Sentences with phrase «of genetic load»

We compared the distribution of genetic load measures among individuals using QQ plots and Kolmogorov — Smirnov tests.

For each polymorphic site observed in a given horse sample, we defined the ancestral state using the donkey sequence data and computed a measure of genetic load as the product of the GERP score at each site and the number of derived alleles carried by this individual at this site, averaged across sites for each individual.

Because the data often reveal very early emerging traits in prehomosexuals, children who show pronounced sex - atypical behaviors may have more of a genetic loading to their homosexuality, whereas gay adults who were sex - typical as children might trace their homosexuality more directly to particular childhood experiences.

Children who show pronounced sex - atypical behaviors may have more of a genetic loading to their homosexuality.

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@Bill Deacon,»... evolutionary biology can not provide a positive causation for the digital encoding of these strands...» I'm not certain why you use the loaded language or «digital encoding», but evolution does provide a mechanism for changes in the genetic makeup of all organisms.

lmao sure tell that the the hormone driven teens of the world... you can only have woopie if your going to marry, marriage will go through the roof... but so will divorce and lawyers will love that mentality because child custody battles make them loads of money and let's not forget the physcologist / phychiatrists that will make big money having to help all these emotionally damaged adults that were dragged through custody battles due to the fact their genetic donors procreated when it was the best time for them.

Science is demonstrating the relevance of concepts like allostatic load, genetic snps, dysbiosis, and nutrient deficiency that render a pregnancy full of ultrasounds the loading of a gun shot by that Hepatitis B vaccine at birth, or perhaps 8 at a catch up visit a year later.

«In other words, people with migraine without aura seem to have a lower load of genetic factors increasing the risk of heart disease,» said Anne Ducros, MD, PhD, of the University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

Keeping the mutation load in the selected PGD embryo far below the level of expression, prohibits that by genetic drift and / or selection the mutation load can reach pathogenic levels.

However, we do encounter negative and positive selection, in addition to genetic drift, at the level of the mutation, usually at high mutation loads.

In these studies, sequence data from several thousands of individuals is compared to find disease - associated genes where cases have a higher load of genetic variants that are likely to disturb gene function, compared to the controls.

Inbreeding and genetic load of predomesticated vs. modern breeds.

Consequently, long homozygosity tracts and a deficit of heterozygous sites resulting from inbreeding would inflate the estimated genetic load.

Jonathan Kipnis (from left), James C. Cronk and Christopher C. Overall have discovered that doctors could load the brain with a custom blend of immune cells to battle genetic disorders, diseases such as Alzheimer's and the effects of brain trauma.

A genetic factor that increases the risk for LOAD is a particular version of apolipoproteinE (APOE), APOEe4.

Even sillier are the people who keep using the late marathon runner and running author Jim Fixx as an example of anything but a guy who had a genetic predisposition for heart disease (gun was loaded).

On top of my genetic blessings, I have a chronic knee injury that makes loading up the weights more challenging than it should.

If you want an alphabet - soup load of fun with the genetic polymorphisms involved, check out this article!

• Neither the dispersiveness of soft skill reform efforts nor the high genetic loading of abstract soft skills argues against the importance of incorporating soft skills into the intentional mission of schools and classrooms.

A puppy is a genetic package loaded with behavior traits that took thousands of years to refine.

A genetic predisposition to being tolerant and well - adjusted along with good experiences and loads of socialization around children, pave the road to a potentially great companion for children.

One explanation for this phenomenon is that the major part of the deleterious genetic load may have accumulated before breed registration and the founding of today's pedigrees, so that current inbreeding has not further depressed genetic variation sufficiently to result in additional genetic problems.

To avoid over - or underestimating the importance of each biometric latent factor, we restricted latent genetic (A), shared (C) and nonshared (E) environmental factors to 0 only when their factor loadings were estimated to be close to zero and not based on likelihood ratio tests as is common practice in the behavior genetics literature.