Sentences with phrase «in a single gene called»

Cystic fibrosis is a rare inherited disease caused by mutations in a single gene called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and affects 1 in every 2500 newborns in the UK and over 90000 people worldwide.

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease caused by mutations in a single gene called CFTR.

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In yeast, for example, they've found that increasing the activity of a single gene, called Sir2, can significantly extend life span.

His suspicionswas confirmed: the children had an identical defect — a missing single nucleic acid, called guanine — in the gene coding for leptin.

Other researchers had linked the ank mutation to mouse chromosome 15; in this week's Science, Kingsley's team reports that it's a single typo in a previously unknown gene, which they called ank, that led to a protein about 10 % shorter than the normal version.

RNA sequencing of both single and clustered CTCs from breast cancer patients identified several genes expressed at elevated levels in CTC clusters, one of which — a protein called plakoglobin — also was overexpressed in the primary tumors of patients with reduced survival.

The researchers found that the blond hair commonly seen in Northern Europeans is caused by a single change in the DNA that regulates the expression of a gene that encodes a protein called KITLG, also known as stem cell factor.

Now researchers have identified a single gene, called fruitless (fru), as responsible for the development of male sexual behavior in the fly.

Labs have started tackling the problem with a tool called single - cell transcriptome analysis, which gives readouts of all the genes that are active in individual cells.

Different versions of genes can vary at single points in their sequence, and these variations are called SNPs.

The widely accepted RNA - world theory posits that RNA — the molecule that today plays roles in coding, regulating, and expressing genes — elevated itself from the primordial soup of amino acids and cosmic chemicals, eventually to give rise first to short proteins called peptides and then to single - celled organisms.

Most of the afflicted family members, but none of those who sleep normally, carry a single base - pair mutation in a gene called hPer2, the researchers report 12 January in a paper published online in Science.

Now two research teams have spotlighted the middle ground, using so - called gene chips to evaluate millions of bases of DNA in a single experiment.

Your feelings about brussels sprouts could come down to a single gene: Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people missing the receptor for a bitter chemical called PROP tend to like veggies rich in the compound.

Although mutations come in many varieties, one type, called nonsense mutations, involve the seemingly innocuous change of a single letter in the coded message — a change that causes the gene's message to prematurely read «stop.»

The researchers discovered a single letter variant located in TP53, a gene known to play a central role in tumor biology and for accumulating so called somatic mutations, during the development of cancer in patients.

Since then, so - called Omics technologies have flourished, allowing researchers, for example, to observe and quantify thousands of gene products in a single tissue sample.

In findings appearing online today in Cell Stem Cell, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, describe how they transferred a single gene called Sox2 into both mouse and human skin cellIn findings appearing online today in Cell Stem Cell, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, describe how they transferred a single gene called Sox2 into both mouse and human skin cellin Cell Stem Cell, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, describe how they transferred a single gene called Sox2 into both mouse and human skin cellin the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, describe how they transferred a single gene called Sox2 into both mouse and human skin cells.

Studying a specific type of genetic variation in the DNA sequences of wolves and domestic dogs - called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)- the scientists identified the transfer of dog gene variants into wolf genomes.

We are using a new technique, called single cell RNA sequencing, to isolate thousands of single neurons from human brain tissue, study all the genes that are expressed in each individual cell, and make cell - to - cell comparisons between normal, early stage and late stage AD.

Lloyd Trotman's recent research path begins at his discovery some years ago that the loss of a single copy of a master tumor suppressing gene called PTEN is sufficient to permit tumors to develop in animal models of prostate cancer.

Malaria infections that were slow to clear were also strongly associated with a single - point mutation in a P. falciparum gene called kelch 13, an important validation of the recently discovered genetic marker (k13) in the DNA of the malaria parasite.

These single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), as they are called, were located in the HAS2 gene.