Sentences with phrase «more heritable»

The same study also shows that mink behaviour is a more heritable trait than hitherto believed.

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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.

The risk of developing autism, according to one study, is more than 90 percent heritable because the concordance for autism is high in monozygotic twins and low in dizygotic twins.

Although studying genetic diversity in African populations tells us a great deal about human history, there is even more to learn by juxtaposing the genetic diversity with the diversity of heritable traits (phenotypes).

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

«Based on our research, we identified more than a dozen microbes with known links to health that are heritable,» says Ley, also director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.

«This important study not only adds more genetic risk factors to the list of those known for testicular germ cell tumours — the most common cancer in young men — but also adds detail to the emerging picture of testicular cancer as a strongly heritable disease.

Furthermore, so - called heritable microbes — the bacteria most influenced by host genetics — were more abundant in lean twins than obese ones.

4/17/2007 Twin Studies Reveal Genetic Components Leading To Cardiac and Kidney Disease Studies may point to new drug targets for heritable conditions Daniel O'Connor, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has studied about 265 twin pairs over the past few year... More...

At first glance all these tests and conditions which may affect Havanese may appear alarming but one must not lose sight of the fact that ALL breeds have heritable disorders and that some are more serious and widespread while others are much more limited in their occurrence.

June 2009: «EPI does have a genetic / heritable component, but it is likely more complex than autosomal recessive.

After more than six centuries, the tradition of using the pedigree continues to be the primary breeding tool of breeders based on the logic that when the frequency of a trait or disease occurs among several the ancestors it signals that something is likely to be heritable.

Genetics may possibly play a role, says Dr. Goldstein, and veterinary scientists are striving to identify the heritable factors that may make one cat — or one breed — more vulnerable to asthma than another.

More than 80 % of cases result from autoimmune thyroiditis, the heritable autoimmune disease that progressively destroys the thyroid gland.

Working with them to help reduce the incidence of heritable health problems may require more patience and tolerance, but will ultimately improve the health status of your breed.

If we disqualified all of the dogs with the slightest elbow issue, we would lose 31 % of the breeding population in every generation, compounding a genepool problem that is historically present in purebred dogs, and far more dangerous to the dogs than any heritable disease.

I wanted to make something that resonated more with heritable information — «autobiographical information» might be a better way of saying it.

Given the conclusion that all researched behavioural traits and psychiatric disorders are heritable, biological siblings will always tend to be more similar to one another than will adopted siblings.

Fathers may have heritable physiological impacts on their children via genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that begin to emerge shortly after conception12 and which may influence maternal investment during pregnancy.13 Older fathers tend to transmit more mutations to their offspring, 14 while early childhood paternal stressors predict children's adolescent gene methylation patterns (a type of chemical modification of DNA).15