Sentences with phrase «identified version of the gene»

Sabeti's technique identifies versions of genes that have been created by random mutation and then retained — because they give their owners some natural advantage over individuals who do not have the mutation.

On page 386, scientists identify a version of a gene that plays a small but significant role in whether or not people get depressed in response to life stresses.

Not exact matches

Researchers from the Quadram Institute have identified genes encoding a previously undiscovered version of the botulinum neurotoxin in bacteria from a cow's gut.

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.

In addition, says Smith, the mismatched probes should prove useful in assessing the compatibility of an organ donor and a recipient, by allowing researchers to quickly identify which version of the complicated HLA gene each person possesses.

Once a mutation is observed and a gene is identified as being responsible, biologists will knock out that gene and introduce different versions of it to see what phenotypes they can induce.

Taking advantage of these «simplified» versions of melanoma, the researchers identified a dozen of new genes that are likely to play key roles in the initiation and / or progression of human melanoma.

The process of figuring out which of these genetic differences lie on each chromosome is called haplotyping, and it's an important step toward identifying which version of a gene may cause disease.

Just like how a light can be controlled by multiple switches to influence its intensity and colour, the team identified hundreds of genes controlled by multiple promoters, causing alternate versions of that gene to be produced.

The gene versions identified in the paper are «accounting for so little of the variance that they're not telling us much of anything,» says differential developmental psychologist Wendy Johnson of the University of Edinburgh.

Through its population genetics research in Iceland, deCODE identified common versions of the gene encoding EP3 (the PTGER3 gene) that confer increase in risk of PAOD.