Sentences with phrase «locations on the chromosome»

Discovering the approximate location on the chromosome of the gene or genes responsible for a given disease will permit doctors to diagnose a genetic disease or predisposition before the onset of symptoms.

After analyzing both scans together for DNA variants associated with differences between when each patient's movement - associated symptoms first appeared and when they would have been expected based on the number of CAG repeats, MGH CHGR investigator and lead author Jong - Min Lee, PhD, identified two locations on chromosome 15 where variants were significantly associated with either early or late symptom onset.

In C. amylolentus, dozens of genes at two different locations on the chromosomes control what's called a tetrapolar, or four - part, mating system.

Analyzing the DNA of about 3,500 diagnosed people and nearly 11,000 without the disorder, researchers homed in on a genetic locus — a gene's location on a chromosome — that's involved in the body's metabolic processes and seems to be associated with the disorder.

Scientists investigated the mutation that causes the Muffs and beard characteristic in certain chicken varieties by mapping the trait to the correct location on the chromosome and sequencing that region from chickens with and without Muffs and beard.

Although geneticists had pinpointed locations on chromosomes 1, 17, 20, and X linked to the disease, disease - causing genes within these regions had remained elusive.

With the help of scientists in the lab of Ed Buckler, a Cornell Professor and USDA — Agricultural Research Station scientist, the researchers examined the genomes of 26 corn varieties to look for genetic links to terpene production and mapped them to their locations on the chromosomes.

If abnormal crossovers occur between transposons in different locations on the chromosomes, the chromosomes do not line up properly and important genes may be duplicated or deleted.

Following this insight, the first genetic maps that allowed researchers to trace patterns of inheritance in humans were made using as genetic markers locations on chromosomes where restriction enzymes slice through the DNA.

gene A hereditary unit consisting of a sequence of DNA that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and determines a particular characteristic in an organism.

In Activity 1, students identify the locations on chromosomes of genes involved in cancer, using a set of 139 «Cancer Gene Cards» and associated posters.

All of these factors are due to a recognized color series (loci, that is, locations on the chromosomes) in dogs.

For many years geneticists and breeders have been aware of several locations on the chromosomes, or loci, which are responsible for the color patterns we see in dogs and other mammals.

These genes are carried at specific locations on each chromosome.

In any case, it is important to remember that these two (D and B) are on two different locations on the chromosome.

Not exact matches

Our genome is nearly identical to the chimpanzee genome, a little less identical to the gorilla genome, a little less identical to the orangutan genome, and so on — and this correspondence is present in ways that are not needed for function (such as the location of shared genetic defects, the order of genes on chromosomes, and on and on).

Bearden's earlier research had focused on children with abnormalities caused by missing sections of genetic material on chromosome 22, in a location known as 22q11.2.

The researchers sequenced the entire genome of C. amylolentus, mapping the location of all the genes as well as the centromeres on each of the organism's 14 chromosomes.

More recently, they have begun to seek genes that affect our behavior, prompting us to be dyslexic (chromosome 6), homosexual (perhaps on the X chromosome), adventurous (chromosome 11), or even highly religious (no map location yet).

The fact that adult Europeans are twice as likely as Asians to tolerate lactose in milk (no location yet) reflects a much longer history of dairy farming in the West; the ability to dehydrogenate alcohol (chromosome 4) is more common in people with a history of drinking fermented fluids; the prevalence of the blond - hair gene in young northern Europeans (perhaps on chromosome 15?)

To examine trans - regulatory events, the authors plotted matrices of CNA - expression relationships by chromosome (gene location on the Y - axis, CNA location on the X-axis).

Genome mapping is used to identify and record the location of genes and the distances between genes on a chromosome.

Botstein and Davis» landmark conceptual breakthrough, published in 1980, gave researchers the tools to trace and map out the genetic inheritance of disease in humans, while Hogness» work provided the means of identifying the precise physical location of genes of interest on chromosomes.

In the 1980s, her research group identified genetic markers that allow prenatal diagnosis and carrier status determination of DMD, and mapped the gene coding for DMD to a specific location on the X chromosome.

Some other traits, like size, are complexly inherited from many locations, including ones on chromosomes 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 15, and more.

And thus, horses were horses last month at Gavin Brown's location on Greenwich Street, for the re-staging of Jannis Kounellis» Arte Povera masterpiece, Untitled (12 Horses): they stood, stepped side to side, snacked on provisional piles of hay, and occasionally provided a team of three grooms a shovelful of what we might call «documentation,» or, perhaps even the chromosomes in the «albumen of the mind» Jerry Saltz mentions in his animated review of the show on Vulture.