Sentences with phrase «studied genetic data»

The team studied genetic data from over 1200 cholera samples, some dating back to the 1950s.

They studied genetic data from 1,983 living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.

Not exact matches

«[A.I.] can help analyze large data sets from sources such as clinical trials, health records, genetic profiles, and preclinical studies; within this data, it can recognize patterns and trends and develop hypotheses at a much faster rate than researchers alone,» says Deloitte.

The characteristics studied by Darwin implied the evolutionary process; the fossils record demonstrated how many species evolved and added weight to the argument that all species evolved according to the same mechanism of evolution; the genetic data PROVES that the implication of the characteristics and the evidence of the fossil record was interpreted CORRECTLY..

In contrast, the new study made use of wrist accelerometer data, which is more objective and quantifiable, and a large genetic dataset from about 85,000 UK Biobank participants aged 40 to 70.

In their study, the researchers analyzed genetic data from around 11,000 men with premature baldness.

Goebel is also co-author of a 2015 study published in Science that brings together genetic and archaeological data to end speculation.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

The new framework enhances the ability to detect genetic associations and interactions by taking advantage of data from other genomic studies of the same population.

Collaborators in Australia and Chile provided DNA for the study, and W. Mark Whitten and Norris Williams of the University of Florida provided genetic data.

The researchers did a small study of existing genetic data from the human skin microbiome and estimate that 20 percent of the human population have S. epidermidis strains that make 6 - HAP on their skin, Gallo says.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Unlike «big data» genetic studies, which have loosely linked hundreds of genetic changes to schizophrenia but can not explain varying symptoms, the new study revealed distinct disease versions that may affect large slices of patients and enable precision treatment design, say the authors.

The largest of its kind, the study examined genetic data in 100,000 individuals including 40,000 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and also found that some of the genes identified as increasing risk for schizophrenia have previously been associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

Two study aims were to use novel whole - genome sequence data to (1) study possible correlations between language groups and genetic clustering, and (2) investigate the ancestral compositions of these individuals, including maternal and paternal lineages.

Some scientists studying the genetic makeup of the West African Ebola strain were slow to share their data with others, perhaps fearful that they would lose their right to publish their findings in a major scientific journal.

Mayer and McHugh also appear to be data snooping when they reference only one of six studies in the peer - reviewed literature of the past 16 years that employ proper probability - sampling methods, «and it just so happens to be the one with the lowest estimate of genetic influence of the entire set,» Hamer says.

The team also examined data from a prior genetic study of children with asthma and found that a variant of the dectin - 1 gene — which reduces production of the receptor — is strongly linked to increased asthma risk.

«I think this is a step towards making sense out of a lot of data — genetic data, environmental data, epidemiological data — to help us understand factors that contribute to long and healthy life,» says Winifred Rossi, deputy director of the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging, who wasn't involved in the study.

HUR K Junho, first author of the study said, «The data showed that Cpf1 RNP's delivery to mouse embryos resulted in knocking out the intended genetic functions with high mutation frequencies, 64 % and 33 % respectively.

Ávila - Arcos hopes to use genetic data to trace the ancestors of those in her study back to specific West African groups or regions.

In all, the study included the data of more than 23,000 people to show that approximately 12 percent of a person's variation in delay discounting can be attributed to genetics — not a single gene, but numerous genetic variants that also influence several other psychiatric and behavioral traits.

Those studies, which used less precise genetic tests, showed differences between females at beaches thousands of miles apart but provided no data on males.

The study also included genetic data from eight extant species, including the three largest lemur species still alive today.

In this study, a team led by Panos N. Papapanou, DDS, PhD, professor and chair of oral, diagnostic and rehabilitation sciences at the College of Dental Medicine at CUMC, «reverse - engineered» the gene expression data to build a map of the genetic interactions that lead to periodontitis and identify individual genes that appear to have the most influence on the disease.

A new study in the journal Genetics in Medicine, published by Springer Nature, now shows that up to 40 percent of direct - to - consumer (DTC) genetic tests provide incorrect readings in the raw data.

To date, the lack of basic genetic data has severely hampered studies of camel genetics.

As methods for studying and comparing genetic data improve, scientists are beginning to decode these marks to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species, as well as how variants of genes give rise to unique traits.

Much of the data in the study has come out previously, some in earlier papers about the parents of the virus that «reassorted» to make this new H1N1, some in the flood of genetic sequences put into public databases, and some in press interviews with public health agencies and academic investigators.

Their cohort study analyzed HIV testing data collected by the San Diego County Department of Public Health and the San Diego Primary Infection Cohort between 1996 and 2012, and used genetic analysis to identify local chains of transmission.

Past behavior genetics research using twin study survey data has shown genetic influence on a wide range of communication behaviors.

Based on a 2002 study, this illustration maps the relationships between 18 human populations, using the neighbor - joining method to create an evolutionary tree built on genetic data.

To shed light on the mystery of Bornean elephant's origin, Chikhi and Goossens» team used genetic data analysis and computational modelling to study the past demographic history of these animals.

As efforts continue to characterise the genetic underpinnings of complex diseases, the data and results of this study are expected to enable the next wave of discoveries.

Rzhetsky acknowledges there are potential confounders to the study, for example ease of access to data could differ between counties or uneven genetic distribution, beyond the factors they controlled for, could have an effect.

However, the study's Canaanite genetic data do provide «a snapshot of history in the area,» Lazaridis says.

The genetic data, combined with updated morphological study of some of the oldest ancient canid remains, could strengthen the dual origin theory proposed in June — or it could build a case for even more origin events.

The data suggest more genetic distinctiveness between populations across the continent than the previous study, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

In the new work, researchers looked at genetic and health data on more than 100,000 individuals from previous large studies to determine whether genetic alterations that are associated with vitamin D levels predispose people to asthma, dermatitis, or high IgE levels.

In an accompanying editorial, Emad M. El - Omar, M.D., of Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, writes that the authors of this study are appropriate to state, «based on their data, genetic testing to evaluate H pylori susceptibility is premature.»

By studying the mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA as well as other genetic data from the animal, Link Olson of the University of Alaska Museum determined that it was more closely related to savanna baboons than mangabeys.

Now, a new study that included genetic data from more than 190,000 people has identified two genes that, when altered in specific ways, either promote or undermine cardiovascular health.

His adviser at the time, animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.

In the new study, they used the same genome - wide information and the largest data sets currently available to estimate the risk for the illnesses attributable to any of hundreds of thousands of sites of common variability in the genetic code across chromosomes.

Genetic studies of drug response are often based only on memory of the response rather than systematically recorded data.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

A study of genetic data from 36,000 people with autoimmune diseases shows that dialing down a protein's activity — but not knocking it completely out — may provide a new way to calm overactive immune systems without raising the risk of getting infections.

«Our work expands the repertoire of functional genetic elements,» says the study's leader Yaniv Erlich, who is an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute, and a core member of the New York Genome Center.

Such a large pool of patient data would greatly facilitate research on ALTS and open new avenues of study into genetic aspects of other forms of laryngotracheal stenosis.