functional
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Children of mothers with untreated depression had a higher risk of developing digestive conditions, including nausea and vomiting, functional constipation, colic, and irritable bowel syndrome.
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The team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper demonstrated that this fragment is essential, as microglia only responded when it was intact and functional.
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"One can for example add functional groups on the surface or substitute specific nitrogen or carbon atoms with oxygen or phosphorus atoms."
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That means it can modify one region of a molecule while leaving other functional groups untouched.
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This has enriched rare functional variation, including recessive disorders and homozygous loss-of-function mutations, or “human knockouts.”
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