Sentences with phrase «similar genes controlled»

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

Not exact matches

Psychiatrist Ming Tsuang and his colleagues at Boston University figured that if genes help control what people feel when they smoke pot, then genetically identical twins should experience a similar kind of high or low when they use the drug.

By day 34 of development, however, the pattern of gene expression was much more similar to control cows derived from artificial insemination, suggesting that these surviving clones were able to implant in the uterus and begin to form a placenta.

This could be transformative as we identify similar genes that control calcium levels in other legumes.»

SIX3 and a related gene, SIX2, with a similar pattern of expression in human beta cells, encode proteins known as transcription factors that control the expression of many other genes in the cell.

Dr Nadeau added «Our results are even more surprising because the cortex gene was previously thought to only be involved in producing egg cells in female insects, and is very similar to a gene that controls cell division in everything from yeast to humans.»

This result reflected earlier findings that ILC and T cell subclasses produce similar sets of cytokines, but also revealed differences in how the two cell types control the activities of these key immune response genes.

Blau's group found that the daily changes in Rho1 activity are controlled by rhythms in transcription of a gene very similar to human Puratrophin - 1.

The resulting papers published in Nature all tell similar stories of shared evolution between species — for instance, the commonalities of regulatory networks of genes and the transcription factors that control their activation.

Among the Japanese participants, the risk gene variant had a similar frequency in centenarians (46.4 %) and in healthy controls (47.3 %), but it was less frequent than in controls performed with cardiovascular disease (57.2 %).

Its genome has been fully sequenced, its genes are easily manipulated, and many genes found in the fruit fly control similar processes in humans.

Separate analyses in which relative expression values were normalized with the relative expression values of each control gene yielded similar results.

In rice, Oryza sativa HOMEOBOX1, a key regulator of meristem maintenance similar to kn1 from maize, controls local BR accumulation by directly targeting and upregulating genes encoding BR catabolism and conjugation enzymes (Tsuda et al., 2014).

The gene and associated mechanism of quality control appears to be conserved in mammals, but there is as yet little further research leading towards trying a similar approach in mice and humans to see what happens.

Here, we identify three additional novel mutant alleles of the SHELL gene, which encode a type II MADS - box transcription factor, and determine oil yield via control of shell fruit form phenotype in a manner similar to two previously identified mutant SHELL alleles.

Despite some similar symptoms such as lack of motor control, SMA is caused by an unrelated gene defect.