Sentences with phrase «relatively small gene»

This is a genetic weakness, believed to be caused by the relatively small gene pool that was necessary to breed for specific characteristics (both physical and mental).

Not exact matches

Gene therapy has the potential to save lives, but the pool of people who suffer from the orphan diseases, or conditions that pharmaceutical companies have historically ignored, is relatively small.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

In the last few years, Sweeney, a professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a small cadre of other researchers have learned how to create genes that repair weak, deteriorating, or damaged muscles, bones, tendons, and cartilage in a relatively short period of time.

«I saw a relatively small deletion in the X chromosome, identified as Xp11.22; it had only a few genes in it.

The studies were based on a relatively small number of participants, and a selection of genes.

«We can't say we've found everything, but we can say that the genes we're seeing fall into a relatively small number of bins, some of which are familiar, some less so,» Hahn said.

The short string of DNA contained in the mitochondria (mDNA) which accounts for only a small fraction of the total cellular DNAaccumulates mutations at a relatively regular rate and so researchers can use variations in its genes to measure evolutionary changes.

BioSpyder Technologies, Inc. is a relatively small biotech company that features a potent assay for high - throughput gene expression profiling.

«Unfortunately, the gene - centric approach to cancer treatment which, for the most part, has relied on using a single drug to attack an individual mutation, has proved effective for only a relatively small percent of patients,» says Califano.

However, they were not designed to delineate regions of the genome resisting introgression nor investigate the frequency and types of genes involved in genetic incompatibilities, because they were based on a relatively small number of loci (less than 50) and the sampling of the genome was non-random (e.g. overrepresentation of the X-chromosome or regions near centromeres).

However, the differences between the two SSEA - 1 positive fractions were relatively small, with only 139 non-redundant genes overexpressed and 123 underexpressed (FDR < 0.05, 1.5-fold).

However, dog breeds generally are characterized by closed breeding and relatively isolated populations, often with a small number of founders and popular sires whose gene pool is overrepresented in modern - day progeny.

Because the results of the as - yet few and relatively small - scale studies are not wholly consistent, there is a clear need for larger - scale and carefully designed studies that examine multiple polymorphisms of multiple candidate genes.