What they found was a genetic abnormality.

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Now there are two types of diabetes, as you may know, there's Type I Diabetes which is a genetic abnormality that usually shows up in childhood or adolescents where people are dependent on insulin.

你们可能知道,糖尿病有两种类型,Ⅰ型糖尿病是由基因异常引起的,在儿童和青少年中较为多见,患这种病需要长期依赖胰岛素

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What I am frankly espousing here ' is what I have been calling "growing-tip statistics," taking my title from the fact that it is at the growing tip of a plant " that the greatest genetic action takes place."

我非常支持,'成长尖端统计学“,我的头衔来自以下的研究发现,最优秀的遗传基因会在,幼苗的成长尖端出现“

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Earlier this year, in a Forbes issue focused on the burgeoning consumer genetic industry, I wrote a small piece on the possibility for surreptitious DNA testing, i.e. someone sending your genetic information to a DNA lab without your knowledge.

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Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.

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In the fight against prostate cancer, bioinformaticians at SmithKline used their desktop computers to compare genetic data taken from a normal prostate with genetic data taken from a cancerous one.

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