Sentences with phrase «heritable factors»

While there is a strong heritable factor in the disease, it's not yet certain which combination of genetic aberrations trigger the disease — or cause it, in the words of one authority, after being «expressed only under the appropriate environmental insults.»

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

I explain to my students that evolution is a process that follows many rules, foremost among them that certain random changes in heritable factors provide their possessors with advantages in coping with an ever - changing environment.

It is proposed that early and later social experience as well as heritable factors determine social bonding abilities in adulthood, although the relative influence of each is unclear.

To date, we have taken several approaches to identify how heritable factors influence hemangiosarcoma risk.

[19] Biological evidence also supports the validity of the internalizing - externalizing structure of mental disorders, with twin and adoption studies supporting heritable factors for externalizing and internalizing disorders.

Studying the two different types of twins allowed researchers to estimate the relative influence of three different factors on twins» trust and distrust trust behaviors: heritable factors — that is, genetic influences; shared environmental factors — that is, common experiences of growing up in the same family and interacting with the same immediate peers; and unshared environmental factors — or the siblings» unique experiences in life.