Sentences with phrase «pair of genes»

This means that more than one pair of genes control the inherited trait.

The detailed sequences Page's team developed were necessary, however, to compare genes on the Y chromosome with those on the X chromosomes to find pairs of genes on both.

This process highlighted DNA sequences that do not encode proteins but that are still needed because they direct the expression of essential genes, as well as pairs of genes that perform the same essential task — when such genes are deleted one at a time, both mistakenly seem to be dispensable.

That most monkish of monks taught that genetic traits are coded for by pairs of genes, one from each parent.

Although some diseases have a simply genetic basis with the disorder being determined by a single pair of genes, in other disorders that may have an hereditary component, the inheritance may be much more complicated.

Skin and hair color come from special cells in the skin that produce melanin according to Mischief's genetic code for color, and the amount of melanin is governed by the animal's genetic code, a complex genetic interaction of several pairs of genes that determine color, pattern, and distribution of white hairs on the body.

Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk - associated with disease than protective.

Pairs of genes of the same colour are paralogs.

Researchers have identified a pair of genes that increase a child's risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) before the age of 19 — adding to a growing list of 30 known genetic factors for the malady.

Yin is the corresponding author of a study published in the peer - reviewed academic journal Nature Communications, which shows those interactions depend on a pair of genes known as BES1 and RD26.

To help rescue sinking rice, Japanese scientists have discovered a pair of genes that allow inundated plants to keep their heads above water.

He figured out how the pairs of genes interact to influence the organism, depending on whether the pair have identical or differing messages.

Whether the offspring gets the vanilla version of a gene from a mother and the chocolate version from the father or the other way around, the trait coded for by the pair of genes will look the same.

So what we did is we wanted to ask what happened in the history of a pair of gene [s] in, regular role, brewer's and baker's yeast that is used these days.

The researchers studied the activity of a pair of genes called c - fos and c - jun.

In essence, the study found a pair of genes in Streptomyces platensis exploits a pathway to radically simplify fatty acid biosynthesis while bestowing an insensitivity to these particular antibiotics.

A pair of genes controls the production of the b globin chain.

Now, Salk scientists have discovered a pair of genes that normally keeps eating schedules in sync with daily sleep rhythms, and, when mutated, may play a role in so - called night eating syndrome.

The first group, led by Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier at the University of California — San Diego, and Anthony James at the University of California — Irvine, engineered a gene drive carrying a pair of genes designed to kill the malaria parasite inside the mosquito.

The order of genes along the insect chromosomes has been «extensively reshuffled» during evolution, but the researchers detected regions both genomes had in common, including 113 pairs of genes that appear to be related.

In the study, Setton and Sharma show that a pair of genes, known as Sp6 - 9 and Dll, normally involved in telling a developing insect or arachnid embryo where to grow legs, has been co-opted by a group of arachnids to also help tell the embryo where to build its head.

A joint study by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the school's Interdepartmental Neuroscience program found that a pair of genes that regulate dopamine and serotonin in men control their risk - taking behaviour.

The appearance of yellow puppies in this litter illustrates two principles of genetics — you can't always tell what the pups will look like by looking at the parents, and the pairing of genes is akin to a roll of the dice: it's almost impossible to predict which combinations will crop up.

There are seven pairs of genes that have been identified so far that control coat color.

With an autosomal dominant disease, if one of the pair of genes is abnormal, this is «dominant» over the normal gene, and results in disease development.

Listed on each certificate is the dog's unique genotype, representing the 10 pairs of genes.

Polygenic disorders Polygenic disorders are those caused by more than one pair of genes.

If only one of the pair of genes is faulty, the healthy gene will over-ride it, and the disease will not develop

Every enzyme in the lysosome is produced under the direction of a pair of genes.

But most of the genetic diseases pet owners and veterinarians see only occur when both of the pair of genes that control a particular process are defective (a recessive trait).

(ref) But in some dogs, that pair of genes (MDR1 aka ABCB1 genes) are defective.

Animals have a pair of genes in every cell that code for a certain characteristic, in this case, color.