Sentences with phrase «what role the genes»

Some researchers have looked into what role genes might have in our tendency to cheat, like last year's study on a certain variant of the dopamine gene DRD4 — and dopamine is the force behind our sexual drives, survival needs and pair - bonding behaviors.

Geneticists don't yet know what role the genes play in asthma, which afflicts about 16 million people in the United States.

To see what role the genes play in spore - to - spore communication, the researchers replaced the genes of one strain with those of a different group.

«You can make inferences, ideally, about what role each gene segment might have,» explains the Broad Institute's Yozwiak, «and that would be useful, but making larger leaps about its phenotype in people or any other reservoir species, that's a lot harder to do.»

Studying zebrafish is a vitally important way to discover what role genes play in human health and disease.

Nor is it clear what role those genes have in perturbing the biology of the developing brain, giving rise to autism.

Not exact matches

The main difference between the two genes was in a triplet of amino acids that plays a role in determining exactly what acid concentration opens or closes the channel.

But knowing this, researchers note, does not necessarily explain what those genes do, given that many genes code for multiple forms of a protein, each of which could have a different role in a variety of biological processes.

Mice with mutations in what is called the nude gene don't fully develop the thymus, a small organ in the chest cavity that plays a key role in the maturation of infection - fighting T cells.

Over 80 percent of the mouse lines assessed had a characteristic that provided a clue to what the missing gene's role might be.

Scientists have caught a glimpse of what they call the «pilot light of reproduction,» identifying for the first time a gene that plays a role in triggering puberty.

The full readout of what genes are on and off in dermal papilla cells has never been collected before, so researchers now have a new list of thousands of genes to study further that may play key roles in hair follicle development.

So what we did is we wanted to ask what happened in the history of a pair of gene [s] in, regular role, brewer's and baker's yeast that is used these days.

After the gene was duplicated — now I just mention [ed] that duplication takes place all of the time, they are common sort of genetic accidents — but after the genes were duplicated, now there was the opportunity to divide the labor that was once stored by a single gene; now divide that labor into two genes, and what happened is, a series a mutations have taken place that has optimized each role — that the regulatory sensor role of GAL3 and the enzymatic - converting role of GAL1.

What is particularly remarkable about imprinted genes is that a lot of them play a role in shaping the brain.

They found what they were looking for on the CNGA3 gene, which encodes a cyclic nucleotide channel and plays a key role in transducing visual signals.

He'll deactivate genes in the embryos to see what roles they play in early development.

What's really impressive about Babar's accomplishment is that he did the work for both papers — one on the role of a population of stem cells in lung cancer development (published in Cell) the other on gene expression in group A Streptococcus (published in PNAS)-- as a participant in summer undergraduate research programs.

And if there are only two or three genes, what is the role of each of these factors?

«Because it's a such a complex genetic trait... you actually expect there to be some variability from population to population, in terms of what genes are playing a role in the disorder,» Dorus says.

Transcription factors determine which genes are active at what time and in which conditions and consequently have a critical role in organisms.

More than 4,000 genes have been «knocked - out» using this method to help scientists investigate exactly what each gene's role is in the body.

Chromatin structure plays an important role in regulating what genes are created, or expressed, in a given cell.

The group is after an essential question: When a limb is getting regenerated, what genes play a role in that process?

Beaumont now suspects that our genes have a big role in what conditions develop in the gut.

The genes they knocked out play a huge role in determining how much and what types of foods an organism eats.

«Since two strains of the same species can have such different genomes, you really need to know what genes are there and what role they play in order to link someone's gut microbiota to BMI or disease.»

Thus, in order to link a person's microbiome to body mass index (BMI) or disease, it is critical to know which genes are present and what role they play.

Experts don't know what causes multiple sclerosis, but both genes and environment seem to play a role

We talk about the new types of gene testing available and their role in determining what we should and shouldn't eat.

The Focus: Why evidence matters, why media publishes the worst nutrition studies, the role supplements play, how our genes dictate what we should and shouldn't eat.

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