Sentences with phrase «unidentified gene»

It is believed that an as - yet - unidentified gene is responsible for the remaining 10 percent.

It's the most basic of ways to find out what something does, whether it's an unmarked circuit breaker or an unidentified gene — flip its switch and see what happens.

He found that the worms had mutations in a previously unidentified gene, which was named snf - 6.

And Brown notes that still - unidentified genes may moderate the effect of the mutation and spare the vision of most of the deaf.

Ten percent of cases are inherited; most involve unidentified genes.

Since all dogs with CEA have CH it can be managed in the same way one would manage any single gene recessive trait even though other as - yet unidentified genes cause the more serious defects.

Other as yet unidentified genes, environmental effects, or regulatory DNA play a role in determining exactly what defects a dog will have.

Not exact matches

By comparing human and fugu genomes, researchers found almost 1,000 previously unidentified human genes.

However, because of the extremely small effect size of the BD risk (i.e., odds ratio ~ 1.2), Prof. Nakao Iwata says, «a large number of risk genes are still unidentified.

When he and colleagues searched the genomes of a lizard and a chicken, they found several previously unidentified cysteine - rich hair - keratin genes, some of them exclusive to the reptile - bird group.

He suspects that centenarians lack genes that predispose them to geriatric diseases and possess genes — as yet unidentified — that protect them from the ravages of time.

But another sequence, the gene's so - called unidentified domain (UD), appears to have changed extremely rapidly in humans — about seven times faster than it did in other mammals — and shows signs of being positively selected for in evolution.

For some, however, these changes interact with bad genes or other unidentified risk factors to initiate the torturously slow process that ends with dementia.

The researchers observed a sequence variant in a previously unidentified gout susceptibility gene located on chromosome 19 that has a large effect on serum uric acid levels and gout.

It is likely that other (as yet unidentified) gene defects and other environmental and biological factors all influence the development of HCM.

Fortunately, the frequency of genes for dominant diseases in most breed populations will be much lower than what is typical for recessive traits because there are no normal carriers who might slip unidentified into a pedigree.

The other (still unidentified) genes only contribute to the trait if two copies of the CEA - CH mutation are present.