Sentences with phrase «repeating nucleotide sequences»
Their work arose out of a discovery in the late 1980s of neighboring bacterial DNA segments consisting of repeating nucleotide sequences, which flank short segments.
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Rice University scientists have uncovered new details about how a repeating nucleotide sequence in the gene for a mutant protein may trigger Huntington's and other neurological diseases.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that has been linked to toxic aggregates of poly - Gly - Ala (poly - GA) peptides generated by aberrant translation of an expanded nucleotide repeat sequence.
This mutation probably happened because the sequence of three nucleotides was repeated, and this repeat just happened to be in the right place in waterhemp's genetic code.
MNLPs join the list of sequence variations that have been discovered in recent years, including SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), INDELs (insertions or deletions of various lengths), and STRs (short tandem repeats).
The scientists concluded that version of the FMR1 sequence with over 200 nucleotide repeats can result in the syndrome's production.
A normal version of the FMR1 gene sequence, where the fragile X syndrome can develop, contains 5 - 55 nucleotide (CGG) repeats.