Sentences with phrase «normal genes whose»

Dr. Verma's major research interests are oncogenes and tumor suppressors, normal genes whose alteration can cause cancer, and the development of techniques for gene therapy.

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Using RNA sequencing, the researchers found multiple genes whose abnormal expression could lead to the high rate of death for cloned embryos, including failure to implant in the uterus and failure to develop a normal placenta.

Under normal circumstances, people whose taste receptor cells make more messenger RNA (mRNA) for a given gene make more of the encoded receptor.

Patients whose tumors had a normal BRAF gene showed an overall objective response rate of 61 %.

The specific mutations that the researchers observed are «dominant negative» mutations, meaning, when present on even one copy of P53, they are able to compromise the function of the normal protein, whose components are made from both gene copies.

Unlike typical eukaryotic organisms, Tetrahymena has two nuclei — a micronucleus that contains normal chromosomes and a macronucleus whose chromosomes are fragmented into thousands of small pieces of DNA that all encode the same ribosomal RNA gene.

I have seen many patients over the years with Hashimoto's whose health care practitioners have told them they can eat gluten because they had a normal gluten antibody test (meaning there is no sensitivity) or they did not have the gene for gluten sensitivity.

If a dog is diagnosed with a genetic disorder, it can be replaced with a normal sibling or parent and bred to a mate whose risk of having liability genes is low.

The mutations may be in genes governing some aspect of the immune system but they might also be in tumor suppressor genes whose job it is to seek out and destroy cancerous cells, genes that control cell division, genes that control normal cell death, and other types as well.

The apparently «normal footed» cats would have been polydactyls with barely discernible extra toes, but whose offspring had more prominent extra toes - giving the appearance of either spontaneous mutation or recessive genes.

Corgi PRA is caused by a mutation in the gene called PDE6A whose normal state is essential for normal vision.

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.