Sentences with phrase «several human disorders»

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A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.

In the new study, the researchers discovered that during the second trimester of human brain development, oRG cells express genes related to a fundamental signaling pathway called mTOR, defects in which have previously been implicated in autism and several other psychiatric disorders.

The test tube finding, reported in the current Cell, could help explain the formation of prions — the tangled proteins that are implicated in mad cow disease and several human brain disorders — and eventually may lead to a way to smooth out these rogue proteins.

But a comparison of its DNA to that of another human has revealed several mutations in genes involved in bone disorders — and confirmed once and for all that this being is definitely from our world.

Aneuploidy is known to be deleterious and underlies several common human diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders such as trisomy 21 in Down's syndrome.

The presence of several mutations in four important genes for the brain's synapses can be associated to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in humans.

The authors were able to correct mutations in several well - characterized genetic disorders, including: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Achondroplasia, and MECP2 - duplication syndrome using cells derived from human patients.

Human mutations affecting this subgroup of ADAMTS / ADAMTSL proteins phenocopy all or several aspects of genetic disorders caused by mutations in the fibrillin - 1 gene itself, suggesting a functional relationship.

The prerequisite genetic basis for susceptibility to this disorder has been in established in humans, dogs and several other species.

The disorder is seen in several canine breeds and other species including humans.