Sentences with phrase «many versions of genes»

Traces of common origins were everywhere: Humans even possessed a broken version of the gene that lizards and birds use to produce eggs.

«Traditional varieties of aromatic rice from 17 Asian countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam — have the same version of the gene that contributes to their aromatic qualities,» she added.

Los Baños, Philippines — The version of the gene primarily responsible for the aroma in Thai Jasmine rice is found...

The other 10 percent, with only the «G» versions of the gene, showed no IQ advantage or disadvantage from breastfeeding.»

«In two studies of breast - fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of nearly 7 IQ points if the children had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.

Two initial studies suggest babies with a specific version of the FADS2 gene demonstrated an IQ averaging 7 points higher if breastfed, compared with babies with a less common version of the gene who showed no improvement when breastfed.

Capra and others have evidence that Neandertal versions of genes make humans more prone to some diseases (SN: 3/5/16, p. 18).

This study found that the interaction between these genomes and the implications on energy production is strong enough that the mitochondrial genome can alter which version of a gene is present in the nuclear genome.

It may be that some versions of the gene also play a role in deafness caused by environmental conditions, creating a predisposition to hearing loss.

But mice with a working version of the gene suffered little to no damage to their gut - lining cells.

According to new research, that's if the suckling infant has a certain version of a gene that helps process fatty acids

They programmed the new CRISPR / Cas9 system to snip out the dysfunctional exon, leaving the body's natural repair system to stitch the remaining gene back together to create a shortened — but functional — version of the gene.

Normally, to achieve such a rapid evolutionary shift, a species needs to start with an alternative version of a gene already in circulation, giving natural selection more to work with, but in deer mice the new version of Agouti spread rapidly from a standing start.

Some studies have found that people who are resilient to trauma are more likely to have certain versions of genes that make proteins involved in the stress response.

The critter's secret weapon is an overactive version of the gene for a protein — Wnt10b — that regulates the formation of flab.

This suggests that in our ancestors, natural selection flushed out the Neandertal version of this gene.

The study found that zebrafish that failed to inherit specific genetic instructions from mom developed fatal defects earlier in development, even if the fish could make their own version of the gene.

Patients who had changed versions of this gene showed early promise, often attending college, but then experienced cognitive decline consistent with a degenerative disease.

When we took the mouse version of this gene — the same gene we find in the human — and put it in the fly and tweaked it, we induced fly eye tissue.

The parent generation had a mutant version of a gene dubbed hothead, which causes the plants to have fused flowers.

Even when each parent carried two mutant versions of the gene, 10 percent of the next generation had normal flowers.

Different versions of genes at each location can lead to higher or lower protein concentration in soybean.

So, for example, just to say for the sake of argument, that there's a gene that influences the width of the birth canal, and lets say that some versions of the gene leave women more likely to have trouble giving birth, so that their children have loss of oxygen and that could lead to changes in the brain that lead to lower intelligence scores.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

The researchers have not attempted to add any new genes or change traits, only to correct a disease - causing version of a gene.

A version of the gene called APOE3 has no effect on Alzheimer's risk, whereas the APOE2 version protects against the disease.

All these differences, suggest biologists Michael Krieger and Kenneth Ross of the University of Georgia, Athens, depend on which version of a gene known as Gp - 9 ants possess, the researchers report in Science online 15 November.

Over a five - to 10 - year period, the disease progressed 14 percent faster in people with one copy of APOE4 and 23 percent faster in people with two copies than in people who didn't have that version of the gene, the researchers found.

For example, a researcher could modify a rat genome to contain a broken version of a gene necessary for female fertility, and introduce some of these rats to an island.

In contrast, blood cells from her parents, who each carried only one mutated version of the gene, produced healthy amounts of interferon when exposed to influenza.

In the second stage of the study, the researchers used another version of the gene - probe technology, called «quantitative PCR,» which yielded the vaginal concentrations of each of the 20 species in every sample, and linked it to HIV risk.

By 12 months of age, infants with this gene variant whose needs were consistently attended to responded to stress just as effectively as did the babies with other versions of the gene.

They enable molecular biologists and geneticists to selectively chop DNA into pieces, which can then be assembled into new versions of the gene, inserted into the genomes of other organisms, or sequenced as part of an effort to map an organism's genetic material.

The study illustrates the genetic foundation of evolution, including how genes can flow from one species to another, and how different versions of a gene within a species can contribute to the formation of entirely new species, the researchers report in the journal Nature.

Infants in the study who had different versions of the gene showed a more typical response to stress.

Whether the offspring gets the vanilla version of a gene from a mother and the chocolate version from the father or the other way around, the trait coded for by the pair of genes will look the same.

This suggested that miR - 208 normally targets the beta version of this gene and enables its expression.

Additional research is also needed to determine how the C version of the gene affects the protein's function.

Upon sequencing the DNA, they found that DNA fragments containing mutated genes — markers of tumors — were typically smaller than healthy versions of the gene from within the same patient.

In addition to heart attack and stroke risk, Cipollone says that the two versions of the genes might account for the fact that some patients do not respond to COX - 2 inhibitors, which are used to protect against plaque cracking.

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

To try to determine how those changes influenced the gene's function, that group put the human version of the gene in mice.

Many animals, including dogs, birds, crocodiles and amphibians, don't have a working version of the gene, or don't use it.

People carry either short versions of the gene, long versions, or one of each.

Gene drive is a natural phenomenon whereby a certain version of a gene is passed on preferentially to the next generation and thus can quickly spread throughout a sexually reproducing population.

Carrying a particular version of the gene for apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major known genetic risk factor for the sporadic, late - onset form of Alzheimer's disease, but exactly how that variant confers increased risk has been controversial among researchers.

Auriel Willette, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition; and Joseph Webb, a graduate research assistant, found on average that Caucasians with one bad version of the gene — guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase - 1 or GCH1 — developed Parkinson's symptoms five years earlier, and had a 23 percent increased risk for the disease.

Since people inherit two versions of each gene, one from each parent, they have either Val / Val, Val / Met or Met / Met variants of the gene.

Many children didn't carry mutated versions of those genes — but more than expected did.

Athletes who excel in endurance sports are more likely to have another version of the gene — this one called the X variant — that does not produce actinin.