Sentences with phrase «promoting gene variants»

Researchers have assumed that mothers are more likely to pass on autism - promoting gene variants.

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But a faulty variant of this gene arose six generations ago in an Amish group, causing the people who carry one copy of the variant to produce half as much of the age - promoting protein.

In the journal Cell on July 27, researchers show how this DNA variant enhances the activity of a gene called endothelin - 1 (EDN1), which is known to promote vasoconstriction and hardening of the arteries.

More recently, in a joint initiative with the BBMRI - LPC project (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure — Large Prospective Cohorts) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the CNAG - CRG launched a call to promote the use of sequencing technologies for the identification of novel causative variants and genes and to molecularly diagnose rare disease patients.

In their report receiving advance online publication in Neuron, the researchers describe a protective variant of the CD33 gene that promotes clearance of A-beta from the brain.

Although myriad signs indicate that our gene pool rapidly adapts to the novel nutritional environment (39), many of us still carry gene variants that promote insulin resistance.

The KB variant of the CBD103 gene promotes eumelanin (black pigment) synthesis by blocking agouti gene expression at the A Locus which would otherwise inhibit MC1R production of eumelanin.