Sentences with phrase «other jumping genes»

He and his team have studied LINE - 1 and other jumping genes for years, working with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and the Salk Institute, who are co-authors on this paper, and, in previous studies, with colleagues at Duke University.

Not exact matches

Other companies, including Myriad itself and Ambry Genetics, along with academic medical centers, have jumped in with panels of dozens of genes linked to an array of cancers.

The research team found a surprising variety of spontaneous mutations, from simple deletions or insertions to «jumping genes» — elements of DNA that copy and paste themselves into other parts of the genome.

Informally called jumping genes, these bits of DNA can replicate and insert themselves into other regions of the genome, where they either lie silent, doing nothing; start churning out their own genetic products; or alter the activity of their neighboring genes.

CRE are Gram - negative bacteria that frequently express a gene that codes for carbapenemase — an enzyme that breaks down carbapenem and other antibiotics — and that is located on «mobile genetic elements» called plasmids, which can jump from one bacterium to another.

Surveillance that is not stringent enough, on the other hand, would allow eggs with a lot of jumping gene - related errors to survive, and lead to a high level of birth defects, such as those caused by an incorrect number of chromosomes in the offspring.