Sentences with phrase «diluting effects of the genes»

Not exact matches

Since depression is thought to be like fever — a common set of symptoms likely rooted in multiple causes — lumping together genetic data from people with different underlying illness processes likely washed out, or statistically diluted, subtle evidence of effects caused by risk genes.

Time, experience, and science have demonstrated that those who repeat outcross breeding in an attempt to dilute the detrimental effects of the recessive genes might hide the carriers, but only temporarily.

Although the visual effect can be the same, it is easy to confuse this with the subtle hint of bronze (liver) that shows through in coats of some black dogs that carry an incompletely - masked recessive allele (one of the gene pair) for «a dilute» such as liver - chocolate.