Sentences with phrase «in a particular gene»

So says a new study that finds that people with variations in particular genes are more likely to become addicted if they start smoking during early adolescence.

Take, for example, some of the women that Angelina Jolie recently called attention to, who harbor mutations in a particular gene called BRCA1.

«The BDNF gene has previously been linked to obesity, and scientists have been working for several years to understand how changes in this particular gene may predispose people to obesity,» said Jack A. Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study authors and an investigator at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

An analysis of almost 4,000 patients with breast cancer found that testing for high activity in a particular gene called alpha beta (αB)- crystallin could pick out women who were at greater risk of developing secondary brain tumors compared to women who tested negative.

So, in an effort to find out more about what exactly causes the illness, researchers published a paper in the summer of 2016 in the journal Nature Genetics in which they pinpointed 17 genetic variations, or tweaks in particular genes, that appear to be tied to major depressive disorder, the most debilitating form of the disease that's currently the leading cause of disability worldwide.

Most new mutations are going to be lost just because they are rare (even if they are beneficial); however, very small effects on survival and reproduction may greatly affect the long - term rates at which different mutations accumulate in particular genes and at particular sites within genes.

RIKEN has collaborated with some EU groups in the past on genomics of Zebrafish, a great model for many aspects of biology, in particular gene regulation, development, and even diseases.

Nearly half of all patients with metastatic melanoma have an alteration in a particular gene called BRAF.

The strongest link between having a mutation in this particular gene in the family and having multiple family members with melanoma, early onset, and so forth, was in Europe followed by North America and then Australia.

It's basically a single amino - acid change in a particular gene, although newer varieties are getting a bit fancier and multiple genes may be involved.

Variations in a particular gene may help explain why some people appear more youthful than others, researchers say.

These conditions are each caused by mutations in a particular gene, and affect different enzymes involved in breaking down galactose.

As a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, he heard molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon describe how worms with a mutation in a particular gene had double the lifespan of those without it.

Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports have now linked mutations in a particular gene to the two disorders in humans.

Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria acquire mutations in particular genes that enable them to evade the action of antibiotics that would normally kill them.

During his doctoral research, he investigated how microorganisms, in particular their genes, interact with the environment and with each other to drive elemental fluxes at ecosystem scales.

Progression from normal epithelium to colorectal cancer requires an accumulation of mutations in particular genes that affect the balance between proliferation and apoptosis.

In addition to knocking out genes, the same method allows scientists to engineer precise changes in a particular gene.

THURSDAY, April 28, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Variations in a particular gene may help explain why some people appear more youthful than others, researchers say.