X-Nico

unusual facts about genetic research



German Resource Center for Genome Research

The German Resource Center for Genome Research (RZPD, Resourcenzentrum Primärdatenbank) was a service center for gen and genome research in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Heidelberg.


see also

Ceph

Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH (Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain in French), an international genetic research center

Cheetah reintroduction in India

Stephen J O'Brien, world's leading conservation geneticist and Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, has clarified that there is no significant genetic difference between the African and the Iran's Asiatic cheetah, as per genetic research carried out by him African and Indian cheetahs were only separated just some 5,000 years ago which is not enough for a sub-species level differentiation.

Geneforum

Geneforum was established to ensure that the decisions about genetic research are informed by public values.

As a result, citizens are better able to understand and make informed decisions about the complex social and ethical dimensions of genetic research.

Leitneria

In the past, it was treated as the only species in the family Leitneriaceae of the order Leitneriales, but genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has recently resulted in its being transferred to the family Simaroubaceae in the Sapindales.

Monotropaceae

Recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has however demonstrated that these genera are better placed in the blueberry family, the Ericaceae, in which they are now treated as a subfamily, the Monotropoidiae.

Pyrolaceae

Recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has however demonstrated that these genera are all better placed in the family Ericaceae.

Young–Madders syndrome

Later research showed that the condition could manifest in patients with normal karyotypes, without duplication of the chromosomes, and the most recent genetic research implicates problems with the gene code FBXW11 as a likely cause.