Multigene linkage studies are prone to false positive results, he said, which simply means that some gene markers crop up by chance and are not related to the disease that is being studied.

The fish also exhibited changed gene markers in their livers, indicating their entire physiology was affected.

In addition, the counselor recommended that Ellie undergo a vaginal ultrasound exam twice a year, and have a blood test for a gene marker called CA-125, to check for ovarian cancer.

However they used the same methodology (same gene markers) and same data samples like Arnaiz-Villena et al.

Nineteen tested positive for the Huntington's gene marker; 41 tested negative and 11 had test results that were inconclusive.

Purkinje-specific gene markers were also proposed by comparing the transcriptome of Purkinje-deficient mice with that of wild-type mice.

A study in Europe suggested that the gene marker is only relevant for East Asians.

The network could show researchers and physicians what treatments work for people with similar characteristics, ailments and, eventually, gene markers.

Each spectrum was specific, which is advantageous over fluorescence detection; some fluorescent markers overlap and interfere with other gene markers.

Using their own weighted combination of informative gene markers, they picked out 30 genes whose expression levels would be used to do a 2-way classification.