Sentence examples for low gene content from inspiring English sources

Fa-Ten Kao, Jinjwei Yu, and their colleagues at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research in Denver homed in on a 20-million-base-pair stretch on the long arm of chromosome 21 called 21q11-21, whash has a low percentage of cytidine and guanosine nucleotides--a telltale sign of low gene content, or "junk DNA".

Obligate parasitism of P. carinii would be consistent with its small genome size and low gene content relative to those of the closely related free-living fungi S. pombe and S. cerevisiae (Table 3).

NUMTs are located in regions with low gene content [ 4, 19, 36].

We skipped Parachlorella minor because of the very low gene content and arguable placement to be included in Trebouxiophyceae.

The human Y chromosome contains a high percentage of repetitive elements and duplicated regions but low gene content [ 9, 10].

We noticed that it is also partly heterochromatic, which may be caused by a low gene content and/or the presence of repetitive DNA on these chromosomes.

The study demonstrated that the q arm of the sex-determining chromosome 1 had the lowest gene content and the highest density of minisatellites.

Given that chromosome 21 has the lowest gene content, it does not seem that this chromosome is an exception for any biological reason.

In chicken, most insertions were detected in macrochromosomes that are low in gene content compared to microchromosomes [ 16, 17].

Besides heterochromatin regions (centromeres and telomeres), some large genomic regions with very low annotated gene content had no detectable reads, including several regions in chromosome 7 and the region in chromosome × from 26,000,000 to 32,000,000 bp (Additional file 1, Fig. S1).

In addition to the low known tick gene content in the two randomly selected BACs, all five BACs contained a significant level of repeats and transposons.