Sentences with phrase «several gene modifications»

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Gene technology encompasses several techniques including marker - assisted breeding, RNAi and genetic modification.

The researchers linked the excess weight and changes in metabolism to epigenetic modifications that reduce expression of the gene for adiponectin — a hormone that helps regulate several metabolic processes, including glucose regulation.

When the researchers extended the analysis to a separate group of patients and mice that had been exposed to tobacco smoke, they narrowed down the epigenetic modifications to several sites located in four genes that have been weakly linked to cancer before.

Several types of chemical modifications of the five major histone protein families give rise to a complex «histone code» that signals the transcriptional machinery to turn genes on or off.

We found that genes within islands of differentiation were enriched for several functional classes (Table S4), and most terms were related to transcription and epigenetic pathways (e.g. chromatin organization and modification, regulation of transcription and translation, DNA binding).

We furthermore show that several of these RNA modifications have a dynamic response to environmental stress and that, in particular, changes in the tRNA wobble base modification 5 - methoxycarbonylmethyl -2-thiouridine (mcm (5) s (2) U) lead to codon - biased gene - expression changes in starved animals.