Sentences with phrase «identical gene variants»

Not exact matches

It comes out in support of a ruling in March by a lower court that the patents, owned by biotech firm Myriad Genetics, should be revoked because they cover gene variants identical to ones that can be found naturally in women.

Spalax naturally have a variant in the p53 gene (a transcription factor and known tumor suppressor), which is identical to a cancer - related mutation in humans, Band said.

Although the gene sequences were not identical to the Mikovits - Ruscetti XMRV gene sequence reported in Science, they were so close Lo believed he had found genetic variants of a single MLV - like virus species that likely included XMRV.