Sentence examples for variants that help from inspiring English sources

Barely a week goes by without scientists announcing they have discovered genetic variants that help explain our differing traits and susceptibility to disease.

Now researchers have discovered two new gene variants that help Tibetans use oxygen more efficiently than people who live at low altitudes; natural selection favored these variants in Tibetans, whose ancestors have lived at high altitude for thousands of years.

For instance, researchers have identified dozens of variants that help confer resistance to malaria which kills many children that are becoming more common in African populations.

Genetic diversity is usually considered a good thing: the more a population has, the more likely individuals will have gene variants that will help them adapt better to new climates, diets, and life-threatening diseases, such as malaria or smallpox.

ISOpure is, however, currently unable to take advantage of data on somatic genetic variants that may help to distinguish reads from normal and tumor RNA.

Use of a whole-genome approach to assess the prevalence of genetic polymorphisms, including copy number variants, in the NHANES III DNA bank will be an important next step toward identifying genetic variants that can help to predict disease susceptibility and progression.

Due to the lack of genetic variants that could help determine the dose and clinical outcomes in NSCLC patients receiving gemcitabine chemotherapy, such biomarkers would be useful for doctors in treating patients more efficiently to achieve satisfactory clinical outcome and better survival.

They found 21 variants that seem to help female birds ages 11 days to 90 days old comparable scrub jays lacking those variants didn't live as long.

Other vaccine innovations are just over the horizon: multi-purpose vaccines that can thwart not just this season's flu but several different variants; improved adjuvants that help make vaccines even safer and more effective; and vaccines that can help the body thwart its own worst enemy, cancer.

Thus, if confirmed, this SNP together with further genetic variants that influence prognosis may help to improve treatment decisions in the future.

After November 2004, Myriad chose as it had every legal right to do to stop contributing data to public databases and now holds proprietary data on genetic variants of unknown significance that help decipher the clinical meaning of BRCA tests.