Sentences with phrase «role the genes play»

WASHINGTON — A second cancer later in life is common for childhood cancer survivors, and scientists now have a sense of the role genes play when this happens.

Geneticists don't yet know what role the genes play in asthma, which afflicts about 16 million people in the United States.

To see what role the genes play in spore - to - spore communication, the researchers replaced the genes of one strain with those of a different group.

A better understanding of their functions related to body fat and obesity could provide a better picture of the roles these genes play in a variety of diseases.

Studying zebrafish is a vitally important way to discover what role genes play in human health and disease.

Not exact matches

Alcohol is not the only important factor to consider when trying to reduce your cancer risk — your genes, exercise regimen, and exposure to pollutants can play a role, too.

In other words, these four genes likely play a key role in the biology of the disorder.

Athletigen's process involves taking a sample of an athlete's saliva and subjecting it to genotyping analysis to search for 850,000 different gene variants that may play a role in the formation of athletic traits.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

«Genes play an important role, certainly, but it's really exposure that counts in turning a child into a top athlete,» he says.

Following this in 2015, an article (Alsaweed et al.) described over 300 novel milk microRNA molecules, components that are known to play a key role in the regulation of gene expression.

«I would say he... played a significant role in the restoration of service,» said Gene Russianoff, staff attorney at the Straphangers Campaign.

The epigenetic impairments reflect changes that increase accessibility of chromatin, a process that enhances gene transcription, suggesting the impairments play an important role in addiction behavior.

It may be that some versions of the gene also play a role in deafness caused by environmental conditions, creating a predisposition to hearing loss.

According to the study, identifying the lncRNAs that play an unknown role in regulating genes involved in deafness will have an impact.

Together, these experiments show that the PERIOD3 gene likely plays a key role in regulating the sleep - wake cycle, influencing mood and regulating the relationship between depression and seasonal changes in light availability, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

Another gene, PCDH15, plays a role in the hair cells» ability to convert sound into brain signals (Molecular Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1038 / MP.2014.8).

When looking for genes that might play important roles in the metabolism of healthy and cancerous liver cells, Wang and his colleagues became interested in a gene called SLC13A5, which produces a protein that transports citrate into cells.

If this gene plays a role in energy homeostasis and energy balance in the context of obesity, Wang reasoned, perhaps it could play a role in the energy requirements of liver cancer cells.

No one yet knows the mechanism through which environmental factors would alter these genes, although stress hormones such as cortisol may be playing a role.

1) That while it's possible that genes may play some role in explaining these differences, much of it comes down to culture, environment, and the fact that the questions on IQ tests are all written by graduate students from Connecticut and begin, «Teddy leaves Sag Harbor on the brunchtime jitney...»

Previous studies in identical twins that were raised apart revealed that genes play a major role in who becomes obese.

«Our studies are the first, to our knowledge, to identify a gene that plays a conserved role in aggression all the way from flies to humans,» explains Anderson, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

«Essentially, we are using the human placenta as a model to identify genes that play a key role in invasion in both the placenta and cancer,» wrote Chi Sutherland, a Ph.D. candidate leading the project, in an email.

The focus thereby was on microRNA — a short, single - stranded RNA molecule that is now recognised as playing an important role in gene regulation.

While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical forces they experience are being increasingly recognized as equally important.

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

The FOXP2 gene is thought to have played a role in the evolution of the human brain and the development of language.

Genes also play a role in menopause, and two research teams have identified several gene variants associated with advancing or delaying menopause by as much as two years.

But look much closer, at a genetic level, and you will find that many of the genes seen in these flies are also present — and play similar roles — in humans.

A previous study in mice that suggested that genes played a role in IgA levels seen in Crohn's disease, Stappenbeck told Live Science.

All four teams focused their hunts on gene variations found in at least 10 per cent of the population, while Stefánsson thinks that rarer variants may play a more significant role in menarche.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

But a new study, published today in Nature, has revealed that m6A plays a key role in the regulation of the Sex - lethal (Sxl) gene, which controls sex determination of the fruit fly Drosophila.

By combining each mouse's genome, phenome, proteome and metabolome, the scientists were able to identify a particular gene, located on their chromosome 2, and whose presence plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes «The mice with a high - fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not,» said Evan Williams, LISP PhD student and the article's co-first author.

This system plays a major role in the regulation of gene activity, and enables the selective expression of different functions in differentiated cell types.

These genes play a role in rewiring the neurons in the nucleus accumbens.

After moving to Berkeley, he arrived at a career crossroads in 1994, when Spyros Artavanis - Tsakonas, then at Yale, discovered and subsequently patented the human relative of the fruit fly gene notch, which plays a role in cell - to - cell interactions and could be an anti-cancer target.

The main difference between the two genes was in a triplet of amino acids that plays a role in determining exactly what acid concentration opens or closes the channel.

The animals lack the gene for an enzyme called inositol hexakisphosphate kinase 1 (IP6K1), which is known to play a role in fat accumulation and insulin sensitivity.

Cells make proteins from RNA they copy from genes, but some RNAs play roles by themselves.

Since studies had shown that children in heavily polluted areas of the Central Valley had more infections, and pollution and secondhand smoke contain similar toxic compounds, Nadeau searched for genes that played a major role in fighting infection.

Chemical modifications of DNA play a big role in how genes turn on and off in the human body (SN: 2/14/09, p. 5).

Today, a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, led by Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Louis - Jeantet Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, reveals that this is not always the case and that DNA methylation may play both a passive and active role in gene regulation.

Host genes of the major histocompatibility complex (the genes that determine how mammals respond to pathogens) play a significant role in how the immune system responds to all pathogens.

In a new take on an old polemic, Ridley acts as mediator between biological and cultural determinists, arguing that genes and the environment play equally important roles in shaping human destiny.

After having conducted a large - scale study performed on cells from the umbilical cords of 204 newborns, the researchers from UNIGE demonstrate that DNA methylation may play both a passive and active role in gene regulation.

«DNMT3A places itself preferably in close vicinity to genes that play an important role for development and makes sure that the DNA methylation around these genes is maintained,» explains Massimiliano Manzo, lead author of the study.