Sentences with phrase «mutated gene in this region»
The findings suggested that a mutated gene in this region was responsible for many cases of both conditions, but scientists did not pinpoint a specific gene.
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Twin genes or duplicated regulatory regions result, and although one in the pair usually has to keep doing its original job, the other is free to mutate and take on new roles that can enhance an organism's survival.
The researchers then analyzed another 147 colorectal cancer cell lines in the same way for kinase - domain mutations in these genes, and then sequenced the entire coding region of all kinases that were mutated, in all discovering 46 new mutations.
However, in the deleted chromosome region, BECN1 is adjacent to BRCA1 (breast cancer 1, early onset), which is a breast cancer tumor suppressor gene frequently mutated in familial breast and ovarian cancers.