Sentences with phrase «of human geneticists»

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to test blood drawn from pregnant mothers for Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders in the fetus.

Not exact matches

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has been absorbed in the study of virii for a number of years.

u mean the American physician - geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

Science Can not Prove History In the movie Religulous (which I recently reviewed), Bill Maher challenged Francis Collins (the leading geneticist of the Human Genome Project) to scientifically prove that Jesus really lived, died, and rose again.

But her mentor, renowned human geneticist Victor McKusick, then director of medical residents at Hopkins, made it clear even as she was in recovery that her injury should not impede her return to the demanding schedule of a medical resident.

If the finding is correct, it indicates that the relationship between humans and Neandertals goes further back and is more complicated than scientists supposed, says Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has launched an investigation into controversial human embryo studies conducted by Mark Hughes, a molecular geneticist who once worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

These allusions to the past aren't surprising considering how drastically the clinical trial changed gene therapy and, in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, where the test took place.

Geneticist and writer Rutherford takes a sweeping new view of the human evolution story, using the latest science of DNA as the central guide.

«Geneticists discovered that present - day human populations were linked to a group of African modern humans who started migrating 70,000 years ago.

In December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas.

«She's not a human geneticist, so she didn't get the job,» says Michael Culbertson, chair of the Genetics Lab at UW Madison.

The genome of the Spirit Cave Mummy is significant because it could help to reveal how ancient humans settled the Americas, says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

In a nonhuman primate model geneticist Anthony Chan DVM, PhD, and his colleagues at Yerkes developed, rhesus macaques carry a gene encoding a fragment of mutant human huntingtin.

Geneticists have perhaps the most promising approach: Though it's messy to untangle, a lot of what makes us human definitely resides in our DNA.

Experts have estimated that such deletions may account for 10 % of all BRCA1 mutations in the U.S. population, says human geneticist Brian Ward, vice president of laboratory operations at Myriad Genetics, one of the main producers of commercial BRCA1 tests.

Molecular geneticist Cheng Chi Lee, developmental biologist Gregor Eichele, and their co-workers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have isolated a gene in mice and humans that shares 44 % of the amino acid sequence of the period (per) gene of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

The data are «very compelling that Neandertals bring back some of the lost ancestral variance,» of modern humans, said geneticist Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, who heard the talks.

Most of the rechristened genes were identified by geneticists studying the fruit fly; when equivalent genes were later found in the human genome, researchers simply continued using the name of the fruit fly gene to avoid confusion.

Geneticists are starting to have success in warmer places, which is a priority because most of human evolution occurred in Africa.

This is Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

«If we know the pathways involved, maybe we can reverse this, find better targets and design better drugs,» says Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanHuman History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanhuman DNA.

«There's a potential protective effect here,» says human geneticist Andrew Johnson of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Scientists have found a variation of the miR - 182 gene in patients with primary open - angle glaucoma that results in this overexpression, said Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Physician and human geneticist Horst Hameister and his group at the University of Ulm in Germany recently found that more than 21 percent of all brain disabilities map to X-linked mutations.

Matthew Brown, a skeletal geneticist at the University of Oxford says the gene is «a really hot candidate for [human] chondrocalcinosis,» a rare genetic form of joint stiffening that leads to crystal deposition and shows a similarly imbalanced pyrophosphate distribution in the joints.

Mammals, humans included, have circadian clocks that work with the same logic and many of the same gears found in fruit flies, say Jennifer Loros and Jay Dunlap, geneticists at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

In a report that appears online in the journal Nature ¸ Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, and colleagues answer the question: «Can we turn on the activity of the paternal gene?»

Even for dogs, humans» oldest, closest friends, «all those things are unknown,» says evolutionary geneticist Greger Larson of the University of Oxford.

Hunt - crazy humans weren't the main cause, says geneticist Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

A year ago these geneticists, lawyers, historians and philosophers participated in a workshop at the Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

To probe this connection, geneticist Wolfgang Enard of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology engineered mice by replacing their FOXP2 gene with the human one.

«It's a nice story that solves a cool mystery — how did Neandertals end up with mtDNA more like that of modern humans,» says population geneticist Ilan Gronau of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

«This is a dream site for studying the ancestors of Neanderthals and perhaps modern humans,» says evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo.

But getting a DNA sample from a bone means drilling a hole in it, and archaeologists were not about to let geneticists go to work on the deteriorating human skeletons without some guarantee of a genome.

The millions of base pairs of sequence that Genovese and McCarroll's team have located will be added to the next release of the reference human genome assembly — the «Google maps» of the human genome that geneticists use every day — providing a more comprehensive view of the genome and how the pieces all fit together.

But one of the geneticists who performed the research says the conclusion is less certain, and according to others we are not even close to knowing the skin colour of any ancient human.

The map is a key tool that geneticists rely on to find disease genes and identify the functional genetic variations at the core of human diversity.

Guttmacher, a geneticist and pediatrician, had been Collins's deputy director when Collins headed the National Human Genome Research Institute; he became acting director of NHGRI after Collins stepped down in August 2008.

Geneticist Simon Fisher of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University in the United Kingdom agrees that there is much to learn about the function of FOXP2 from animals like the mouse.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

Distinguished geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician Eric Steven Lander — president and founding director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, and a principal leader of the historic international Human Genome...

Now some geneticists see it as a second font of human diversity.