Sentences with phrase «particular chromosome»

This map will further disease research by locating the genes on particular chromosomes so that DNA tests can be used to determine a dog's genetic health before breeding.

«By directly comparing and contrasting both disorders, we found that OCD heritability appears to be concentrated in particular chromosomes — particularly chromosome 15 — while TS heritability is spread across many different chromosomes.»

Such studies require fairly large groups of participants, and while they are unable to pinpoint the specific responsible DNA variant, they identify the region on a particular chromosome where modifier genes are located.

The research, published May 23 in the Journal of Neuroscience, sheds light on how an excess, or absence, of genetic material on a particular chromosome affects neural development.

He doesn't know why these particular chromosomes, nor another one with a unique shape, are not doubled in these animals.

The Johns Hopkins and Dana Farber research teams then searched for mistakes in the DNA sequences, including areas where one DNA molecule was switched for another, and spots where large regions of DNA in a particular chromosome were altered.

To accomplish this we need only a little technology, just enough to enable a technician (or more likely, a tiny and efficient machine) to extract a particular chromosome from one cell and properly install it in another.

Nearly one in every 200 cases of autism is caused by the deletion of a section of DNA on a particular chromosome.

With the advent of micro-satellite markers in late 1990's Bedlington CT came to be associated with the presence of what is known as the 2 - 2 C04107 allele on a particular chromosome.