Sentences with phrase «of known genes»

Only 44 percent of the genes matched DNA sequences of known genes.

A fundamental weakness of exome chip designs (and exome sequencing, for that matter) is the emphasis of known genes.

In one fell swoop, scientists have increased from dozens to hundreds the number of known genes that control crucial steps in the development of many organisms from fruit flies to humans.

Matching DPI peaks to the 5 ′ end of known genes within 500 bp revealed that 91 % of human protein - coding genes had a TSS supported by robust CAGE peaks.

A small number of known genes, it is thought, account for nearly 50 percent of pigment variation.

A key step in this process is to compare symptoms identified by clinicians, such as neurodevelopmental delay or abnormal growth, with an in - house database of all known genes associated with developmental disorders.

Each time he dipped a container overboard, he discovered millions of new viruses — so many that he increased the number of known genes 10-fold.

And large, genome - wide studies searching for genetic underpinnings for more common diseases, such as lung cancer or autism, have pointed to the nether regions of the genome between the protein - producing genes — areas that were often thought to contain «junk» DNA that was not part of the pantheon of known genes.

After eight weeks, they harvested all the viruses in the mice's feces, and identified the viral genes present by comparing them with a large database of known genes.

Last April, they announced that they had raised the total number of known genes from 4 million to 10 million.

To infer the functional effects of these differences, they ran multiple computational analyses, including comparisons to massive databases of known gene functions and of mice in which genes are artificially deactivated.

The draft genome generated by the present study covered > 70 % of the whole genome and harbored > 87 % of the known gene transcripts, thereby constituting the most informative genome resource currently available for bay scallop.

Not exact matches

Yet for decades, scientists have known surprisingly little about what genes are linked with the development of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).

According to the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, «Mutations of at least six different genes are known to cause WS, and it may be inherited in an autosomal dominant (most commonly) or autosomal recessive manner.»

You know Gene Simmons as a member of the band KISS, but he's also one savvy entrepreneur.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

She chose that step because she had been tested and knew she possessed those gene mutations, which put her risk of developing breast cancer at greater than 80 %.

As the video explains, these traits are due to the tiny molecular machines in our cells known as proteins, which are encoded by bits of DNA called genes.

The advance is based on a technique that allows scientists to narrow in on a specific gene and cut - and - paste bits of DNA to change its function, known as CRISPR - Cas9.

The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

We know a lot of what we know about gene mutation and our similarities with other animals precisely because we have been working within this paradigm for which there is a ton of evidence.

The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

@DOC in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

«in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

I don't know, but it occurs to me that people who act up in these ways might indeed be behaving above and beyond what our genes have programmed the rest of us to be.

Did you know that we have only a third the number of genes present in a nematode?

The details may change — Darwin knew nothing of DNA and genes, and we are still learning a lot about the implications of those.

People of every nation, color, language, belief, and condition are now known to possess in their body cells trait factors drawn by an inconceivably complex sequence of intercombinations from a common «gene pool.»

To quote Ayala and Kiger's textbook, Modern Genetics: «There is no way of knowing whether a given gene will mutate in a particular cell or in a particular generation,» because the mutations «are unoriented with respect to adaptation.»

The DNA of many ancestors is in our blood and genes have * memes *, which may explain why we sometimes get that deja vu feeling even though we know we've never been here before.

Last, had I known that alcoholism is a disease worse than cancer, and that it ran through the family genes thus any baby born had a strong chance of becoming one... well, that seals the deal but, I bet the parents who also fell for religiosity, not knowing it was an enclave for pedophiles... talk about regrets from hell.

If Chad and others argue that naturalistic evolution must be dismissed because we don't know exactly what happened with gene mutation and transmission frequencies during particular periods of rapid change, then how can we accept a replacement argument in which we don't even know what happens at all?

Psuedogenes are remnants of genes that once served a purpose in our genome that they no longer fulfil, because of mutations that have rendered the genes nonfunctional, i.e., they no longer lead to the production of proteins (long chains of amino acids) that once contributed to specific characteristics in ancient ancestors.

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

The most powerful influence in human life is neither the environment in which we happen to be brought up, the genes we were bequeathed from our parents at birth, nor all the slings and arrows of fate, no matter how tragic and harrowing their effects may be.

James Watson, the éminence grise of gene work whose discovery of the double helix 50 years ago we are celebrating this spring, has called on his fellow researchers to show some «guts» and «try germ - line therapy without knowing if it's going to work.»

So no, such a scenario does not refute evolution, but can be explained only by evolution, once we understand that the relation ship of genes to traits is not one to one, but many to many.

@ED The only thing that is assumed to be at least more or less constant in evolutionary theory is the mutation rate of individual genes, and even that, since mutations are known, eg, to increase under higher radiation, is only true «on average, over the long run».

The happenings we know a lot about, thanks to evolutionary biology, particularly of the last four decades, are the roles of mutation, recombination of genes in sexual reproduction resulting in a great diversity of gene arrangements, and natural selection.

When asked why we should take their ideas seriously if they are no more than the predetermined products of genes or conditioning, they are inclined to respond, «It is an interesting paradox, isn't it?»

Now we know that it is the DNA and genes and chromosomal segregation and linking that causes selective inheritance of various traits in humans.

No doubt ideas of kin altruism (the mutual support extended between those who share in the family gene pool) and reciprocal altruism (favors done in the expectation of favors later to be received) shed some Darwinian light on aspects of human behavior.

We, of course, can't find conscious satisfaction in merely spreading our genes; we know well enough that our genes our quickly enough dispersed into insignificance.

The early modern evangelicals were possessed of a marvelous insight: that religion in their world was at last, and virtually for the first time in history, no longer to be passed through the genes.

No, no Asian thread in my genes that I know of, just Finnish and Egyptian, but we've been traveling to Asia quite a bit and I love the food!

A World War II veteran who lived through the invasion of Normandy on D - day, Gene returned home to Petaluma, CA to found what is now one of the most respected dairy processors in the country, and became a pillar of his community, known for his generosity to those less fortunate.

Gene knew as a teenager in the 1940 ′ s that he enjoyed the hard work, the early mornings and the fast pace business of the bustling Los Angeles produce market in the still blossoming city of down town Los Angeles.

And even though she isn't a sweet tooth (I guess it's not the dominant gene in my family), I know she can't resist a couple of desserts:

• Gene Autry, part owner of the Los Angeles Angels baseball club, when asked about the Angels» schedule in «Dodger Stadium»: «I don't know where that is.