Sentences with phrase «very small gene»

Along the way, Bostons were further cross-bred with other breeds such as French Bulldogs and even the mighty English Mastiff in order to bring new blood into what had become a very small gene pool.

Like other breeds with a very small gene pool, some of these issues may be compounded and widespread.

Not exact matches

The living creature that was smaller and could not reach the food is more likely to starve and not breed, leaving the very full tummied taller creature to survive and pass on his or her tall genes!

For a very small number of genes, though, people inherit only one working copy; the other copy is turned off, forever silenced.

«We are very excited about the prospect of using these more physiologically relevant cell - based models for gene and small molecule drug discoveries,» says Dr. Andrew Liu, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Memphis.

Face shape, which would be the holy grail, is in the distant future — we've only found the first five genes, and the effects of those genes are very small.

However, the difference is very small, as granddaughters share on average 27 percent and grandsons 23 percent of their genes with their paternal grandmother.

The challenge was to explain how genes act lawfully, and cause organisms to behave lawfully, while being composed of a very small number of atoms, a significant proportion of which may be behaving unlawfully.

siRNAs are very small molecules that carry genetic information to cells, but unlike DNA that can turn genes on, siRNA interferes with the production of particular proteins and can turn cancer genes off.

Many of these mystery microbes are very small cells, with small genomes laced with unfamiliar genes.

«What we're excited about is how it only takes a very small amount of RNA to cause gene knockdown in the whole liver.

American geneticist Calvin Bridges discovered copy number variation in 1936, when he noticed that flies that inherit a duplicate copy of a gene called Bar develop very small eyes.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

MicroRNAs are very small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and play a central role in the regulation of genes.

Scientist Bastiaan Star (link is external) says, «The gene is perhaps coding for a very small protein or is regulating another gene, but so far this gene is not known in any fish we know of, so we have no idea of what it does.

«Inhibiting RGS1 didn't prevent autoimmune diabetes from happening, which is slightly disappointing but not surprising because any one of these genes in humans has a very small effect on risk,» says Dr. Kissler.

Professor Seymour said: «We already have a line harboring a very small section of the S. pennellii genome with the alternative form of the pectate lyase gene.

But after analyzing the Hofstenia transcriptome, the team determined that the three - banded panther worm and planarians are only very distantly related, a view that had been proposed based on analyses with sequences from a small number of genes.

As with their two earlier studies, Dr. Ding and his UCSF collaborators, led by Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, associate director of the UCSF Liver Center, utilized small molecules, along with very few genes, to transform adult skin cells into early - stage liver cells.

«In 100 percent of small - cell lung cancers, there is a deletion in this region of chromosome 3, very often including the HYAL2 gene,» he said.

PHOTO: Harbour LaboratoryUsing very small amounts of tumor tissue collected by a needle biopsy, doctors can conduct gene expression profile testing to determine the likelihood that an ocular melanoma tumor will spread beyond the eye.

In addition, the architecture of differentiation is such that these regions were of small size and contained very few genes.

Only small sets of genes are unusually variable among replicates (Figure 1A — B) and the distribution of gene expression is very similar between males and females (density plots in Figure 1C).

Indeed out of hundreds of male or female fertility genes identified in diverse organisms, only a very small number of them are implicated specifically in reproduction in more than one lineage.

Most differentiated regions were smaller than 200 Kb and contained very few genes.

«Genes required for the production of small RNA in seeds were at the very top of the list of genes responsible for the evolution of flowering plants from cone - bearing plGenes required for the production of small RNA in seeds were at the very top of the list of genes responsible for the evolution of flowering plants from cone - bearing plgenes responsible for the evolution of flowering plants from cone - bearing plants.

These are called low penetrance genes.Although each gene has a very small effect on risk, when we have many of such genes then our cancer risk is considerably increased.

For melanoma a very small proportion of melanoma patients carry these genes, and the most common is a gene called CDKN2A.

Unlike protein - coding genes, which are frequently well - conserved between species, lincRNA genes typically have a very small bit of conserved DNA between species, if any.

BTW some of you stated you eat 2500 to 4000 a day (like it's a small ammount)-- this is WAY TOO MUCH if you want to slim down or even maintain... I agree with your points here tho, and I'm very pleased someone is blunt about these things because most people should hear it, but don't want to listen, because why blame yourself for your shortcomings if you can blame your imaginary «bad genes»?

The dating site is «looking at a very small number of genes, and you simply can not extrapolate a prediction from those genes to long - term compatibility,» he said.

A breeder in Holland was the first to use this gene to create very small rabbits.

Recent study of the gene responsible for very small size in many breeds revealed that small dogs are genetically predisposed to excitability.