Many of the regions are
near genes known to be involved in brain development and function.
Not exact matches
They
knew that
genes that evolve within a prokaryote's own genome are often located
near similar
genes and have similar functions in existing
genes.
So his team sifted through genetic information from 45,000 microbes, flagging groups of
genes with unknown functions that were located
near known defense - related
genes.
You don't
know that your lead SNP is functional, or that the
nearest neighboring
gene provides the mechanism of phenotypic effect.
But the mutations the team discovered in promoters were not
near these or other
known pancreatic cancer
genes.
While the promoter mutations were not
near known pancreatic cancer
genes, the team discovered that they affected some of the same biological pathways inside cells.
To reduce the frequency of kinks, dogs with kinks or which have
near relatives with kinks should be bred to mates that have full tails and are from families where kinked tails are not
known to occur as the
genes for kinking may be entirely separate from the NBT
gene.