Sentences with phrase «genes they found coded»

The team also carried out a so - called metagenomic analysis, in which the genomes from all organisms in a sample are sequenced collectively; the great majority of genes they found coded for proteins never seen before.

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The researches found that the transgene was inserted into an active region of the genome, thereby disrupting the coding sequence and ultimately the function of the plants own OsAux1 gene.

Epigeneticists have found that our cells carry a type of memory of the experiences of our ancestors — not only that, but 95 % of our genes aren't yet coded at birth, dependent on nurturing and the environment to determine their fate.

This finding came as a surprise since it was assumed that as a consequence of the evolutionary divergence between human and other animal viruses, the genes that code for LANA could not be switched.

In the current study, researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.

Recently he found that eight of the youngsters have a defect in a gene that codes for a receptor protein called melanocortin - 4, known to regulate eating in mice.

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.

Sequencing the genome of one such organism, King and her colleagues found genes that code for pieces of the same proteins used for the binding of cells and communication between cells in animals — functions that would be unexpected in such an organism.

Affected family members, the group found, had inherited one or two defective copies of ZIC3, a previously unknown gene that appears to code for a transcription factor — a protein that switches other genes on or off.

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.

Pruitt and his colleagues found that these plants had somehow retrieved ancestral code that allowed them to repair the mutant gene.

There are several reasons why nobody before Shatz had found genes coding for MHCI in normal neurons.

Not long after the HD gene was isolated, studies led by MacDonald, also a co-author of the current investigation, found that a variation in the number of CAG trinucleotide repeats within the HD gene, which codes for a protein called huntingtin, is the primary determinant of the age at which HD symptoms appear, with a greater number of CAG repeats associated with an earlier symptom onset.

Using genetic data from more than 36,000 people with a variety of autoimmune diseases, researchers found that one genetic variant in the gene that codes for the TYK2 protein...

By comparing proteomic and RNA - sequencing data from people on different exercise programs, the researchers found evidence that exercise encourages the cell to make more RNA copies of genes coding for mitochondrial proteins and proteins responsible for muscle growth.

By deleting some of these «ultraconserved elements», researchers have found that these sequences guide brain development by fine - tuning the expression of protein - coding genes.

Researchers found that kochia has evolved to have multiple copies of a gene code that targets glyphosate.

For this reason, their finding — that nearly half of the unmapped sequences contained in available genomic reference libraries, including many protein - coding genes, were located in the centromeres — was unexpected.

The researchers have studied analyses of the genetic material of viruses found in newly infected people and, in particular, the gene env, which codes for the protein envelope or «coat» around the virus.

Using next - generation sequencing to identify the underlying mutations causing these effects, the groups found that the only common suspect was again the ap2 - g gene — the gene that codes for producing the AP2 - G protein.

Analyses found novel associations with three loci — regions of the genetic code — and the disorder at genes KANK4, LAMC1 and ATP1B1.

They looked specifically for genes coding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- a molecule found on the surface of cells that acts as a crucial component of the immune systems of most vertebrates.

Working with cultures of respiratory tract cells, Elias's team found that the gene that codes for il - 6 is inactive unless a protein known as nf - kb (nuclear factor - kappa beta) attaches to the gene.

Dr. Ella Evron and Dr. Ayelet Avraham of the TAU - affiliated Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, together with Prof. Saraswati Sukumar of Johns Hopkins, have found that «gene regulation,» the process that shuts off certain parts of a cell's DNA code or blueprint in healthy breast tissue cells, may also play a critical role in the development of breast cancer.

We found 20 genes that distinguished motor neurons that innervate digit muscles from the others, and there's a strange gene code involved in the cells» development.

«By sequencing all of the DNA that codes for mRNA and ultimately, proteins, Dr. Amin and colleagues found a single gene that may account for as much as 4 % of the heritable risk for depression,» said Doctor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Already they have found some promising results in a gene that codes for a brain enzyme called FAAH.

Jeremy Hall of the University of Edinburgh, UK, found that a mutation in the gene that codes for the protein is linked to a higher risk of schizophrenia.

Pugh and Venters further validated their surprising findings by determining that these non-coding initiation machines recognized the same DNA sequences as the ones at coding genes, indicating that they have a specific origin and that their production is regulated, just like it is at coding genes.

Learning more about how synapses change their connections could help scientists better understand neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, since many of the genetic alterations linked to autism are found in genes that code for synaptic proteins.

TheCiona genome contains ∼ 16,000 protein - coding genes, similar to the number in other invertebrates, but only half that found in vertebrates.

According to Richard Durbin, who leads the project's informatics team, computer techniques seem to find most of the genes sequenced so far but frequently missed some pieces of them, particularly the short coding regions that occur at the beginning of many nematode genes.

An alteration in the neuregulin - 1 gene — a single change in one letter of the DNA code for the protein — has been found in families with schizophrenia and linked to late - onset Alzheimer's disease with psychosis.

We further investigated the source of the conflict in the protein - coding genes (SM11) and found that trees using all codon positions from the 10 % most compositionally homogeneous (low - variance) exons (n = 830) were most congruent with the c12 tree and, thus, more similar to the TENT than to the c123 tree (Figs. 2 and 6A; cladograms in fig.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

The team, which included members of the Health Science Center departments of medicine and biochemistry, investigators from the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a group of collaborators from Austria, found that the gene that codes the enzyme D2 - hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase (D2HGDH) is mutated in a subset of cancers called diffuse large B - cell lymphomas.

Merely finding genes, which make up only two per cent of the genome, amid the reams of DNA code produced by sequencing will be hard enough.

In search of an explanation, the scientists combed through the African elephant genome and found at least 40 copies of genes that code for p53, a protein well known for its cancer - inhibiting properties.

In about 70 percent of the cases, he found a dislocation in a particular region of a certain chromosome, but at first he could not find any protein - coding gene responsible.

A massive study of twins finds that facial recognition ability is coded in our genes — but few of those genes also affect general intelligence

The number human protein coding genes, which account for less than 2 % of the human genome, have recently been found to number over 20,000.

They found that while elite suppressors often have the rare set of genes that code for HLA - B, those genes are «neither necessary nor sufficient» for controlling the virus.

A 2007 study at Harvard University and Germany's Max Planck Society found a red - hair - coding variant of hair - color genes in 43,000 - and 50,000 - year - old Neanderthal remains.

When the chimp and human genomes are compared, some of the clearest cases of nucleotide differences are found in genes coding for transcription factors.

They found that the initial stretch of either gene coded for the part of the protein that was necessary for secretion.

Through closer investigation, he found that the RNA sections that stuck around contained chemical codes that act as stop signs, prematurely halting the translation of the RNA from these two genes into proteins.

In 2000 Zuker and others found some 30 different kinds of genes that code for bitter - taste receptors.

They found 10 unique proteins and 23 microRNAs — short bits of RNA that don't code for genes — at increased levels in the vesicles.

They used CRISPR / Cas -9 to delete various sections of the Notch1 gene, and found that deleting the section that codes for the intracellular domain had no effect on permeability, while deleting the section that codes for the tiny transmembrane domain (TMD) caused vessel leakage to increase under flow conditions.

The gene - by - hormone interaction's effect on circuit function was found only with one of two versions of the gene that codes for BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor), a chemical messenger operating in the circuit.