Empirical evidence suggests that attachment security in mother — infant bonds builds
on heritable differences in sensitivity to isolation [14].
It provides a variety of reports to help educate owner / breeder
on heritable eye disease questions, healthy breeding stock, and breed - specific eye problems.
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.
He then went on to do his PhD studies at Imperial College under the supervision of Professor Neil Brockdorff
on heritable silencing mechanisms during mouse development.
Not exact matches
Regarding the Pod Mrcaru lizards, as I conceded, it is just a «hypothesis»; but, again, although contingent
on a final direct sequencing experiment, the available evidence is squarely in the corner of a
heritable genetic basis.
At present, and based
on what we know of the genetic regulation of development, these phenotypic changes in the gut are most likely the result of positive genetic changes in the genetic regulatory pathways controlling the development of the relevant anatomical features, i.e. they are novel positive,
heritable genetic features producing a specific and functional novel anatomical structure within the Genus.
Studying the two different types of twins allowed researchers to estimate the relative influence of three different factors
on twins» trust and distrust trust behaviors:
heritable factors — that is, genetic influences; shared environmental factors — that is, common experiences of growing up in the same family and interacting with the same immediate peers; and unshared environmental factors — or the siblings» unique experiences in life.
In light of this shortcoming, some investigators see room for an increased focus
on an alternative explanation for
heritable traits: epigenetics, the molecular processes that control a gene's potential to act.
The first of these will focus
on the potential use of genome editing in human reproduction to avoid the transmission of
heritable genetic conditions, and the second
on livestock to improve systems of animal husbandry and food production.
Height is said to be 90 percent
heritable, which means that the environment, such as childhood nutrition, has only a 10 percent effect
on whether you're going to be shorter or taller.
For example, the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the DSM,
on its website describes schizophrenia as «a chronic brain disorder,» and academic journals describe it as a «debilitating neurological disorder,» a «devastating, highly
heritable brain disorder,» or a «brain disorder with predominantly genetic risk factors.»
«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.
The results, revealing new examples of
heritable bacterial species — including those related to diet preference, metabolism, and immune defense — appear May 11 in Cell Host & Microbe's special issue
on the «Genetics and Epigenetics of Host - Microbe Interactions.»
He had access to private papers and concluded that Burt had indeed made up data
on twins showing that IQ was about 70 per cent
heritable.
To say there's some sort of
heritable component to a trait tells us something can be passed
on in a family that can contribute to performance, but what are the specific genes?
Following up
on clues — including the fact that PMS is 56 percent
heritable — the NIH researchers studied the genetic control of gene expression in cultured white blood cell lines from women with PMDD and controls.
Darwin argued that all individuals struggle to survive
on limited resourses, but some have small,
heritable differences that give them a greater chance of surviving or reproducing, than individuals lacking these beneficial traits.
They also found that the ratio of skull volume to body size was a
heritable trait that red deer can pass
on to their offspring (Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098 / rsos.160622).
The results also support the theory that multiple pregnancies induce metabolic stresses
on females that have
heritable consequences and may be part of an obesity cycle between mothers and offspring.
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.
Strikingly the pattern of hotspot used varied among individuals, but seemed to be passed
on from generation to generation — a
heritable difference potentially pointing to differences in the recombination machinery among individuals.
Gilliam is an authority
on the identification and characterization of
heritable mutations that affect the nervous system.
The reason CRISPR is so controversial is that it works well
on mammalian «germline» cells, such as sperm, eggs and embryonic cells, and the genetic editing can therefore result in
heritable traits.
While PrediXcan can discover links between genes and traits in a high - throughput manner, Im notes that because it creates estimates based
on genome sequence data, it is most accurate for strongly
heritable traits.
On an individual level height was highly
heritable just as it is now.
«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.
However, the first twin study
on this topic showed that self - perceptions of abilities are in fact
heritable to a large extent.
Such
heritable effects
on caste propensity has been recognized as an evidence of genetic caste determination.
The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorisation of humans into populations or groups
on the basis of various sets of
heritable characteristics.
He is also a major collaborator with Drs. Kerstin Lindblad - Toh and Jaime F. Modiano, and together these researchers have led to the discovery of
heritable traits that account for risk in work
on canine hemangiosarcoma.
Responsible breeders are individuals who have focused their efforts
on one or a select few breeds and, through breeding, historical research and ongoing study, mentoring relationships, club memberships, showing, raising and training of these breeds, have become knowledgeable about their health,
heritable defects, temperament and behaviour.
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.
Since this is a
heritable trait, any pet with this condition should be neutered to not pass
on this trait.
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On average (measuring the effects of genetics versus environment in the entire population), weight would look like a moderately
heritable trait: some influence of genetics, some of environment.
For me the scientist, extremely, because if researchers can find highly
heritable low - level biological traits, we can start working
on finding the genes that affect them.
Over the past 20 years research efforts at the University of Missouri Animal Genetics Laboratory have focused
on the identification of mutations responsible for
heritable diseases of dogs.
A: There is a familial renal disease of miniature schnauzers, which is presumed to be
heritable based
on the pattern (related dogs being affected).
Dr. Holland also volunteers her time at the AKC - sponsored «Responsible Dog Ownership Days,» where she performs Orthopedic Foundation for Animals examinations as a part of an effort to promote responsible breeding programs and research
on canine
heritable disorders.
CHD has been found to be moderately
heritable and, given its impact
on welfare, should be considered an imperative breeding priority.
The first type of sociopath is dependent
on their genetic makeup and personality, while certain factors of the second type can also be
heritable.
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.
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