Sentences with phrase «genetic study finds»

But a new genetic study finds that the ancestors of them all may have been domesticated in the same place: Central Asia.

Modern Jews may traditionally trace their ancestry to the Holy Land, but a new genetic study finds otherwise.

But don't be fooled: a 2006 genetic study found that more than 10 per cent of albatross chicks had a father that was not their mother's partner.

Study Finds Alzheimer's Disease Likely Not Caused by Low Body Mass Index May 9, 2017 A new large - scale genetic study found that low body mass index (BMI) is likely not a causal risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as earlier research had suggested...

In 2018, a genetic study found that just prior to 1859 a broadly distributed European herding dog had given rise to the German Shepherd, the French Berger Picard, and the five Italian herding breeds: Bergamasco Shepherd, Cane Paratore, Lupino del Gigante, Pastore d'Oropa, and the it: Cane da pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorai.

Not exact matches

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Nor is it to deny that Whitehead could find his way to new ideas while developing or giving expression to old Ones.5 But there is no reason to expect the dramatic shifts in metaphysical outlook or doctrine so often posited by Ford's genetic studies.6

A 2008 U.K. study found that contraceptives can make a woman desire the «wrong» man, a men whose genetic makeup is similar to hers when a better partner is one whose genetic makeup is different.

And a twin study — using the tools of behavioral genetics — found that genetic factors had a negligible impact on the development of theory of mind skills (Hughes et al 2005).

And when compared to the genetic contributions of the mother, older fathers are responsible for nearly all of a child's random genetic mutations: a father's age at conception may account for 97 % of the new, or de novo, mutations found in his offspring, according to the new study led by Augustine Kong at deCODE Genetics in Iceland.

A few studies found that the genetic changes in the skin caused by sun exposure are different in young children from those in adults.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

This method has been applied in two studies and both found evidence for substantial genetic influence for high intelligence, one in middle childhood (Plomin & Thompson, 1993) and one in older adults (Saudino, Plomin, Pedersen, & McClearn, 1994).

«Genetic heart diseases cause fewer SIDS deaths than previously thought, study finds.»

The genetic admixture appeared in an individual found in Siberia, but not in the European Neanderthals also analyzed in the study.

A large - scale genetic study published in The Lancet in 2012 found no relationship between gene variants that increased HDL and the likelihood of heart attack (though this research did not evaluate the SCARB1 variants).

«Putting the genetic and drug study findings together suggests pretty strongly to me that we've been barking up the wrong tree with the HDL cholesterol story for the last 30 years.»

In October, a separate study of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of the remains of two Alaskan children, dated to 11,500 years ago, revealed that one child had a rare genetic signature found on the southern edge of Siberia.

The genetic studies provide greater context for archaeological evidence found in the Americas: The research shows that the incredible diversity of cultures and languages among the native people of the Americas developed in place.

Although unique genetic variations in children with autism are nearly as rare as they are in the general population, comprehensive studies are starting to find patterns in disrupted genes and pathways

But despite artificial influences the study found genetic differences between humans are what continue to fuel evolution.

A major finding of this study is that the genetic loci associated with asthma are enriched in epigenetic marks characterizing gene enhancers.

The authors found that the genetic basis that is shared between the studied reproductive traits and longevity did not change over time.

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.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Past studies have found IDH mutations to be among the most common genetic differences seen in patients with iCCA, but how they contribute to cancer development was unknown going into the current effort.

«The genetic correction doesn't increase the number of genetic anomalies that you can find in iPS cells,» says Ludovic Vallier, a stem - cell biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the study's co-authors.

Genetic evidence of that mixing was found in a new study.

David Anthony, an anthropologist at Hartwick College, who co-authored several of the earlier genetic studies but was not involved in the latest work, calls the new findings very convincing.

In a second study, (abstract 2.348) researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center find that genetic mutations altering the transmission of electrical impulses in the heart and brain may raise the risk of SUDEP in people.

«Mechanistic finding may help develop treatment for Ice Bucket Challenge disease: Study blames a fault in the cell's machine that cuts and pastes genetic instructions for a deadly motor neuron disease.»

For instance, one study found that Icelandic girls with two genetic letter Ts at a spot near LIN28B experience menarche 2.4 months earlier, on average, than girls with two Cs at that site.

The HIV virus was in the US in the 1970s before it triggered the nation's AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, a new genetic study has found

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

The study found that zebrafish that failed to inherit specific genetic instructions from mom developed fatal defects earlier in development, even if the fish could make their own version of the gene.

«Study of complex genetic region finds hidden role of NCF1 in multiple autoimmune diseases.»

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center hope to improve NSCLC patient survival with the results of a study that found that inherited genetic variations in interleukin genes are associated with improved patient survival and response to therapy.

Evidence includes: «moderate genetic influences demonstrated in well - sampled twin studies; the cross-culturally robust fraternal - birth - order effect on male sexual orientation; and the finding that when infant boys are surgically and socially «changed» into girls, their eventual sexual orientation is unchanged (i.e., they remain sexually attracted to females).

A large - scale genetic study of the links between telomere length and risk for five common cancers finds that long telomeres are associated with an increased risk of lung adenocarcinoma.

Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk - associated with disease than protective.

In genetic studies conducted by gene researchers at the University of Helsinki, the gene defect causing the disease was found in the COL7A1 gene.

Between specimens, there was significant variation found within the TcI clade — some Tc1 strains were very different, at a genetic level, from other Tc1 strains studied.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

«We found genetic alterations in brain metastases that could affect treatment decisions in more than half of the patients in our study,» Dr Brastianos will say.

Currently only a handful of known genetic mutations have been found to account for about 10 percent of glaucoma, says Liu, corresponding author of the study in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

The largest of its kind, the study examined genetic data in 100,000 individuals including 40,000 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and also found that some of the genes identified as increasing risk for schizophrenia have previously been associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

Both studies found the genetic influence differed depending on context: 31 to 34 percent for orgasm through intercourse and 45 to 51 percent for orgasm through masturbation.

Some scientists studying the genetic makeup of the West African Ebola strain were slow to share their data with others, perhaps fearful that they would lose their right to publish their findings in a major scientific journal.

In addition, it's been difficult to repeat the findings from individual genetic studies — partly, researchers think, because autism is so variable and may really be many different diseases.

The team also examined data from a prior genetic study of children with asthma and found that a variant of the dectin - 1 gene — which reduces production of the receptor — is strongly linked to increased asthma risk.