Sentences with phrase «genetic load»

All animals have a certain amount of genetic load, which is to say there is absolutely no animal without some genetic problem of some sort of another.

For example, if I know I have a high genetic loading for schizophrenia I can take care to not smoke cannabis, improve my coping skills and avoid severe stress.

• Neither the dispersiveness of soft skill reform efforts nor the high genetic loading of abstract soft skills argues against the importance of incorporating soft skills into the intentional mission of schools and classrooms.

This finding supports an earlier theory coined «the cost of domestication», which predicted increasing genetic loads in domesticates compared to their wild ancestors.

The researchers say this supports the «female protective effect» hypothesis because females with autism carry greater genetic load predisposing them to develop the condition, compared to males.

«It is remarkable that the spruce is doing so well despite this unnecessary genetic load,» says Professor Pär Ingvarsson at UPSC.

Only characteristics associated with a more severe form of depression, including an early age at onset, high symptom severity score and a high number of specific symptoms from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria, were associated with higher genetic load for the three psychiatric disorders.

That would mean that there is a genetic loading for things like anxiety disorders and depression, and a child may need the medication to counter it.

Because the data often reveal very early emerging traits in prehomosexuals, children who show pronounced sex - atypical behaviors may have more of a genetic loading to their homosexuality, whereas gay adults who were sex - typical as children might trace their homosexuality more directly to particular childhood experiences.

Children who show pronounced sex - atypical behaviors may have more of a genetic loading to their homosexuality.

For example, female fertility genes such as those recently identified in malarial mosquitoes [40] could be targeted by a genetic load daisy drive whose basal element is located on the Y chromosome or an equivalent male - specific locus (Supplementary Fig. 9).

But since we know that genetic factors contribute to divorce, family history gives us at least a rough guess about our genetic load.

What can we do in the meantime if we are interested in informally assessing our «genetic load» (or predisposition) for divorce?