Sentences with phrase «influenced by environmental factors»

Resiliency and vulnerability are distinctive personal characteristics influenced by environmental factors such as socio - cultural and institutional contexts.

Duodenal bacterial counts may be influenced by environmental factors, such as housing conditions (kennelled dogs tend to have higher bacterial numbers, perhaps associated with coprophagia) and infective load (such as endoparasites and naturally occurring enteropathogens in hot climates).

It's a modern - day epidemic influenced by both environmental factors and our body's abilities to break down, process and eliminate the excesses that we're now exposed to.

The Lakers» program is called PRO Nutrition, which somewhat obtusely stands for Performance, Recovery and Orthogenesis — the latter being the theory that evolution is strongly influenced by environmental factors, such as diet.

«Down the road, we would like to learn whether their expression is influenced by environmental factors and would thus be amenable to preventative action.

Using genetics to predict people's risk of a complex disorder is tricky, especially with a trait highly influenced by environmental factors.

To understand how obesity occurs and how it may be treated requires an understanding of the genes that regulate body weight and how their function is influenced by environmental factors such as diets high in calories and dietary fat.

Researchers say the changes may be due to random biochemical fluctuations known as stochasticity, or «noise» — variability occurring over time and influenced by environmental factors.

Here, in the comfort of a stranger's bun oven, the tiny clone would continue to develop, influenced by environmental factors such as a pack - a-day Pixy Stix addiction and cross-country Phish fandom.

The study adds to evidence that genes may be influenced by environmental factors to shape IQ.

The rapid effort — the panel had less than 2 weeks to produce its report — concluded that «there is no definitive gene responsible for homosexuality,» that homosexuality is not a disease nor abnormal, and that being gay can be influenced by environmental factors such as culture and peer pressure.

Rauh said the findings suggest that boys seemed to be «modestly» more influenced by environmental factors, whether chemical (chlorpyrifos) or social (the mother).

His team focused on a naturally occurring process that's part of the body's internal housekeeping system, called methylation, which makes chemical modifications to our genome that are strongly influenced by environmental factors.

Lifelong dietary patterns and behavioral choices are influenced by environmental factors.

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

Not exact matches

When many chemicals interact, the rate of production (or of destruction) of each molecular species is influenced by the concentrations of all the others, as well as by such environmental factors as temperature and whether or not the system is illuminated.

Food choices influence body weight and are shaped by environmental factors, including physical, social and policy, collectively termed the food environment (2).

It is also influenced by some as yet unknown environmental factors (some speculate a susceptibility to certain viruses such as coxsackie, others implicate exposure to certain very specific chemicals, most certainly not included in baby formula).

Child cognitive development is influenced by genetic and environmental factors.1 The child has a genetically determined potential for cognitive development.

Unlike previous research in this area, which was affected by external environmental factors that impacted upon metabolic profiling, sheep in this study were monitored in a well - controlled setting, negating any outside influences.

By «chance» Tomasetti meant the roll of the dice that each cell division represents, leaving aside the influence of deleterious genes or environmental factors such as smoking or exposure to radiation.

Increases or decreases in aggression between the ages of 6 and 12 appear to be influenced by various environmental factors rather than genetics.

One of forest ecology's fundamental undertakings has long focused on how tree growth is influenced by a host of environmental factors ranging from soils and elevation to hydrology and climate.

While the cause of bloat is unclear, there is a strong predisposition in some dogs and it is generally thought that GDV is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.

While researchers know that adolescent drinking is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, much less is known about interactions between the two.

That's because each farm is influenced by different environmental factors, agronomic practices, and soil type.

Many, such as malformed hip joints, are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, and having clones will enable scientists to tease apart these factors.

There is still, however, a need for more research on the issue, as the risk can be influenced by the time of the treatment and other factors, reasons Karin Leander, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

Such disorders are caused by complex interactions among genes and environmental factors; the challenge facing researchers now is to find out which genes are involved and how they influence disease.

The methylation of DNA is one of the epigenetic mechanisms regulating the functioning of the genome, influenced by not only by variations in DNA sequence, but also environmental factors such as fluctuations in the circadian rhythm.

Dr. James also addresses how the genetics of this population are affected by environmental factors, and in turn, influence the infant mortality rate.

Thus, most findings in chronic diseases are influenced by a combination of biological and environmental factors, verifying that there are many interactions of societal and biological factors in women and men (6).

The epigenetic variation at MEs is determined randomly and is influenced by many environmental factors, ranging from the nutritional breakdown of the mother's diet to the season.

The hunt for genes is complicated by not knowing the contribution of environmental factors that influence biology and behavior.

They found that choosing to continue studies at A-level was influenced in equal measure by genetic (44 %) factors and environmental factors shared by siblings growing up in the same home (47 %), for example schools, neighbourhoods or the home environment.

Reading is a multifactorial process that is influenced by psychological, physiological, environmental, sociological and linguistic factors.1, 2 From an optometrist's perspective, a decrease in reading ability may be associated with poor visual acuity, unstable binocular vision, or ocular disease.3 It is therefore important that people with poor reading comprehension receive a comprehensive oculo - visual assessment.

Dr. Toal is also of the opinion that our personal skin microbiome is influenced by several genetic and environmental factors, explaining that oil secretion, pH levels, moisturization, and the products we use on our skin help or hurt these bacteria.

Description: Obesity is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.

Eczema is influenced by several factors, including vitamin D deficiency, allergies (food and environmental), and digestive issues.

I believe that nutrition has some influence on the disease course, but as MS is a multifactoral illness (genetic AND SEVERAL environmental factors), it is too naive to think one could completley stop it only by dietary changes, as real life experience demonstrates.

Elevated Lp (a) is thought to be a genetic factor and levels are not influenced by diet, exercise, weight loss, stress or other environmental factors.

As our understanding of the profound influence of commensal microbes on the maturation of the immune system has grown, more recent iterations of this hypothesis have supported the idea that alterations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota induced by environmental factors (e.g., antibiotics, diet, vaccination, sanitation) play a central role in the regulation of allergic sensitization (5 ⇓ — 7).

Your body's ability to produce antioxidants (its metabolic process) is controlled by your genetic makeup and influenced by your exposure to environmental factors such as diet, stress, and various other factors.

The disproportionality literature consistently notes that children's outcomes are causally affected by out - of - school factors such as poor nutrition, stress, and exposure to environmental toxins, and that exposure to these influences unduly affects poor children and children of color.

Despite being influenced by environmental aspects, such as a recent lower than average rainfall and continuing environmental degradation, the policies and development models of regional government are also large contributing factors to the current situation.

Commodity prices may be influenced by unfavorable weather, animal and plant disease, geologic and environmental factors as well as changes in government regulation such as tariffs, embargoes or burdensome production rules and restrictions.

Just because a dog has the gene for hip dysplasia however, does not mean he will be affected: the severity of the disease will be directly influenced by the dog's diet and other environmental factors such as exercise level or body condition — or so the theory goes.

Contributing environmental influences are varied, but development of HD can be encouraged by factors such as repeated episodes of joint trauma, or rapid weight gain and growth rate due to excessive food intake.