Sentences with phrase «normal gene from both parents»

Not exact matches

If you're a carrier of a defective gene for a recessive disorder, that means you have one normal copy of the gene from one of your parents and one defective copy from the other.

When an altered X chromosome is passed down to female offspring, Gantz reasoned, the gene drive should convert the normal X from the other parent into one with a broken yellow gene.

The findings suggest that Turner women who receive a copy of the X chromosome from the father (and normal women, who get a copy from each parent) are more adept at social skills, although it's unclear which genes might be at work.

«Sufferers either have a rare combination of genetic changes they inherited from their otherwise normal parents, or they have newly - arising changes in genes that were not present in their parents.»

Because the girl inherited a defective version of the gene from each parent, she had no normal copy.

If one copy of one of these genes from one parent is already mutated at birth, the second normal copy from the other parent often can compensate for the defect.

Normal cells should contain just two copies of the gene (one copy from each parent), which is involved in embryo development.

On the other hand, if a dog were to inherit only one PCD gene and a normal one from the other parent, then it is possible that half of the cilia function normally and the other half doesnʼt.

The way genetics work is that a puppy inherits one colour gene from each parent, this means that puppies in a merle x merle litter could be normal merles (Mm), non-merles (mm) or double merles (MM).

These dogs inherited a mutant gene from one parent and a normal gene from the other parent.

A dog with normal patellas whose dam had luxating patellas will likely be carrying a much higher number of the genes needed to produce luxating patellas than a dog from two normal parents.