Sentences with phrase «other areas of the genome»

Finally, they compared the genomes of people from around the world and found more genetic variation in the genomic regions that control facial characteristics than in other areas of the genome, a sign that variation is evolutionarily advantageous.

The genes had broad functions including controlling the expression of genes in many other areas of the genome.

They've also provided dozens of other areas of the genome that they believe could be of note.

Not exact matches

«Methylation patterns drift steadily throughout life, with methylation increasing in some areas of the genome, and decreasing in others,» says Dr. Issa.

They are most commonly located in segments between genomes; in other words, areas that do not contain any information on the blueprint of proteins.

Defined narrowly — as a discipline distinct from other areas of plant biology — plant genomics is the study of the organization of genomes themselves.

It scans a very broad area of the genome (508 genes and more than two million base pairs or letters of the genome, i.e.. A, T, C, and G) with high accuracy (each region of the genome is sequenced or «read» 60,000 times), yielding about 100 times more data than other sequencing approaches.

Some scholars argue that the Chinese scientists have crossed an ethical line by editing the human genome, but others welcome China's comparatively liberal regulation of this area of experimentation, which allows genetics researchers to push the scientific envelope.

The study broke new ground in other areas as well, yielding the first ancient whole genomes of East Asian ancestry and the highest coverage ancient human genome from Asia (7x coverage) sequenced to date.

So we take that out and we test 20,000 plus genes and a lot of other regulatory areas in the entire genome of that developing child.

For example, cellular reprogramming is an inefficient process because many of the target areas on the genome are covered by other proteins, like a childproof cap on a medicine bottle, which prevents the reprogramming factors from binding there.

I was working in a community of people who were all thinking about looking at genetic variations, of how you might look at them and how you might understand them, and so reading lots of papers from other folks who were doing great work in that area I just looked at ways that you could basically go across the human genome and look at every variation, everything that's variable between human populations.

Members of the SCQB maintain close collaborative ties across CSHL as well as with many other groups in the New York area, including Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University and the New York Genome Center.