Sentences with phrase «mutated genes result»

Maggie: Named for the youngest Simpsons character, these mutated genes result in arrested physical development.

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«Disrupting DNA repair will result in a storm of random mutations, increasing the chance that the right gene mutates at the right spot and lead to drug resistance.

Angelman syndrome, which causes learning difficulties, speech problems, seizures, jerky movements and an unusually happy disposition, results when a gene inherited from the mother in a particular area of chromosome 15 is mutated and the other copy of the gene, inherited from the father, is silenced.

Interestingly, this GABA receptor problem is not the result of abnormal or mutated genes.

Furthermore, gene disruption by gene editing techniques such as CRISPR - CAS resulted in the absence of growth of parasites carrying the mutated gene, indicating that the protein is required for parasite viability.

This mutated gene copy was also duplicated in the cancer genome, resulting in elevated expression.

Now, in the 14 May issue of Science, Kobayashi and his colleagues report that the same gene has been mutated in white grapes by a bit of pushy DNA, resulting in loss of skin color.

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 analyzed the genomes of all four children and found that each had two mutated copies of the CD70 gene, resulting in nonfunctioning or nonexistent CD70 proteins.

When daughter viruses assemble themselves in the cytoplasmic soup of genes and proteins, the overall virus that results is often a mash - up of these mutated copies.

This gene normally helps repair damaged DNA, but its mutated form results in a lifetime 50 to 80 percent chance of breast cancer and a 40 to 50 percent chance of ovarian cancer.

Among the genes discovered was Hedgehog, named for the spiky embryos that result when it is mutated.

If a person's DNA «mutates» or changes — a result of, say, the harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke or UV rays from the sun — the information in the gene becomes rearranged or deleted.

As a result the mutated and damaged genes start making abnormal proteins which trigger formation of destructive plagues in the brain and symptoms of AD.

Carcinogenesis is a complex process involving multiple sequential mutations, which occur randomly in the DNA of normal cells over many years, even decades, until finally specific genes are mutated and cell growth becomes out of control resulting in the full neoplastic phenotype and often metastasis.

Results will indicate whether your dog has one, two, or no copies of the mutated version of the PRCD gene.

However, in humans, the genes associated with epilepsy spontaneously mutate, whereas in dogs, the gene repeats itself over and over again until it stops working, and epilepsy results.

However, there's not a drop of «wild» DNA in this lovable feline, but rather the results of the pairing of two very special domestic cats with mutated genes; they had extra toes and stubby tails.

Genetic test results for the mutation will be normal, carrier (one copy of the mutated gene), or affected (two copies of the mutated gene).

Muscular dystrophy in dogs is caused by an inherited mutated dystrophin gene that disrupts the dystrophin protein production, resulting in loss of muscle function.