Sentences with phrase «places near a gene»

For example, domestication had seemingly altered 13 places near a gene called SOX2, which helps maintain cells destined to become part of the nervous system.

Not exact matches

A yeast retrotransposon called Ty3, the researchers have found, is especially judicious: it always inserts itself in safe places, outside genes rather than inside them, and only near genes of which a yeast cell has many copies.

This process can activate cancer - causing genes by placing them near genetic sequences that enhance their activity

Enzymes attach carbon and hydrogen bundles (CH3) called methyl groups to the DNA, often near the beginning of a gene — the same place where proteins attach to activate the gene.