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Meanings of gene in English

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Basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

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(Genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity.

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Usage of gene in English
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Bdelloid rotifers haven't seen a new gene combination in years-eighty-fivemillionyears.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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It will certainly speed up and help all future gene sequencing projects.
Wired
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Jake was one of 13 patients given pioneering gene therapy last year.
BBC
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However, no studies are available comparing these amplification events with gene expression.
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Possible contributors include multidrug resistance, extensive virulence gene content, and ongoing transmission.
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Results: Transduced gene products were detected up to day 12 after infection.
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Objective: To identify the pathogenic gene for a non-syndromic hearing loss family.
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Main outcome measures: Presence of the I1307K variant in the APC gene.
Pubmed
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However, known functional NFAT gene targets in vascular SMCs are currently limited.
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Despite several reports of linked loci, major gene identification has been elusive.
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Objective: To characterize the P. gingivalis gene products essential for these interactions.
Pubmed
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However, these gene-centered data are often deposited in diverse and non-interoperable stores.
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Therefore, PAX3 gene alterations are associated with two completely unrelated human diseases.
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Or they could potentially use gene drives to protect threatened species directly.
Wired
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Furthermore, neither individual gene probes nor gene networks predicted later neurocognitive change.
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However, the mechanisms regulating ABO gene expression in epithelial cells remain obscure.
Pubmed
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Gene through the time
Gene across language varieties
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