Sentences with phrase «new gene variants»

Now, researchers have discovered a handful of new gene variants responsible for this palette of tones.

Volunteers sifting through open - source genetic data on their home computers identified more than 200 new gene variants within the most common Y - chromosome type in Europe.

Humans are still evolving and producing new gene variants, and one of them may give protection against becoming addicted to alcohol - by stopping us drinking altogether

Now, researchers have discovered a handful of new gene variants responsible for thispalette of tones.

By identifying regions that had a characteristic signature of being strongly altered by natural selection, they were able to identify relatively new gene variants that had swept through highland Tibetans, but not Chinese or Japanese lowlanders.

Prüfer and her team additionally identified a wealth of new gene variants in the Neanderthal genome that are influential in people today of European and Asian heritage.

New gene variants have arisen and spread among humans in the recent past.

Then he sent the new gene variants into the cell, where the bacteria's own machinery for self - assembling DNA took over and incorporated the genes into the genome.

Now researchers have discovered two new gene variants that help Tibetans use oxygen more efficiently than people who live at low altitudes; natural selection favored these variants in Tibetans, whose ancestors have lived at high altitude for thousands of years.