Sentences with phrase «of particular genes relating»

A research team led by Masashi Yanagisawa, director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS) at the University of Tsukuba, believes the differing tendencies could stem from mutations of particular genes relating to sleep.

Not exact matches

The research team found that when a particular mitochondrial fission protein (GTPase dynamin - related protein - 1 — Drp1) was blocked using either gene - therapy or a chemical approach in experimental models of PD in mice, it reduced both cell death and the deficits in dopamine release — effectively reversing the PD process.

In humans, Galatzer - Levy found that different versions of the fkbp5 gene were able to predict specific differences in extinction learning related to PTSD symptoms such as reliving or re-experiencing the traumatic event; avoiding reminders of the event; and, in particular, hyperarousal, or the inability to sleep or concentrate.

Comparisons between the nucleotide makeup, or sequence, of particular genes allows scientists to see how closely they are related, and thus, group the organisms accordingly.

The Haematological Cancer Genetics team, led by George Vassiliou, studies the genes and genetic pathways involved in the development of blood cancers, with a particular emphasis on Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and related malignancies.

If there is a recessive gene for an inherited disease, such as hip dysplasia, a pup born of related dogs has an increased chance of having that particular problem.

Diet - related nutrogenic diseases can be aggravated when various food ingredients alter the health - promoting population of bacteria in the digestive system, the «microbiome» or «garden of the guts,» and when a particular breed or individual genome has gene - related processes and reactions to food ingredients that cause or aggravate illness.

Related to this question, recent research suggests that particular polymorphisms, often those linked to risk for pathology, make the individual more susceptible to be influenced by parenting and other experiences.24 - 26 For example, children carrying the 7 - repeat variation of the DRD4 appear to benefit more from interventions directed to prevent behaviour problems than those carrying other variations of the gene.24 Nonetheless, further research is needed on how and to what extent EC skills may be influenced by the interplay between constitution and experience.