Sentences with phrase «specific gene variants»

Their goal is a database that will help them examine how specific gene variants affect health.

In principle, identifying specific gene variants as risk factors for poor fracture healing would lead not only to the development of patient screening tests, but also to a better understanding of the basic biology of how fractures heal.

Besides serving as a resource for winemakers choosing yeast varieties for fermentations and strain development, the genome sequences provide a platform for many types of genetic experiments, including genome - wide tests that can link specific gene variants to particular flavor or fermentation characteristics.

In July, lifestyle DNA tests inched closer to mainstream with the launch of Helix, a first - of - its - kind marketplace for personal genome products: For $ 80, Helix will use a saliva sample to sequence 22,000 of your genes, unlike other at - home DNA tests, which look for specific gene variants.)

In recent years, scientists have identified specific gene variants that increase the risk of these diseases, but these risk variants only go some way to explaining why some people are afflicted by the disease and others are not.

Gozal's team eventually found that children with OSA who also had specific gene variants were at particularly high risk for cognitive, cardiovascular or metabolic side effects.

For eight of these sites, the researchers were able to identify a specific gene variant that influences risk for both diseases.

With their analyses of the genome data, the scientists were also able to identify eight specific gene variants that are strongly linked to altered risk for both diseases.

There's also a genetic component: The condition, which can occur at any age, often runs in families and specific gene variants have been linked to it.

But specific gene variants are also linked to greater risks of developing many of these diseases.

Finally, specific gene variants (HLA and non-HLA alleles) have been associated with vaccine response and non-response [54][57].

That lets researchers systematically evaluate the roles that specific gene variants might play.

And she also talked about a recent example in which they helped determine that a specific gene variant was likely not responsible for pancreatic cancer.

The widely used strategy of allele association investigates correlations of gene variants with phenotypes, i.e., it probes if individuals with a trait of interest carry a specific gene variant more frequently than individuals in a control group (case - control studies).