Sentences with phrase «genetic components in»

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).

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.

Also, with many pets, the underlying causes can not be identified, and it is felt that there is a genetic component in most of these cases.

There also seems to be a genetic component in some cancers, because we've seen where some breeds seem more prone to cancers than others.

Primary glaucoma occurs in the absence of any other ocular disease, and, therefore, is presumed to have a genetic component in most breeds.

Not exact matches

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.

One's personality is shaped by a long series of input of facts, in addition to some genetic components.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic componenIn fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic componenin that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic componenin the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

A separate genetics adviser will review, support and identify potential linkages in the genetics component of methane mitigation, including genomics (work on recombinant DNA and gene sequencing) and genetic interaction with environment.

It's all a work in progress and even though research shows there are things you can do to help a kid be less picky (and research also shows there's genetic component to it all) nothing replaces the work of exposing kids in a pleasant atmosphere over the years.

Although it's been determined that a child's risk for allergies does have a genetic component, many studies have suggested that introducing allergens early on — along with other lifestyle choices — can actually help prevent allergies later in life.

In my family's case, our sensory processing difficulties have likely a genetic component.

«Now, using genomic methods that were not available 10 years ago, it appears that components made by the virus interact with human DNA in the places where the genetic risk of disease is increased,» Harley says.

«What is surprising is this guy represents one of the earliest Europeans, but at the same time he basically contains all the genetic components that you find in contemporary Europeans — at 37,000 years ago,» Willerslev says.

One high - profile recent study suggested that each genetic component entered Europe by way of a separate migration and that they only came together in most Europeans in the past 5000 years.

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 finding adds to evidence that the disorder has a genetic component, says Jessica Grisham at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Given the right building blocks, then, the formation of protocells does not seem that difficult: membranes self - assemble, genetic polymers self - assemble, and the two components can be brought together in a variety of ways, for example, if the membranes form around preexisting polymers.

The study, published in todays edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tracked 308 subjects older than 90 in an attempt to find a genetic component to longevity.

The approach makes use of available data to substantially improve the ability to identify genetic components of disease,» said Mark Johnston, Editor - in - Chief of the journal GENETICS.

The disease runs in families to some extent, so you know there's a genetic component.

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.

Steve: So when you see alcoholism in a cluster in a family group, that's a signal to you that even though there might be an environmental component, perhaps it's at least worth looking for a genetic component?

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.

«Virtually everything I study in twins has a genetic component.»

«ASD has an important genetic component, which should be diminishing over time due to this reduction in childbearing,» Risch said.

The findings are no surprise, says Virginia Sadock, director of the New York University Program in Human Sexuality: «People have different athletic abilities, different IQs... these things all have genetic components.

Set up in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the Registry of Standard Biological Parts was the first collection of genetic components to be made available.

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.

«In fact from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum some 19,000 years ago, its genetic component reappeared in SpaiIn fact from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum some 19,000 years ago, its genetic component reappeared in Spaiin Spain.

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.).

«Ancient genetic components of sex determination in ants.»

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.

Little has been known about the ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta cells strong.

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.

In June astrobiologists announced [pdf] they had found a key component of genetic material within a meteorite.

In collaboration with Timothy Holt, D.V.M., an internationally known expert on brisket disease at Colorado State University, the Vanderbilt group set out to identify a genetic component for this condition.

«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.

Like jewels in a vault, our precious genetic material is stored in the nucleus of a cell — sequestered away from potentially damaging cellular components and toxins so that no harm can come to it.

Although sheer luck no doubt plays a role, «there is also a striking family history that supports a genetic component,» says Nir Barzilai, a geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

«FAN1 interacts with many different components in the cell nucleus and might be implicated in more genetic processes than what we previously thought,» Smogorzewska says.

Although these diseases surely have genetic components, it is difficult to believe that genes could cause such a split in outcomes between the two groups.

Alan J. Higgins of Icoria, a company based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., that is applying its metabonomic technology to human health, explains that «metabono - mics gives you the functional component» that is not always evident from a genetic or protein analysis.

«If [the result] holds up in future studies, it suggests that there is a genetic component — and that a single gene contributes a great deal,» says Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

«We knew that the Yamnaya had this big genetic component that we couldn't place, and we can now see it was this ancient lineage hiding in the Caucasus during the last Ice Age,» said Manica.

Sequencing devices take long strings of a person's DNA and randomly chop them into small pieces that can be individually analyzed to determine their sequence of letters from the genetic code (A, C, G and T representing the four key components of DNA that code for protein production in living organisms: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine).

There's also a genetic component: The condition, which can occur at any age, often runs in families and specific gene variants have been linked to it.

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.

But efforts to construct large - scale genetic circuits in mammalian cells have largely failed: For complex circuits to work, the individual components — the turning on and off of different genes — must happen consistently.