Sentences with phrase «related genes»

These genes are different from the caffeine - related genes in chocolate, indicating that the ability to produce caffeine evolved at least twice.

This family of related genes determines the shape of the body.

The transition actually shifts metabolic related gene expression, increasing fat oxidation pathways and decreasing fat storage pathways.

Comparing the two sets of genes, the team discovered several immune - related gene variants that were rare among the living.

That enzyme regulates the way key learning and memory - related genes turn on and off during development.

Genetic manipulation of serotonin - related genes also influenced anxiety - like behaviors in a manner similar to what has been reported earlier in mice.

In the genetic analysis, there were no differences in the caffeine - related genes between the two groups.

These compartments bring transcription - related genes into close proximity and allow them to communicate and function.

So what evolutionary advantage could schizophrenia - related genes bring to people who have some of the genes but not the disease?

The chemicals may contribute to diabetes by altering insulin production, disrupting related genes or changing glucose transport or fat metabolism, according to scientists.

Each obesity - related gene affects a different aspect of weight control.

The promise of an entirely new lipid - related gene took another six years and a new approach to find.

The study used statistical tools to identify matches between genes in both species, and the criteria were relatively strict because the goal was to identify clearly related genes.

To study diseases that cause blindness in people, scientists typically genetically «knock out» cone - related genes in animals like mice.

Using a new technique that accounts for how genes interact, Italian researchers have identified new networks of related genes that may be involved in ASD — including genes that are related to cancer.

Having more schizophrenia risk - related gene variants was also associated with a greater decline in lifelong cognitive ability.

The finding is counterintuitive in light of the opposite finding with the closely related gene EGFR, which is a genetic driver of about 10 percent of lung cancers in the United States and 35 percent of lung cancers in East Asia.

Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a microarray data - mining technique used to determine whether there is coordinated differential expression or «enrichment» in a set of functionally related genes when comparing control and experimental samples [35].

Students in the UBC program engage in a wide range of research: molecular mechanisms underlying cell proliferation in cancer or cell death in stroke; relating gene mutations to disease mechanisms; the social factors that determine access to health care for women living on the street.

Our study opens the window for the possibility of linking age - related genes as therapeutics for the future.»

In addition to Otop1, there are two other related genes in vertebrates (Otop2 and Otop3), and this gene family is represented in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Pollinger et al., [44] identified a 40 Mb selective sweep on CFA11 associated with black coat color in Large Munsterlander and a 10 MB region on CFA3 in Dachshund containing FGFR3, which is responsible for achondroplasia in humans and presumably linked with related genes responsible for canine chondrodysplasia.

To see if this lack of heterochromatic marks and Xist, both of which normally block gene expression on the inactive X, resulted in increased gene expression, the researchers looked at immunity - related genes on the X chromosome to see if there was one or two copies being expressed.

If it does, they will be able to use the animals to study how those delay discounting - related genes lead to those behaviors, at a molecular level.

Positive selection on apoptosis related genes Fonseca, R. R., C. Kosiol, T. Vinař, A. Siepel et al. 2010.

Mapping of XMRV integration sites has revealed a strong preference for structurally open transcription regulatory regions of chromosomes that are associated with cancer breakpoints, common fragile sites, microRNA and cancer - related genes [5].

Studies on mutations of animals as varied as yeast, slime molds, plants and mice show that deletions of autophagy related genes (ATG) in animals is largely incompatible with life.

A new meta - analysis suggests that low expression levels of 10 related gene sets responsible for mitochondrial machinery play an important role in this disorder — all previously unlinked to Parkinson's.

In addition, researchers found that the gene families related to whale's body hair and sensory receptors were contracted, such as Keratin - related gene families associated with hair formation, several Hox genes that play an important role in the body plan and embryonic development.

For them, the discovery of how an individual becomes gay is likely to shed light on how sexuality - related genes build brains, how people of any persuasion are attracted to each other, and perhaps even how homosexuality evolved.

«If further research can clarify a relationship between obesity related genes and saturated fat, people with higher scores would have even more incentive to follow advice to limit their saturated fat intake as part of an obesity prevention strategy,» Ordovás said.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

Buck researchers, utilizing genome analysis tools, uncovered suites of related genes which rapamycin modulates in the heart.

By using their more powerful statistical approach, the researchers found clusters of mechanistically related genes where previous studies had merely suggested a few isolated SNPs.

To his surprise, Lo found four different MLV - related gene sequences in 32 of the 37 patient samples.

Researchers analyzed the 322 immune - related genes through genome sequencing.

«Newly revealed autism - related genes include genes involved in cancer: Using a computational technique that accounts for how genes interact, scientists revealed genes that may be related to autism spectrum disorder.»

Defense - related genes tend to cluster together in the genome, Sorek says.

Chromosomal location of the sex - related gene AMH (arrowheads) in male T. osimensis.

This new study shows that evolutionarily related genes have a protective function both in humans and also in tortoises and turtles.

«They may act on behaviour - related genes directly, or on regulatory genes which ultimately do the same thing later in life,» says Mansuy.

The paper describes the first study that relates the gene egr - 4 — member of a gene family that codifies transcription factors and regulate the activity of other genes — with the process of neurogenesis in planarians.

Indeed, the genome comparisons revealed that angiosperms evolved 1179 novel genes, many of which gave rise to additional related genes to make up whole new gene families, says project co-leader Claude dePamphilis, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

They first assessed whether schizophrenia - related genes sit close to HARs along the human genome — closer than would be expected by chance.

Biologically, hypermethylation often silences genes that keep runaway cell growth in check, and its appearance in the DNA code of breast cancer - related genes shed into the blood may indicate that a patient's cancer growth is increasing and the disease has worsened.

Upregulated genes clustered into at least 7 functional groups, including immediate early genes or transcription factors, cell - cycle related genes, stress - responsive protein genes, cell signaling protein genes, cell adhesion and cell surface protein genes, genes involved in translation and protein turnover, and genes encoding metabolic proteins.