Two recessive genes known as p and v are responsible for this trait.
They also tended to occur at or near genes known to be important for learning, synapse transmission, and nervous system development.
The gene, known as dysbindin, may represent a different way of causing schizophrenia.
This gene, known as p14-arf, turns out to be mutated in many tumor cells.
He has also invested in rights to a gene, known as P53, that is at the heart of a wide variety of human cancers.
WNT3 is the only gene known to be associated with tetra-amelia syndrome.
With the cells identified, they looked into some of the antibacterial genes known to be expressed there.
The gene for the strange disease, known as ataxia telangiectasia, was discovered a year ago.
Another kind of physical damage to cells that can lead to cancer is a set of mutations in an important gene known as p53.
Cell division is usually controlled by genes known as suppressors.