Sentences with phrase «second gene found»

A second gene found in the wild grass Aegilops tauschii, a botanical parent of today's bread wheat (T. aestivum), also helps bread wheat fight the fungus, another research team reports.

Not exact matches

A New York patient is now the second U.S. citizen to be infected with bacteria carrying a «superbug» gene, according to findings published earlier this week in the journal for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

In addition, they also found a second — and possibly more important — role that they hadn't expected, Maniatis says: IKKε was actively involved in turning on other antiviral genes within a cell.

A second group has found in an obese woman a defect in the gene for a hormone - processing enzyme.

B: When I got here, we finally found the gene that made the enzyme that made the second molecule.

Scientists have found a second gene that, when mutated, can cause hearing loss but leave a person otherwise normal.

The second study found that the strain's extreme virulence, targeting primarily lung tissue, appeared to be linked to changes in four genes.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

Intriguingly, Dr Fieten and colleagues also found that mutation of a second copper transporter gene, ATP7A, protected dogs against hepatic copper accumulation.

A second major finding of the new study, which analyzes the genomes of over 2,500 «simplex» families — those in which a single child but neither parent nor siblings, if any, have ASD — is that the pool of spontaneously mutated genes contributing to ASD across the population totals about 400.

The finding tallies with research that suggests a female's second «inactivated» X chromosome may actually express a quarter of its genes.

Historically it had been thought that all of tumors lose the second version of the gene, or have LOH; however, the team was surprised to find that was not the case.

During their study, Hsu and his colleagues determined that Insl3 and a second relaxin, Rln3, whose function is unknown, evolved from an ancestral gene found in fish.

Scientists think they have found the gene that causes DiGeorge syndrome, the second most common form of congenital heart disease.

Second, says Brody, his study has found a host of other genes that «control a whole family of metabolites» in the folate and B12 pathway.

In our second study we found that heterozygous mutations in genes encoding β - myosin heavy chain (MYH7), α - cardiac actin (ACTC1), cardiac troponin T (TNNT2), cardiac myosin - binding protein C (MYBPC3), and alpha - tropomyosin (TPM1) account for 30 % of cases of isolated LVNC in adult patients (Probst et al., 2011).

The second gene makes the NIS protein found in the thyroid gland, which allows the researchers to track the virus as it spreads to tumor sites.

After Gene Okun's Volkswagen Rabbit GTi was sideswiped recently on Interstate 75 near Tampa, he found himself in an uncomfortable but familiar situation.It was the second time in less than a year Okun was involved in an accident, and once again he would have to find a body shop.After the first wreck, Okun chose a body shop in Daytona Beach, but the quality of the repair was poor.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

Moreover, one of the findings of the research that identified the COMMD1 gene virtually eliminated genetic recombination (a cross-over event) as the cause of these anomalies, the obvious conclusion being that neither test was 100 % accurate and that a second gene was involved.