«The results suggest that the environment is a stronger contributor to adverse birth
outcomes than genes, since there are differences in rates of birth outcomes across states» Thayer said.
Not exact matches
«My group has been chasing depression
genes for more
than a decade without success, so as you can imagine, we were really thrilled with the
outcome,» Perlis said.
Although a bad
outcome was possible without the
gene expression pattern, patients with the genetic signature were found to survive for less time
than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition of Nature Genetics.
«For the first time, we can predict the
outcomes of modifying multiple
genes involved in lignin biosynthesis, rather
than working with a single
gene at a time through trial and error, which is a tedious and time - consuming process,» says Jack Wang, assistant professor in NC State's College of Natural Resources and lead author of a paper about the research in Nature Communications.
Remarkably,
outcomes following loss of the switch mirrored what the group had previously observed when they physically removed the
gene itself: the lungs of mutant mice contained many more melanoma cells
than did lungs of normal mice.
In fact, many breeds are crossed in a bid to cancel out some of the more problematic
genes and the hybrid
outcome ends up being more physically sound
than their parents.
Some of those
outcomes (such as behavior often labeled «innate» or «instinctive») are relatively invariant, but this invariance reflects a dynamic rather
than a static constancy, ensured by a system of stable... developmental interactions, not a predetermined set of instructions encoded in the
genes.