Sentences with phrase «on another chromosome plays»

However, a similar gene on another chromosome plays a role in some forms of male infertility.

Not exact matches

By combining each mouse's genome, phenome, proteome and metabolome, the scientists were able to identify a particular gene, located on their chromosome 2, and whose presence plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes «The mice with a high - fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not,» said Evan Williams, LISP PhD student and the article's co-first author.

The findings, published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the strongest evidence to date in support of the notion that sex chromosomes acting on single cells play a role in differences between male and female brains.

The egg's very structure, its scaffolding of proteins that guide the chromosomes during cell division, may also play a key role in turning on the necessary genes.

A molecular biologist born in Hobart, Australia, Blackburn is best known for her 2009 Nobel Prize — winning discovery of telomeres, caps on the ends of chromosomes that protect genetic information from damage and are thought to play an important role in aging and cancer.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

When the toddler son of peaceniks pines for a toy army truck, she argues, he is expressing an inborn tendency toward active, physical play that has been shaped by social influences, not by the effects of a «gun gene» on the Y chromosome.

In 2004 Guilherme Neves and Andrew Chess, now at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, tracked the roles played by other genes on chromosome 21 — in this case using a fruit fly as the model.

With little knowledge of the roles that the Y chromosome genes play in fertility, most animal breeders and farmers select bulls based on physical characteristics, such as the size of the testis.

But scientists from the Julius - Maximilians - University of Wuerzburg in Germany have zeroed in on one mutation of a gene on chromosome 22 that appears to play an important role in catatonic schizophreniaa particularly severe form of the disease characterized by acute psychotic breaks and disturbed body movements.

By comparing extinct CC lines to living CC strains, we conclude that a complex genetic architecture is driving extinction, and selection pressures are different on the autosomes and chromosome X. Male infertility played a large role in extinction as 47 % of extinct lines had males that were infertile.

The gene was mapped to a small region on chromosome 18, which previous studies have suggested may play a role in blood pressure regulation in humans, mice and rats.

POT1 plays a role in protecting the ends of our chromosomes *, a little like the caps on the ends of shoelaces that stop them fraying.

Cheeseman and his laboratory have focused on three key groups or complexes of proteins that play essential roles in chromosome segregation in human cells.

Frustrated longtime followers will love that the XX - chromosome half of the brother - sister duo plays it mostly straightforward on her totally charming, engagingly breezy solo debut.