Sentences with phrase «single genes responsible»

In the lab, he and colleagues exploit the natural diversity of plant genomes to identify sets of genes and single genes responsible for genetic variation.

Kapahi said this research could help explain why scientists are having a difficult time identifying single genes responsible for the long lives experienced by human centenarians.

A single gene responsible for type 1 disease has been identified.

Oxford University researchers have discovered, for the first time, a single gene responsible for increasing insulin sensitivity in humans.

This condition has a genetic component, but there is no single gene responsible for the condition.

Not exact matches

Almost immediately such familial genome sequencing proved its value, uncovering mutations responsible for diseases caused by defects in a single gene.

The research team used single - gene amplification to study the gene responsible for HIV's major surface protein, env.

Huntingtin, the single gene mutation responsible for the disease, was identified in 1993.

Now researchers have identified a single gene, called fruitless (fru), as responsible for the development of male sexual behavior in the fly.

«This experiment confirmed that this single gene was responsible for all these changes,» Dubcovsky notes.

A single injection of a new treatment has reduced the activity of the gene responsible for Huntington's disease for several months in a trial in mice.

For more than two decades we've known that a single gene on the Y chromosome, called Sry, is responsible for male sex determination.

Thus µSCALE empties the contents of a single capillary onto a collector plate, where the DNA of the isolated cell can be sequenced and the gene variant responsible for the protein of interest can be identified.

Other medical sequencing projects will use DNA sequencing to: discover new genes that are involved in common diseases; identify the genes responsible for dozens of relatively rare, single - gene (autosomal Mendelian) diseases; sequence all of the genes on the X chromosome from affected individuals to identify those involved in sex - linked diseases; and survey the range of variants in genes known to contribute to certain common diseases.

Mutations in the genes SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 are largely responsible for European pigmentation, showing only single amino acid differences between Europeans and West Africans.

Scientists used gene chips containing feline single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)-- variations from the common feline DNA sequence that can help track down genes responsible for genetic diseases — to conduct their investigations.

Homozygosity mapping of 5 cases (4 full - sibs, 1 half - sib) and 5 controls (2 parents, 3 full - sibs) via Illumina CanineHD SNP genotyping BeadChips identified a single chromosome (canine chromosome 36; CFA36) of interest where the gene containing a responsible mutation is expected to be located.