Sentences with phrase «microsatellites in»

Development of Microsatellite Markers in Autopolyploid Sugarcane and Comparative Analysis of Conserved Microsatellites in Sorghum and Sugarcane, Brandon James, Cuixia Chen, Arthur Rudolph, Kankshita Swaminathan, Jan Murray, Jong - Kuk Na, Ashley Spence, Brandon Smith, Matthew Hudson, Stephen Moose, Ray Ming, Molecular Breeding, doi: 10.1007 / s11032 -011-9651-1, October 14, 2011.

The new study looked at rapidly evolving DNA regions known as microsatellites in 839 apple samples representing five species ranging from Spain to China.

«Two classes of GGAA - microsatellites in a Ewing sarcoma context: Characterization of GGAA - microsatellites provides insight in the role of noncoding DNA in cancer susceptibility and therapeutic development.»

Not exact matches

In previous roles, Dr Haley made significant contributions to the FedSat microsatellite mission.

In contrast, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers tend to mutate more slowly than microsatellites, often including variation specific to a particular species rather than an individual or population.

Although a variety of molecular methods are still in use, microsatellite DNA markers have become the marker of choice for population studies.

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

By examining bits of DNA called microsatellites, which mutate rapidly, Goossens was able to trace individual genetic differences back to a common ancestor and estimate the size of the orangutan population at different times in the past.

In much the same way that forensic scientists compare DNA samples to catch criminals, the New Mexico researchers compared 619 «microsatellite» positions on genomes, creating a digital evolutionary tree of the groups.

For the new study, which is published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Bowman and his colleagues collected samples from 38 L. mariae palms in Palm Valley and 100 L. rigida palms in the Roper, Nicholson, and Gregory rivers and compared the microsatellite markers.

Touboul is the project scientist for MICROSCOPE, a microsatellite to be launched in 2007 by the European Space Agency.

Extra bases are easily added or lost when the DNA is copied, so the number of repeats in each of these stretches, known as microsatellites, varies widely from one individual to another.

By matching microsatellite lengths found in acorns against those of all the adult trees in the stand, Dow was able to identify the father of each acorn with a high degree of certainty — if the father was present in the stand.

Funded by the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Rufford's Small Grants for Nature, and the National Geographic Society, Parusnath is developing and testing microsatellite markers similar to those used in human parentage tests to establish the genetic relatedness of Sungazers in different populations across the species» distribution.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenIn the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenin their oceanic environment.

A microsatellite is a short, repetitious sequence of DNA — CACACACA, for instance — in which the number of repetitions can change from one generation to the next and often does.

His team sampled 22 bedbug populations from nine states along the U.S. East Coast and examined nine so - called microsatellites, highly variable pieces of DNA that are particularly helpful in understanding genetic differences between populations.

That's why a particular pattern of microsatellites can profile a particular individual — to show, for instance, as Tyler - Smith and Zerjal had done shortly before embarking on their Central Asian work, that Thomas Jefferson had fathered a son by his slave Sally Hemings and that his Y chromosome had been passed down to a man living in Pennsylvania today.

In 1999, Robert Twiggs, an astronautical engineer now at Morehead State University, helped create the Orbiting Picosatellite Automatic Launcher (OPAL), a microsatellite that can propel several satellites as small as ice cream bars into space.

But the chance that a given microsatellite will change from, say, 11 CA (cytosine and adenine) repeats to 12 is on the order of one in a few hundred.

Overall it has participated in more than 300 space missions, providing everything from Internet - controlled microsatellites to hybrid propulsion systems and space vehicles.

Further investigation into how EWS / FLI associates with GGAA - microsatellites to drive transcription was the subject of a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Both studies highlight the importance of microsatellite length in oncogenic function.

In order to detect microsatellites commonly present in the two Acroporaspecies used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioIn order to detect microsatellites commonly present in the two Acroporaspecies used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioin the two Acroporaspecies used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioin the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite region.

The researchers found no differences in the mitochondrial DNA from North American pumas, and their microsatellites were «virtually indistinguishable,» NCI's Melanie Culver reported at the meeting.

Microsatellites are a gene mapper's dream: not only are they repeated different numbers of times in different people, but they are scattered throughout the genome.

