Sentences with phrase «gene families between»

Significant TIGRFAM gene families between the sites up and downstream from the Indian treatment plant.

Significant TIGRFAM gene families between the Indian downstream sites and the sites up and downstream from the Swedish treatment plant.

Not exact matches

No doubt ideas of kin altruism (the mutual support extended between those who share in the family gene pool) and reciprocal altruism (favors done in the expectation of favors later to be received) shed some Darwinian light on aspects of human behavior.

Marriage and sexual union within marriage are a part of the essence of human nature, and the connection between genes, gestation and family life should not be broken.

The study found that in the 18th and 19th centuries, about four to 18 per cent of the variation between individuals in lifespan, family size and ages at first and last birth was influenced by genes, while the rest of the variation was driven by differences in various aspects of their environment.

Links between inherited genes, environment and violence are already bolstered by family histories and twin studies, she says.

The goal now is «to find the subtle genetic differences between individuals in the genes or families of genes associated with longevity,» says Judith Campisi, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

They focused on adoptive families to limit the possibility that shared genes contributed to links between parents» symptoms of depression and children's outcomes, and to isolate more fully the environmental impact of being raised by a depressed parent.

The individual human RMs provide a baseline for comparing and contrasting genes from distinctly different lineages while the Ashkenazic trio set aids the analysis of genetic links between family members.

She studies how genetic factors correlate with disease in populations, as well as looking for links between genes and disease predisposition in families.

The gene is located on chromosome 1, an area that's been scrutinized for prostate cancer genes since 1996, when family studies revealed a link between a region of that chromosome and the disease (ScienceNOW, 21 November 1996).

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

The Arizona researchers studied whether cage conditions affect mice with one copy of a gene called fibulin - 4, a member of a family of genes believed to code for proteins that stabilize the connective tissue found between cells in arteries and other blood vessels.

The backstory here is that whole families of proteins intervene between auxin and genes that respond to auxin by making proteins.

The results showed a correlation between changes in his brain and alterations in the expression of many families of genes in his blood.

They analysed relationships between bats, the exact composition of the MHC genes as well as the molecular structure of three olfactory receptor gene families: TAAR2, TAAR3 and TAAR8.

Furthermore, recombination between duplicated sequences introduces structural variation into the human genome and facilitates the formation of clustered gene families.

Today, science has evolved to the mapping of gene families, and to the systematic determination of the interactions between gene products.

The most notable expansion was in the protocadherins, a family of genes that regulate neuronal development and short - range interactions between neurons.

Most of these are shared between the two species, but some appear to be expanding or contracting, and there seem to be as many as several hundred novel C. briggsae gene families.

The SNP is in the gene encoding claudin 14 (CLDN14), a protein expressed in the kidney and one of a family of membrane proteins that regulate the passage of ions and small solutes between cells.

The strongest link between having a mutation in this particular gene in the family and having multiple family members with melanoma, early onset, and so forth, was in Europe followed by North America and then Australia.

By comparing the correlations of Grit - S and Big Five scores between identical twins (who share the same family environment and 100 percent of their genes) and fraternal twins (who share the same family environment but only 50 percent of their genes) estimates of genetic vs. shared environment contributions can be derived.

Now, while the new E-Class» design is quite different from the S - Class, it shares the genes from the family and as such will fit right between the S - Class and the C - Class.

In an adoption study using within - rather than between - family comparisons, Plomin, DeFries, and Fulker (1988) performed hundreds of analyses in a search for significant gene - environment interactions and found only about as many as would be expected by chance.

The second problem is that the environmental factors examined in the studies usually cited as evidence for gene - environment interactions — for example, high family conflict (Bergeman, Plomin, McClearn, Pedersen, & Friberg, 1988), low socioeconomic status (Cloninger, Sigvardsson, Bohman, & von Knorring, 1982), or criminal parents (Mednick, Gabrielli, & Hutchings, 1987)-- can not account for differences between siblings reared together.

Moreover, a very important, but difficult to test, alternative explanation for many of the ACE Study findings is that inherited genes for health problems or some temperamental qualities create a spurious connection between abuse and neglect by parents or other family context variables and mental and physical health conditions in their offspring.

Association between the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (AVPR1a) gene and autism in a family - based study: Mediation by socialization skills

Although an interaction was established between the type of care (institutional vs. family) and genetic moderation factors, with a protective factor of the 5HTT / allele genotype for high scores on attachment disorganisation in institutionalized children, the authors noted that it is not clear if genetic factors can protect some children in adverse environments or if the experience of being raised in these environments can alter the expression of the gene.