Sentences with phrase «of the genetic components of»

The Immunochip for fine - mapping is an important tool for conducting genome - wide association studies of the genetic components of disease.

Despite dozens of regions in the genome associated with CAD, most of the genetic components of heart disease are not fully understood, suggesting that more genes are out there to be found.

Not exact matches

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

One's personality is shaped by a long series of input of facts, in addition to some genetic components.

Also note that «adaptation» per se is not a required component of microevolution, only a change at the micro (i.e. typically primary genetic code level) level (e.g. genetic drift).

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

A separate genetics adviser will review, support and identify potential linkages in the genetics component of methane mitigation, including genomics (work on recombinant DNA and gene sequencing) and genetic interaction with environment.

Stacy — there's actually a genetic component to some of it.

It's all a work in progress and even though research shows there are things you can do to help a kid be less picky (and research also shows there's genetic component to it all) nothing replaces the work of exposing kids in a pleasant atmosphere over the years.

It's widely believed to be a developmental problem because of the time period it emerges, but there's also something of a genetic component.

Mastitis, or inflammation of the breast, used to be called «milk fever» or «milk leg,» and there actually might be a genetic component for susceptibility to this painful condition.

Otherwise, OF COURSE there has to be a genetic component.

Although ACOG does not support planned home births given the published medical data, it emphasizes that women who decide to deliver at home should be offered standard components of prenatal care, including group B Strep screening and treatment, genetic screening, as well as HIV screening.

Note that since these twins are the result of multiple eggs being fertilized, this «genetic component» only holds true for fraternal twins.

And while I agree that «there is nothing a priori wrong with suggesting it may have a genetic component», the great genetic diversity of sub-Saharan Africa would suggest that if this is true, it would almost have to be an * advantage * that developed among the group (s) that forayed out beyond the horn of Africa and whose descendants populated Eurasia.

«Now, using genomic methods that were not available 10 years ago, it appears that components made by the virus interact with human DNA in the places where the genetic risk of disease is increased,» Harley says.

«What is surprising is this guy represents one of the earliest Europeans, but at the same time he basically contains all the genetic components that you find in contemporary Europeans — at 37,000 years ago,» Willerslev says.

One high - profile recent study suggested that each genetic component entered Europe by way of a separate migration and that they only came together in most Europeans in the past 5000 years.

As researchers recently sequenced the genomes of more than a dozen ancient members of our species, Homo sapiens, in Europe and Asia in rapid succession, they added a third genetic component: a «ghost» lineage of nomads who blew into northeast Europe from the steppes of western Asia 4000 to 5000 years ago.

The finding adds to evidence that the disorder has a genetic component, says Jessica Grisham at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Given the right building blocks, then, the formation of protocells does not seem that difficult: membranes self - assemble, genetic polymers self - assemble, and the two components can be brought together in a variety of ways, for example, if the membranes form around preexisting polymers.

But the genetic components of disease have proved more complex

The study, published in todays edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tracked 308 subjects older than 90 in an attempt to find a genetic component to longevity.

The approach makes use of available data to substantially improve the ability to identify genetic components of disease,» said Mark Johnston, Editor - in - Chief of the journal GENETICS.

The way we're thinking about it, the critical components that we have to think about, are some kind of genetic material.

The genetic variants associated with asthma have also effects on autoimmune diseases and other diseases with an inflammatory component such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neuro - psychiatric diseases, which strengthens the importance of pleiotropy in multifactorial diseases.

By uncovering these hidden variations, researchers should be able to better explain the hard - to - find genetic components of diseases such as mental illnesses, says Randy Jirtle, an epigeneticist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Silver - Russell syndrome had a genetic component, but the twins suggested that it wasn't a conventional hereditary disease, as identical twins carry carbon copies of each other's DNA.

Most common psychiatric and neurologic disorders are highly genetic; 40 % to 80 % of these disorders are known to have genetic components.

«The developers generally reuse components of other malwares, and that precisely is what allows us to construct this genetic map,» Guillermo Suárez de Tangil explained.

The CRISPR system is made up of two components: a protein called Cas9 and a guide RNA, a string of nucleic acid molecules with a certain genetic code.

The findings are no surprise, says Virginia Sadock, director of the New York University Program in Human Sexuality: «People have different athletic abilities, different IQs... these things all have genetic components.

The genetic components of the tumors or of the patients may contribute.

Set up in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the Registry of Standard Biological Parts was the first collection of genetic components to be made available.

The intestinal lining chip can be used for the testing of treatments for inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases with a genetic component, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

«These are all potentially multigenic disorders that have a lot of genetic components.

To better understand the genetic components of longevity, the researchers analyzed the DNA of more than 800 subjects between the ages of 95 to 119 and compared it with DNA from random controls.

Working with an international group of scientists from Cardiff University, Stanford University and Duke University in addition to screening post-mortem brain samples from the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the scientists are the first to identify a molecular genetic component of the blood brain barrier with the development of schizophrenia.

«In fact from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum some 19,000 years ago, its genetic component reappeared in Spain.

There may be a genetic component to it — in which some people naturally have environments that harbor some species of bacteria over others — as well as environmental variables (diet, sexual behavior, contraception methods, hygiene, etc.).

The researchers are hoping to identify more precisely the factors related to socioeconomic status, other environmental factors, or genetic components that could predict which types of reading interventions will be successful for individual students.

«Ancient genetic components of sex determination in ants.»

An RNA - driven origin of life at or below freezing is much more likely, researchers maintain, unless different and more heat - tolerant genetic components were involved.

Autism spectrum disorder has a significant genetic component, and scientists have found thousands of genetic differences between some people with ASD and those without.

The inherited component of breast cancer risk is due to a combination of rare variants in genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 that confer a high risk of the disease, and many commoner genetic variants that each confer only a small risk.

However, delivery of the genetic components required a high - pressure injection, a method that can also cause some damage to the liver.

The size and distribution of the genetic components contributed to indigenous European hunter - gatherers, however, remain unclear.

There is probably a group of people who have a genetic component to autism, and for them, there may not be much of a trigger or any trigger at all required.

Little has been known about the ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta cells strong.