Sentences with phrase «highly heritable»

It is well established that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a familial and highly heritable disorder [36].

Childhood hyperactivity scores are highly heritable and show sibling competition effects: twin study evidence

Childhood antisocial behaviour problems characterised by high levels of CU traits have been found to be highly heritable [3], [4].

These five factors have been observed cross-culturally [88 — 90] and are highly heritable, genetically polymorphic and normally distributed [91].

ADHD is highly heritable; therefore parents of children with ADHD may also display ADHD symptoms (e.g. Thapar et al. 2007).

This clustering of high externalizing behavior problems within individuals with SUD is sometimes referred to as behavioral disinhibition (BD), a highly heritable (h2 > 0.8) latent trait [11,14, 19, 28] which has a strong genetic correlation with laboratory - measured problems of executive control [29].

This and other reviews [21, 26, 46, 72, 79] clearly demonstrate that CU traits are highly heritable, that a timely identification is possible, since early years, and that they are associated with identifiable environmental risk factors.

Biometric analyses showed that these multi-source measures of childhood impulsivity and inattention were highly heritable, with genetic variance accounting for 70 - 80 % of the phenotypic variance in many of the models.

I described research indicating that such patterns of behavior are highly heritable, i.e., genetically determined, and concluded that schools that intend to improve student outcomes by trying to change student personality traits are barking up the wrong tree.

Shared environmental factors were generally not influential, and nonshared environmental effects were stronger for males than for females for inattention / impulsivity These results suggest that impulsivity and inattention during this period of childhood are (1) clearly related to concurrent aggressive / defiant symptoms; (2) multidimensional, with influences of method of assessment on outcome; and (3) highly heritable, with possible gender differences in the strength of genetic effects.

Some argue that you can, while others maintain that many of these skills are highly heritable.

Callous - unemotional traits are highly heritable [161], expressed as early as at two years of age [162] and are predictive of the most severe and persistent variant of conduct disorder [163,164].

Attention problems seem to be highly heritable (Smith et al 2009).

It is well established that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a familial and highly heritable disorder5

Adolescent conduct disorder (CD) and adult antisocial behavior are highly heritable phenotypes.

For me the scientist, extremely, because if researchers can find highly heritable low - level biological traits, we can start working on finding the genes that affect them.

But it has a simple and clear rationale: elbow dysplasia, and osteochondrosis of the humeral condyle in particular, is a highly heritable disease.

The most frequently reported issue, noise phobia, is known to be highly heritable.

It is highly heritable.

We demonstrate that skin pigmentation is highly heritable, but known pigmentation loci explain only a small fraction of the variance.

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable condition.

While environmental factors play a role in developing T2D, it is also highly heritable — and the genetics involved are complex, with many genes contributing to disease risk.

Testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) is a highly heritable cancer primarily affecting young white men.

On an individual level height was highly heritable just as it is now.

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

These data suggest either that there are limited differences in methylation between patients with diabetes and nondiabetic subjects or that DNA methylation in human adipose tissue is highly heritable.

ASD are highly heritable and many different stretches of DNA have been found to be duplicated or deleted in individuals with ASD.

While highly heritable, complex genetics has hampered attempts to elucidate OCD etiology.

An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

The brain's default mode network (DMN) is highly heritable and is compromised in a variety of psychiatric disorders.

Body weight — measured as body mass index, or BMI — is highly heritable in both boys and girls.

Telomere length is highly heritable.

- Behaviour is a highly heritable trait that makes it possible to select for confident mink more effectively than previously thought.

For example, the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the DSM, on its website describes schizophrenia as «a chronic brain disorder,» and academic journals describe it as a «debilitating neurological disorder,» a «devastating, highly heritable brain disorder,» or a «brain disorder with predominantly genetic risk factors.»

One highly heritable disease, Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, causes painful corneal swelling and blurred vision.

In chimpanzees, brain organization is also highly heritable, but in humans this is not the case.

Actually, type I diabetes is associated with genetic predisposition, specifically it is common with certain tissue types (which makes sense, as it is an autoimmune disorder), and also certain ethnicities, and is highly heritable.

Not exact matches

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.