Sentences with phrase «genes affect fat»

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But what's really significant in the research is the identification of which genes are selectively affected by consumption of dietary fat or by capsaicin.

Similarly, someone who inherits the version of a particular gene that's associated with obesity will be more likely to wind up fat than someone who inherits a normal version, but that tendency can be affected by environmental factors such as how much fattening food is available.

Since proper functioning of the fat body is essential for the development of the female reproductive system after a blood meal, identifying which miRNAs are important to fat body functions, and what specific genes they target, can help design ways to manipulate the levels of microRNA or their targets, affect their interactions, disrupt mosquito reproduction, and thus prevent the spread of diseases the mosquitoes transmit.

But new research presented today at the American Physiological Society (APS) annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2017 in Chicago suggests that normal levels of vitamin A within a high - fat diet can negatively affect expression of liver genes associated with glucose and fat metabolism.

Although Khaitovich thinks that the Neandertal genes affect the composition of fat throughout the body, the researchers focused on brain tissue first because it contains so many fatty acids — and was available from a brain tissue bank.

Human traits like hair distribution, fatness and fat distribution, blood chemistry, and ear form are known to be affected by variation in dozens or hundreds of genes.

A new study in fat cells has revealed a molecular mechanism that controls how lifestyle choices and the external environment affect gene expression.

So it is misleading for Church to say that «we already know about» the genes that affected mammoth ears, hair, fat, or blood.

Many of the 19 mutations were in genes that affect how mice metabolize fats and carbohydrates from food.

• In nutrigenomics, the basic goal is to discover how diet affects metabolic pathways in the body and how this regulation may be disturbed in diet - related disease — i.e., humans with a certain mutated gene absorb higher levels of fat from the intestine, leading to elevated cholesterol and possible atherosclerosis.

The company, intrigued with the results, wanted to know if chromium was affecting gene expression in fat metabolism.

Vitamin D deficiency is extremely widespread — with more than 100 million Americans deficient in this critical fat - soluble vitamin — and has the ability to affect up to 2,000 genes.

Research has shown that blueberry consumption affects the genes associated with fat burning and fat storage.

«Our study shows the positive effects of exercise, because the epigenetic pattern of genes that affect fat storage in the body changes», says Charlotte Ling, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Center.