The phrase "a gene that increases" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing genetic factors that contribute to an increase in a particular trait or condition.
Example: "Researchers have identified a gene that increases the risk of developing certain diseases."
Alternatives: "a gene that enhances" or "a gene that boosts".
Do parents really want to know that their sick baby has a gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease?
The chemical tags may help determine if a person with a gene that increases risk of developing a disease actually gets the disease.
Scientists have discovered a gene that increases a person's chance of having schizophrenia and more importantly, they have a biological explanation, STAT reports.
As a result fitness increases with rarity, and, in this circumstance, whenever the population sex ratio deviates from unity, a gene that increases the numbers of the minority sex at birth will have a selective advantage.
Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from ovarian cancer in 2007, and Jolie said she carries a gene that increases her risk of getting both breast and ovarian cancer.
Protein content may be positively regulated by the expression of a gene that increases protein production in HiPro.
Cluster A (genes that increased only in cells derived from young rats) includes VEGF, Id1, Madh5 and beta-catenin which are related to angiogenesis (p = 0.00125), implying that neovascularization is linked to osteoblast maturation and bone remodeling (p = 0.00448), which included the genes PTHr1, IBSP, Madh5 and bone ECM protein Mepe.
A YOUNG woman finds that she has a defective gene that increases her chances of breast cancer.
A modified gene that increases the risk of developing autoimmune inflammation in females can also be expected to interfere negatively with pregnancy success.
We show here that the SB transposon is functional in NOD mice and can produce a null allele in a novel candidate gene that increases diabetes incidence.
The second theory is that homosexuality is a byproduct of an X-linked gene that increases the reproductive fitness of women by making puberty occur earlier, but this view is controversial even among geneticists.
