Example sentences for: kaessmann

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  • Kaessmann plans to search his extensive database of retrocopies in the human genome for other functional genes that could, like GLUD2 , be implicated in brain evolution.

  • Because glutamate dehydrogenase recycles the neurotransmitter glutamate, the presence of GLUD2 may permit a higher neurotransmitter turnover and greater neuronal activity in hominoid brains than is possible in monkey brains, which lack GLUD2 , suggests Kaessmann.

  • Geneticist Henrik Kaessmann (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) studies the origin of new genes in primates, in particular genes that arise when a DNA copy of an mRNA transcribed from an existing gene is integrated back into the genome.

  • GLUD2 , which first appeared 18–23 million years ago in hominoids, probably immediately picked up a brain-specific promoter and then over the next few million years acquired two critical amino acid changes, explains Kaessmann.


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