The underlying genes responsible for defensin production are highly polymorphic.

The idea stems from research done in the 1970s to treat human diseases by fixing the underlying genes.

Both the structure of this enzyme and its underlying gene are remarkably similar in all known forms of life.

But that adaptation has come without any obvious changes in the underlying genes, which get edited on their way to making proteins, instead.

Most geneticists agree with the Howard researchers that the underlying genes, not race as such, is what is important for understanding disease.

The ultimate goal of the modern genetic studies is to find out the underlying genes involved in these traits.

The underlying genes are then silenced because the cell's gene-copying machinery cannot access them.

Of the 1,129 sequences, 941 alignments yield the same exon-intron structure for the underlying gene.

Detection of the underlying genes is difficult because each seems to have only a small effect on the risk of getting the disease.