Sentence examples for genetic segment from inspiring English sources

The new flu does have a genetic segment that has been identified as coming from pigs in Eurasia, prompting the Mexican ambassador to China to suggest that his country should not be blamed for the disease.

The reason is that the first component of the transcript that makes the Type 4 proteins lies at the very beginning of the neuregulin gene and closest to the upstream genetic segment that is statistically linked to schizophrenia.

The neuraminidase genetic segment of the virus, which gives the virus its "N1" name and controls the ability of the virus to break out of infected cells, comes from a Eurasian strain of swine flu, said Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiologist at Hong Kong University.

RD4 is 12.7 kb genetic segment that is deleted from M. bovis BCG strain, but present in M. microti, M. africanum, and M. tuberculosis [20].

For each genetic segment, we used two independent runs with 2 × 107 MCMC steps, of which the first 10% was discarded as burn-in.

A Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree was estimated for the smallest genetic segment (not shown), but the nodes were weakly supported by low bootstrap values.

Viruses are genetically diverse due to rapid rates of mutations and continuous reassortment of genetic segments (4) and are diffused along migratory routes (5).

But five genetic segments were identified, with 99percentt confidence, as being associated with Native American ancestry.

Note that islands in one genome are generated both by insertion of genetic segments into that genome and deletion of segments from the other genome.

The technique rapidly produces millions of copies of genetic segments, so even minute traces of genetic contamination can skew results.

In this study, a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (real time RT-PCR) assay targeting 2 genetic segments was established to detect HDV RNA.