Sentences with phrase «particular gene affects»

But a recent study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab.

A recent study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab

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These conditions are each caused by mutations in a particular gene, and affect different enzymes involved in breaking down galactose.

For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.

What's different about Church's machine is that it can target the genes that affect a particular characteristic and alter them in specific ways.

Similarly, someone who inherits the version of a particular gene that's associated with obesity will be more likely to wind up fat than someone who inherits a normal version, but that tendency can be affected by environmental factors such as how much fattening food is available.

The gene affects credit - card debt the way other genes have been found to play a role in breast cancer: a particular version of the gene increases risk, but many other genetic and environmental factors are important, too.

In particular, the Neandertal genome sequence can now be used to catalog changes that have become «fixed» (are invariant within a population or species) in modern humans during the last few hundred thousand years and should be helpful for identifying genes affected by positive selection since humans diverged from Neandertals.

In biological systems in particular, this scale ‐ free addition of new nodes is likely a consequence of gene duplication (Qian et al, 2001), and is also affected by alternate splicing and posttranslational modification in protein networks (Qian et al, 2001; Bhan et al, 2002; Pastor ‐ Satorras et al, 2003; Vazquez et al, 2003), as well as the variable chemical versatility of the metabolic intermediates in metabolic networks.

The current work shows that changes in the genetic code of a particular gene can control epigenetic marks at different genes, implying that a gene's genetic code can affect whether other genes are turned on and off, which makes it important to understand the function of all genes involved, not just the one with the so - called misspelling.

Broadly speaking, we are interested in understanding how genes affect behaviour, but despite rapid advances in technology for sequencing and engineering genomes, it is still a challenge to associate particular genes with heritable behavioural differences because behaviour is time consuming to measure and difficult to quantify.

Researchers had assumed that the SMA gene, essential for the survival of motor neurons, affected only that particular type of neuron.

Progression from normal epithelium to colorectal cancer requires an accumulation of mutations in particular genes that affect the balance between proliferation and apoptosis.

In particular, the lab investigates how alterations in epigenetics — or the heritable changes that affects gene expression without alterations in the underlying DNA sequence — contribute to epithelial ovarian cancer.

Schosserer will be spending two months in the laboratory of Aric Rogers, Ph.D., at the MDI Biological Laboratory's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine studying the role that molecular regulators of gene expression play in longevity — and in particular how these regulators are affected by lower amounts of food or food with lower energy content.

It has recently been determined that some herding breeds of dogs have a single mutation in a gene coding for a particular protein (P - glycoprotein) that will drastically affect the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a variety of medications used in veterinary medicine.

As long as the frequency of a gene for a recessive disorder remains low in the population, the particular gene may be passed along for many generations before by chance 2 carriers are mated and affected individuals are born.