Population geneticist Rasmus Nielsen of the University of California, Berkeley, his postdoc Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, and their colleagues analyzed the DNA and found that the Tibetans and only two of the 40 Han Chinese had a distinctive segment of the EPAS1 gene in which five letters of the genetic code were identical.
Through his systematic notation of folk songs as he heard them, Janáček developed an exceptional sensitivity to the melodies and rhythms of speech, from which he compiled a collection of distinctive segments he called "speech tunes".
Although the Ajars are not a nationality distinct from other Georgians, they do represent a distinctive cultural segment of the Georgian homeland.
The province consists of two distinct segments.
The participant was able to modulate his sensorimotor cortex with distinctive cortical activity patterns for different segments of the upper limb.
Mr. Maloney said that each property is distinctive and intended to appeal to different segments of the budget market.
Preliminary reconstructions were obtained for both subsets by angular reconstitution [51] using short segments of several classes with good contrast, distinctive features such as polarity and separated subunits, and a few classes of hDmc1-ssDNA end-views [51].
The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata: a head, a thorax and an abdomen.
In Jewish tradition, segments of scripture are named for their first distinctive words, and so Lamentations in Hebrew is called "Eicha" - literally, the book of "How" - "How does the city sit solitary that was full of people, how is she become like a widow" (Lamentations 1 1).
Bean's distinctive voice has also been used in the intro and outro segments of the BBC Formula 1 racing coverage for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
