Sentences with phrase «if genes affected»

«This is exciting because if genes affected differences between individuals in these traits, it means they could also change in response to natural selection,» said Dr Bolund.

Not exact matches

Strangely enough, former lovers somehow make an imprint on the brain and possibly affect genes, especially if there was past fluid exchange.

By tracking activity in almost all the genes of a free - living archaeon — which, like a bacterium, is a prokaryote — Bonneau was recently able to piece together how the genes affected one another's expression, enabling him to map the organism's «control circuit» as if it were a machine.

To find out if this effect on testosterone production might affect mice's fertility, the team knocked out the gene for osteocalcin in a group of the rodents.

If they could find an affected gene in the boy's family, it might lead researchers to the causes of more common, sporadic cases of Beckwith - Wiedemann, too.

But he warns that the gene could have undesirable side effects in some plants: «If we indiscriminately make a plant insensitive to ethylene, we may affect its response to diseases or to pests.»

A change in every 100th base could affect thousands of genes, and the percentage difference becomes much larger if you count insertions and deletions.

But because the gene appears to affect only the cat's color, white tigers are simply genetically healthy variants of Bengal tigers, which, if bred carefully, might still survive well in the wild.

«Fetal sex determination allows targeting of invasive testing to see if the female fetus is carrying two mutant copies of the CAH gene and is therefore affected.

Unlike genetic mutations that affect DNA and the genome, epigenetic markers turn genes on and off to regulate cell processes, which if altered may lead to disease, he explains.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

If getting rid of some of the genes affected the bacteria's ability to fight off phages, that result suggested the group of genes was a defense system.

In contrast, if the gene itself is deleted by a genetic manipulation, blood vessel growth is not affected.

If chemogenetics turns out to have harmful effects, the affected brain area could still be surgically removed, Kullmann, because the virus used to deliver the gene only spreads a few millimetres.

Women are affected only if both their X chromosomes carry the defective genes.

If it turns the wrong genes on or off, it can affect health and disease just as surely as can changes in the DNA itself.

When they screened the KE family to see if some carried a defect in this gene, all affected members turned out to share a specific mutation that apparently rendered FOXP2 inactive, the group reports in the 4 October issue of Nature.

«If you can find a gene for blond hair that exists in Melanesia and nowhere else,» Myles says, «then there's no reason why those sorts of genes don't exist all over world in underrepresented populations, and affect not only hair pigmentation, but also disease - related traits.»

«Take the test» would be the advice of proponents of gene screening — if only because in your next pregnancy, doctors will know whether you are at risk and whether you should be offered prenatal diagnosis and the option of terminating affected fetuses.

She's found that the physical arrangement of DNA inside a cell's nucleus can affect cancer genes: for example, if a gene gets stuck in a folded - up piece of DNA, proteins that normally turn it on can no longer access it.

«If you want to discover genes that affect the brain, the only way we know how to do that is by analyzing tens of thousands of brain scans and their corresponding genetic data.

The technical evaluation of projects may require the provision of additional data such as information on the genetic modification of your mutant mouse line if applicable (e.g. affected gene, MGI ID of the gene, type of mutation, ES - cell line used, genetic background (e.g. number of backcross generations), safety level, description of DNA modification, vector, remaining non-recipient DNA, donor organism), mutant phenotype (s), special housing or care requirements, current sanitary status, and intellectual property rights (who generated the mouse line, owner of the mouse line)

Their preservation in the zebrafish allows us to visualize in this transparent genetic vertebrate model whether these variants are just neutral or if they disrupt the regulation of one the neighbor genes, possibly revealing the actual gene affected in AMD human patients.

«We're gaining some sense of confidence that there are a certain number of genes that, if adversely affected, predispose patients toward having this problem and possibly not healing well,» Koltun said.

If the lens is cloudy because of a mutation in the gene that affects the lens, then the pupil will look white.

But probably lots of characteristics might play a role... for example, any gene affecting where and when a predator is active (if it's best not to overlap too much with toads) might help the predator to survive.

