“Microsatellite instability is defined as indel (insertion or deletion) mutations within the repetitive regions (microsatellite) in cancer cells by the inactivation of DNA mismatch repair proteins.“ Do you know? Introns […]
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“The low expressive MAOA gene variant is associated with extreme aggression and anger and, therefore, referred to as the Warrior gene. It is also involved in criminality and antisocial behavior.“
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“Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) is defined as the absence of one normal parental allele or gene (or part of the chromosome) in an organism which usually results in cancer.“ Like
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DNA supercoiling is a process to make DNA fit inside the cell nucleus and regulates transcriptional activities. But do you know it performs 5 other functions for a cell too?
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“Molecular phylogeny is a science to construct a phylogenetic tree by using the nucleic acid sequence information.” Phylogeny, a branch of genetics and/or evolutionary science, has a specialization in representing
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Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) gene forms the sonic hedgehog protein having a pivotal function in embryonic morphogenesis. Yesterday night I was watching a TV show on Sony BBC earth (the copyright
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