It is therefore likely that these functionally characterized enzymes are deriving from older genes whose functions have not been identified yet.
Moreover, while sequencing the entire genome is a major scientific accomplishment, there is far more utility in sequencing individual genes whose functions will provide the target for new drugs.
But fully characterized genes whose functions are known -- like a gene that predisposes women to breast cancer and can be used in a diagnostic test -- will continue to be patentable.
Even the most distantly related species — say, humans and bacteria — share many genes whose functions have remained constant across billions of years of evolution.
All in all, the school of thought which holds that humans, for all their outward variety, are a pretty homogenous species received a boost.There were, however, 30 locally selected genes whose functions are as yet unknown.
Projects designed to scan entire microbial genomes for essential genes have revealed a remarkably compact and conserved, but not universal, set of genes whose functions are necessary for survival or reproduction.
SysFinder offers a "topic-centered" approach for systematic comparisons of human genes, whose functions are involved in a specific scientific topic, to the corresponding homologous genes of animal models.
The organism also contains 149 genes whose functions remain unknown.
The proper development and health of an organism are the result of a complex interplay between regulatory systems that activate genes whose functions are necessary, and those that repress the activity of genes whose functions are not required.
Moreover, circuit definition will help to place into context genes whose functions in drug abuse are less well understood.
qPCR was conducted to confirm the results for genes whose functions were considered to be of possible interest in hypertension.
