Sentences with phrase «geneticists studied these children»

As geneticists studied these children, they learned something remarkable.

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The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

Then he joined a gene therapy study conducted by molecular geneticist and physician Jean Bennett of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and her husband, Albert Maguire, a retinal surgeon at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Debate over the timing of human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.

As techniques to analyze whole genomes improve, more autism - associated mutations will be discovered, clarifying the genetic basis of the disease, says Stephen Scherer, a geneticist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who helped run the international study.

Harvard geriatrician Thomas Perls, molecular geneticist Louis Kunkel of Children's Hospital in Boston, and their colleagues studied 137 sets of extremely old siblings, each including one person who was at least 98 years old and any brothers or sisters who were at least 91 and 95, respectively.

The gene's apparently crucial role in embryonic development «is remarkable,» says William Kimberling, a geneticist at Creighton Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska, who studies children with BOR.