Sentences with phrase «small gene»

In breeds with small gene pools, as is the case with many pure breeds, elimination of identified carriers may not be the best strategy, as genetic diversity would become dangerously compromised.

Like other breeds with a very small gene pool, some of these issues may be compounded and widespread.

In general, pedigree breeds use a much smaller gene pool for breeding than domestic cats and therefore have a higher risk of developing inherited disorders.

The early years of the breed involved a fairly small gene pool, so the risk for hereditary conditions is worth considering for this breed.

This is a genetic weakness, believed to be caused by the relatively small gene pool that was necessary to breed for specific characteristics (both physical and mental).

This is considered to be a rather small gene pool upon which to establish a breed.

What happens when all of these variants, with a now small gene pool, are bred together to «perfect» this narrow portion of the standard?

Clearly small gene pools are hazardous to the future of a breed (5).

Because when they're considered different breeds, they can't be bred together, which means each «breed» has its own small gene pool instead of one large one.

Learn about why breeds with large and small gene pools should pay attention to what is happening in their breed.

«This is important biotechnologically, because if you look at if from the angle of genome editing, the delivery of small genes into cells is much easier than the delivery of large genes,» said Rotem Sorek of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel who was not involved in the work.

Both these breeds are small in population and struggle with small gene pools.

Breed - Related Health Concerns Behavioral problems are possible due to in - breeding from small gene pool.

Purebred registries are not only small gene pools but also most of the time closed gene pools.

Carter's recent experimental studies showed that the two small enzyme ancestors of these two families were encoded by opposite, complementary strands of the same small gene.

Scientists use an «inbreeding coefficient» to measure how small a gene pool is.

The software, called DECoN, accurately and quickly detects changes in copy number of blocks of DNA called exons, by analysing sequencing data already generated to identify smaller gene changes.

«When it became clear that Williams Syndrome is caused by a microdeletion of genes, we could start looking at smaller and smaller gene deletions to study their effect on social behavior.»

Some people believe a whole genome was duplicated and others believe smaller gene clusters were duplicated.

Many trendy purebreds have too small a gene pool for reliable breed health.

Pomeranians have a worryingly small gene pool, so in this respect outcrossing to a Chihuahua is a great thing for their genetic health.

The ability to breed from carriers is a good thing, especially in breeds with a very small gene pool, as it gives us the widest possible choice of genetic material to work with.

Purebred dogs have much smaller gene pools, which can lead to serious medical problems.

Because the German Pinscher has a fairly small gene pool there are risks for a number of inherited conditions.

The relatively small gene pool from which Spinoni are descended demands that careful consideration must be made before breeding.

Along the way, Bostons were further cross-bred with other breeds such as French Bulldogs and even the mighty English Mastiff in order to bring new blood into what had become a very small gene pool.

As it turned out, viruses were too small to carry that gene, so Sweeney began searching for a smaller gene that would at least mimic dystrophin.

Using computational analytical skills learned from Gibbs, Ding discovered a small gene in the virus other scientists had overlooked.

On islands, sexually reproducing species have a smaller gene pool to draw on than their mainland counterparts.

L. lugubris also has a small gene pool: its population consists of clones descended from four or five interspecies couplings.

So Sweeney began searching for a smaller gene that would fit inside a virus and at least mimic dystrophin.

«Ten years ago, people would have laughed at the idea of bacteria with such a small gene set.»

Now, researchers report promising results from two small gene - therapy studies that mimic this strategy, hinting that the field may be moving closer to a cure that works for the masses.

RIP1 is a member of a small gene family in Arabidopsis.

But if we could have the genome sequenced for less, then I think the whole market of the small gene panels — the exomes — will absolutely disappear, and that will become the way the genome is characterized.

European breeders were concerned that there was such a small gene pool to work with and decided to crossbreed the American Burmese with the Siamese cat.

Recessive genes will always appear more often in a smaller gene pool.

Less popular breeds would have smaller gene pools.

So a breed with a smaller gene pool (and thus less genetic variation) would be more likely to have a recessive disorder.

Tollers started out with a small gene pool so they do have some genetic problems.

There is an abundance of issues that stem straight from the small gene pools that human beings have manipulated in dogs; 60 percent of golden retrievers will die of cancer before they turn eight.

In consideration of the small gene pool, stud dog owners must use restraint and judgment in the repeated use of a stud dog.

The American Staffordshire Terrier has a smaller gene pool and is more likely to look consistent.

The Norbottenspets is a very healthy breed with a long lifespan, this is largely due to the fact that the breed has a small gene pool.

Again, the «rarer» spaniels have small gene pools which makes them more susceptible to genetic diseases.

When the AKC stud book of 188 breeds is ranked in descending order based on the average number of litters produced during a three - year period (2013, 14, 15) the 60 breeds that appear in the bottom group all have three common characteristics: small gene pools, declining genetic diversity and the risk of extinction from the show ring.

Unfortunately, with the small gene pool comes the exacerbation of the deleterious impact of inbreeding depression especially over time.

A smaller gene pool is the necessary consequence of having the great breeds we have today.

(All responsible breeders carefully place their dogs in new homes, but breeders of rare breeds are even more finicky about where their pups go because they are guardians of a small gene pool and need to make sure that all breedable dogs are kept intact and that buyers understand the consequences of owning a pet that is also the repository of genes from that limited pool.)