Sentences with phrase «genes found so»

MetG is a considered as conserved gene finding so many HGT event in this gene indicate that horizontal gene transfer is very common in this gene.

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Not exact matches

In an effort to find answers to some of those questions, researchers recently identified the so - called «wanderlust gene» (DRD4 - 7R, to be exact), which is present in about 20 percent of humans.

But the vitamin A content was still low, so they turned to a gene found in corn, which increased the amount of vitamin A 23 times.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Suppose it could be shown from past letters that my father met my mother because he missed his train, and so caught the one on which he found this beautiful young woman sitting; suppose, further, that a super-computer could show that some of my genes can be traced back to a small creature scrabbling about in the Triassic mud.

I'm heading to Portland, OR, for a friend's wedding, so I'll be eating plenty, including at visits to Ava Gene's and Maurice, where I'm hoping to find something that channels a crunchy carrot slaw and this Maurice bostock, a sweet, bready revelation.

She is identifying the enzymes in these natural products to find the genes responsible so that they can be introduced into other plants.

So Beller's team looked for just such a cluster of genes among the candidate genes in the toluenemaking sewage sample, and they found the GRE phenylacetate decarboxylase (PhdB) and its activator, PhdA.

Now, a new study probing so - called noncoding DNA has found that alterations in regions that regulate gene activity may also contribute to autism.

Tell me about the two - year Sorcerer II cruise, where you sampled a huge amount of ocean DNA — so large that you concluded you found 95 percent of all genes known to science.

So Sandra Ryeom at the Children's Hospital in Boston and colleagues bred mice with three genes to find out if an extra copy gave them extra protection against cancer.

Despite the proliferation of GWAS, the associations found so far have largely failed to account for the known effects of genes on complex disease — the problem of «missing heritability.»

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

However, the team also found virulence genes in regions of the genome that are not so variable.

Whether you are studying the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously using DNA microarrays, or the interaction of multiple molecules to understand intercellular signalling, the skills that will help you understand your findings are statistics, computational techniques, and modelling — so all you really need is a mathematician.

That means that the approach that worked so well for finding the sweet receptor — identifying a likely gene for the receptor, destroying it in mouse embryos, and proving that the resulting mice are unable to taste sweetness — will not work in the search for the salt receptor.

The American cockroach has genes that code for more than 150 scent receptors and 500 taste receptors, the most found in any insect so far.

So we sequenced a gene involved in cell growth and found a correlation in about 85 percent of the patients: If you had a certain mutation in the EGFR gene, you responded to the drug; if you didn't have the mutation, you didn't.

Then they put all six genes into a single piece of DNA, so that they would all be transcribed together — and found that they could reconstitute the «3 - D printer» that assemble tubulin dimers.

Other molecules, called acetyl groups, were found to play the opposite role, unwinding DNA around the histone spool, and so making it easier for RNA to transcribe a given gene.

Several mutations were found in genes coding the machinery that makes mitochondrial proteins, and so would probably hinder mitochondria's ability to make the chemical fuel called ATP, which is used by normal cells.

We did not find any evidence for a so - called «positive selection» but instead found that many gene variants linked to schizophrenia reside in regions of the genome in which natural selection is not very effective in the first place.

Mitochondria carry only a few genes, but they are so plentiful that it's often easier to find their DNA than the single full human genome in a cell's nucleus.

Most studies so far have found that educational achievement is influenced by a combination of thousands of genes.

They say their study, published online in Endocrine Related Cancers, provides some surprising findings about HDAC inhibitors, which all seemingly do the same thing — remove the HDAC enzymes that wrap DNA so tightly that genes are silenced.

Why so many perish is unclear, though researchers have found that many genes are either over - or underexpressed in cloned embryos (ScienceNow, 12 September 2002).

Since the publication of the human genome sequence in 2001, scientists have found that the so - called junk DNA that lies between genes actually carries out many important functions.

When researchers like Barzilai have looked for genes that might account for the extreme longevity of the centenarians they study, they have typically found that the genes that stand out in one long - lived population do not do so in others.

So, finding a resistant male and getting his resistance gene to her offspring is probably evolutionarily a good idea.

McRae and colleagues found that the genetic variants associated all lie in or near genes that encode so - called odorant or olfactory receptors.

Research led by Margery Smelkinson found that NS1 modulates the activitiy of a signaling cascade known as the Hedgehog pathway (so named because fruit fly larvae lacking the Hedgehog gene emerge hairless and resemble tiny hedgehogs).

The teams are yet to identify every gene contained within this supergene region, but have so far found a gene involved in colouring, which could explain differences in plumage, as well as genes involved in processing sex hormones.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

«We're generating so much sequence data right now, from so many species, that it's relatively straightforward to look for signatures of selection in genes and to find good candidates for adaptations,» Montooth said.

Pinker says that the findings are a first step in demonstrating that intelligence relies on large numbers of genes, each with a tiny effect, rather than on single genes that have moderate or large effects, but which are so rare that none has yet been identified.

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

Although the gene sequences were not identical to the Mikovits - Ruscetti XMRV gene sequence reported in Science, they were so close Lo believed he had found genetic variants of a single MLV - like virus species that likely included XMRV.

So once researchers have identified the genes of obesity, they must find out how the genes interact with a person's environment.

In a population with so few individuals, an unhealthy mutant gene will more often find itself paired with the same mutant gene in an offspring because the parents are related and of similar genetic makeup.

If correct, the finding would add to growing evidence that this so - called «speech gene» is involved in communication in a wide variety of animal species.

«We have found the gene in the monkey, but so far there has been no sign of fluorescence,» says Chan, indicating that the gene has not yet been used to create proteins.

What we found is that the ability of this chronic social stress to produce maladaptive changes in brain and behavior — loss of pleasure, inability to sleep normally and so on — are mediated through epigenetic modifications of gene expression, in particular, emotional centers of the brain.

Robertson's findings fit nicely with Haig's theory: The paternal Igf2 gene encouraged growth of the offspring, so it would make more demands upon its mother.

(Normally, multiple circular RNAs can be generated from a single gene, so it is not entirely surprising to find different f - circRNAs emerging from the same fusion gene.)

That gene, called Wnt - 7a, is also suppressed by Engrailed - 1, so it is active on only one side of the AER, and that side becomes the dorsal side, the researchers found.

Zebrafish can find a way to compensate for a mutated gene, but artificial methods of inactivating the same gene are not so readily overcome, a new study suggests.

It's not that methylation doesn't do anything at all — in fact, the researchers found that it is primarily associated with genes that serve crucial functions for workers and queens alike, suggesting that DNA methylation might contribute to the stable expression of so - called household genes.

We know that genes need to be conserved or nearly conserved, so we'll find lots of things we expect.

So when Page's team started sequencing the chromosome, they expected to find a gene - free runt or a genetic jungle whose sequence would consist mostly of repetitive, difficult - to - read gobbledygook.