She says trying to look at only proteins, a process known as exome sequencing, misses some known genes.
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Brunner and his colleagues used a technique called exome sequencing, which extracts only known genes from the vast expanse of DNA in the human genome as a way to reduce sequencing cost.
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Locating genes that code for more than one protein could allow Rosetta to find drug targets in tissues that were not considered drugable by finding previously unknown exons in known genes, Friend says.
The Atlas is pretty cool it lets you check out the expression of known genes, check out MRI and DTI images and download a program that enables you to explore the genetic structure of the brain in 3-D.
The software both Celera and the HGP ran on their supercomputers relied on new genes being similar either to known human genes or to genes found in animal genomes (like those of the mouse), Velculescu says.
When they assembled the atlas, the institute's scientists were surprised to discover that more than 80% of all known human genes are actively at work in the brain.
The Period, or "Per, " gene is one of the most important clock genes known in fruit flies and mammals.
That makes it a promising drug target for Myriad, already well known for discovering genes linked to prostate, ovarian and breast cancers.
The researchers tripled the number of protein-kinase genes known from this chromosome.
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That makes identifying and testing open reading-frames much easier, so lots of puffer-fish genes are known.
Comparing raw human gene sequences with known puffer-fish genes suggests that the human total is around 30, 000.
Actos and potential successors such as Pargluva work on combinations of these genes, known as peroxisome proliferators activator receptors, or PPARs.
They investigated genes previously known to influence the differences in hair colour.
One of the goals of the Human Genome Project was to allow researchers to link versions of individual genes (known as alleles) with particular diseases.
Dr Ip looked at which genes were active in the gill-like structures of the mouth and found one that appears, from its similarity to genes of known function from other species, to encode a urea transporter.
After a false start pursuing what are known as ribosomal RNA genes which are involved in protein synthesis and are believed by some people to be the genetic core around which the rest of life accreted he lighted on two genes called RecA and RpoB.
And lo, when he drew trees that tracked the evolutionary relationships between all the RecAs and all the RpoBs found on the cruise, he discovered parts of the trees that did not fit with the pattern established by known versions of these genes in the public genetic databases.
Scientists have known for years that many genes make more than one protein by taking advantage of small DNA sequences within them called exons.
CAMBIA, a research centre in Canberra, points out, the sequence of many individual rice genes has been known for years, but little has been done with them since the necessary tools have not been available.
Sapra and Zak began by analyzing the genes of 60 professional traders working in five major Wall Street firms. (They collected the DNA samples in 2008 only three of the firms are still in business.) The scientists focused on a short list of genes that are known to affect the activity of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain.
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The correlation is with the genes of what is known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
New viruses are formed when two different strains infect the same cell and exchange whole genes - a process known as genetic shift.
The team tested the bacteria that they found in samples from ten bears for the presence of blaTEM genes, which are known to encode resistance to a commonly used class of antibiotics that includes penicillins and cephalosporins.
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Oil companies are better known for burning fossil fuels than splicing genes.
At the time that two or three genes for prostate cancer are known, we'll be able to format a test for prostate cancer.
Some genome labs in reporting results will only include information about genes linked to diseases that have known treatments or prevention strategies.
She has written a smart-phone app that lets users study their genetic data to find any correlations between known efficacy rates for drugs associated with certain genes.
They have examined the smallest-known bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium which has just 480 genes.
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