Genetic variants of the FTO Gene associated with obesity-related traits. For many years, the obesity epidemic has placed a substantial burden upon health care system of developed countries. Recent studies conducted by Scuteri. Several Different Species of Killer Whales Likely.

Select a topic involving recent advances in genetics of interest to you that you wish to share with your classmates. Thursday, November 3, 2011. AC5 KO Mice Live Longer. The idea of immortality has always had an immense appeal for humans. Vatner, Junichi Sadoshima and other colleagues from the New Jersey Medical School have made a discovery which may take humans one step closer to such a concept. As mentioned earlier, AC5 .

It was not until the 1970s when gene sequencing became refined enough to shed light on molecular pleiotropic mechanisms. Current research has explored two questions; how extensive is pleiotropy in the genome and how do common mechanisms of pleiotropy work? Antagonistic pleiotropy is a reason an organism can never reach perfection in its environment. If a gene is pleiotropic and selection favours high expression for one trait and low expression for a different trait then a c.

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