Sentences with phrase «not heritable»

They also suggest that fertility is not heritable — rather, exposure to younger siblings triggers pronatal tendencies and consequently higher fertility (see § 6k).

Cross-fostering experiments have proved that these maternal effects are not heritable in the narrow sense, but are consequences of the characteristics of maternal care received in the first week of life.

Because the Traditional pedigree used names of dogs, titles, certifications and winning records which are not heritable, breeders had no way to learn from their mistakes.

Individual fluctuating asymmetry in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) persists across moults, but is not heritable and not related to fitness.

The founding fathers were concerned enough about this to reject inherited titles and the other trappings of European aristocracy in favor of an egalitarian society, in which privilege was not heritable.

Not exact matches

Overall, analyses estimated that trust is 30 percent heritable, while distrust is not at all heritable.

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

One of the toughest tasks is replicating these studies — an especially difficult proposition in diseases that are not overwhelmingly heritable, such as asthma, or ones that affect fairly small patient cohorts, such as certain childhood cancers.

Today researchers in this well - established field have shown that natural selection is not the only force producing heritable change.

Because this approach silences genes but does not introduce heritable changes into the genome, it may not be regulated as a GM product.

The analysis confirmed earlier findings that several other types of bacteria are also heritable, but specific genes connected to those differences were not found.

Furthermore, in one heritable prion disease of humans, brain tissue containedCtmPrP but not PrPSc.

The relationship between the heritable risk for schizophrenia and low intelligence (IQ) has not been clear.

«It's not naked DNA that you inherit,» explains Emma Whitelaw of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia, whose work was the first to show that expression patterns can be heritable in animals.

This suggests lifespan is partly heritable, but we haven't found many of the responsible genes.

The study has been adjusted for social conditions and parental educational levels; however, it can not be ruled out that heritable and environmental factors associated with infections might also influence the associations.

«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.

While genetics deals with the DNA sequence itself and the heritable changes in the DNA (mutations), epigenetics deals with heritable traits that are not caused by mutations.

Despite recent successes in identifying causative mutations for human heritable diseases through the use of sequencing technologies, an associated gene has not been identified for approximately half of the reported diseases.

Mar 30, 2009 Charis Eng, MD, PhD delivered two invited lectures at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics, March 25, 2009 Charis Eng, MD, PhD, the Sondra J. and Stephen R. Hardis Chair of Cancer Genomic Medicine and founding Chairwoman of the Genomic Medicine Institute, and Director of the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare within the GMI, presented the opening lecture on «Heritable Breast and Colon Cancer Syndromes: Not Just the Usual Suspects» at the College's Educational Workshop to update the audience of the very broad genetic differential diagnosis of breast cancer as well as colon cancer, their clinical and molecular diagnosis, risk assessment, and medical management.

None of these mutations were found in patients not affected by BE / EAC, suggesting a previously unknown heritable cause.

Over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that epigenetic changes - heritable changes in the cell that do not result from DNA sequence alteration - may be just as important as gene mutations in cancer development.

Ethicists have renewed the call for caution in handling gene - editing CRISPR, which has the potential not only to cure congenital and other serious illnesses but also can make permanent changes in human genome that can be heritable by a person's offspring.

«We found that a heritable genetic element based on protein folding, not encoded in DNA or RNA, allows yeast to acquire many silent changes in their genome and suddenly reveal them,» said Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago, Howard Hughes Investigator and principal author of the study.

The researchers note that in the mammalian brain, whose cells do not divide, prions pass between cells and function as infectious agents; in yeast, they produce heritable changes from one generation to the next.

Stats professor Cosma Shalizi explains heritability «says nothing about how much [a trait's level]... is under genetic control» and it's «irrelevant to malleability» (heritable ≠ immutable; genes often aren't carved - in - stone fate).

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence.

Russ is correct to point out that about 37 % of the perseverance component of grit is heritable, but that does not establish that educational policy and practice are unable to alter the non-heritable factors that form grit and other character skills.

I've summarised the first here: http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2018/03/selective-schools-advantage-based-on-heritable-factors-not-school-type-says-new-report I don't entirely agree with the authors about heritable factors — they cite environment as one, for example.

This heritable cataract is not a senile cataract.

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.

You should also wait for your dog to fully mature so that you can perform any necessary health checks on them to make sure that they won't pass on any heritable diseases or conditions.

A good breeder should show you documents / certificates from recognized institutions certifying both sire and dam are not affected by heritable abnormalities.

Here are some of Thornton's signs of a good breeder: completely answers questions about the breed, raises puppies in the home and not in a pen or in filthy conditions, and has a sales contract that includes a minimum one - year health guarantee against life - threatening or crippling conditions caused by heritable defects.

These are all heritable traits, and where these compromise the health or welfare of the cat, International Cat Care believe such traits or mutations should not be perpetuated by continued breeding.

Miller (2009) reported that the tendency to be aroused in the presence of other dogs is heritable and that those who can not handle stress and show reactive behavior are thought to be different from well - adjusted dogs.

Hip dyplasia is a heritable condition in which the femur doesn't fit snugly into the pelvic socket of the hip joint.

Since this is a heritable trait, any pet with this condition should be neutered to not pass on this trait.

Our pet dogs share our environment closely, allowing us to examine not only the heritable risk factors, but also those associated with the environment.

By not having a dual registry with a special category of pure - breed dogs who have been progeny - tested and screened for genetic abnormalities and heritable diseases, the «papers» are of little value, although many believe them to be like some Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

When lymphocytes and plasma cells are the predominant cell types the most likely underlying causes are sensitivities to dietary components (wheat gluten is one example), parasites, bacterial toxins, cancers, heritable tendencies (occurs in Basenjis and wheaten terriers), and again a big group of dogs where a specific underlying cause isn't identifiable, or the idiopathic cases.

Because of the potential heritable components involved in this disease, dogs that have suffered generalized demodicosis should not be bred.

Like many heritable diseases, breeding away is generally not effective, in part because of the difficulty to reliably detect / diagnose all carriers.

Yes — fearfulness has been shown to be a very heritable trait in dogs, probably because it's a trait that has a lot of survival value for dogs that aren't fortunate enough to live as protected pets (as well as related wild canids, like foxes and wolves).

• Use health testing as a guideline to choose complimentary mates that do not exhibit the same heritable defects or genetic diseases.

Many are found to be heritable and these can be both congenital or acquired, however the exact modes of inheritance has not been precisely determined for all forms of heart disease.

Property is all property situated anywhere in the world (ie not only money but also all forms of property including personal, heritable, intangible and incorporeal property, and property obtained by a person who has an interest in it).

Though not all children with CD have life - course persistent symptoms, genetic studies have suggested that continuous antisocial behavior is heritable (Moffitt, 2005) and children with CD or callous - unemotional traits frequently develop an ASPD or psychopathy in adulthood (Frick and Viding, 2009).

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.