Sentence examples for mutations or a from inspiring English sources
MtDNA is purely maternally inherited and since it is present in multiple copies, patients can either have all mutated mtDNA (homoplasmic mutations) or a mixture of mutated and wild-type mtDNA (heteroplasmic mutations).
The study on the new test was conducted in women who were at high risk for ovarian cancer because they had genetic mutations or a family history of the disease.
Such advice does not apply to women who have genetic mutations or a family history that puts them at high risk or to women who have suspicious symptoms, like persistent bloating and pelvic or abdominal pain, symptoms that are not unique to ovarian cancer.
Molecular clones of vaccine candidates were constructed by inserting either three independently attenuating mutations or a PE2 cleavage-signal mutation with a second-site resuscitating mutation into full-length cDNA clones.
If a man has certain gene mutations or a family history of breast cancer, screening may increase the chances of early detection and successful treatment, according to the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Where possible, loci were tested with multiple point mutations or a combination of point mutations and deficiencies.
Notably, familial analysis demonstrated de novo mutations or an imprinted mode of inheritance, exclusively with maternal transmission of the mutation.
Citizens born after the Blast exist on a diet of mice and "worrums" and bear frightening mutations, or "Consequences" — a tail, a single eye, a head covered with fringed red coxcombs.
Because each parent, as a silent carrier, contributes one mutated gene, many children with the disease have two separate defects — for example, a misshapen CFTR mutation and a nonsense mutation, or a misshapen CFTR and a rusty-gate type of mutation.
Each mutation or a combination of these mutations increased the virulence of H9N2 virus in chickens and mice (Sun et al., 2013b).
We used DNA sequencing to investigate the possibility that the unexpected constitutive flocculent phenotype resulted from either a mutation or a deletion in the pEPG1 promoter.
