Sentences with phrase «identified human genes»

Second, through sustained and vigorous support for public and private research, we must sort through this trove of genomic data to identify every human gene.

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In an effort to find answers to some of those questions, researchers recently identified the so - called «wanderlust gene» (DRD4 - 7R, to be exact), which is present in about 20 percent of humans.

Furthermore, despite the claim that evolution has no application, phylogenetic comparisons of humans and other organisms allows us to identify the precise location and putative function of genes responsible for developmental disorders.

He notes that the Human Genome Initiative will increase the capacity to screen out undesirable traits «by identifying new genes for carrier and prenatal testing, including, potentially, genes for alcoholism, homosexuality and depression.»

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Diane Dickel is the lead author of Nature Methods paper describing a new technique for identifying gene enhancers in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College recently identified a gene abnormality that is associated with anxiety - related behaviors; it makes humans and mice hypervigilant to cues that signal danger.

«Our studies are the first, to our knowledge, to identify a gene that plays a conserved role in aggression all the way from flies to humans,» explains Anderson, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

«Essentially, we are using the human placenta as a model to identify genes that play a key role in invasion in both the placenta and cancer,» wrote Chi Sutherland, a Ph.D. candidate leading the project, in an email.

Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present - day humans from different parts of the world identify a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans, including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development.

The newly identified gene affects accumulation of amyloid - beta, a protein believed to be one of the main causes of the damage that underpins this brain disease in humans.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

And researchers are already working on identifying the genes unique to modern humans — at the most basic level, what unites and defines our species.

Using a genome - wide genetic screen, Dr. Gelman and colleagues identified a previously unknown metastasis suppressor — the FOXO4 protein, which belongs to a family of genes that are produced by all human cells.

The findings of this work will help scientists identify possible shortcomings of current animal models and construct a more accurate picture of how genes work in humans.

However, they provide scientists with a critical tool to probe the human genome to identify full - length genes.

Here the homologous genes from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and human are identified.

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.

Using metabolic function analyses of identified genes, we compared our human genome with the average content of previously sequenced microbial genomes.

Several of the network genes Volkan and her team identified have counterparts in humans and other vertebrates, which suggests the same basic mechanism could be at work in building the nervous system in other animals too.

Research published this month in Nature Neuroscience identified a surprisingly small set of molecular patterns that dominate gene expression in the human brain and appear to be common to all individuals, providing key insights into the core of the genetic code that makes our brains distinctly human.

Astoundingly, Venter says that his team could not identify the function of 149 of the genes in syn3.0's genome, many of which are found in other life forms, including humans.

In - depth analysis of the human body's microflora has been possible only in the past few years — a by - product of the same new gene sequencing techniques that have allowed scientists to cheaply and accurately identify the DNA of the human genome.

«We have identified the molecular mechanisms by which the Tat protein made by HIV interacts with the host cell to activate or repress several hundred human genes,» said Dr. Iván D'Orso, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

«Gene variants modifying Huntington's symptom onset may lead to new therapeutic strategies: Genome - wide association analysis identifies sites associated with earlier - or later - than - expected symptom appearance in human patients.»

In early 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus appeared in humans, containing a unique combination of influenza genes which had not previously been identified in animals or people.

To identify signs of a self - domestication process in humans, researchers made a list of genes associated with domestication features in humans, out of the comparison with the genome in Neanderthals and Denisovans, extinct human species.

MicroRNAs native to humans were first identified in blood just three years ago; they seem to help regulate gene activity.

A screen for mouse genes dependent on dHAND, a transcription factor implicated in neural crest development, identified Ufd1, which maps to human 22q11 and encodes a protein involved in degradation of ubiquitinated proteins.

Studies seeking subtle signs of selection in the DNA of humans and other primates have identified dozens of genes, in particular those involved in host - pathogen interactions, reproduction, sensory systems such as olfaction and taste, and more.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

But now that increasingly powerful genomic technology can definitively identify a species from a fragment of bone or uncover Neanderthal genes embedded in the DNA of modern humans, there is less room for debate.

Our research has identified a new gene, which is the cause of a severe, rare human disease.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

They quickly identified an equivalent mismatch repair gene in humans.

Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.

A total of 21,257 genes were identified, a number similar to that of human beings and other mammals, and they have been compared to those of cats, tigers, cheetahs and dogs.

The researchers began by identifying the genes that often mutate in human renal cell carcinomas.

To identify the genes that give rise to the palette of human skin tones, Crawford et al. applied genome - wide analyses across diverse African populations (see the Perspective by Tang and Barsh).

The researchers identified genes in the fruit fly that were equivalent to the human genes, but their activity didn't increase when flies lost sleep.

The map is a key tool that geneticists rely on to find disease genes and identify the functional genetic variations at the core of human diversity.

Although specific gene mutations have been identified in humans that can cause CCMs to form, the size and number varies widely among patients with the same mutations.

She notes that a few of the genes the team identified code for glutamate receptors, which play a key role in learning and memory and may have been selected in humans as well.

In one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma drug.

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) research center and Gothenburg University employed the biological networks generated for 46 major human tissues in order to identify the liver - specific gene targets.

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When the scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened at the start of the study.

Just a couple of months ago, a UK - based team were given the go - ahead to experiment on human embryos, with the aim of identifying genes linked to embryo health, fertility and miscarriage.

Now researchers have identified a mutation in the human ATP4a gene that is involved in the gastric acid secretion regulation and has been identified as responsible of an aggressive form of inherited, early - onset gastric NET.