Sentence examples for defective copy from inspiring English sources

Defect in decane assimilation occurs due to defective copy of UGT51 sterol glucosyltransferase.

Homozygous germline HNF1A, HNF1B or HNF4A mutations have not been found in humans [2], [3]; their associated phenotypes manifest in heterozygous state, whereas mice carrying only one defective copy of the HNF1A or HNF4A gene show no defects in glycolytic signalling or renal glucose reabsorption as do their human counterparts [4] [6].

It is Nathan who teaches Kevin how to sweet-talk a defective copy machine into functioning.

The gene for the allergen will be knocked out by replacing it with a defective copy.

He worked with a mouse that had a defective copy of Ob, the so called obesity gene.

At least two of Victoria's daughters, Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice, were carriers of the disease, bearing one defective copy of the gene.

Last year Robert Pruitt, a geneticist at Purdue University, discovered that mustard plants with two defective copies of a gene called hothead could nevertheless produce some normal offspring, as if the defective gene had somehow been repaired.

On very close inspection it turns out to be built of skillfully stacked newspapers — defective copies amassed for Arte Sella by a local printer.

The abnormal gene is very common, it turns out, and the scientists report that about a quarter of all men have two defective copies.

Virtually no one inherits two defective copies of a BRCA gene.In someone with one mutant copy, however, the other copy may suddenly fail in a previously healthy cell, unleashing cancer.

The tests revealed that Ashlyn had inherited two defective copies of the SCN9A gene, which is known to be involved in the transmission of nerve impulses in pain-sensing neurones.