Sentences with phrase «of other genes»

All of these genes code for transcription factors, which are proteins that control the expression of other genes.

We can tell from its structure that the gene helps regulate the activity of other genes.

In addition to its essential role in bone health, vitamin D3 helps regulate hundreds of other genes.

This doubles the number of all other genes known on the planet.

And a host of other gene - related diseases that are in desperate need of a cure.

This can disrupt the functioning of other genes and create novel proteins that have never been in the food supply and could create toxins and allergens in foods.

The same holds true for variants of other genes.

Now we have demonstrated an efficient way of doing this, we hope that other scientists will use it to find out the roles of other genes.

This gene is a switch that activates a range of other genes.

Only in recent years has science determined that developmental regulation proceeds through a sequential activation of series of regulatory switches that, in turn, activate networks of other genes.

The role of these genes is to control the actions of other genes.

There were no significant differences in the frequency of the other gene alterations examined between the two types of cancer.

As mentioned in my paper, there is no single gene that is responsible for criminal or antisocial behavior, so I applaud the mention of other genes.

The gene works by binding to DNA and regulating the expression of other genes.

The researchers now are studying some of the master genes to determine whether modifying them also causes changes in large numbers of other genes.

According to the researchers, Hnrnph1 codes for an RNA binding protein that regulates the processing of hundreds of other genes in the brain.

White and her colleagues set out to identify how FoxP2 affects thousands of other genes in zebra finches before and after the critical period for learning closes.

Among the genes deactivated by NuRD are two that control the activity of other genes involved in the wiring of the cerebellum.

We observed that HOXA9 boosts the effects of other genes, leading to tumor development.

Amber - eyed dogs have eumelanin pigment in their eyes, but not as much — probably because of other genes which modulate how much is made.

The proteins made by the sonic hedgehog gene lay down the pattern, and the proteins of other genes do the sculpting.

The huntingtin gene isn't the only one with a long CAG stretch - lots of other genes do as well.

ZNF804A also interacts with and modulates expression of other genes known to be associated with schizophrenia.

A new study involving roundworms appears to have isolated one gene — a transcriptional factor (or gene that controls the regulation of other genes in the genome)-- that appears to be an essential member of the pathway that translates reduced caloric intake into a longer life span.

Krause says the Planck team will continue to cobble together the Neandertal genome and chart the evolution of other genes by comparing Homo sapiens with Neandertal DNA.

In eukaryotes, a homeobox encodes a protein domain (the homeodomain) which can bind DNA that act as part of transcription factors to switch on cascades of other genes that induce cellular differentiation by initiating the cascades of coregulated genes required to make individual tissues, organs, or body parts.

A complete genetic characterization also allowed the determination of when (at what developmental stage) and where (what cells) the gene is expressed as well as the identification of other genes involved in the differentiation of these two sets of neurons.

That means we can perform VST of each gene independent of the other genes.

Hundred of genes can influence the activity of other genes at any given time.

But while that overall pattern has been consistently observed in HD patients worldwide, in some people the symptoms first appear somewhat earlier or later than would be expected based upon CAG repeat number alone, suggesting that inherited changes in the DNA of other genes affected symptom onset.

A: Every mutation is different; some are highly predictive of disease, and some are dependent on other factors, such as the breeds involved, or the influence of other genes, the environment, and even diet.

Neandertals carried many of those old alleles, passing them along generation after generation, while developing their own versions of other genes.

Genes have the potential to become any of several types of proteins, and traumatic brain injury can damage the master genes, which can then lead to damage of other genes.

Members of this so - called MRG family encode factors whose interplay with chromatin — DNA in its coiled - up state — appears to influence the translation of other genes into proteins.

Only a decade later was it confirmed to bind to DNA and turn on the expression of other genes aimed at healing cell damage.

The group also plans to look at methylation patterns of other genes in the serotonin system that may contribute to the brain's response to threatening stimuli.

At the core of this cell behavior is how the loss of that single gene changes activation levels of dozens of other genes, suppressing genes associated with metastatic disease and increasing activity of genes linked to normal tissue.

If these sites happen to be regulatory elements of other genes, noncognate binding not only depletes TF molecules, but could also actively interfere with gene regulation.

Using advanced computer analysis techniques designed to study and process biological data, the researchers identified SND1 among a handful of other genes that miR - 184 helps regulate.

These Hox genes control the activity of a multitude of other genes that are responsible for the early development of an organism.

In stark contrast to studies of other venomous animals, they found that nearly half of the 53 most recently recruited venom genes uncovered through their genetic analyses were single - copy, meaning they were not duplicates of other genes with which evolution had tinkered.

The team showed that this gene, whose protein influences the activity of a bunch of other genes, helped control leg coordination in mice and suggested the mutation made the rhythm and order of footfalls more flexible.

«We have no clue which mechanisms could cause such a change,» Enard says, «but we don't know of any other gene so directly linked to speech.»

The assembly reveals a genome that contains novel giant repeat elements, new flatworm - specific genes, but also the absence of other genes that were so far thought to be absolutely essential for keeping an animal alive.

«A couple of other genes are also evolving rapidly and we know nothing about them,» he says, adding that they may affect the behavior of hemagglutinin.

This gene, along with a number of other genes encoding proteins involved in nickel homeostasis, has been acquired a long time ago by the bacterium via horizontal gene transfer.

The protein produced by this gene is a key defense for the cell — acting on a wide array of other genes to protect against many types of stress, including DNA damage and oxygen deprivation.

Ongoing studies comparing the function of other genes during branchial ray and fin / limb development will help to resolve this.

The finding points researchers to a particular cellular process that might run afoul in breast cancer, and it also suggests a slew of other genes that might make people vulnerable to various tumors.