Sentence examples for prominent locus from inspiring English sources

ADAM17 is the most prominent locus showing signal of positive selection in the Tibetan yak [ 15].

For instance, the most prominent locus on SSC3 for LDL-C and TC was not identified by our previous QTL mapping.

The most prominent locus was detected on SSC3 for LDL-C and TC in the White Duroc × Erhualian F2 resource population and on SSC2 for LDL-C and TC in the Sutai pigs.

The vast majority (approximately 90%) of sequestered organic carbon accumulates on the continental margins, with deltaic environments and fjords as prominent loci of carbon burial (e.g. [22, 52]).

These prominent loci were associated with three growth traits and eight fatness traits (Table  1).

By using GWAS and haplotype-sharing analysis, we identified HMGA1 and PLAG1 as promising candidate genes at the prominent loci on SSC7 and SSC4, respectively.

To test why the prominent loci associated with fatness and growth traits on SSC2, 4, 7 and X that were identified in the intercross pigs are absent from Sutai pigs, we further examined the most significant locus on SSC7.

Consequently, the most prominent genetic locus co-segregating with Fusarium spreading resistance (quantitative trait locus, QTL) in wheat has been shown to co-localize with a QTL for increased ability to detoxify DON into nontoxic DON-3 O-glucoside (Lemmens et al., 2005).

A prominent noncoding locus (XLOC_025224) highly conserved across species is illustrated by the clustered alignment of several skin transcripts TCONS_00050997, TCONS_00050996, TCONS_00050998 and TCONS_00051000 (5925–6714 bp) on BTA29.

These pathological alterations in the human brain in TSC resemble "diffuse" changes involving the whole brain observed in animal models of TSC [ 28- 32] and thus may diminish critiques of these models based on the absence of prominent focal loci of aberrant brain architecture.

Our results support a prominent role for loci of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and loci of pseudogenes in the regulation of expression of coding genes in humans.