Sentence examples for faulty copies from inspiring English sources

Mice with two faulty copies of the GCK gene secreted no additional insulin in response to glucose.

To get the disease, a person usually must inherit two faulty copies of the Niemann-Pick gene, one from each parent.

Children born with two faulty copies of the gene develop the disease, which destroys the nervous system, and usually die by the age of five.

People who have faulty copies of the RUNX2 gene often develop a condition, known as cleidocranial dysplasia, whose symptoms include such Neanderthal-like features as a flared rib cage.

Many of these conditions – including MCAD deficiency – are said to be recessive, which means that a person will be affected by it if they inherit two faulty copies of the gene, one from each parent.

"My heart goes out to whoever pressed the wrong button," he said, adding that the bookseller had not, as yet, received any complaints about faulty copies from its customers.

He also discussed the poetry of Cavalcanti, distorted as a result of faulty copying, misinterpretation and patching up.

She had learned that she inherited a faulty copy of a gene, BRCA1, that put her at high risk for invasive breast cancer as well as ovarian cancer.

HarperCollins, who say the errors are mainly typographical, have launched a hurried operation to let purchasers exchange their faulty copy via bookshops or pre-paid post.

(People who have a faulty copy of the gene — an extremely rare occurrence — are capable of speech, but what they say is, to strangers, mostly incomprehensible).

For someone to suffer symptoms, both of his or her parents must have a faulty copy of the gene in question unless the victim is a man and the faulty gene is on his single X chromosome.