Sentences with phrase «genetic component as»

«Friendliness» can be influenced by genes and, like people, cats will have a genetic component as to how they react to the world.

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

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The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

Almost as though there's a genetic component.

Although ACOG does not support planned home births given the published medical data, it emphasizes that women who decide to deliver at home should be offered standard components of prenatal care, including group B Strep screening and treatment, genetic screening, as well as HIV screening.

We suspect that he might have ADHD, but ADHD has a genetic component, and both his father and I have been diagnosed with the condition, as has his older brother.

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.

The genetic variants associated with asthma have also effects on autoimmune diseases and other diseases with an inflammatory component such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neuro - psychiatric diseases, which strengthens the importance of pleiotropy in multifactorial diseases.

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.

Silver - Russell syndrome had a genetic component, but the twins suggested that it wasn't a conventional hereditary disease, as identical twins carry carbon copies of each other's DNA.

The intestinal lining chip can be used for the testing of treatments for inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases with a genetic component, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

And as evidence mounts for genetic components to the physical and cognitive traits we consider desirable, «designer» babies are surely plausible.

There may be a genetic component to it — in which some people naturally have environments that harbor some species of bacteria over others — as well as environmental variables (diet, sexual behavior, contraception methods, hygiene, etc.).

People who identify as African American, for example, are as a group at higher risk for disorders that do have a genetic component, such as hypertension and diabetes.

The inherited component of breast cancer risk is due to a combination of rare variants in genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 that confer a high risk of the disease, and many commoner genetic variants that each confer only a small risk.

ASDs, which are marked by deficits in social interaction and language development, as well as by repetitive behaviors and / or restricted interests, are known to have a strong genetic component.

«Acute aortic dissections may be disguised as heart attacks, and we know that the genetic component of TAAD is strong — in about 20 % of patients, it is also found in family members.

Scientists looked at messenger RNAs, which carry genetic messages from DNA to help make proteins — long chains of amino acids that form structural components of body tissue such as muscle and hair.

Schizophrenia is a long - term mental disorder with a genetic component that involves abnormal interpretation of reality, which can manifest as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behavior.

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.

Although thought of as a psychological problem, the eating disorder anorexia nervosa often runs in families, suggesting that it has a genetic component.

Moreover, the ability to easily program sequence - specific DNA targeting and cleavage by CRISPR - Cas components, as demonstrated for Cas9 and Cpf1, allows for the application of CRISPR - Cas components as highly effective tools for genetic engineering and gene regulation in a wide range of eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

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

«It could be that as your brain is maturing, you become less susceptible to the addictive effects of nicotine because the genetic component that is influencing the way nicotine interacts with these receptors may have less effect,» says Chris Amos, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who wasn't involved in the study.

The findings have the potential to change how patients are treated for debilitating, inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases with a genetic component, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

As an accompaniying editorial in the NEJM points out, although BMD has long been known to have a signficant inherited component, these are the first validated and replicated genetic variants ever linked to BMD through a genome - wide scan of SNPs.

ChIP - Seq is a powerful tool to study genetic regulation, because it enables one to accurately identify regions of DNA bound by specific proteins, such as transcription factors or RNA Polymerase II components.

Just as flour, eggs and butter can be transformed into hundreds of different baked goods, genetic components can be assembled into many different configurations.

As a result, the misidentification of genetic variants associated to the Neolithic spread and the effect of post-Neolithic expansions in the genetic make - up of Europe could have introduced important biases in the estimations of the Neolithic component of the European gene pool producing misleading conclusions [22].

She examines how a mutation in the EZH2, a component of the epigenetic machinery, leads to Weaver syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by excessive skeletal and organ growth, as well as intellectual disability.

Furthermore, any continental genetic contribution from the Romano - British period would be factored into the assigned Anglo - Saxon component, as would a late Anglo - Saxon Scandinavian or Norman contribution.

Further, we identify cis - acting genetic variation as the greatest component influencing OSN composition and demonstrate independence from OR function.

A rainbow of produce: When you eat more foods that detoxify your body, such as cruciferous vegetables, fruits, and nuts, you turn on nutrigenomic pathways, or the interactions between your individual genetic makeup and dietary components that result in modulation of genetic expression.

I can imagine that many folks might imagine your weight is a result from eating «too much,» but I'm convinced there is something else going on, between your genes and genetic susceptibilities, along with perhaps some component of eating the «wrong» foods as a result of being told they were «right.»

I would not get too hooked up on the genetic component, as many very good bodybuilders started out with less than optimal genetics.

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.

So as you can see from its role in the cell's outer membrane, internal fluid, and genetic components, phosphorus is an essential part of the cell's design and it is a mineral that helps enable the cell's basic function.

Phosphorus is part of every human cell, most fluid balances throughout the body, core genetic processes (through its role as a component of RNA and DNA), and an extensive list of other processes central to our health.

I mentioned up top that there was also most certainly some genetic component to development of hip dysplasia, and that's certainly worth talking about because there might be some surprises there as well.

Breed specific behavioural traits such as hunting, herding and calmness / aggression are, however, evidence of a large genetic component and specific behaviours show high heritabilities [4 - 8].

In addition, there is likely an inherited genetic component in some breeds, such as the Cavalier King Charles spaniel, but the specific genetic evidence for the majority of cases of CVD is lacking.

A common disorder in brachycephalic breeds — those with «smushed» faces such as the English Bulldog, the Boston Terrier, the Pug, and the Pekingese — stenotic nares are genetic, caused by a malformation of the cartilage in the nose, and are a component of brachycephalic syndrome.

Dogs with Luxating Patella should not be bred as there is a genetic component to the condition.

There is likely a genetic component since they occur more frequently in certain dog breeds such as Boston Terriers, Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers.

While scientists now understand the genetic basis for moderately complex traits such as coat color and pattern, research in other species suggests that there is little or no significant genetic component to such indicators of performance as success in the show ring, The dog breeder, then, is often at a loss for accurate sources of information about performance traits he is interested in.

But there also are some breeds of cats that get diabetes more than others do, so that suggests there may be a genetic component involved as well.

While both genetics and environment influence behavior, studies have found that a limited list of behaviors such as territorial defense, playfulness and excitability, have a strong genetic component.

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

This is because canine behaviours are similar to complex diseases such as Hypothyroidism, where there are both environmental and multiple genetic components.

I, Cyborg is an exhibition about aesthetics as well — the body has always been a fascination for artists, but how does one address a body that is linked to a greater consciousness and is itself transforming physically through the addition of non-organic components as well as the intrusion of alternative genetic material?