Sentences with phrase «of amylase genes»

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/ When I did a high carb low fat diet, my fasting blood sugar kept rising, and when you consider that some people who have fewer copies of amylase genes, may actually do better on a high fat low carb diet.

Both the hunter - gatherers as well as the early farmers displayed high copy numbers of amylase genes in their genomes, suggesting that both populations had already adapted to a starch - rich diet.

These findings demonstrate recurrent involvement of the amylase gene region in genomic instability, involving at least five independent rearrangements of the pancreatic amylase genes (AMY2A and AMY2B).

That brings it back to genetics perhaps and the evolution of the amylase gene.

I agree it's significant that dogs have between four and 30 copies of the amylase gene, and this wide range would indicate that some dogs are much less able to handle starch than others.

Not exact matches

While chimps have only two copies of the salivary amylase gene (one on each of the relevant chromosome pair), humans have an average of six, with some people having as many as 15 (Nature Genetics, vol 39, p 1256).

Eating meat may have kick - started the evolution of bigger brains, but cooked starchy foods together with more salivary amylase genes made us smarter still.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Evidence for multiple copies of the salivary amylase gene in high starch eating Asians, and a gene variant that is important for breaking down fats in plant foods in Europeans and Middle Easterners may reflect an adaption to agriculture (Hancock et al, 2010).

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

He also mentions genetic studies that claim that humans have more copies of the genes for amylase than other great apes strongly suggesting that humans are designed to digest starch.

Your approach is also consistent with our design as «hind gut fermenting» herbivores with the modifications from our great ape relatives of more amylase genes (to digest starch) and more volume in our small intestine to absorb starch.

People think our very early ancestors were carnivores, but the work of Perry & Dominy on the amylase gene suggests otherwise.

The researchers first found that dogs had between four and 30 copies of a gene that codes for amylase while wolves had only two copies.

Dogs had four to 30 copies of the gene for amylase, a protein that starts the breakdown of starch in the intestine.