Here we present a rapid genome - wide approach capable of identifying multiple
genetic drivers of medically relevant phenotypes within malaria parasites via a single experiment at single gene or allele resolution.
In the last decade the identification of
genetic drivers of melanoma cell which regulate proliferation and survival - such as BRAF and other activators of the MAP - kinase pathway - along with the recent development of immunotherapy has taken away in many cases the invasive treatment of melanoma as an option.
These therapies were born out of a deep understanding of the potent
genetic drivers of lung cancer, particularly in nonsmokers.
Genomics provides the ability to identify and target
genetic drivers of disease.
Not exact matches
«There are some people with a
genetic predisposition to getting cancer — they tend to be relatively rare — but once you have a cancer, the major
drivers of the behaviour
of that cancer are
genetic.
Earlier detection
of brain metastases could increase the chances
of successful surgical removal
of the tumors, says Sanford Simon, whose Laboratory
of Cellular Biophysics previously identified the
genetic driver behind fibrolamellar.
«Intensive DNA sequencing efforts to find the
genetic «
drivers»
of metastasis, which is what kills patients in up to 80 percent
of cases, have thus far been disappointing, to say the least,» he said.
Research into the
drivers of genetic diversity has largely focused on gene expression, which controls how much
of a given protein will be made, when, and in what tissue.
Evolutionary biologists and animal behavior researchers are searching out the
genetic basis and molecular
drivers of cooperative behaviors, as well as the physiological, environmental, and behavioral impetus for sociality.
Cells with weak
driver mutations needed other background mutations to grow well in antimicrobial drugs, however cells with strong
driver mutations developed resistance to drugs regardless
of the
genetic background.
If metastatic cancers are most often made up
of cells with different
genetic drivers, perhaps researchers should be targeting the primary tumor with multiple drugs to contain the cancer.
The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model
of psychiatric disease in which disruptions
of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other
genetic or epigenetic
drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor
of psychiatry and a member
of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.
Elderly fathers pass along many more DNA errors than do young ones — a source
of genetic diversity, but also a possible
driver of autism and other disorders.
An implicit assumption in the discipline
of speciation biology is that
genetic differences between populations
of animals and plants in a given species are important
drivers of new species formation and are a key to understanding evolution.
The composition
of the diet and the degree
of physical activity are the main
drivers determining the risk to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in addition to
genetic predisposition.
Will
genetic engineering and biotechnical or nanotechnological manipulations become the new
drivers of human evolution?
Drivers that have been associated with these declines include, but are not limited to, socioeconomic concerns (e.g. agricultural intensification), invasive pests and / or pathogens (e.g. Varroa, Nosema), agrochemicals (e.g. neonicotinoids) and a decline in
genetic diversity
of bee populations and food sources (e.g. over-reliance on one floral source)[11 — 17].
The linear subtype is propelled by just two
driver events: a
genetic condition called von Hippel - Lindau syndrome, and loss
of one copy
of an allele in chromosome 3.
Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a team led by Mount Sinai researchers has gained new insight into
genetic changes that may turn a well known anti-cancer signaling gene into a
driver of risk for bone cancers, where the survival rate has not improved in 40 years despite treatment advances.
As the first step in a next generation knowledge system for cancer, the GDC enables and accelerates efforts to identify both high - and low - frequency cancer
driver mutations, assists in revealing the
genetic determinants
of response to therapy, and informs the composition
of clinical trial cohorts.
This suggests that living together is a key
driver of similarity within families for anxiety, even after accounting for
genetic similarities.
Using
genetic and epigenetic analyses coupled with powerful perturbation technologies to test gene functions in human cells and mouse models, we hope to identify the critical
drivers of this disease and the basis for therapeutic responses.
First Major Gene Mutation for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Found After a 20 - year quest to find a
genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk
of the disease.
Classic selective sweeps, when a beneficial
genetic mutation quickly spreads through the human population, are thought to have been the primary
driver of human evolution.
The reversal suggests that smaller changes in multiple genes may have been the primary
driver of changes in human phenotypes, and that new models are needed to retrace the
genetic steps
of evolution.
Genetic rescue via GAL4 / UAS - DTH was also successful, although this required the generation
of a new UAS - DTH1 transgene devoid
of most untranslated regions, since existing UAS - DTH transgenes express in the brain without a Gal4
driver via endogenous regulatory elements.
This policy document highlights that climate change will be an important
driver of genetic erosion in the future.
That is why they have put the business up for sale, so they can «focus on the company's key profit
drivers of agricultural seeds and development
of specific
genetic traits for crops.»