although a team led by Mahajan identified the gene responsible for the disease in 2012, a cure has yet to be developed.

The mechanism responsible for epimutation involves the two neighbouring genes of MMACHC, the gene responsible for the disease.

Research into CF changed gear three years ago when scientists in Canada and the US pinpointed the gene responsible for the disease.

In 1990, Bell mapped MODY1, the gene responsible for the disease in this family, to a small region on chromosome 20, but did not pinpoint the precise gene.

However, as science identifies the genes responsible for the disease in different breeds and as DNA screening tests become available, epilepsy might be included in a breed's CHIC criteria.

One goal was to find the genes responsible for diseases common to both dogs and humans, including several types of cancers.