Sentences with phrase «percent of the human genome»

At least 8 percent of the human genome originated in viruses, whose genetic code was integrated with ours over roughly 40 million years of primate evolution.

By looking for signals based on how much DNA mutates over generations, researchers found clues that as much as 10 percent of the human genome may be linked to these recent adaptive genetic changes.

The partitioning of humans into biological races was permissible when the knowledge of our genetic inheritance was based on less than 0.1 percent of the human genome.

The observational study published in Genome Biology utilized publicly available and unpublished data sets to find 2,147 vlincRNAs that cover 10 percent of the human genome, suggesting that their production is a common, yet undiscovered, feature of human DNA.

«For 80 percent of the human genome to be functional, each couple in the world would have to beget on average 15 children and all but two would have to die or fail to reproduce,» he wrote.

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional.

Eighty percent of the human genome is already in GenBank, either in finished form or as a working draft form, which is still pretty good [data].

«These non-coding RNAs have been called the «dark matter» of the genome because, just like the dark matter of the universe, they are massive in terms of coverage — making up over 95 percent of the human genome.

Remnants of ancient viruses, which make up about 8 percent of the human genome, are not just silent hitchhikers.

Retrotransposons, the most common type of transposable element in humans, make up about 45 percent of the human genome.

It has deposited so many copies of itself that it accounts for about 18 percent of the human genome.

«During the early debates about the Human Genome Project, researchers had predicted that only a few percent of the human genome sequence encoded proteins, the workhorses of the cell, and that the rest was junk.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, predicts that 90 percent of the human genome sequence will be available by the spring of 2000, with a complete human DNA sequence available in 2002 or 2003.

The findings suggest that Cell Painting may provide researchers with an inexpensive, high - throughput means to understanding the functions of uncharacterized genes — a category that currently includes more than 30 percent of the human genome.

7/12/2007 One Man's Junk May be a Genomic Treasure Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what's referred to as «junk» DNA — the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn't encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose — is present in the genome for an important r...

More than 98 percent of the human genome is non-coding, meaning it does not code for specific proteins.

Around 4 percent to 8 percent of the human genome remains to be sequenced.

Applying the model has identified more than 2,000 genes — roughly 10 percent of the human genome — suggesting that selective sweeps were a frequent occurrence that drove the evolution of humans away from their primate ancestors.

One sequence, called Alu, has copied itself a million times and makes up some 10 percent of the human genome.

We have developed a map of overlapping fragments that includes 97 percent of the human genome, and we have sequenced 85 percent of this.

Not exact matches

Using several techniques to gauge the effects of these mutations, which are the most common type of variant in the human genome, Akey estimated that more than 80 percent are probably harmful to us.

Perhaps strangest of all are the self - replicating, viruslike pieces of DNA that infected ancient humans and still make up about 8 percent of our genome.

In less than 1 percent of all adults, the virus can also quietly slip its own DNA into the human genome — making it possible for mothers and fathers to pass HHV - 6 to their offspring if these insertions are present in their eggs or sperm.

Comparing the similar sequences of Neandertal and human DNA, Rubin's group determined that the two genomes are at least 99.5 percent identical.

Hidden in the tangled, repetitious folds of DNA structures called centromeres, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute have discovered the hiding place of 20 million base pairs of genetic sequence, finding a home for 10 percent of the DNA that is thought to be missing from the standard reference map of the human genome.

In work published online in Genome Biology and Evolution, Dan Graur reports the functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 peGenome Biology and Evolution, Dan Graur reports the functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 pegenome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 percent.

The functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 percent, suggests new research.

This was a daunting task, as the barley genome is almost twice the size of the human genome and 80 percent of it is composed of highly repetitive sequences, which can not be assigned accurately to specific positions in the genome without considerable extra effort.

«New limits to functional portion of human genome reported: Work suggests at least 75 percent of the genome is junk DNA.»

Most of those studies have focused on the portion of the human genome that encodes protein — a fraction that accounts for just 2 percent of human DNA overall.

Mice and humans share approximately 70 percent of the same protein - coding gene sequences, which is just 1.5 percent of these genomes.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

The team found that ARHGAP11B was also present in Neanderthals and Denisovans, human cousins with similarly sized brains, but not in chimpanzees, with which we share 99 percent of our genome — further support for the idea that this gene could explain our unusually large human brains.

Comparing three million letters of the chimpanzee genetic code with the human genome draft, Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues found only a 1.3 percent difference between the two.

The genomes of humans and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, differ by just 1.23 percent.

In 2000, when scientists of the Human Genome Project presented the first rough draft of the sequence of bases, or code letters, in human DNA, the initial results appeared to confirm that the vast majority of the sequence — perhaps 97 percent of its 3.2 billion bases — had no apparent funcHuman Genome Project presented the first rough draft of the sequence of bases, or code letters, in human DNA, the initial results appeared to confirm that the vast majority of the sequence — perhaps 97 percent of its 3.2 billion bases — had no apparent funchuman DNA, the initial results appeared to confirm that the vast majority of the sequence — perhaps 97 percent of its 3.2 billion bases — had no apparent function.

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

Although the Green et al. analyses are suggestive of admixture, the role of Neandertals in the genetic ancestry of humans outside of Africa was likely relatively minor given that only a few percent of the genomes of present - day people outside of Africa appear to be derived from Neandertals.

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990, produced the first complete map of our DNA, covering 99 percent of the genome at its completion inGenome Project, launched in 1990, produced the first complete map of our DNA, covering 99 percent of the genome at its completion ingenome at its completion in 2003.

All individual human variation amounts to just one - tenth of 1 percent of the entire genome.

The mouse genome is 14 percent smaller than the human genome and contains about 2.5 billion letters of DNA.

The researchers, an international group known as the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, report that approximately 99 percent of mouse genes have counterparts in humans.

While the majority of DNA doesn't differ from human to human, some 3 million base pairs of DNA (about 0.10 percent of your entire genome) vary from person to person.

In one 2010 survey, 47 percent of participants that worked in research - related fields agreed the potential impact of the human genome was hyped (compared to 40 percent who agreed promises made were realistic)[source: Nature News].

As a result of the study, researchers surmised some humans could be carrying as much as 40 percent of the Neanderthal genome.

Ninety - six percent of a chimpanzee's genome is the same as a human's.

BETHESDA, MD — An algorithm using epigenetic information from just nine regions of the human genome can predict the sexual orientation of males with up to 70 percent accuracy, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltihuman genome can predict the sexual orientation of males with up to 70 percent accuracy, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in BaltiHuman Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

In their new study published in Cell, the team investigated enhancers containing «ultraconserved elements,» which are at least 200 base pairs in length and are 100 percent identical in the genomes of humans, mice and rats.

The 1,610 Ebola virus genomes analyzed by the researchers represented more than 5 percent of the known cases, the largest sample analyzed for a single human epidemic.