Sentences with phrase «identical gene pair»

Pleiotropy means one gene (or identical gene pair, if recessive) gives rise to more than one disease or characteristic; Alaskan Malamute dwarfism / anemic blood disorder is another example.

Not exact matches

Researchers have found a pair of twins who are identical on the mom's side but who share half the genes on the father's side.

But if a promising gene shakes out of the fraternal study, it's simple enough to look for the same gene in the identical pairings.

He figured out how the pairs of genes interact to influence the organism, depending on whether the pair have identical or differing messages.

By examining twin pairs — both monozygotic (identical from same fertilized egg) and dizygotic (fraternal from separate fertilized eggs)-- UW researchers assessed the extent psychological distress is related to caregiving, or confounded by common genes and environmental exposure.

The database was developed by identical twin brothers, Obi Griffith, PhD, and Malachi Griffith, PhD, whose interest in pairing drugs with genes is as much personal as it is scientific.

The Swedish Twin Registry has enabled her to compare identical twins, who share 100 % of their genes, with fraternal twins, whose genetic makeups are no more similar to each other than any pair of siblings.

One ZFN pair was used to target both the human and rhesus macaque CXCR4 genes since the 24 bp target sequences are identical.

After analysing the GCSE results of 5474 pairs of twins — 2008 of them identical — the team found that genes accounted for 52 per cent of the differences between exam scores.

Comparison of genes on the sex - determining X and Y chromosomes indicates that the ancestor of human sex chromosomes first arose from an identical pair of standard chromosomes approximately 240 to 320...

Beyond the genetic information contained in DNA, the researchers examined patterns of DNA methylation — a molecular modification to DNA that affects when and how strongly a gene is expressed — across the genome in pairs of identical male twins.

Using gene expression variance and discordance between genetically identical MZ twin pairs, we identify 137 genes with age - related changes in variance and 42 genes with age - related discordance between co-twins; implying the latter are driven by environmental effects.

It has also been observed that after one member of identical twin pairs gets Type 1 diabetes, there is only a 13 - 33 % chance of the second twin getting the disease, even though both twins have the same genes.