Sentences with phrase «identical copy gene»

Fortunately, humans have a nearly identical copy gene called SMN2, however, SMN2 normally only makes a small amount of the correct SMN protein.

Not exact matches

However, in some spots, an organism may have long strips of identical DNA in both copies of a gene.

The less adept mice, Rubin's team found, carry extra copies of a previously known human gene called DYRK; a mutated version of an almost identical gene in fruit flies, called minibrain, causes neurological defects.

One Neanderthal, whose DNA Reich obtained from a toe bone, had almost no diversity in about one - eighth of the genome: both copies of each gene were identical.

While the cell is in the process of copying its genetic material, the new DNA would then replace a nearly identical existing gene segment in the cell, changing it slightly.

All people have two copies of every gene, and earlier work by the researchers on identical twins with leukemia indicates that a second genetic alteration - involving the second copy of the TEL gene, one of the two so - called «alleles» — occurs post-natally to actually nudge blood cells into a leukemic state.