Sentences with phrase «same number of genes»

The authors reported that the genome of the domesticated watermelon contained 23,440 genes, roughly the same number of genes as in humans.

Rice, for example, may have up to 50,000 genes — about the same number of genes as wheat or corn — but its genome is only 1/38 the length of the wheat genome.

Not exact matches

At the same time, the gene story also shows how the virtually infinite number of possible chance combinations of the many factors that constitute a person's biological inheritance explain and support the idea of personal individuality and uniqueness.

Even with the phenotype, perhaps there is a «trade off involved» in that the same underlying genetic sub-scripts serve other purposes, or perhaps the sheer numbers of gene - hormonal permutations mean it will always manifest itself due to pure statistics.

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

Seventy - eight percent of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis were found to have a mutation in the PTPN2 / 22 gene, the same genetic mutation found in Crohn's patients, and 40 percent of that number tested positive for MAP.

The goal, Ivy says, is for the cricket mothers to get good genes, and «if they mate with the same male over and over, it's like buying a lot of lottery tickets with the same number.»

Those results are the same if the enhancers are intact but both copies of the gene itself are defective, indicating that the amount of protein determines the number of digits.

It is only when these same cognate TFs act as noncognate TFs for other genes, or that new binding sites in the promoter drastically increase the number of noncognate binding configurations, that crosstalk constraints become clear.

«People with the three gene versions believed to encourage depression had a smaller hippocampus than those with fewer or none of these gene versions, even though they had the same number of stressful life events,» says study leader Lukas Pezawas, describing the results.

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.

At the end of the experiment, researchers sequenced the genomes of the flies and found a number of genes that became more common when harassment was not allowed, but these same genes became rare when male harassment was allowed to occur as usual.

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.

About the same time, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on families with one autistic child, reported that an estimated 10 to 30 percent of all reported cases of autism may be caused by new (or spontaneous) mutations in the number of copies of genes in children (that were not found in either parent).

Furthermore, eliminating a number of the genes known to work in the same gene pathway as Notch created similar chaotic patterns in the embryos, they report in the 18 June issue of Nature.

Edges between disorders in the same disorder class are colored with the same (lighter) color, and edges connecting different disorder classes are colored gray, with the thickness of the edge proportional to the number of genes shared by the disorders connected by it.

Since girls and boys are equally susceptible to DNA damage and new mutation — the rate of new mutation that damages a gene in humans is about one gene per three births — they should each have about the same number of CNVs.

We know that regeneration is an orchestra of communication signals from a number of different tissues, and those tissues have to turn on genetic light switches at the same time, so part of the challenge in defining those circuits in greater detail is going to be interrogating these miRNAs and their potential target genes in a mammalian system.

They expect that many genes will overlap and affect the same cellular process, which will help them narrow down the number of potential drug targets.

Using the information provided in this article, calculate the number of mouse and human genes that are the same or similar.

The Cancer Gene Census (CGC) database contains 547 such gene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver genes might be transferred from one case to the nGene Census (CGC) database contains 547 such gene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver genes might be transferred from one case to the ngene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver genes might be transferred from one case to the next.

First it will be necessary to formally exclude the COMMD1 gene by sequencing all of COMMD1 in a small number of affected dogs that are known to not carry the COMMD1 deletion to ensure there is not a second mutation in the same gene.

At the same time these same animals can also be shown to have contributed a disproportionately higher number of defective genes into the gene pool of their breed.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

Dogs and wolves have the same number of copies of another gene, MGAM, which codes for maltase, another enzyme important in starch digestion.

The Wall Street Journal first reported several months ago that Apple was trialling larger iPhone displays for next year's refresh, and we've recently heard the same from a number of analysts, including Peter Misek, Brian White, and Gene Munster.