As a young Chinese scientist, I am participating in an exchange program with Germany, having joined the Chinese - German microsatellite genome research project at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany.

After extracting tiny amounts of ancient DNA from the mummies» bones, the researchers amplified 16 short tandem repeats (short sequences in the DNA that create a genetic fingerprint) and eight polymorphic microsatellites (hereditary molecular markers) to testable quantities using techniques commonly employed in criminal or paternity investigations.

In 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the cancer drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for a range of solid tumors that are either microsatellite instability - high (MSI - H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR).

For the study, an international team of researchers based at institutions in Spain, the United States, Canada and Australia used mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite genotypic data to investigate the levels of genetic variation and to reconstruct the history of the invasions.

So the scientists caught blackcaps when the birds returned to Germany in the spring and sequenced short stretches of their genomes called microsatellites.

It's one of the most promising techniques in weather forecasting in a generation, and is already used on government - owned constellations, including the six microsatellites that were launched in the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), a joint project between NOAA and Taiwan.

The samples were then analyzed with a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used to amplify specific nuclear «microsatellites» for statistically measuring gene flow between the different populations and subpopulations located in the western South Atlantic (Breeding Stock A) and the eastern South Atlantic and Indian Ocean populations (Breeding Stocks B and C, and the Arabian Sea humpback whale population, respectively).

Where the mitochondrial DNA that Georgiadis analyzed provides just a single locus for comparison, Wasser's team compared up to 16 loci in each microsatellite sample — and the regional differences they found did not evaporate upon closer inspection.

The FACC - 29 library depends on microsatellite «signatures» that can be used to identify short segments of a cell's genetic sequence, in this case developed by the laboratory of study co-author, Dawn L. Duval, PhD, also working at the FACC.

By matching the microsatellite signature in a population of cells to those of known cells in the FACC - 29, a researcher can validate the identity of the cells used in research.

With the recent publication of a large data set of 763 microsatellite markers — short stretches of DNA that are repeated in the genome — from 53 populations in the Human Genome Diversity Project, evolutionary geneticists William Amos and Joe Hoffman of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom had enough genomic data to test both models.

The classical analysis proceeds by evaluating repeated short DNA sequences (microsatellites) in order to compare samples from different organisms.

Here, we used parentage analysis with multilocus microsatellite markers to measure how varying levels of genetic introgression with non-native rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) affect reproductive success (number of offspring per adult) of native westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) in the wild.

In order to detect microsatellites commonly present in the two Acropora species used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioIn order to detect microsatellites commonly present in the two Acropora species used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioin the two Acropora species used in the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite regioin the study, the researchers used a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using a pair of flanking DNA sequences that extend to either side of the microsatellite region.

Despite these drawbacks, Shinzato and colleagues developed 14 microsatellite DNA markers found in two of the most diverse Acropora species.

High intake of marine ϖ - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is associated with lower risk of microsatellite instable (MSI) colorectal cancers (CRCs) but not microsatellite stable (MSS) CRCs, according to a new study published March 25 in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The unit provides genetic testing services using a combination of both microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels for characterizing and selecting breeders in a wide variety of inbred mouse strains subsequently used for the generation of congenic animals.

But a caveat is that many patients have few if any T - cells in their tumors, which means the treatment is effective in only about 20 percent of patients who also have high microsatellite instability.

Application in detecting mutations and microsatellite instability (MSI) using circulating DNA from clinical cancer samples will be presented.

In fact, the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors and high microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origiIn fact, the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors and high microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origiin May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors and high microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origin.

Both cancer types demonstrate a high frequency of microsatellite instability, where the repair mechanism for DNA is broken, and mutations in POLE, a gene responsible for producing a protein involved in DNA replication and repair.

The facility's infrastructure includes a pyrosequencing genetic analyser (PyroMark ID MA) capable of quick and efficient SNP analysis of as many as 480 samples per day, in addition to all the necessary equipment for a more conventional microsatellite genotypic analysis.

To compare the breeds, the researchers analyzed the DNA samples from the cheek - swabs for subtle differences in genetic signposts, called microsatellite loci, among the dogs.

Origin and genome evolution of polyploid green toads in Central Asia: evidence from microsatellite markers.