Sentences with phrase «genetic differences found»

The researchers also sought to determine whether the genetic differences they found would yield any general genetic classifications of dog breeds.

Such regions defy elucidation via conventional sequencing approaches, which simply can not detect extremely subtle genetic differences found hidden among the «mirrors.»

Not exact matches

«While we found distinct differences between chalk and non-chalk salmon, we found little genetic differentiation within chalk - stream populations.»

But despite artificial influences the study found genetic differences between humans are what continue to fuel evolution.

Past studies have found IDH mutations to be among the most common genetic differences seen in patients with iCCA, but how they contribute to cancer development was unknown going into the current effort.

The team found that genetic differences that cause people to have more young red blood cells in their peripheral bloodstreams also increase the risk they will have a heart attack.

Using the genetic data, along with high - quality 3D photographs of the participants» faces, the researchers used an artificial intelligence approach to find small differences in DNA sequences, called SNPs, associated with facial features such as cheekbone height.

Careful genetic analysis not only confirmed long - standing suspicion that Y. pestis was the microbe responsible for the plague, but also found slight genetic differences among bacteria from various remains at the site — suggesting that even as it killed millions, the bacterial strain itself was dying off.

Even if the researchers find differences, he says, «we still need to find the genetic mechanisms that are causing the neural crest cells to act as they do.»

They found that these genetic differences were tied to several important developmental and cell signaling pathways.

Even on adjacent nesting sites along the Turkish coast, they found evidence of genetic differences in both mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited only from mothers, and genomic DNA, which is inherited from both parents.

The researchers, led by Sara Jaeger, Jeremy McRae, and Richard Newcomb of Plant and Food Research in New Zealand, found that for four of the ten odors tested, there was indeed a genetic association, suggesting that differences in the genetic make - up determine whether a person can or can not smell these compounds.

«Our findings show that population differences in transcriptional responses to immune activation are widespread, and that they are mainly accounted for by genetic variants that differ in their frequencies between human populations,» said Lluis Quintana - Murci of Institut Pasteur and CNRS in Paris, France, who led one of the two studies.

The findings, published in the journal Nature, explain why the human genome is so difficult to decipher — and contribute to the further understanding of how genetic differences affect the risk of developing diseases on an individual level.

Autism spectrum disorder has a significant genetic component, and scientists have found thousands of genetic differences between some people with ASD and those without.

Reviewing dozens of studies with discordant findings across many genetic models of worm longevity, Anderson found that a consistent difference - maker was using FUdR.

The leaders of the human genome diversity project wanted to find a way to celebrate and preserve our genetic differences.

While scientists have found many genetic differences in different people with ASD, these often show little overlap and don't appear to be related.

To try to answer that, we looked for molecular differences that could reveal aspects of motor neuron diversity — and the study started with a molecular screen to try and find genetic differences between different subtypes of motor neurons.

So, the new findings support the idea that genetic differences expressed early during brain development may have a lot to do with the development of bipolar disorder symptoms — and other mental health conditions that arise later in life, especially in the teen and young adult years.

The question of binge drinking patterns and mortality is far from solved, and there may be genetic differences or other covariates not yet discovered, which play a role and could explain the different empirical findings.»

A new study led by Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Montreal raises a note of caution, finding that person - to - person genetic differences may undercut the efficacy of the gene editing process or, in more rare cases, cause a potentially dangerous «off target» effect.

After collecting information from school counselors about any social difficulties experienced by the girls, Skuse's group found that 40 % with the maternal X chromosome were likely to have problems at school, versus only 16 % of girls with the paternal X. «It seemed to us there could only be a genetic explanation for that,» Skuse says, because he says there were no other differences between the two sets of girls.

They found that regional differences in the timing of precipitation, and the resulting increase in local vegetation and plants («greening»), could best explain the source of genetic differences.

For example, the team found that many of the genetic differences were related to the biochemical function of metal ion binding, and metals are known to influence differences in pigmentation and mandible shape between the two T. cristinae ecotypes.

By analyzing genetic markers specific to sweet potatoes in both modern samples of the plant and older herbarium specimens, the researchers discovered significant differences between varieties found in the western Pacific versus the eastern Pacific.

«These twin studies show that there's a genetic basis for the differences in how easy or enjoyable children find learning.»

In all, about 62 % of the individual differences in academic achievement — at least when it came to GCSE scores — could be attributed to genetic factors, a number similar to previous studies» findings, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers found no statistically significant difference between rates of asthma (including childhood - onset asthma), atopic dermatitis, or IgE levels in people with or without any of the four genetic changes associated with lower levels of 25 - hydroxyvitamin D. However, the results do not exclude an association between the outcomes and levels of 1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D, the active form of the vitamin, and more work will be needed to determine if the results hold true in non-European populations and in people with vitamin D deficiency.

Some of the team's ongoing work uses biological samples from the roadkill snakes they find, to determine if roads are causing noticeable genetic differences in the population.

By comparing the genetic differences with differences in silk properties, Hayashi's team has found that those motifs appear to influence strength, elasticity, and other features.

But the finding that all these genetic differences trigger the same cellular pathway provides hope for others.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have profiled key features of the genetic material inside three types of brain cells and found vast differences in the patterns of chemical modifications that affect how the genes in each type of neuron are regulated.

The goal now is «to find the subtle genetic differences between individuals in the genes or families of genes associated with longevity,» says Judith Campisi, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

The investigators measured four Aβ peptides and found that no significant differences in plasma levels of any of the Aβ peptides were found among the three genetic groups.

The team also raised urban and forest lizards from the Mayagüez region in the lab and found that differences in limb length and scale number remained, suggesting a genetic basis to the urban lizards» abilities.

Using genetic and historical data, the research team also found that the differences in beak length had occurred within a relatively short time frame.

Despite some earlier studies claiming that genetic variants predict whether someone has a better chance of shedding pounds on a low - carbohydrate or a low - fat diet, and despite a growing industry premised on that notion, the most rigorous study so far found no difference in weight loss between overweight people on diets that «matched» their genotype and those on diets that didn't.

Rat study finds genetic markers that influence addiction: Differences in vulnerability to cocaine addiction, relapse linked to both inherited traits, epigenetics.»

Initially they found no difference between the two groups; however, when considering gender, there was a more than twofold decrease in a «less active» genetic variant in healthy men compared with healthy women.

To find out if differences in diet and culture have also led to two species of killer whales in the Northeast Atlantic, Foote and his colleagues studied the dietary choices and genetic relationships of orcas from Greenland to Norway.

«But we found low genetic diversity and very few genetic differences between European and U.S. Nosema strains,» she said.

As researchers study the genome in more depth, they hope to find the genetic differences that make bonobos more playful than chimps, for example, or humans more cerebral.

However, they caution that these findings may not apply to more ethnically diverse populations as some genetic differences can affect how Omega - 3 fatty acids are metabolised.

The study, published this week in Science, compares faithful males with their less devoted counterparts and finds genetic differences in their brains.

The researchers found that the two types of male vole have genetic differences.

A new study focused on describing genetic variations within a primary tumor, differences between the primary and a metastatic branch of that tumor, and additional diversity found in tumor DNA in the blood stream could help physicians make better treatment choices for patients with gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Comparing three million letters of the chimpanzee genetic code with the human genome draft, Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues found only a 1.3 percent difference between the two.

To find the gene itself, Yoshiura and his colleagues looked for genetic differences in this region among 64 Japanese with dry earwax and 54 Japanese with wet earwax.

Meanwhile, other studies have found that language differences restricted gene flow in recent times in Europe, suggesting that cultural barriers might have limited genetic diversity more consistently than occasional local bottlenecks.