Sentences with phrase «match human genes»

The specific gene sequences which had evolved in the British birds were found to closely match human genes known to determine face shape.

Not exact matches

MATCHED PAIR Studies of more than 14 million sets of twins indicate that human traits, on average, are dictated equally by genes and environment.

The AcrA - PPMO also was effective against the human pathogens Klebsiella pneumoniae and Salmonella enterica, since those bacteria contain the same efflux pump with a matching gene sequence, Dr. Greenberg said.

And for about 80 per cent of genes, there is an exact, single match in humans.

The genome shares about 60 % of its genes with the other invertebrates completely sequenced, such as the nematode and fruit fly, whereas about 5 % match sequences found only — up to now, at least — in the human, mouse, and puffer fish genomes.

While 40 percent of genes match those of other organisms, including humans, the other 60 percent represent new mysteries awaiting explanation.

He, Murphy, and their colleagues first looked for matches to 197,522 pieces of human genes in a variety of other mammals.

Among the 20,000 or so genes found in humans, for example, only a few dozen sites are thought to change their RNA so that it no longer matches the original DNA template.

But by 1993, researchers had sequenced only a few dozen genes from fruit flies and humans, and neither lin - 14 nor lin - 4 matched up with any of them.

By mixing and matching a menagerie of genes, scientists have reprogrammed yeast to churn out a human steroid.

The tags can then be compared to the human genome to find out if they match up with genes discovered by annotation.

They entered the sequence of the gene that encoded the transporters in a genome data bank and saw that it closely matched the genes for Rh proteins in humans.

Velculescu said that only half of the tags match annonated genes — evidence, they say, that annotation underestimated the human inventory genes by about half.

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.

Here we present an experimental reannotation of the GENCODE intergenic lncRNA populations in matched human and mouse tissues that resulted in novel transcript models for 3,574 and 561 gene loci, respectively.