Sentences with phrase «with leading geneticists»

The Irish Wolfhound Foundation is working with leading geneticists to help identify the gene (s) involved with bone cancer.

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Evolutionary geneticist Austin Burt, who leads Target Malaria's research at Imperial College London and has no affiliation with Safe Genes, concurs.

The work «helps us to understand how chromosomes have changed over time, which chromosome rearrangements may have led to the formation of new species, and what might be driving chromosomal rearrangements,» says Janine Deakin, a geneticist at the University of Canberra who was not involved with the work.

* Lead study author Kristi Miller - Saunders, a molecular geneticist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, has not been given the green light to speak freely with the press, however she did respond to questions from Scientific American via e-mail.

What they declare is completely at odds with what's in there,» says Mike Bunce, a geneticist at Murdoch University near Perth, Australia, who led the study.

«It was a big challenge to extract the DNA sequences from the fossil mammoths and mastodons and then to line these up with DNA from the modern elephants,» says Nadin Rohland, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the study's lead author.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

Ancient DNA from foragers and farmers in eastern, central and western Europe indicates that they increasingly mated with each other from around 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago, a team led by geneticist Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports online November 8 in Nature.

The fat, eyeless cavefish harbor the same genetic mutation as people with an inherited form of severe diabetes and experience diabetes - like blood - sugar surges and crashes after eating, yet they are perfectly healthy, according to a study in Nature led by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.

«Continued collaboration with geneticists and veterinarians could lead to the rapid discovery of undiagnosed genetic conditions in cats.

Dr Matt Hurles, who led the study from the Sanger Institute, said: «This study has the largest cohort of such families in the world, and harnesses the power of the NHS, with 200 clinical geneticists and 4,000 patients.

John Moran, Ph.D., the U-M and HHMI geneticist who led the work with Sandra Richardson, Ph.D., says the new finding gives scientists the first proof of a hypothesized defense strategy.

So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist with NHGRI, analyzed genetic information from 915 domestic dogs representing 80 different breeds.

Geneticists speak of «mapping» the human genome, so that we know where genes «for» all kinds of things (from homosexuality to manic depression) are located; a promotional video produced by the Human Genome Project asks viewers to «imagine a map that would lead us to the richest treasure in the world», with which we will know «where... every genetic inheritance of humankind is to be found».

The Otago researchers» studies on hydrogen fermentation in mycobacteria have been performed in collaboration with Professor William Jacobs Jr., a world - leading bacterial geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who is known as the «TB terminator».

Heims portrays with insight and sympathy the leading personalities in the group, especially Warren McCulloch, a philosophically minded neuropsychiatrist with a Quaker background, and Gregory Bateson (son of William Bateson, the British geneticist), whose principal interest was anthropology.

«Our meeting led to collaborations with ophthalmologists and geneticists from around the world who identified more mutations in this gene in children with this form of glaucoma.

Researchers led by Kári Stefánsson, a geneticist with deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, identified 27 such regions, and the other two groups, led by geneticist Timothy Frayling at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter in the U.K., and Joel Hirschhorn, a geneticist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spotted 20 and 10 regions, respectively.

«It was even more effective than we expected,» says lead author Marc Schetelig, a molecular geneticist now with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Gainesville, Florida.

But it's also possible that these early members of the dog lineage weren't yet tame or living with humans, says Pontus Skoglund, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School who led the study.

ScienceInsider spoke with geneticist David Altshuler of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has led planning for the alliance, about its aims in this edited transcript:

To nail down these evasive genes, teams led by human geneticist Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and neurologist Jan Hillert of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, compared several thousand MS patients from the United States and Europe with their family members and healthy controls.

A team led by Roger Reeves, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, approached the problem by creating a mouse with three copies of the DSCR.

(Phys.org)-- Despite the celebrations leading up to the New Year last week, progress in science marched on — a paper by molecular geneticist Edward Kipreos, with the University of Georgia, for example, describing a study...

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

Pioneering geneticist Trudy Mackay's work with fruit flies is influencing scientists around the world and leading to important discoveries.

The late Dr. Lemuel Herrera was a surgical oncologist whose astute clinical observation led him to team up with distinguished geneticist Dr. Avery Sandberg at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to find the APC gene, associated with familial adenomatous polyposis, the first described heritable colorectal cancer syndrome.

Participants will have an opportunity to interact with a group of prominent mouse pathologists and geneticists from leading research institutions.

To accomplish this student outreach project, he teamed up with National Geographic's Genographic Project, a research initiative led by Dr. Spencer Wells, a population geneticist.

We're partnered with the Cornell University of Veterinary Medicine, and Embark has the world's leading canine geneticists on - staff to help answer your questions and make genetic discoveries to help us reach our mission of ending preventable diseases in dogs.