Sentences with phrase «explained by genes»

Although not as widely publicized, it is the belief of the author that these same researchers also believe that environmental factors account for what can not be explained by genes.

It's expected to overtake cardiovascular disease as the number one cause of death in the U.S. fairly soon, and so that can't be explained by genes alone.

Swift maintains that evolution occurs, but is limited; that many cases of evolution of species have been observed, but these can be explained by gene segregation guided by natural selection.

«It's difficult to explain by genes, and it's certainly difficult to explain by bad mothers.»

Not exact matches

As the video explains, these traits are due to the tiny molecular machines in our cells known as proteins, which are encoded by bits of DNA called genes.

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Mostly they are optimists, excited by the latest findings: the newly isolated gene variant that may help explain schizophrenia, the new telescopic images that reveal the violent births of distant....

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

So no, such a scenario does not refute evolution, but can be explained only by evolution, once we understand that the relation ship of genes to traits is not one to one, but many to many.

Scientists are more comfortable when they can explain apparently purposeful behavior by instincts that are physically rooted in neuronal structures and genes.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

SCIENCE explains that disease is caused by germs and gene mutations.

We need directly to challenge the relentless reduction of the latter to the former, through which, for instance, human consciousness of right and wrong is explained by hormones and genes.

Researchers said clinical evidence shows that up to 35 % of children with food allergies have atopic dermatitis, much of which is explained by at least three different gene mutations that reduce the skin barrier.

A rare condition that causes a person be born without fingerprints can now be explained by a mutation in a single gene, a new analysis suggests

The team found particular fat - metabolizing genes in carnivores such as cats and tigers that changed faster than can be explained by chance.

1) That while it's possible that genes may play some role in explaining these differences, much of it comes down to culture, environment, and the fact that the questions on IQ tests are all written by graduate students from Connecticut and begin, «Teddy leaves Sag Harbor on the brunchtime jitney...»

As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.

In patients with anorexia nervosa, the study indicates that the increase in sweating experienced when viewing images of thin bodies is explained by the presence of a specific form (allele) of the gene in question.

«By analyzing the blood of children of controls and comparing it to children of bipolar patients, we identified several genes or markers that can explain the increased risk.»

Furthermore, genes are reliably passed from one generation to another: Schrödinger explained to his audience that a well - known characteristic such as the Hapsburg, or Habsburg, lip — the protruding lower jaw shown by members of the House of Hapsburg — can be tracked over hundreds of years, without apparently changing.

«One of the ways SUMO does this is by promoting the binding of Tup1 to active genes, which then acts to reduce their expression to appropriate levels,» explains Rosonina, in the Faculty of Science at York U.

For instance, the theory of kin selection — helping your relatives so your genes will be reproduced — can be illustrated by a formula called «Hamilton's rule,» which explains when a behavior or trait will be favored by natural selection.

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

That is easy to explain by a feature that we now recognize as universal: the plasticity of expression of single genes.

Farming had already been established in Africa by this time, but the newcomers likely had some advantage that explains why their genes spread.

Belyaev tried to explain the star markings by postulating a star gene.

I was amused by the subtle genetic mechanisms invoked to explain the lack of genes from Neanderthals» Y chromosomes in...

One general benefit of the RNAi approach, Zhang says, is that researchers can selectively target specific insect pests by targeting species - specific gene sequences; this avoids the blanket destruction of other insect species seen with many insecticides, he explains.

«Their genomes are necessary to fill the gap in our understanding of the genes shared by the common ancestor of all deuterostomes,» explains Dr Oleg Simakov, lead author of this study.

This difference was caused by methylation of a gene for a stress receptor, explained Fernald, the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology.

The only way to explain this is by gene exchange,» Reich says.

«Since our study only looked at common gene variants, the total genetic overlap between the disorders is likely higher,» explained Naomi Wray, Ph.D., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, who co-led the multi-site study by the Cross Disorders Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), which is supported by the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Kapahi said this research could help explain why scientists are having a difficult time identifying single genes responsible for the long lives experienced by human centenarians.

Interestingly, while viruses certainly have the ability to edit human DNA — most obviously by inserting their own genetic code into DNA so that the new viruses are built alongside DNA replication — the review article explains that viruses do not necessarily turn off the immune system by editing genes.

However, the pattern of sponging among the dolphins could not be explained by a «gene for sponging» — the trait's pattern of inheritance just did not fit.

«If you, by chance, inherit the risk version of this gene from your mother, then you're at higher risk for type 2 diabetes,» explained researcher Mete Civelek, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

This interaction is explained by divergent evolution occurring among paralogs of an essential duplicate gene, for which the functional copy is not located at the same locus in different accessions.

In 2008, Dr. Côté's team explained the role of the DOCK1 and DOCK5 genes in the development of muscle tissue by showing that these two genes were critical regulators of the fusion process in mice.

In addition, effects of smoking during pregnancy on infant cortisol and stress response were explained by alterations in DNA for a gene that regulates passage of cortisol from mother to fetus.

Their strategy, Keller explains, was to determine whether a group of genes in this area maintained its integrity by avoiding what's called recombination.

«Our studies clearly show that widespread species have a much more diverse intraspecific gene pool than species that are adapted to a specific habitat,» explains Dr. Jan Christian Habel of the Technical University in Munich, and he continues, «Once these animals — due to the fragmentation of their habitats — lose the opportunity to maintain this genetic diversity by means of exchange, they will no longer be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the future.»

The convergence of several factors explains the trend: cheaper genetic sequencing technologies, the discovery of new oncogenes (genes that can cause a normal cell to become cancerous), a new generation of computers and bioinformatics that can analyze vast amounts of data, and a multibillion - dollar effort by researchers inside and outside the pharma industry to develop targeted drugs and companion diagnostics for cancer.

Although another recent study found that a single gene mutation heightened the risk of obesity by up to 67 percent, genetics can not explain the skyrocketing obesity trend.

«The pygmies» size can't be explained by one or two height genes» she says.

«This study gives a glimpse into the mechanism by which different mutations within the same gene can cause distinct defects in the brain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the study.

As finally explained by William Hamilton, also at the University of Oxford, an animal will make some effort to look after its own relatives, because those relatives contain a proportion of genes that are the same as its own.

So that explains why genes look so feeble in twin studies, because their potency is masked by the fact that they are correlated with genetic differences.

It could also explain why previous studies, including several by Jorde's team, haven't noticed these genes before.

As this gene has previously been associated with kidney cancer and obesity risk, the results suggest this association may be partially explained by exposure to meat - cooking mutagens.