Sentences with phrase «presence of particular gene»
Molecular biologists at Stanford University will analyse DNA from blood samples taken from individuals in those families, looking for as many as 300 markers in the DNA that indicate the presence of particular genes.
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By combining each mouse's genome, phenome, proteome and metabolome, the scientists were able to identify a particular gene, located on their chromosome 2, and whose presence plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes «The mice with a high - fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not,» said Evan Williams, LISP PhD student and the article's co-first author.
It helps us to understand how a particular gene, Ras, functions in the presence of sugar, but it doesn't say is anything about sugar giving people cancer.
Recent research into a field of science called nutrigenomics makes it safe and easy to use a simple home kit to examine your genes for the presence of particular variants that predispose you to weakness in detoxification, Vitamin D metabolism, antioxidant processing, other nutrient imbalances and certain conditions, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.