Sentences with phrase «genetic component»

Other students of twins have found strong genetic components of behavior, personality, and intelligence.

I can not blame this situation entirely as there is a strong genetic component as well.

A good breeder knows the history of the breed, the importance of genetic components in breeding, and the overall quirks and characteristics of the breed.

The study also showed that the percentage of individuals with an identified genetic component increased as cholesterol levels in the patient increased.

Researchers have established a strong genetic component for addictive behaviors through studying animal models, including laboratory mice.

Some breeds, such as the golden retriever, are more likely to be affected, indicating a likely genetic component to the development of lymphoma.

Sometimes a family history is a signal that there's an underlying genetic component to ovarian cancer.

Other diseases with a more complex genetic component include diabetes and epilepsy.

, the rank ordering of individuals from high to low will have a substantial genetic component whereas the influence of the shared family or school environment will be weak.

If there is a suspected genetic component, there are inexpensive genetic tests which can be taken to rule out known genetic disorders.

Despite their shared genetic component, identical multiples are unique individuals.

An RNA - driven origin of life at or below freezing is much more likely, researchers maintain, unless different and more heat - tolerant genetic components were involved.

Another reason to consider personal genomic sequencing is if a disease with a potential genetic component is present in other family members.

Some diseases have very strong genetic components that will be expressed no matter how healthy one lives.

This is usually a result of poor socialization when they are young, although there is an underlying genetic component to this trait.

Although training may play a role in causing fiber type shifts, there is likely a large genetic component in the determination of fiber type (possibly including the ACTN3 R allele).

Now, in an article in Stem Cells, they report their findings; their determination of the DNA methylation patterns of bCSCs has uncovered important genetic components controlling bCSCs, which impact on the aggressivity and therefore the prognosis for the patient [3].

While actual cryopreservation costs may be lower, e.g. if sperm cryopreservation is possible, the higher figure represents costs that could be incurred with a line that has poor breeding characteristics or complex genetic components requiring embryo cryopreservation and complex genotyping assay validation and testing.

Although epidemiological studies indicate that genetic components contribute to BD development, several genome - wide association studies (GWASs) identified limited number of susceptibility (risk) genes for BD, most of which are yet unidentified.

Jenny believes that her childhood experiences and her mother's mental health issues predisposed her to psychosis — perhaps not surprisingly, because there is a known genetic component.

Not only is Internet addiction a legitimate compulsion, it may have the same genetic component as nicotine addiction, a new...

By uncovering these hidden variations, researchers should be able to better explain the hard - to - find genetic components of diseases such as mental illnesses, says Randy Jirtle, an epigeneticist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Misato O. Miyakawa, a former post-doc at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Professor Alexander S. Mikheyev, leader of the Ecology and Evolution Unit have discovered the two ancient genetic components of sex determination in ants.

The Caucasus hunter - gatherer ancestry is the best match we've found for the European genetic component found right across modern Indian populations,» Jones said.

It's the first time researchers have pinpointed a specific genetic component with the spectrum of disorders, which includes Asperger's.

Several new screening technologies in the pipeline may help detect ovarian cancer in earlier — and potentially more treatable — stages, but «in order to validate these technologies and know that they work, we need to know who, from genetic components and environmental factors, is likely to be at an increased risk,» Whittemore says.

Researchers are investigating a possible genetic component and many people suffering from a BFRB have a parent who has the same condition or an anxiety disorder.

According to the school reading specialist there is a technical name for it, but I can't remember it (and probably couldn't spell it even if I could But anyway, it has a huge genetic component supposedly, so that's my excuse now.

As researchers recently sequenced the genomes of more than a dozen ancient members of our species, Homo sapiens, in Europe and Asia in rapid succession, they added a third genetic component: a «ghost» lineage of nomads who blew into northeast Europe from the steppes of western Asia 4000 to 5000 years ago.

Sturm has recently shown that the OCA2 gene itself is influenced by other genetic components.

Working with an international group of scientists from Cardiff University, Stanford University and Duke University in addition to screening post-mortem brain samples from the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the scientists are the first to identify a molecular genetic component of the blood brain barrier with the development of schizophrenia.

Few diseases have strong enough genetic components to make sequencing a solid way to assess individual risk

They bind to genetic components called RNA and target them for destruction.

In a new article in Nature Communications, University of Illinois researchers describe how their successful integration of several cutting - edge technologies — creation of standardized genetic components, implementation of customizable genome editing tools, and large - scale automation of molecular biology laboratory tasks — will enhance our ability to work with yeast.

Many of these highly conserved genetic components appear to help control traits as cis - regulatory elements.

They then made further modifications to create genetic components or «BioBricks» that can be inserted into a genome.

Soong threw himself into the work of breaking down a retrovirus — the Mason — Pfizer monkey virus — into its major genetic components to see which parts were necessary to create an intact virus.

Researchers may soon learn whether endowing living things with extra genetic components might make them more fit and useful — or more vulnerable to errors.

Modern Iberians mostly derive from these farmers, but Sardinians and Basques are the current populations that preserve the farming genetic component to a larger extent.

Dr. Elizabeth Samelson, Associate Scientist, Institute for Aging Research, and Principal Investigator of the study, explains, «The commentary highlights our main finding that the excessive forward curvature, or hyperkyphosis, has a relatively high genetic component that is not explained by the presence of vertebral fractures.»

This suggests that the genetic control of male courtship is an evolving system, which can recruit new genetic components and change courtship behaviors.»

4/17/2007 Twin Studies Reveal Genetic Components Leading To Cardiac and Kidney Disease Studies may point to new drug targets for heritable conditions Daniel O'Connor, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has studied about 265 twin pairs over the past few year... More...

While at Scripps, Dr. Murray directed a high - throughput genotyping and sequencing laboratory aimed at discovering genetic components of various diseases and health, and determining risk profiles based on combinations of specific risk alleles in large prospective studies.

Diets that claim to treat immune disease through restriction should be viewed with caution, as there may be individual genetic components, food allergies, and mineral deficiencies that are being overlooked.

If you've got high blood pressure, it's most likely — again, there's obviously a very small genetic component, but in most cases it's because you might be smoking, you're eating a lot of processed, garbage foods, and those are the big culprits of high blood pressure.

This eye disease has different genetic components.