Sentences with phrase «heritable variation»

A unifying theme in their research is that the human is the most complex, fascinating and important system in which one can study the effects of heritable variation.

Heritable variations in gray matter concentration as a potential endophenotype for psychopathic traits

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Using these images and 20 years of genetic parentage data, the researchers assessed whether the variation in red ornaments influenced fecundity — that is they produced more offspring — and is heritable in male and female rhesus macaques, two necessary conditions for the trait to be considered under sexual selection.

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.

There is just one underlying algorithm at work in Avida, the basic evolutionary law of natural selection of heritable random variation.

The information is heritable and coded in such a way as to allow variation and thus evolution.»

Heritable genetic variation is the result of genome instability during germ cell development, instability that arises through mutation, chromosome rearrangement or chromosome mis - segregation during mitosis or meiosis.

Genetic architecture describes the characteristics of genetic variation that are responsible for heritable phenotypic variability.