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How are geneticists able to isolate gene functions?
As an example, this Scientific American article describes a known area in the dog genome that metabolizes carbohydrates.
How is it that researchers are able to determine specific functions such as ...
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How to map the Gene name to its Gene Symbol?
I am learning in Gene data lately so I apologize for the silly questions in advance. I read a paper for a cancer on human which found some important genes. For example, the paper listed one of genes ...
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Do antisense transcripts have different names than their sense strand transcripts?
I want to find which genes in the human genome can potentially be complementary to a transcript that could act as antisense transcript inhibtion? Are cis-NATs (naturally occuring anti-sense ...
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Does DNA contain information beyond protein synthesis?
It's well known that genetic information is stored in DNA. As far as I know, DNA only has information at the protein level. What about higher levels, such as organelles, cells, tissue, organs? Is ...
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Microbiome Data
How is it possible to access microbiome data like that found here? I'd like to perform analyses on similar type of data, but cannot find OTU data like that at the Human Biome Project. Thanks for any ...
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Which part of a female mantises's DNA causes her to be a few times larger than a male mantis?
Which part of a female mantises's DNA causes her to be a few times larger than a male mantis?
Do other species have that part of DNA?
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What is the relative power of GWAS studies in different species?
I would like to know of any publication studying the relative power of GWAS studies in different species. For example, I've seen reports that say genotyping and GWAS in dog breeds is much more ...
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Effect of single-gene overexpression in the cell's response
Which are the factors that modify the overall gene differential expression by introducing a vector for single-gene overexpression?
If you overexpress a gene for a protein involved in signal ...
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Are there differences in DNA between humans of today and humans from 2000 years ago?
Are there any significant differences in our genome compared to the genes of our ancestors from 1000-2000 years ago?
And if there are significant differences, do they result in significant ...
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Overlapping genetic information in eukaryotes
In my research, I look at a lot of gene predictions / annotations. Frequently, I see loci where multiple gene models overlap. I haven't taken a systematic approach to analyzing these cases, but I do ...
