Sentence examples for both copies of a from inspiring English sources

Occasionally, both copies of a gene can be defective.

Loss-of-function mutations can disrupt both copies of a given gene in humans and phenotypic analysis of such 'human knockouts' can provide insight into gene function.

The million-SNP array indicated a complete deletion of about a third of both copies of a gene known to be involved in the digestion of certain starches.

One is that many neurological diseases are more common in men because women are unlikely to suffer mutations in both copies of a gene.

Sequencing her exome the protein-coding portion of her DNA revealed she had mutations in both copies of a particular gene, causing severe riboflavin (vitamin B12) deficiency.

For Knudson's "two-hit" hypothesis, he postulated that mutations must occur in both copies of a gene for the cancer to develop.

Accordingly, inheritance of both copies of an imprinted chromosome or region from a single parent leads to the mis-expression of the imprinted genes present in the selected region.

These results support a scenario in which duplicate genes are retained through a process of subfunctionalization and/or relaxation of constraint on both copies of an ancestral gene.

We previously found that mice lacking both copies of SIRT1 displayed a shorter median lifespan than wild-type mice on an ad libitum diet.

For individual intron analyses, both copies of alleles from a species were included.

Among all species that underwent a third round of WGD, only two of all considered teleost fish, zebrafish and cavefish, sill retained both copies of Cry3, suggesting a specific function for the originally redundant copies in these species.