Sentences with phrase «of phenotypic variance»

Biometric analyses showed that these multi-source measures of childhood impulsivity and inattention were highly heritable, with genetic variance accounting for 70 - 80 % of the phenotypic variance in many of the models.

However, the real problem might be that more complex behavioural phenotypes are affected by many genes, each with only a small effect accounting for only 1 % or even less of the phenotypic variance [81], therefore inadequate statistical power is a serious problem.

It is concluded that there is true environmental mediation from family maladaptation, operating as a shared effect, which accounts for 3 · 5 % of the phenotypic variance.

This allele confers increased adiposity in male animals compared to AKR / J, and accounts for 11.7 % of the phenotypic variance in male inguinal fat pad weight (percentage).

Not exact matches

To do that, we would need to know what was causing some individuals to leave more surviving descendants than others, and to be sure that that selection pressure would be maintained for hundreds or thousands of generations, and know what the genetic and phenotypic basis for the variance underlying these differences was.