Sentences with phrase «mutated gene on chromosome»

In the October issue of Nature Genetics, Siddique's team writes that a mutated gene on chromosome 2 common to both families encodes a novel protein they dubbed alsin.

Not exact matches

When the researchers compared the mRNA to a library of DNA sequences taken from the dendrites of neurons by James Eberwine of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, they found that it came from a single gene on chromosome X — the human version of which, when mutated, leads to fragile - X syndrome.

When an X-linked gene mutates in a woman, a backup gene on the second X chromosome can fill the gap.

But then a gene on a single chromosome mutated in a way that made any individual that inherited it male.

Now Cecilia Lai, Simon Fisher and colleagues, reporting in todays Nature, show that a gene on chromosome 7, which they call FOXP2, is mutated in the affected members of the KE family, as well as in an unrelated patient with a similar language deficit.

Using genetic maps, scientists know that the mutated gene responsible for this tolerance lies on chromosome 1, now they just need to find it.