Sentences with phrase «individual genes responsible»

Since the completion of the canine genome in 2005, science has been able to pinpoint individual genes responsible for particular traits.

Not exact matches

The ability to locate the individual gene or gene sequence responsible for each disease could revolutionize biomedicine in the 21st century.

According to studies, approximately one out of every 40 individuals in the United States is a carrier of the gene responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to weaken over time.

According to recent studies, approximately one out of every 40 individuals in the United States is a carrier of the gene responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to weaken over time.

While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.

Lisa Harris, of Dalton High School in New York City, won this year's top Siemens prize for individuals — a $ 100,000 college scholarship — for developing a new method to detect carriers of a gene responsible for cystic fibrosis.

But for a gene therapy to be effective, one must know the precise gene responsible for a given individual's disorder and develop a tailored treatment.

Using a genome - wide association study (GWAS) that includes 1600 individuals living in Tanzania, Botswana, or Ethiopia, the authors identified regions of the genome that contribute to skin color variation and carried out a series of analyses to pinpoint the responsible genes.

As it is well known that hypertension is a complex, multifactorial, quantitative trait under a polygenic control, 30 % to 50 % of the variation in blood pressure between individuals is attributed to genetic factors, and the genes responsible for susceptibility and blood pressure variation are mostly unknown.

A large body of research has reported that Nanog is allelically regulated — that is, only one copy of the gene is expressed at any given time — and fluctuations in its expression are responsible for the differences seen in individual embryonic stem (ES) cells» predilection to differentiate into more specialized cells.

Other medical sequencing projects will use DNA sequencing to: discover new genes that are involved in common diseases; identify the genes responsible for dozens of relatively rare, single - gene (autosomal Mendelian) diseases; sequence all of the genes on the X chromosome from affected individuals to identify those involved in sex - linked diseases; and survey the range of variants in genes known to contribute to certain common diseases.

Instead, a supergene 4.5 million DNA letters long and composed of 125 individual genes seems responsible for the peculiar behaviour of ruffs, report teams led by Burke and Leif Andersson, an evolutionary geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden, in Nature Genetics.

It is neither nature nor nurture alone that is responsible for brain chemistry and development; rather it is the interaction between both genes and environment that is responsible for the brain development of an individual Research suggests that if a person has the genes for schizophrenia, but doesn't experience the environmental factors necessary to «trigger» or express these genes then the likelihood is low that they will develop schizophrenia.

McMaster University Scientists have published 2 studies identifying which gene is responsible for causing brain development disorders when several genes are deleted in an individual's genome, providing a path forward for developing new therapies.

Personalized Genome Sequencing Reveals Coding Error Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists used «personalized genome» sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene called PALB2 that is responsible for initiating the disease.

The genes responsible for many genetic diseases are «recessive,» which means that two copies of a damaged gene, one from the mother and one from the father, must be present in an individual for the disease to occur.

Behrens, who co-chairs his firm's public policy practice group, said defense attorneys are already becoming more aggressive and citing other factors that may be responsible for an individual suffering from mesothelioma, including the BAP1 gene.