A central biological concept that can explain how genes
interact with environmental factors such as trauma on the molecular level is environmental epigenetics, the idea that we are not simply a product of our genes but also our experience.
Any genetic predispositions probably
interact with environmental factors that influence development of a sexual orientation.
Genetic studies have indicated that genes often play an important role in the development of mental disorders, via developmental pathways
interacting with environmental factors.
Not exact matches
Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11
factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands,
environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and
interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.
But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the
environmental factors that matter most have less to do
with the buildings they live in than
with the relationships they experience — the way the adults in their lives
interact with them, especially in times of stress.
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.
Heritable, biological
factors interact with environmental experiences to produce sexual orientation.
The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and
environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization
with genetic tests to determine ancestry.
Environmental factors interact with the different subgenomes to modify the transcription of their component genes and to modulate the translation of protein products and their posttranslational modification, yielding changes in protein and cellular function and metabolism, and defining an intermediate phenotype.
We begin
with four different modular networks within and between which nodes (in this case, genes, mRNA, proteins, biochemical or physiological properties, or
environmental factors)
interact to yield the ultimate phenotype.
Dr. Hornig is also a lead investigator for the Autism Birth Cohort, a prospective birth cohort study in Norway that is identifying how genes and maturational
factors interact with environmental agents to lead to autism.
A focus of her current work is assessing the relationship between social inequality, psychosocial stress and how these
factors may
interact with chemical exposures to amplify pollution / health outcome relationships and produce
environmental health inequalities.
Genes aren't single - function, self - contained switches, and we're only just beginning to learn how they
interact — both
with other genes and
with environmental and lifestyle
factors — to create living, unique human beings.
And collecting longitudinal data about families — information from grandparents and even great - grandparents — may help scientists chart the development of particular risk
factors and how they might
interact with environmental triggers.
Trainers will
interact with this notably social species of pinniped while educating guests on the dangers they face in their natural environment and key
environmental factors that impact them.
The
environmental factors are developed well, from switches on walls or locking mechanisms to picking items up to
interact with other items.
What I find most important about Willis» work is that he has provided a clear example of the physical science that must be undertaken if we are to understand how temperature (heat exchange)
interacts with other
environmental factors.
Climate changes
interact with other
environmental and societal
factors in ways that can either moderate or intensify these impacts.
However, the details of how the two support mechanisms of family and friends alter throughout the adolescent transition period, and how these intrapersonal
factors interact with the
environmental determinant «access» are unclear.
She enjoys
interacting with people and helping others reach their full potential, as well as, understanding the biological and
environmental factors that are intrinsic to human behaviors and habitual actions.
Additional
factors that must be considered include, but are not limited to, genetic risk,
environmental risk, contextual stressors and trauma, parental psychopathology and substance use, and peer influences,
with all of these
factors interacting with emotion regulation to predict outcomes.
Although the precise mechanisms of these sex - moderated genetic vulnerabilities remain poorly understood, they appear to
interact with environmental risk
factors including adverse rearing environments to potentiate the development of ASPD and BPD.