Sentences with phrase «similar gene on another chromosome»

However, a similar gene on another chromosome plays a role in some forms of male infertility.

Not exact matches

Several scientists have also suggested that genes on the X chromosome have tended to be conserved in mammalian evolution; similar X-linked genes, that is, can be found in most mammalian species.

Now Cecilia Lai, Simon Fisher and colleagues, reporting in todays Nature, show that a gene on chromosome 7, which they call FOXP2, is mutated in the affected members of the KE family, as well as in an unrelated patient with a similar language deficit.

A similar situation was apparent at the 5» - UTR of the U2af1 - rs1 gene where constitutive HS were detected on the unmethylated paternal chromosome only.

Scientists working to sort out hundreds of thousands of genes found that some sequences on canine chromosomes are similar to some sequences on human chromosomes and can therefore lead to the discovery of markers for some diseases or abnormalities in both species.