Sentences with phrase «new gene locus»
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The new locus they have identified is near a cluster of genes which code for proteins called «glycophorins» that are involved in the malaria parasite's invasion of red blood cells.
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«This new resistance locus is particularly interesting because it lies so close to genes that are gatekeepers for the malaria parasite's invasion machinery.
But when we put these genetic associations alongside the ENCODE data, we saw that although the loci are not close to a protein - coding gene, they really are close to one of these new elements that we're discovering.
our stroke research, we will soon be able to find a gene within the type 2 diabetes locus we have identified and use this gene to identify powerful new drug targets.»
Sequences for 54 nuclear genes were taken from Perelman et al.'s [12] nexus file with modifications to eliminate problems with probable contaminants and misidentified sequences (Table S2); sequences for 15 additional nuclear genes (ABO, CXCR4, CXCR5, Epsilon globin, FGA, IRBP intron 1, IRBP intron 3, MC1R, NRAMP, PRNP, VWF intron 11) were obtained from GenBank; and new sequences (JX856181 - JX856283, JX869897 - JX869930) for exons of four nuclear genes (GHR, IRBP, VWF, TTN) were combined with previously published GenBank sequences for these loci.
Dr. Radislav Sedlacek and his team from the Institute of Molecular Genetics has recently published new paper on gene targeting of Rosa26 locus using TALENs.
In addition, many associated loci contain genes that were hitherto unrecognized as playing a role in fibrosis, opening up new avenues of research that may lead to novel treatments for DD and fibrosis more generally.