Sentences with phrase «particular version of a gene»

«In two studies of breast - fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of nearly 7 IQ points if the children had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.

Carrying a particular version of the gene for apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major known genetic risk factor for the sporadic, late - onset form of Alzheimer's disease, but exactly how that variant confers increased risk has been controversial among researchers.

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.

Genetic analysis revealed that eight people who got relief from the placebo had a particular version of a gene that regulates serotonin production called the tryptophan hydroxylase - 2 promoter (TPH2), the researchers report tomorrow in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Another possibility was that all of the diversity in the bacterial genes is «neutral» — no particular version of a gene makes an organism more or less fit for its environment.

Dogs with DM have two copies of a particular version of a gene called SOD1.

Not exact matches

Women with precancer or cancer were most likely to have particular versions of the viral gene E7, which researchers are now interested in targeting.

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.

So you're doing the work in yeast and you are looking at this particular gene construct and an ancestral version of it.

Patients with a particular inherited variation in the gene IFITM3 were more than twice as likely to develop severe, life - threatening flu symptoms as those who carried the protective version of the gene.

In particular, they looked at whether these young adults said they had any credit - card debt and what version of the MAOA gene they had.

For gene hunters, it's relatively straightforward to determine where a version of a particular gene lies on a given chromosome.

In humans, Galatzer - Levy found that different versions of the fkbp5 gene were able to predict specific differences in extinction learning related to PTSD symptoms such as reliving or re-experiencing the traumatic event; avoiding reminders of the event; and, in particular, hyperarousal, or the inability to sleep or concentrate.

This technique pointed out particular versions of 22 genes, half of which were not previously known to have a role in intellectual ability.

In a paper that June, scientists demonstrated how it might be possible to efficiently edit genes — that is, how to snip DNA at a particular spot and insert different DNA, a sort of biological version of word processing's «find and replace.»

They blow up because Maselko's technology instructs the cell to generate an immense amount of proteins caused by that particular gene — but only when the engineered yeast mate with wild versions.