Sentences with phrase «small number of genes»

Until then, the evidence for the existence of a new biological domain had been largely based on studies of small numbers of genes.

For a very small number of genes, though, people inherit only one working copy; the other copy is turned off, forever silenced.

One study, to be published online September 11 in Nature Communications, found that a much smaller number of genes than previously believed serve...

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

The organism uses a surprisingly small number of genes to produce its cellulose - munching enzymes.

The dating site is «looking at a very small number of genes, and you simply can not extrapolate a prediction from those genes to long - term compatibility,» he said.

One study, to be published online September 11 in Nature Communications, found that a much smaller number of genes than previously believed serve as the ignition switch for human embryo development.

They found that a small number of genes are activated by STAT3 protein signaling in basal - like breast cancers but not in luminal breast cancers.

At a molecular level, even though the diversity in the drought responses of the different accessions was huge, only a small number of genes was affected in virtually all 100 types of Arabidopsis.

Some of these genes control both cardiovascular development and skeletal development, suggesting the intriguing possibility that the giraffe's stature and turbocharged cardiovascular system evolved in concert through changes in a small number of genes.

They found additional changes to the small number of genes carried within the mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses.

Previously, genetic counselors tested a small number of genes sequentially based on family profile and tumor analysis until the culprit was identified.

The need to choose a process essential to E. coli survival and a nutrient not found in nature «limited us to a small number of genes,» Church said.

But after analyzing the Hofstenia transcriptome, the team determined that the three - banded panther worm and planarians are only very distantly related, a view that had been proposed based on analyses with sequences from a small number of genes.

In exploring the purpose of this maternal information in fetal development, focus so far has been on a small number of genes termed «imprinted genes».

While at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland, he published a theory — first seen as heretical, then brilliant — that immune cells reshuffle their DNA to create millions of different antibodies from a small number of genes.

But Reid cautioned that the small patient sample and the small number of genes analyzed means that the results should be considered preliminary until a larger study is done.

The microbe's small genome and small number of genes could make it easier to genetically engineer.

This is consistent with the small number of gene expression changes (40 genes), with no significant pattern or common G0 annotation, that fluctuate with SSEA - 1 when these two populations are compared to each other (Figure S4).

A small number of the genes have larger effect sizes, though with pretty large CI's.

That is, we believe only a small number of the genes determine the cell types, and we favor many genes having 0 weights.