Sentences with phrase «genetic studies because»

The fish, which share many of the same genes as humans, are ideal for genetic studies because of their rapid rate of reproduction and because their genes can be readily mutated.

The team focused on mtDNA, which is often employed in genetic studies because it is easier to sequence and allows analysis of huge population samples.

The Old Order Amish are ideal for genetic studies because they are a genetically homogenous population tracing their ancestry back 14 generations to a small group that came to Pennsylvania from Europe in the mid-1700s.

Flies are ideal for genetic studies because they have short life spans and are small, which means that researchers can breed and interbreed thousands of them in the laboratory until interesting mutations crop up.

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«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Study have been made, pregnancy is not the only way or symptom to get stretch marks, because genetic history do play role with stretch mark appearing.

Because there is a clear genetic predisposition to IBD, these populations should probably be composed of families that include persons who already have IBD [such as the studies conducted by Koletzko et al (20, 26)-RSB-.

Because the prion - forming protein identified in the study normally functions as a regulator of gene activity, the researchers say their discovery raises the possibility that when it switches to a prion state, it could alter genetic expression and bacterial behavior.

Meanwhile, the gene - rich X is the most intensely studied of the 23 chromosomes, largely because of its role in rendering men vulnerable to an estimated 300 genetic diseases and disorders associated with those mutations — from color blindness to muscular dystrophy to more than 200 brain disorders.

While mouse models have traditionally been used in studying the genetic disorder, Deng said the animal model is inadequate because the human brain is more complicated, and much of that complexity arises from astroglia cells, the star - shaped cells that play an important role in the physical structure of the brain as well as in the transmission of nerve impulses.

«Without the comparison, you really can't study this process, because you don't know the genetic capabilities of the progenitor» Dale says.

In addition, it's been difficult to repeat the findings from individual genetic studies — partly, researchers think, because autism is so variable and may really be many different diseases.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

So I clicked on it: «Because genetic association studies are generally performed in populations of a particular ethnic background [European, Asian, African], we can not know whether the associations will also apply to those of a mixed background.

It is difficult at this stage to foresee the full impact of post-zygotic mutations in terms of treatment options for disease because the study was mainly focused on the technological aspects of these genetic changes, the researchers say.

TEDDY is studying celiac disease and type 1 diabetes because both are autoimmune diseases with some of the same genetic risk factors.

The same process has been studied as a potential genetic therapy for more than a decade, because you can target any disease gene with matching dsRNA.

«This study is exciting because it shows that changes within the body can affect the progression of a disorder caused by a genetic mutation,» said Jim I. Koenig, Ph.D., program director at NINDS.

Europeans must have incurred a rapid change in their genetic make - up because it held an evolutionary advantage for them to be able to digest milk, says Mark Thomas at University College London in the UK, who carried out the study with colleagues.

They completed another study that showed a NOTCH1 genetic mutation likely ensured those carrying it eventually would suffer from heart valve disease because it leads to CDH - 11 overproduction.

«We are particularly interested in genetic variants that are not common in the population (those carried by less than 1 and 20 women) because uncommon variants are not well studied and evidence suggests they may significantly contribute to cancer risk.»

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

Even as advances in ancient - DNA technology have made it possible to probe population mixing and large - scale migrations that occurred thousands of years ago, researchers have had trouble studying the genetic history of the Near East because the region's warm climate has degraded much of the DNA in unearthed bones.

Because there is a known clinical connection between eye melanoma and skin cancer, in this study researchers sought to determine whether there were commonly shared genetic factors between both diseases, as the inherited genetic risk of skin melanoma has been more extensively explored in previous medical literature.

This is useful because when environmental factors can be held constant in a study, genetic factors may surface more readily.

Twin studies are valuable because they help distinguish between genetic and environmental contributors.

Blue eyes have their hue because of a single genetic mutation that occurred fewer than 10,000 years ago in one individual and swept rapidly through the European population, according to a study published in the journal Human Genetics in January.

Because RNA can do many things at once, those studying the origins of life have long thought that it was the first genetic material.

«It was a surprise, because the genetic sequences from the meat didn't match any of the known species,» says Scott Baker, a cetacean geneticist now at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, and one of the authors of the study.

E. coli is popular in genetic engineering because it is deeply studied and quite hardy, able to tolerate genetic changes well, says chemical engineer Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley.

And because researchers break apart and then reassemble the 3 - billion - letter - long genetic instruction book in order to analyze it, sections that have duplicated genes are harder to put in the right order and thus harder to study, which was the case with the region containing the red blood cell protein DNA.

They have generated excitement over the past few decades because scientists can study them in the laboratory to discover the genetic switches that control the development of specialized tissues in the embryo and fetus, and also because of their potential to replace body tissues that have broken down, such as pancreatic cells in those with diabetes or heart muscle cells in those with congestive heart failure.

Because the mice involved in the study were genetically similar, researchers ruled out a genetic link to the different responses.

«These results are exciting, because it means we could use an easily accessible blood test to help diagnose people who have the premutation genetic abnormality and identify who is more likely to have problems and begin early treatment,» said study author Kim M. Cornish, PhD, of Monash University in Victoria, Australia.

The team says that this was one of the most compelling aspects of their study, because it speaks to the remarkable plasticity that exists in the genetic programs regulating inner ear development.

Conservationists are debating, for example, whether the western grey wolf should have been removed from the Endangered Species list because genetic studies suggest some of them are wolf - coyote hybrids.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

A genetic variant that increases the risk of testicular cancer may be favored by evolution because it helps protect those with fair skin from the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays, according to a new study.

So that explains why genes look so feeble in twin studies, because their potency is masked by the fact that they are correlated with genetic differences.

The team, co-led by Sebastian Suerbaum, chose to study H. pylori, because it is not easily transmitted, has 50 times the genetic diversity of humans, and exchanges genes frequently with other members of its species.

Because they have very simple body shapes, no legs and no eyes, for example, they were particularly useful for this study of cryptic diversity in pine - feeding species, which can have «huge genetic diversity with no visible differences,» Normark adds.

These «pluripotent cell lines» will be especially groundbreaking for studying Gulf War Illness, because they preserve the genetic and possibly epigenetic factors specific to disease susceptibility.

The EMBL team hadn't — and the EMBL spokesperson acknowledges that no one thought to do so: «We did not consider this an issue exactly because of the notoriety of the cells, and the existence of so much molecular biological and genetic data on these long before our study.»

Population genetic studies usually compare thousands of individuals, but the researchers predicted they could detect differences in a much smaller sample because of the stark contrast between the islanders» blond and dark locks.

«It could be that as your brain is maturing, you become less susceptible to the addictive effects of nicotine because the genetic component that is influencing the way nicotine interacts with these receptors may have less effect,» says Chris Amos, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who wasn't involved in the study.

Rare genetic diseases like LFS are good study models because they tend to proceed from a change in a single gene, as opposed to many, overlapping changes seen in more related common diseases, in this case more common, non-inherited bone cancers.

Alu - insertion polymorphisms are a boon for the study of human population genetics and primate comparative genomics because they are neutral genetic markers of identical descent with known ancestral states.

This study was selected for the Trainee Paper Spotlight because it uses multiple techniques to understand disease pathophysiology from identification of genetic variants to evaluation of their role in disease pathogenesis.

«I recall hearing about a genetic study where an Italian population did not get heart disease because they had a natural genetic variant, and I realized there's lots of genetic variation out there that can be interesting and useful,» Malhi said.

In adoption studies, genetic and rearing environment effects can be separated because the biological parents are not raising the children; this makes them the optimal choice when evaluating «nature vs. nurture».