Sentences with phrase «skin color gene»

Skin color genes pursue a genetic history of their own, without reference to the path taken by genes that have charge of facial features and intellectual potentialities.

Not exact matches

Even in living ones, genes for the most elementary features of the body, such as height or skin color, have not yet been established.

The genetic shift introduced variants for paler skin and lighter - colored eyes; genes for digesting lactose became common sometime later.

Known in Catalan as Floquet de Neu, Snowflake became a famous resident of the Barcelona Zoo in Spain because of his unique skin color, the result of a rare albinism gene inherited from both parents.

The Hiroshima University team, led by Masayuki Sumida, created the frog by breeding garden - variety Japanese brown frogs that had recessive genes for light - colored skin.

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an octopus, bringing researchers closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature's unusual biology, including its ability to change skin color and texture and a distributed brain that allows its eight arms to move independently.

The researchers also used the genome to track down the genes involved in adaptive coloration, which allows the octopus to change its skin color and texture in order to blend into its environment and escape predation.

Using a genome - wide association study (GWAS) that includes 1600 individuals living in Tanzania, Botswana, or Ethiopia, the authors identified regions of the genome that contribute to skin color variation and carried out a series of analyses to pinpoint the responsible genes.

By looking at variations in genes for hair and skin color and in the «speech» gene, we have also gained a better sense of how we are similar to and different from Neandertals.

Genes with mammoth - specific changes were most strongly linked to fat metabolism (including brown fat regulation), insulin signaling, skin and hair development (including genes associated with lighter hair color), temperature sensation and circadian clock biology — all of which would have been important for adapting to the extreme cold and dramatic seasonal variations in day length in the ArGenes with mammoth - specific changes were most strongly linked to fat metabolism (including brown fat regulation), insulin signaling, skin and hair development (including genes associated with lighter hair color), temperature sensation and circadian clock biology — all of which would have been important for adapting to the extreme cold and dramatic seasonal variations in day length in the Argenes associated with lighter hair color), temperature sensation and circadian clock biology — all of which would have been important for adapting to the extreme cold and dramatic seasonal variations in day length in the Arctic.

The lighter skin color seen in Europeans, for instance, is due almost entirely to a single gene, he says.

We all carry the same genes for skin color, but our genes responded differently to changes in solar intensity as bands of Homo sapiens migrated away from the unrelenting sun of the equator.

«Increased eye cancer risk linked to pigmentation genes that dictate eye color: New research identifies genetic mechanisms behind rare form of melanoma are also associated with genetic risk for skin melanoma.»

This gene is involved in regulating production and storage of melanin, the pigment that determines hair, skin and eye color.

They found the biggest difference in the genes that make pigment, which are active in the skin tissue and control feather color.

Now, in the 14 May issue of Science, Kobayashi and his colleagues report that the same gene has been mutated in white grapes by a bit of pushy DNA, resulting in loss of skin color.

Similarly, the gene for blue eyes codes for paler skin coloring in many vertebrates and hence might have piggybacked along with lighter skin.

If you look globally things are different because for demographic reasons there will be an enormous increase in the proportion of Africans which will change the world's genetic balance for skin color and other genes; but within the developed world so far this has had little effect.»

What may sound like an ad for a futuristic tanning salon is actually a triumph of gene therapy research: A tweaked gene turns the skin cells of albino mice a dark color that lasts for weeks.

Researchers have long assumed that these dramatic transitions resulted in a sort of accelerated evolution in which genes for traits such as skin color and stature changed rapidly to allow humans to survive in their new habitats.

Previous research on skin - color genes fit that picture.

But though many East Africans have this gene, they don't have white skin, probably because it is just one of several genes that shape their skin color.

Postdoctoral fellow Zurab Tsetskhladze, who performed the zebrafish experiments, tested this method with two genes that affect skin color.

All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in Europeans came from the same chromosome of one person who most likely lived at least 10,000 years ago, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Scientists stitched together the complex genome of the California two - spot octopus, and analyzed 12 different tissues in search of the genes that allow these unique cephalopods to change skin color and control eight arms independently.

A gene called Alx3 blocks the differentiation of pigment - producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse, thus generating the mouse's characteristic light - colored stripes, a new...

The gene, known as MC1R, is already well known for influencing skin and hair color.

These folks carry two copies of a variant of the MC1R gene, which determines our hair and skin color.

While a person's genes dictate eye, hair and skin color, earlobes (attached or dangling), the ability to curl your tongue or not, and the shapes and size of fingers and toes, much about our gene's instructions is how we influence them with our environment.

The creators of the app won't reveal what genes they're looking at but promise users that they won't look at «skin color, hair color, eye color, height, etc. from your genetics» — because every great love story starts with a romantic disclaimer promising not to genetically profile you!

All these things like; skin pigmentation, eye color, certain diseases are the result of our parent's genes which present in our body.

The gene that cause merle coats in dogs can also affect eye color, such as causing ice blue eyes, and can also effect skin pigment.

There are some breeders which state that if the dog has only one recessive Chocolate gene, then this dog will look like the traditional Yorkies but if it has two recessive Chocolate genes, then its skin and coat will be not black but with liver or brown color.

In addition to affecting coat colors, genes also control pigmentation of the total body including the eyes and skin as well as coat color.

Both Gene & Kinna desire to live in a world where humans are respected and treated equally by other humans regardless of their gender, skin color, and ethnic background.