Science news articles about 'gene deletions'

... Biological Studies have traced the role of two genes,GTF2I and GTF2IRD, in a rare genetic disorder ... start looking at smaller and smaller gene deletions to study their effect on social behavior." Two ...

... Y chromosome and are therefore present in males but not in females. It seemed plausible that gene deletions elsewhere in the genome could produce a similar consequence." To investigate this question ...

... is highly interconnected, it is possible for a single reaction failure (which may be precipitated by a gene deletion or mutation) to initiate a cascade that affects several other reactions in the ...

... has produced cell metabolisms that are especially well suited to handle potentially harmful changes like gene deletions and mutations. The team developed a mathematical model, which ...

... . He and his team used genetic techniques to delete two key inhibitory regulators of the mTOR ... to 50 percent of injured neurons in the mice with gene deletions of PTEN or TSC1 survived, compared to ...

... IDO inhibitor eliminated the subsequent development of depressive-like behavior. Mice that had the IDO gene deleted were also completely resistant to the depressive-like behavior seen in normal mice ...

... In the current study, they reversed the antidepressant effect of ASIC1a gene deletion by turning the ASIC1a gene back on only in the amygdala. These findings support the idea that depression could be ...

... published a paper describing the genomic evolution of BCG. They found that in addition to containing gene deletions consistent with attenuation of the vaccine, the BCG genome also had regions of gene ...

... either by increasing, so-called gene amplification, or by decreasing, so-called gene deletion. These processes are evolutionarily very important, and the discovery of a new mechanism that is involved ...

... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have found that the 22q11 gene deletion – a mutation that confers the highest known genetic risk for schizophrenia – is associated ...