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And Schafer warns of new social divisions: in addition to haves and have-nots, we will have the gene-rich and the gene-poor.
BRAVE NEW MONKEY 2008
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On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the gene-rich and the gene-poor - Huxley's alphas and epsilons - and busily engaging in schemes for genetic enhancement and - to go one better than Brave New World - for immortality.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Chromosome 19 is gene-dense (20.3 genes/Mb) and has high GC content (48. 4%), whereas chromosome 18 is gene-poor
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010
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Not so long ago, the difficult-to-sequence, highly repetitive, gene-poor DNA found in regions of chr ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Not so long ago, the difficult-to-sequence, highly repetitive, gene-poor DNA found in regions of chr ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Not so long ago, the difficult-to-sequence, highly repetitive, gene-poor DNA found in regions of chr ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Chromosomes snake in and out of the two compartments repeatedly as their DNA alternates between active, gene-rich and inactive, gene-poor stretches.
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Consistent with this hypothesis, Bayes found that Odysseus proteins localize to heterochromatic DNA found next to centromeres and on gene-poor chromosomes, which leads to their decondensation.
unknown title 2009
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New research into this field by basic scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published online Oct. 22 in Science Express, suggests that the solution to this problem lies within the "dark matter of the genome": heterochromatin, a tightly packed, gene-poor compartment of DNA found within the genomes of all nucleated cells.
unknown title 2009
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Chromosomes snake in and out of the two compartments repeatedly as their DNA alternates between active, gene-rich and inactive, gene-poor stretches.
innovations-report 2009
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