Sentences with phrase «gene variations discovered»

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The researchers discovered that patients who had certain genetic variations in interleukin genes had a better response to either surgery or chemotherapy, resulting in improvements in overall survival, disease - free survival and the amount of time until disease recurred.

They discovered that genetic variation influencing a person's risk for multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1diabetes is more likely to control gene activity in T cells than in monocytes.

A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour variation.

By studying rare «copy number variations,» which are individual errant insertions or deletions of DNA segments (each of which occur in less than one percent of the population), researchers discovered a new cluster of genes that are affected in some autistic individuals as well as a number of mutations that were present in autistic children but not their parents.

Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes.

Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized gene variation that makes humans have healthier blood lipid levels and reduced risk of heart attacks — a finding that opens the door to using this knowledge in testing or treatment of high cholesterol and other lipid disorders.

American geneticist Calvin Bridges discovered copy number variation in 1936, when he noticed that flies that inherit a duplicate copy of a gene called Bar develop very small eyes.

But now a team has discovered that a new variation in one of those genes, called SCN5A, may increase the risk of arrhythmia in members of the population at large.

A new sequencing technology based on longer sequence reads allows missing genes and missing forms of genetic variation to be discovered for the first time.

«We're confident that applying this same approach to a lot of new data will help us discover additional genomic variations and identify specific genes that play a role in schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions.»

Covering the entire genome, the study discovered that a common variation in the melatonin receptor 1A (MTNR1A) gene is linked to the job - related exhaustion experienced by shift workers.

After looking at 9 million genetic variants in those who were asparagus anosmic, they linked this deficiency to 871 individual sequence variations they discovered in chromosome 1, on genes associated with our sense of smell.

Using a combination of stem cells and novel analytical tools, scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators discovered that clues to the contribution of genetic variation to disease risk lie not only in the genes, but also in the molecular switches that control those genes.

«This integrates what we know about consequences of genetic variation in the transcriptome in order to discover genes, instead of just looking at mutations,» Im said.

Several genetic variations were discovered in genes that are suspected to play a role in drug resistance, notably those that code transporter proteins and those implicated in DNA repair.

Her current research is focused on discovering how normal and disease melanocyte cell states establish distinct regulatory DNA landscapes, and also determining how the combination of both genetic variation within these regulatory regions and environmental cell signals alter gene expression and normal cell function.

His laboratory has also discovered and characterized a significant number of novel genes contributing to autism and human neurodevelopmental disorders, and has recently applied whole - genome sequencing technologies and large - scale genomics datasets to prenatal detection and interpretation of structural variation in the genome.

deCODE has discovered a gene with certain variations that predispose to obesity and others that predispose to thinness Reykjavik, ICELAND, September 30, 2003 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq / Nasdaq Europe: DCGN) today announced that it has achieved a milestone under its...

Researchers have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair color variation.

Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized gene variation that makes humans have healthier blood lipid levels and reduced risk of heart attacks.