Sentences with phrase «nonfunctional copies»
Iceland's genomes also yielded a bounty of so - called human knockouts — people who carry two nonfunctional copies of one of the roughly 20,000 human genes.
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people who carry two nonfunctional copies of one of the roughly 20,000 human genes.
Not exact matches
DNA INVESTIGATION Geneticists examined DNA from more than 10,000 people in Pakistan looking for people in whom both copies of certain genes were nonfunctional.
High rates of marriage between closely related people there make it more likely that people will inherit two nonfunctional gene copies.
Researchers also hope to gather information on healthy people who have mutations in both copies of a gene that make it nonfunctional.