Sentences with phrase «version of the gene»

They checked the offspring's DNA to see how the frequency of different versions of their genes shifted compared with those frequencies in the parents.

To try to determine how those changes influenced the gene's function, that group put the human version of the gene in mice.

Then they slipped a human version of each gene into yeast cells whose own copy of the gene had been turned down, turned off, or removed.

We found that the bacterium had to have a normal version of the gene for it to be transmitted.

Another possibility was that all of the diversity in the bacterial genes is «neutral» — no particular version of a gene makes an organism more or less fit for its environment.

The scientists used a harmless virus to shuttle a healthy version of the gene into their eyes.

Although these sorts of studies are tricky to do, they suggest that people with certain versions of genes appear to be more likely to bounce back after adversity.

Yet, the opposite relationship held for subjects with the other of two common versions of the gene.

However, just because you have a short version of the gene doesn't mean you won't get the disease — it just decreases your risk.

Now a study shows that the protein built by healthy versions of the gene binds directly to DNA, suggesting that the protein might repair DNA damage.

Because the girl inherited a defective version of the gene from each parent, she had no normal copy.

Even receiving only modest doses, other young patients given a working version of the gene in one eye were also able to see better.

The culprit was a faulty version of a gene that makes pores which allow chloride ions in and out of cells.

Patients who had changed versions of this gene showed early promise, often attending college, but then experienced cognitive decline consistent with a degenerative disease.

For example, a researcher could modify a rat genome to contain a broken version of a gene necessary for female fertility, and introduce some of these rats to an island.

By 12 months of age, infants with this gene variant whose needs were consistently attended to responded to stress just as effectively as did the babies with other versions of the gene.

These enter the population as exceedingly rare alternative versions of the genes in which they occur.

One version of the gene appears to protect against heart attacks and stroke, a new study finds.

Additional research is also needed to determine how the C version of the gene affects the protein's function.

Specifically, how does evolution shape the same gene to be adapted to tropical habitats in one lineage, while adapting an alternate version of that gene to cold habitats?

The researchers have not attempted to add any new genes or change traits, only to correct a disease - causing version of a gene.

Genetic diversity is high when there are many versions of genes present throughout members of a species.

But mice with a working version of the gene suffered little to no damage to their gut - lining cells.

Based on a subset of data in the analysis, the researchers estimate roughly 1 in 650 people carry one inactive version of the gene.

Different versions of genes at each location can lead to higher or lower protein concentration in soybean.

Other versions of this gene seem to protect a person from the disease.

One horse had two copies of the endurance version of the gene, and the rest had one copy of each.

Their DNA contains two copies of a gene that most dogs only have one of — the second copy is an old version of a gene borrowed from wolves.

If you don't have at least one of the sprint versions of that gene, you won't be in the Olympic 100 - meter final, period.

It is not that these are different versions of genes; they are different genes.

Some studies have found that people who are resilient to trauma are more likely to have certain versions of genes that make proteins involved in the stress response.

People carry either short versions of the gene, long versions, or one of each.

«In two studies of breast - fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of nearly 7 IQ points if the children had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.

North and her co-workers found that the region surrounding the mutant version of the gene showed less variability than did other parts of the genome, a sign of positive natural selection.

The at - risk haplotypes, or versions of the gene linked to obesity, were found in more than one in four individuals with high BMI, and were three times more common in these individuals than in controls.

Capra and others have evidence that Neandertal versions of genes make humans more prone to some diseases (SN: 3/5/16, p. 18).

Another discovery in D. melanogaster, said Shah, is that neurons in the fly's brain, expressing male - specific versions of the gene known as fruitless, «seem to connect up with these Gr32 - sensing neurons on the foreleg.

Many children didn't carry mutated versions of those genes — but more than expected did.

Whatever LINGO1's role in ET, the newly identified version of the gene does not by itself cause the disorder.

Through its population genetics research in Iceland, deCODE identified common versions of the gene encoding EP3 (the PTGER3 gene) that confer increase in risk of PAOD.

Perhaps «wild - type» (Red Junglefowl) versions of this gene also help hybrids build brains that can respond to dangers of the wild, such as nosy biologists» traps.

The study illustrates the genetic foundation of evolution, including how genes can flow from one species to another, and how different versions of a gene within a species can contribute to the formation of entirely new species, the researchers report in the journal Nature.

But swapping the fly version of the gene into these mutant mice corrects most of those abnormalities.

The study team injected patients with a vector, a genetically engineered adeno - associated virus, which carried a normal version of a gene called RPE65 that is mutated in one form of LCA.

Faeders and satellites both harbour mutations near a gene that breaks down testosterone, and Andersson speculates that an overactive version of this gene explains why faeders and satellites are not aggressively territorial.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

The gene affects credit - card debt the way other genes have been found to play a role in breast cancer: a particular version of the gene increases risk, but many other genetic and environmental factors are important, too.