Sentences with phrase «important gene defect»

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Researchers located a novel gene mutation causing cleft lip and cleft palate defects, which slows the turnover of hyaluronan, an important component of the hard palate.

«This is an important finding that will help future researchers, and eventually physicians, to maximize the effectiveness of gene therapy for curtailing sensory deficits associated with USH3 syndrome and, perhaps, in other disorders linked to defects in single genes,» said Alagramam.

Although mutations had been identified in other genes important for the recycling of bile acids, this is the first report in humans of disease - associated defects in this gene, called Organic Solute Transporter - beta (SLC51B).

This approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann - Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, it's important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases we'd like to treat with CRISPR.

It's important for artery and brain health, and when elevated, it may be due to a genetic defect in the MTHFR gene, which is also easily measured.

Another very important point to keep in mind is that when a purebred carrying a genetic defect is crossed with another breed or mixed breed, the «bad» genes do NOT «go away» even though they may not be expressed in the offspring.

While some genes important to cancer development have clear alterations in their genetic codes to explain changes in their expression in cells, some do not exhibit such defined defects.