An individual may still be a carrier of (or affected with) a disease if no variants or only one variant is found in the relevant gene.

The company, intrigued with the results, wanted to know if chromium was affecting gene expression in fat metabolism.

DNA methylation, which is reversible if occurs at regulatory elements of the genome affects the transcription of neighboring genes.

If a drug increases levels of dopamine, say, and you have a gene that causes a chain reaction that leaves more dopamine swimming about in your brain, the drug is going to affect you differently than it would someone whose genes make dopamine less available to them.

The most striking results were those showing that soybean oil significantly affects the expression of many genes that metabolize drugs and other foreign compounds that enter the body, suggesting that a soybean oil - enriched diet could affect one's response to drugs and environmental toxicants, if humans show the same response as mice.

Tests to see if you have the gene that causes CF. CF is a disease that affects breathing and digestion.

What if you had a gene mutation that could affect your ability to get and / or stay pregnant.

If it affects your ovaries / testes, then your offspring will have different genes than you.

So, if we managed — let's say, the diet gene, the AIP gene, right, then that's gonna affect those autoimmune genes from flipping on...

Genetic testing is available for you to see if you or your partner carry genes for Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell, Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other disease that may affect your decision making.

Gene patents, if upheld by the Supreme Court, could affect genetic research and access to genetic tests for patients

Researchers have identified the gene mutation that causes NEwS, and a DNA test is now available that allows breeders to avoid producing affected puppies by never breeding two dogs to each other if they are both carriers of the abnormal gene.

It only becomes affected if both its parents carry the defective gene.

To find this out, test mating is done to a dog that is affected with the genetic problem (resulting usually in puppies that are both affected and non-affected carriers) or by inbreeding to a related dog that also doesn't show the signs of being affected (usually litter mates are used) this will usually result in some puppies free of the problem, some puppies as carriers, and some puppies affected if both dogs carry the problem gene (this is not as accurate as breeding to an affected dog, but you are less likely to have to put all the puppies down).

Although great strides have been made in identifying genetic markers and developing screening tests for many gene - based diseases, there are no test yet for PLN, PLE, or RD. Therefore, the breed club's health committee recommends that close relatives of dogs with these diseases not be bred and that periodic tests be done on the relatives of affected dogs to determine if the disease is present and help establish a baseline for research.

If the breeder is very careful, affected pups can be used wisely to prevent loss of quality, but still remove the affected genes by only breeding the affected pups to known non-carrier relatives.

Because there is more than one form of PRA, if there should happen to be a second form in the breed and your dog had the genes for that type it would be possible to test your dog «for PRA» using the PRCD test with clear results when the dog is actually affected — but with a different form of PRA.

To find this out, test mating is done to a dog that is affected with the genetic problem (resulting usually in puppies that are both affected and non-affected carriers) or by inbreeding to a related dog that also doesn't show the signs of being affected (usually littermates are used) this will usually result in some puppies free of the problem, some puppies as carriers, and some puppies affected if both dogs carry the problem gene (this is not as accurate as breeding to an affected dog, but you are less likely to have to put all the puppies down).

If a male is affected, he would have received the defective gene from his carrier mother.

If one recognizes that with regard to heredity of genes all living things are either CLEAR, NORMAL / CARRIERS OR AFFECTED it becomes clear that testing of whole litters is the only way to be aware of those factors present in a brood bitch / stud dog.

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As there is currently no DNA testing available for Beagle Epilepsy and no way to determine if a Beagle is affected with or carries the gene (s) for Epilepsy, the best we can do as breeders is to be completely honest when we produce a Beagle who has seizures.

Again, there is no test available to determine if a Beagle will be affected by or carry the gene (s) for IVDD, so Beagle breeders should avoid breeding dogs who are known to have IVDD or produce puppies affected with IVDD.

There is a genetic test available that can tell you if a dog is affected by ataxia or if it is a carrier of the faulty gene.