Sentences with phrase «more about their genome»

They want to learn more about their genome although they're not geneticists.

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But subsequent deals could be more far - reaching: Consumers who bought 23andMe kits and agreed to donate their genetic information to research automatically consented for 23andMe to sequence their genomes, Forbes reports, and the company says it can share anonymized, pooled information about their self - reported health traits without getting permission first.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

Tell me, would you say you cant have communication without intelligence... then how about the genome and the communication of DNA from one generation to the next, this is more complicated than any computer created by man.

So as kids explore the interactive features of the exhibit, like building their own dinosaur or exploring computerized genome projects, they'll pick up some knowledge about DNA, species extinction and more.

By analyzing the genome of a tiny fetal mummy known as Ata, researchers have learned more about what led to its strange - looking deformities — and that Ata was not an it, but a she.

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

The group also compared the cat genome with those of other mammals — including a tiger, cow, dog and human — to understand more about the genetics of cat biology.

«Metabolites are more dynamic than the genome and they can give us more information about what makes us human,» says Khaitovich.

The personal telomere test, like the personal genome test, is coming at a time when we've still got many more questions about what it will reveal than solid answers.

The more we learn about our genome, the more peculiar its workings appear.

Others are far more circumspect about sequencing their genome — about 17 percent ticked the box saying «I wouldn't do it even if someone paid me.»

It is typically less expensive to get preselected information about the 20,000 or so genes that make up a person's exome — the section of the genome that provides instructions for making proteins — than to perform a more precision - oriented test that targets a single gene.

«Genomes from these more remote populations really can tell us a huge amount about human evolutionary history,» says Evelyn Jagoda, a Harvard University evolutionary genetics Ph.D. student and co-author of one of the studies.

Herron and his colleagues scanned the genomes of about 45 species of green algae to see how the position of certain genes might have shifted as the organisms grew more complex.

The three - year study included cell culture studies at Rice as well as a detailed analysis of gene - expression profiles of more than 500 patients from the Cancer Genome Atlas and protein - expression profiles from about 200 MD Anderson patients.

Through more than 1,600 separate experiments, analysis of more than 140 cell types and a massive amount of data analysis, the group found about 4 million of these so - called switches and can now assign functions to more than 80 percent of the entire genome.

The gift accompanies a paper published online today in Nature from researchers at Broad and worldwide, which identifies more than 100 areas of the human genome associated with schizophrenia, based on samples from almost 37,000 people with schizophrenia and about 113,000 without the disease.

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The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

Fortunately, Reich says, we can do more than just speculate about why a particular piece of Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA is still in our genomes.

«Though the degree to which human embryonic stem cells possess this feature is not entirely clear, by understanding how another complex organism's genome works we ultimately learn more about how our own genome works,» said Zhou.

«All the questions we have about ancient evolutionary events — what our last common ancestor looked like, when methane metabolism arose, when oxygen - producing organisms evolved — they really benefit from having more genomes to look at and a more detailed tree,» says Parks.

To expand knowledge about parasitic plants, the IU team chose to sequence the mitochondrial genomes of Santalales, more commonly referred to as mistletoes, which are the largest order of parasitic plants in the world with over 2,000 species.

Now, researchers writing in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports on February 12th have sequenced the complete genome of one wild - caught individual, and they say that it has already told them more than they had anticipated about the butterflies and some of their most intriguing features.

So, Lyko and his colleagues sequenced genomes of about a dozen marbled crayfish from different parts of the world and performed less detailed genetic analyses of two dozen more from across Madagascar.

They analysed about a million different cell mutations in more than 7,000 tumours from the Cancer Genome Atlas covering 24 types of cancer.

By pinpointing which regions of the barley genome are resistant to recombination, breeders will be able to make better informed decisions about which favorable alleles to pursue, and to plan more efficiently.»

The genome also revealed the location of genes that may be involved in fighting off pathogens, which will help scientists understand more about disease resistance in pines.

It scans a very broad area of the genome (508 genes and more than two million base pairs or letters of the genome, i.e.. A, T, C, and G) with high accuracy (each region of the genome is sequenced or «read» 60,000 times), yielding about 100 times more data than other sequencing approaches.

Dillman explained that his research team also learned more about gene regulation and the evolution of genomes in general as it compared the five sequences with other nematodes.

Examining genome sequence information for more than 250,000 people, the researchers first uncovered 16 new diabetes genetic risk factors, and one new CHD genetic risk factor; hence providing novel insights about the mechanisms of the two diseases.

Analyzing the genomes of more enslaved Africans «and [finding] out where they came from... can tell us more about these people's identities and how they transformed over the centuries that followed,» he says.

Check out the 6 December print issue of Science for a news package on snakes, including more on the genomes, a story about efforts to develop drugs from venom, and a report about the fight against the invasive brown tree snake in Guam.

He noted that about 10 % of the human genome has now been sequenced in final form and 7 % more in draft, and boasted that the collaboration has met all of its milestones, «without exception.»

The Streptococcus pneumoniae Genome Diversity Project More information about S. pneumoniae, on a site supported by vaccine manufacturer Wyeth - Lederle List of the more than 45 microbial genomes so far completed, with links to others still in progMore information about S. pneumoniae, on a site supported by vaccine manufacturer Wyeth - Lederle List of the more than 45 microbial genomes so far completed, with links to others still in progmore than 45 microbial genomes so far completed, with links to others still in progress

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Gene mutations at more than 200 locations on the genome cause inherited deafness, which accounts for about half of deafness in general.

The genome data not only can help us know much more about the adaption mechanisms underlying minke whale, but also provides invaluable resource for marine mammal's future studies such as diseases control and prevention, species conservation, and protection.»

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

«They've actually been able to dig down into the genome and find out a little bit more about [parallel evolution],» says Tim Coulson, a population biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

A typical virus is about a million times smaller in volume than a bat blood cell, so one challenge is sifting the evidence of viral genetic material from the background of more abundant cells with larger genomes.

Others are more optimistic about one - million - year - old genomes.

More information about The Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Project is available at http://cancergenome.nih.gov.

While his first synthetic genome was mainly a copy of an existing genome, Dr. Venter and colleagues this year synthesized a more original bacterial genome, about 500,000 base pairs long.

If you want more great stories about the cat genome and domestication, you'll find good articles in Wired Magazine and the Washington Post.

By combining and comparing data from worm, fly and human, researchers can learn far more about the functional elements than if they analyzed the genome of just one organism.

The more we understand about how natural variation in the vertebrate genome shapes the development and function of the brain, the better insight we can have into how behavioral patterns evolve, and how disruption to neurogenetic pathways can lead to brain and behavioral dysfunction.

International consensus about genome editing of human embryos remains no more likely than about embryo research in general: Some countries ban it while others actively promote and fund it.

More details about The Cancer Genome Atlas, including Quick Facts, Q&A, graphics, glossary, a brief guide to genomics and a media library of available images can be found at http://cancergenome.nih.gov. Reference: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network.