Sentence examples for mutation for example from inspiring English sources

Having tested and found a known mutation, for example, mutated BRCA2 or MLH1, the first presymptomatic family member to approach the service (usually the patient originally referred to the genetics service) is tested.

Understanding consequences of applying more complex and realistic models of mutation, for example, with different sections of the genome mutating at different rates (Barrick et al. 2009), will require further work.

Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, for example, have a greatly increased risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

"If you interfere with that pathway in a big way -- by a mutation, for example -- then you're guaranteed to get Parkinson's.

He found that adjusting the parameters of each new algorithm – the starting population size or the rate of mutation, for example – smoothed out a few wrinkles.

One male whose genes might have carried a particular mutation, for example, could have fathered dozens of children through multiple wives -- and had sons who in turn took multiple wives themselves and had equally big families.

This information can be crucial, because many pathogenic mutations – for example, mutated tumor suppressor genes – are not directly susceptible to targeted therapies.

This pathway-mapping approach has been applied to recent large-scale tumour-resequencing results, which, along with a list of mutations and mutated genes, has generated a list of pathways enriched in mutations (for example, see Ding et al, 2008).

Ashkenazi Jews are at particular risk of carrying Tay-Sachs mutations, for example.

The 15percentt of patients with certain high-risk mutations, for example, today get "targeted" medications that work better than chemo.

The expression level may depend on the differentiation of tumour, proliferation or gene mutations, for example, p5312.