Sentences with phrase «human variation»

And if you think that's what * should * happen you can start to think there's something wrong with you or your baby when it could just be normal human variation.

Location, location, location Human variation depends on a collection of random mutations across the genome, contributing to differences in appearance as well as behavior.

All individual human variation amounts to just one - tenth of 1 percent of the entire genome.

It also makes Microcephalin an attractive candidate locus for studying the genetics of human variation in brain - related phenotypes.

In one comparative study, anthropologist Adam Gordon, now an assistant professor at the University of Albany, along with colleagues at George Washington University, found that the skull of LB1, nicknamed «the hobbit,» was «well outside the range of modern human variation,» according to Gordon.

I became fascinated with human variation; ancient hominid fossils; and the behavior of our closest living relatives, the great apes, and ended up earning a degree in anthropology.

«Since the human genome was finished, one of the big efforts has been to try to understand and catalogue human variation.»

We identify 13.4 million variants, substantially increasing the set of known human variation.

Pera is also interested in using hPSCs to develop disease models for neurodegeneration and epilepsy and to study the genetic basis for human variation in tissue repair and recovery in the central nervous system following stroke or brain injury.

These tests are based on a catalog of human variation called the HapMap, which was released in 2005.

That's where most human variation occurred.

Talk of using DNA to determine whether someone is gay misunderstands efforts to explain human variation, says Dean Hamer, who published the first evidence for a genetic predisposition to homosexuality

The researchers used the very large survey of human genetic variation called HapMap for their analysis, which compared human variations with the chimpanzee genome.

ASHG and its members are committed to become fluent in the language of the genome, understand human variation, and promote the public health as well as transfering new knowledge to the next generation of genetics professionals and the public in order to improve clinical practice.

Morton has become a canonical example of scientific misconduct and an oft - told cautionary tale of how human variation is inevitably mismeasured.

«Todd Rose's thought - provoking book challenges the explanatory power of the everyday term «average,» opening our minds to new ways of conceptualizing human variation and human potentials.»

Our group coordinates the EpiVar package of the BLUEPRINT project, which is generating genomic (through whole - genome sequencing) and epigenetic characterization of three main immune cell types in 200 individuals, with the aim characterize the role of human variation on the epigenomic landscape.

All are considered normal human variations.

The new phylogenetic analyses use the same model as the original paper but when additional modern Aboriginal and African sequences are added they show that all the ancient Australian sequences are well within what is expected for modern human variation.

To test whether selective sweeps were the predominant cause of these troughs, a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, San Francisco used data from 179 subjects in the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort to catalogue human variation.

While 9 of them fitted within known human variation, it was claimed that the oldest sequence, from the 60,000 year old Mungo 3 fossil, was distinct from those of recent humans, and cast doubt on the theory that modern humans had originated in Africa.

If chronic fatigue syndrome has a signal — a distinct biological or psychological feature — Buchwald and Goldberg hope that the co-twin experiments will detect the signal amid the noise of human variation.

Anthropologists have looked at fingerprints for years, because they are interested in human variation.

Although these bones are unusually thick — a fact initially used to argue for their prehistoric origin — De Groote says they aren't outside the range of normal human variation.

Patterns of human variation can be linked to geography, and geographic ancestry can be linked to health risks.

To capture the full array of human variation, Georgia Dunston, a geneticist at Howard University in Washington, D.C., leads studies of common diseases such as prostate cancer and hypertension among people of African descent.

That's why there is human variation.

India has been underrepresented in genome - wide surveys of human variation.

This blueprint should come in handy in sussing out the molecular basis of human variation and disease and in discovering potential new treatments.

While some of our projects are closely related to individual diseases, our overall goal is to uncover general rules of the genomic sources of human variation, which is applicable to a variety of different diseases.

Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or «racial,» and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations [11], [17].

David Reich and colleagues report genome sequences of 300 people from 142 different populations usually under - represented in large - scale studies to describe a range of human variation.

Race: A Teacher's Guide A substantive teaching tool to help middle and high school educators understand and address race and human variation, from the Race Project.

Somehow all of that human variation disappears and we operate as if we were parts of a system, a system that seeks a constant level.

Personality and Individual Differences — research examining the causes, assessment, structures, and processes that characterize and give rise to human variation