Sentences with phrase «known genes»

A small number of known genes, it is thought, account for nearly 50 percent of pigment variation.

Her message: Not even the experts can distinguish a 1 from a 4 if they don't know the genes.

The scientists also demonstrated that predicting hair colour with this new genetic information is more accurate than with previously known genes.

Just because scientists know the gene responsible for a rare disease doesn't mean they know what's going on.

Our real hope was that our gene would look like some other known gene and give us a clue about what it did.

We do know genes often don't work like switches or car parts, they're more music - like.

They hope knowing the genes will eventually help them find good targets for drugs.

Only 44 percent of the genes matched DNA sequences of known genes.

The researchers had left out some genes because they didn't know those genes were important.

PRPF31 seems to be the only known gene in which haploinsufficiency causes disease.

Currently there are several known genes associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis: cytotoxic T - lymphocyte associated antigen 4 (CTLA - 4), human leukocyte antigens (HLA), protein tyrosine phosphatase 22 (PTPN22) and thyroglobulin receptor gene.

We found a surprisingly high number of novel transcripts that map some distance away from known genes, and encode consistent multi-exonic gene models.

They found 3491 matching chunks, but only 1229 corresponded to known genes on chromosome 21.

The key to this understanding lies with Dll4, one of the earliest known genes involved in artery formation.

Currently, Ilardo and her colleagues only know these genes are different in the Bajau.

Matching DPI peaks to the 5 ′ end of known genes within 500 bp revealed that 91 % of human protein - coding genes had a TSS supported by robust CAGE peaks.

Four of these six regions are located in known gene clusters: the protocadherin alpha cluster, two olfactory receptor clusters and a recently identified human microRNA cluster (Figure 2).

Brain scientists know the gene defect that causes FXS, and the damage it does — misshaping the brain's synapses, the connections between neurons.

«We now know the genes that Bcl6 is repressing and how that helps lymphoma develop and survive.»

For most known genes this «messenger» or mRNA is then shuttled off to a ribosome of a cell where its translation into a protein sequence occurs.

Now, the Salk team has found the connection and a new target for therapy: a little - known gene called DIXDC1.

Each time he dipped a container overboard, he discovered millions of new viruses — so many that he increased the number of known genes 10-fold.

To infer the functional effects of these differences, they ran multiple computational analyses, including comparisons to massive databases of known gene functions and of mice in which genes are artificially deactivated.

In his opinion, the frequent association of EZH1 mutations with those in previously known genes points to a «two - hit model.»

It is important to point out that the region of the 5qll chromosome contains various known genes that play a role in immune response.

Alessandra Biffi, MD Director, Gene Therapy Program Dr. Biffi is an internationally known gene therapy research leader from Milan, Italy.

If all goes well in clinical trials, it could be promoted as a treatment for Pitt Hopkins in as few as five or six years — astonishingly fast considering scientists didn't even know the gene that caused it until 2007.

I did not know Gene Davis before I had my first show in the US.

And like that famed American naturalist before him, much of DeSantis» everyday life is marked with a humility and spirit of volunteerism so rarely seen, yet so very needed.Despite the fact that most folks in town might not know Gene DeSantis by name, the fruits of his labor are nearly everywhere.

My life has been enhanced to have known Gene ever since the two of us in the early 1990's served on the Washington, D.C. area American Civil Liberties Union board.

There are more than 250 known genes associated with IRDs, and they can be inherited in every possible mode.

For many degenerative muscle diseases few drugs help, largely because scientists don't know the genes responsible for many of these muscle diseases, making it difficult to develop drugs and other therapies that target the condition.

When the researchers took a closer look on the genomic areas pinpointed in the study, they noticed that most of them overlap with known genes.

The new work, says Fitch, is consistent with his prediction — he would love to know the genes involved.

The researchers found 70 never - before - seen genes that, based on their resemblance to other known genes, look to be involved in making these strains virulent.

We do know genes often don't work like

The scientists not only identified a whole host of new genes involved in heart formation, but they also refined exactly how these newly discovered genes interact with previously known genes.

Scientists know genes are involved in Alzheimer's.

The two well - known genes in which genetic variants influence dose are:

Last April, they announced that they had raised the total number of known genes from 4 million to 10 million.

«But we don't know any genes that make humans live to extreme old age.»

You know Gene Simmons as a member of the band KISS, but he's also one savvy entrepreneur.

This study led to the discovery of 18 new imprinted genes, validated some known genes and resolved the disputed status of some others to provide a gold standard list of 93 imprinted genes in mouse.

They applied the same analytic techniques to tease out connections between all 1,600 known transcription factors and the known gene variants associated with more than 200 diseases.

Knowing the genes of pathogens and the proteins they express has really helped in these endeavours.

You can undergo a diagnostic test to find out whether you have any known gene variants that are associated with obesity.

Assembling alpha - beta tubulin dimers involves six known genes, Al - Bassam said.