Changes in the regulatory
region of a single gene may have had a profound affect on human evolution.
Not exact matches
This permits high - resolution mapping
of genes and chromosomal
regions on
single fibers
of DNA, and it targets the physical location
of mitochondrial DNA probes down to a resolution
of 1,000 base pairs.
At a symposium at The American Society
of Human Genetics here last month, they reported zooming in on the
genes expressed in a
single brain cell, as well as panning out to understand how
genes foster connections among far - flung brain
regions.
At the cellular level, although they share canonical types
of inhibitory interneurons (INs) and excitatory principal neurons (PNs), it remains largely unknown to what extent a
single type in different brain
regions displays similarity in
gene expression, axonal shape, connectivity, and developmental origins.
In their new Science paper, the researchers analyzed
gene expression in
single cells across key developmental time points and from different
regions of the brain.
For the 374 expressed
genes, we find many
regions with statistically significant association
of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with expression variation in lymphoblastoid cell lines after correcting for multiple tests.
The researchers zeroed in on a
single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that appeared to be the causal mutation, typically consisting
of an adenine nucleotide but appearing as a guanine nucleotide in roughly a third
of the population, located in a
region of noncoding DNA that falls within the PHACTR1
gene.
OR and V1R
genes typically have coding
regions that span a
single exon, but we identified 54 OR and 15 V1R
genes where at least one
of the reconstructed transcripts has an intron within the protein coding sequence (as annotated in Ensembl).
Remarkably, 30
regions were each found to contain a
single gene, facilitating the identification
of candidate
genes underlying reproductive isolation.
(A) Expression
of 5 stem marker
genes in
single cells isolated from the edge (E), mid (M) or adjacent center (C)
region of HES2 colonies.
Single cell Q - RTPCR for the
genes indicated was carried out on 87 cells isolated from different
regions of ES colonies.
They found that 46 percent
of breakpoints disrupted a
single gene; 24 percent disrupted
regions between
genes; and 30 percent disrupted at least two
genes.
We have used a patient cybrid cell line with a
single point mutation in the overlap
region of the ATP8 and ATP6
genes of the human mitochondrial genome.
Objective 1: To create a recombinant, nonanaphylactic,
single - chain antibody fragment (scFv) with high affinity for canine IgE from the variable
region gene sequences
of mAb 5.91 clones.