Sentences with phrase «same gene on chromosome»

Not exact matches

Some genes have a variety of different forms, which are located at the same position on a chromosome; an allele is such a variant form of a gene.

Researchers think it acts on another gene called lymphocyte activation gene - III, located at the other end of the same chromosome.

Are these two genes on the same chromosome?

The second locus significantly correlated with severe CCD was on chromosome 11, the same chromosome that contains a gene thought to increase the risk of schizophrenia in humans.

However, some genes are close enough together on the same chromosome that they frequently do get passed along together.

She published her discovery of the epilepsy in 1994, the same year that researchers in Finland identified its gene on chromosome 8.

The studies on autophagy by Yoshinori Ohsumi, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016, and the discovery of cell cycle regulatory genes for which Leland Hartwell, Timothy Hunt and Paul Nurse received the same award in 2001, including the research of Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak on telomeres, telomerase and its protective effect on the chromosomes, were all made possible thanks to yeast.

In the illustration, each tissue type is followed by the number of genes whose level of activity is controlled by nearby genes on the same chromosome (cis); those whose activity is associated with genes on other chromosomes (trans); and the number of tissue samples studied.

In contrast, cis - eQTLs — which account for the majority of genetic variation that affects gene expression — regulate genes located nearby on the same chromosome.

Rather gene dosage, which depends on the number of chromosome copies, is responsible for this: «If the chromosome is multiplied, then more copies of the same gene will be transcribed.

The evidence suggests it does: 249 pairs of siblings were more likely to both have diabetes, or both be healthy, if they shared the same set of genetic markers in the region of the IL - 12 gene on chromosome 5.

They arrived at that estimate by showing that the Norway rat and the house mouse, which diverged from each other somewhere between 12 million and 24 million years ago, have the same filovirus gene pieces integrated at the same places on the same chromosomes.

Visualized in this manner, any patterns off of the diagonal (where a CNA influences a gene on the same chromosome) indicate a trans - acting event.

This is why two brothers in the same family can look and act totally different from one another even though they come from the same parents — it all depends on which genes (chromosomes) were randomly chosen when producing the sex cells of the mother and father.

a unit of hereditary information; an alternate form of a gene that sits at the same position on a chromosome

Microsatellite markers used for screening tests are on the same chromosome as the disease gene.