Sentences with phrase «human geneticists in»

ASHG was founded in 1948 as the primary professional membership organization for human geneticists in the Americas.

This is Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

«If we know the pathways involved, maybe we can reverse this, find better targets and design better drugs,» says Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Scientists have found a variation of the miR - 182 gene in patients with primary open - angle glaucoma that results in this overexpression, said Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Amid all the hoopla, one prominent human geneticist in the audience offered a cautionary note.

Not exact matches

Craig Venter, the geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple dihuman genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple diHuman Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits.

J. Craig Venter, the superstar geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, has a new challenge: decoding death.

J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has been absorbed in the study of virii for a number of years.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

Science Can not Prove History In the movie Religulous (which I recently reviewed), Bill Maher challenged Francis Collins (the leading geneticist of the Human Genome Project) to scientifically prove that Jesus really lived, died, and rose again.

But her mentor, renowned human geneticist Victor McKusick, then director of medical residents at Hopkins, made it clear even as she was in recovery that her injury should not impede her return to the demanding schedule of a medical resident.

If the finding is correct, it indicates that the relationship between humans and Neandertals goes further back and is more complicated than scientists supposed, says Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.

In a landmark event more than a decade ago, geneticists unveiled the human genetic instruction book.

Now that the whole Neanderthal genome has been sequenced, Harvard geneticist George Church thinks a clone could be gestated in a human surrogate mother.

These allusions to the past aren't surprising considering how drastically the clinical trial changed gene therapy and, in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, where the test took place.

In December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the AmericaIn December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the Americain the Americas.

The genome of the Spirit Cave Mummy is significant because it could help to reveal how ancient humans settled the Americas, says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

In a nonhuman primate model geneticist Anthony Chan DVM, PhD, and his colleagues at Yerkes developed, rhesus macaques carry a gene encoding a fragment of mutant human huntingtin.

Geneticists have perhaps the most promising approach: Though it's messy to untangle, a lot of what makes us human definitely resides in our DNA.

Experts have estimated that such deletions may account for 10 % of all BRCA1 mutations in the U.S. population, says human geneticist Brian Ward, vice president of laboratory operations at Myriad Genetics, one of the main producers of commercial BRCA1 tests.

Other geneticists at the meeting zeroed in on archaic DNA «deserts,» where living humans have inherited no DNA from Neandertals or other archaic humans.

Molecular geneticist Cheng Chi Lee, developmental biologist Gregor Eichele, and their co-workers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have isolated a gene in mice and humans that shares 44 % of the amino acid sequence of the period (per) gene of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

The data are «very compelling that Neandertals bring back some of the lost ancestral variance,» of modern humans, said geneticist Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, who heard the talks.

Most of the rechristened genes were identified by geneticists studying the fruit fly; when equivalent genes were later found in the human genome, researchers simply continued using the name of the fruit fly gene to avoid confusion.

Geneticists are starting to have success in warmer places, which is a priority because most of human evolution occurred in Africa.

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanHuman History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanhuman DNA.

«There's a potential protective effect here,» says human geneticist Andrew Johnson of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Physician and human geneticist Horst Hameister and his group at the University of Ulm in Germany recently found that more than 21 percent of all brain disabilities map to X-linked mutations.

Matthew Brown, a skeletal geneticist at the University of Oxford says the gene is «a really hot candidate for [human] chondrocalcinosis,» a rare genetic form of joint stiffening that leads to crystal deposition and shows a similarly imbalanced pyrophosphate distribution in the joints.

Mammals, humans included, have circadian clocks that work with the same logic and many of the same gears found in fruit flies, say Jennifer Loros and Jay Dunlap, geneticists at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

One stunner: Early humans mated with Neanderthals, according to evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.

In a report that appears online in the journal Nature ¸ Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, and colleagues answer the question: «Can we turn on the activity of the paternal gene?&raquIn a report that appears online in the journal Nature ¸ Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, and colleagues answer the question: «Can we turn on the activity of the paternal gene?&raquin the journal Nature ¸ Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, and colleagues answer the question: «Can we turn on the activity of the paternal gene?»

Hunt - crazy humans weren't the main cause, says geneticist Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

A year ago these geneticists, lawyers, historians and philosophers participated in a workshop at the Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

«It's a nice story that solves a cool mystery — how did Neandertals end up with mtDNA more like that of modern humans,» says population geneticist Ilan Gronau of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

But getting a DNA sample from a bone means drilling a hole in it, and archaeologists were not about to let geneticists go to work on the deteriorating human skeletons without some guarantee of a genome.

How humans settled the planet, in prehistoric and historic times, and how they came to be so diverse, are interesting questions for anthropological geneticists to tackle, if only those questions can be freed from their association, in some people's minds, with racism and colonialism, and if only the geneticists can get enough support.

Guttmacher, a geneticist and pediatrician, had been Collins's deputy director when Collins headed the National Human Genome Research Institute; he became acting director of NHGRI after Collins stepped down in August 2008.

Geneticist Simon Fisher of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University in the United Kingdom agrees that there is much to learn about the function of FOXP2 from animals like the mouse.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to test blood drawn from pregnant mothers for Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders in the fetus.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

Because mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother, geneticists use it to trace how much it has changed over the years and identify branches in human evolution and our spread around the globe.

«It's a hard question who the Celts are,» says population geneticist Stephan Schiffels of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

In two studies, researchers have found only «a very small ancient Spanish contribution» to British and Irish DNA, says human geneticist Walter Bodmer of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, co-leader of a landmark 2015 study of British geneticIn two studies, researchers have found only «a very small ancient Spanish contribution» to British and Irish DNA, says human geneticist Walter Bodmer of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, co-leader of a landmark 2015 study of British geneticin the United Kingdom, co-leader of a landmark 2015 study of British genetics.

In the last two years, J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has circled the globe in his sailboat and sampled ocean water every couple of hundred mileIn the last two years, J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has circled the globe in his sailboat and sampled ocean water every couple of hundred milein his sailboat and sampled ocean water every couple of hundred miles.

«This is a very large scale study using a new, innovative statistical method,» said study co-senior author Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized psychiatric geneticist.

Geneticist Dana Carroll of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was at the Napa meeting, says that it will call for discussions of the safety and ethics of using editing techniques on human embryos.