Sentences with phrase «versions of the gene linked»

BRAIN MAZE Even before symptoms show up, young people who have a version of a gene linked to Alzheimer's disease tap into different areas of the brain to navigate through a virtual reality maze.

The team found that babies with the version of the gene linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's were more likely to have smaller medial temporal lobes.

Not exact matches

Modern chickens carry a version of the thyroid - stimulating hormone receptor gene, TSHR, that has been linked to several domesticated chicken characteristics: year - round egg laying, faster egg production at sexual maturity, reduced aggression toward other chickens and less fear of people.

In the second stage of the study, the researchers used another version of the gene - probe technology, called «quantitative PCR,» which yielded the vaginal concentrations of each of the 20 species in every sample, and linked it to HIV risk.

Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.

And researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine report in Genome Research that they linked the evolution of a gene in the old platypus to a mutated version in humans responsible for moving the testes outside of the body and into an external pouch, or scrotum.

The paper, entitled «The gene encoding 5 - lipoxygenase activating protein confers risk of myocardial infarction and stroke,» presents the results of a major population study of heart attack linking a version of the gene encoding FLAP with a nearly twofold increased risk of heart attack.

«The variant that we discovered is common: Most people have one or two copies of the version of the gene that is linked to accumulating more pathology as you get older,» said lead author Dr. Lori Chibnik of Brigham and Women's Hospital.