Sentence examples for genes can increase from inspiring English sources

Scientists have found that mutations in certain genes can increase the risk of developing hernias.

It's well known that defective BRCA genes can increase a woman's chances of developing breast, ovarian, and other cancers.

While there is some (unreplicated) evidence that genes can increase the risk of dope triggering psychosis, as I have pointed out before (23 Jan­uary), it looks increasingly unlikely that genes will explain much mental illness.

Some naturally occurring genes have evolved methods of significantly improving these odds: These selfish genes can increase in relative frequency in a population, even while reducing the likelihood that an organism will reproduce.

Understanding the heat stress-related mechanisms in crops and classifying heat stress-related genes can increase our knowledge in heat-resistant molecular biology and propel developments in molecular design breeding, which can help rice cope with unfavorable temperatures.

Prostate cancer has a significant heritable component, and rare deleterious germline variants in certain genes can increase the risk of the disease.

Inheriting two copies of the gene can increase the risk more than eightfold.

One natural regulator of NMDA receptors in the brain is neuregulin, and recent evidence suggests that mutations in the neuregulin gene can increase the risk of schizophrenia (for review, see Skolnick, Petryshen, and Sklar 2006).

Previously, it was shown that disruption of the UL41 gene can increase the efficacy of dl5-29 as a vaccine against HSV-2.

The third, a cystic fibrosis gene, can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer and can also be important in family planning.

Although the motility of S. marcescens has previously been observed to decrease at 37°C [49], a recent study has demonstrated that a mutation in the rssA gene can increase the swarming motility of S. marcescens relative to the ancestral strain, at both 30°C and 37°C [50].