Image of the Month: Humans are complex genetic mosaics
“We are all walking mosaics of genetically distinct cells,” said Dr. Margaret Goodell.
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genetic disease
One gene provides diagnoses for 30 patients whose condition was unexplained for years
“It was rewarding to be able to provide an explanation for their condition,” said Dr. Daniel Calame, first and corresponding author of the work.
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Predicting gain-of-function mutations linked to disease
Genes can cause disease because of mutations that result in loss-of-function; for instance, when the mutated gene is not producing the protein it encodes. But
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Aminode lets you do in less than a second what used to take a week
On his first year at Rice University, Kevin Chang, now a senior cognitive sciences major and ecology and evolutionary biology minor, knocked on many doors, including
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