Sentences with phrase «triggered by a single gene»
Rather than being triggered by a single gene mutation, the tumors are caused by too many or too few copies of a gene in a person's cells.
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Twenty years after he first stumbled on FOP, Economides and his colleagues report today that the gene mutation shared by 97 % of people with the disease can trigger its symptoms in a manner different than had been assumed — through a single molecule not previously eyed as a suspect.