Sentences with phrase «of a given gene»

As research advances, scientists hope to determine the precise location of a given gene so they can test entire populations to identify carriers of the disease gene.

An important issue for molecular biology is to establish if transcript levels of a given gene can be used as proxies for the corresponding protein levels.

Why would I care whether the gene copy is in the chimp gene pool or the human gene pool if all that matters is how many copies of a given gene survive?

And they found that yeast has suffered from a loss of heterozygosity, in which there are two distinct alleles of a given gene present.

In other words, unless special probes are spiked in, the coverage of a given gene from a company's panel test is probably the same as you'd get from their exome - wide test.

These proteins are what recognize the methylation state of a given gene and recruit repressive chromatin.

Life is made of feedback loops: the products of any given gene can not only affect the expression of the gene from whence it came, they can also mask or enhance the effects of another gene.

Having the right alleles (different versions of a given gene, as when the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor produces 30 percent fewer receptors than the more common A2 allele) available somewhere in the population can make one species do better than another when the climate perturbs things.

This is a kind of risk - free molecular evolution: When multiple copies of a given gene are present in a species» genome, chance mutations in some copies can either ruin the proteins they encode or produce innovative versions; either way, the remaining intact copies still produce the original protein.

Additionaly, cDNAs can not be used to study in cis regulation and also suffer from an inability to easily deliver the appropriate isoform (s) of a given gene, as, many times, the isoform (s) common to a particular cell type are unknown or not readily available.

Each neuron has only two copies of a given gene but will have many dendrites that can have more or less RNA in them.