Sentences with phrase «mobile genetic elements in»

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Mobile DNA elements called retrotransposons may be a source of genetic variation in nerve cells

The repeats are mobile elements called transposons, also known as jumping genes, which can trigger mutations in the genes around them and lead to genetic disorders.

These phages and plasmids can easily move between bacterial cells, and scientists have known for some time that, as a result, these so - called mobile genetic elements can play important roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance.

So far, tribute has been paid to Nobel prize winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, who discovered telomerase; Barbara McClintock, who won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and Nancy Wexler, who was involved in the work to identify the gene for Huntington's disease.

Demonstrated that ABOBEC3G, in conjunction with RNA granules, functions to regulate endogenous mobile genetic elements (e.g., Alu RNAs), whose mobility contributes to a variety of human diseases including cancers and leukemias.