Sentences with phrase «behavioral geneticist»

In one study examining peer problems among three - year - olds, behavioral geneticists attributed 44 % of differences between children to heritability (Benish - Weisman et al 2010).

There's not enough evidence to say that, says behavioral geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the Laboratory of Comparative Behavioral Genomics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md..

That was the reasoning of behavioral geneticist Danielle M. Dick of Virginia Commonwealth University, who, with 13 other scientists from around the world, has been exploring a gene called CHRM2.

Scientists and religious believers share a «spirit of inquiry,» she said, quoting behavioral geneticist Lindon J. Eaves, an Anglican priest.

Most of the work initially focused on the genes that behavioral geneticists call the «usual suspects» — and it paid off.

Behavioral geneticist Per Jensen of Linköping University in Sweden is in the middle of a domestication redo.

The researchers» attempt to project evolution's direction is creative and ambitious, says behavioral geneticist Joseph Rodgers at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Longo also had taken note of a 1990 study by University of Colorado molecular behavioral geneticist Thomas Johnson, who found roundworms with a mutation that blocked a growth pathway similar to that identified in the dwarf yeast, causing them, too, to have an increased life span.

Due to the limitations of this approach, the new work also fails to provide what behavioral geneticists really crave: specific genes that might underlie homosexuality.

When the genetics of being gay comes up at scientific meetings, «sometimes even behavioral geneticists kind of wrinkle up their noses,» says Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

The combined database will allow scientists to puzzle out the genetic components of relatively rare conditions — such as Parkinson's disease or specific types of cancer — that affect only 1 % to 5 % of the population, comments behavioral geneticist Matthew McGue of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who is not directly involved in the consortium.

In 2000, behavioral geneticist Ulrike Heberlein of the University of California, San Francisco, found that mutations in a fruit fly gene that disrupts the synthesis of their version of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline dampen a fruit fly's ability to acquire tolerance to ethanol.

First, behavioral geneticists estimate that about 30 - 40 % of how we turn out is genetics.

In addition, links between parenting and behavior problems were largely nonshared — reinforcing the message from behavioral geneticists that parenting functions on a child - by - child rather than family - by - family basis.

In one study examining peer problems among three - year - olds, behavioral geneticists attributed 44 % of differences between children to heritability (Benish - Weisman et al 2010).

Lead author Per Jensen, a behavioral geneticist at Linköping University in Sweden, has long been fascinated by domestication, which Charles Darwin called a «case study» in evolution.

What's more, says John Crabbe, a behavioral geneticist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon who researches alcoholism in mice, just because an enrichment works for one type of disorder doesn't mean it should be applied to all.

«What's important to remember is that saying 31 percent of female orgasm that occurs during intercourse depends on genetics is also saying 69 percent isn't genetic,» says Khytam Dawood, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Chicago and author of one of the studies.

«There is a whole group of animal behaviorists who have been angry for years; you can just see it in their writing,» says Ray Coppinger, a behavioral geneticist at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.

«This is a very exciting paper,» says Matthew Keller, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Colorado in Boulder who was not involved with the work.

«It's a brilliant piece of work,» says Dean Hamer, a behavioral geneticist at the National Cancer Institute.

Robert Plomin, a behavioral geneticist at King's College London, adds that new research suggests humans with autism, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder tend to marry each other, and that the new method can explore whether those choices, too, are rooted in DNA.

The study is the first to establish a close link between epigenetic modifications on a cancer gene and the risk of developing the disease, says Robert Philibert, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Behavioral geneticists are discovering links between certain genes and impulsive behavior (Reif et al 2009).