Sentences with phrase «percent heritable»

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.

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.

The risk of developing autism, according to one study, is more than 90 percent heritable because the concordance for autism is high in monozygotic twins and low in dizygotic twins.

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

Not exact matches

In reading the genetic literature, we found that up to 60 percent of critical personality characteristics are heritable.

Knudson, who has been affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia since 1976, was studying children with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye, noting differences between the 40 percent of cases with heritable tumors and the 60 percent of non-heritable cases.

Researchers think it may account for up to four percent of the heritable risk for depression.