Sentences with phrase «genes in the human genome whose»

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The team's evidence of «gene flow» from descendants of modern humans into the Neanderthal genome applies to one specific Neanderthal, whose remains were found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia, near the Russia - Mongolia border.

The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.

The majority of genes in the mouse and human genome exist as multigene families, some of whose memberships are in the hundreds to thousands.

The team's evidence of «gene flow» from descendants of modern humans into the Neanderthal genome applies to one specific Neanderthal, whose remains were found some years ago in a cave in southwestern Siberia, in the Altai Mountains, near the Russia - Mongolia border.