The phrase "nurture than nature" means that environmental factors play a more significant role in shaping an individual's traits and behavior compared to their genetic makeup.
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The new study found that those environmental factors can influence immunity
more than our genes do.
So, when you see the word «environment» used when talking about the causes of schizophrenia - another way to think of it is «everything
other than genes».
Because the vaccine causes the body to mount an immune response directed against a unique tumor, the therapy is much more
effective than gene - targeted or more general chemotherapy alone.
«Feeling that lifestyle is a greater
factor than genes was incredibly empowering,» she says.
Nevertheless, gene combination and regulation is more
relevant than gene presence in the time - scale of evolution.
When a new gene arises on the X chromosome (males have one X chromosome and females two) it is likely to cease functioning much
faster than genes that arise on other chromosomes.
We're in the age of the genome, but we can still recognize that it takes much
more than genes to make the human.
In addition, «We now have the first example of genome - scale engineering rather
than gene editing or genome copying,» said Church.
Lichtenstein found that the environment was more important
than genes for almost all kinds of cancers.
Factors other
than gene therapy — cancer in the boy's family history and a recent bout with chicken pox — may have helped the condition develop.
Our desire to reduce health to heredity and «what we're born with» has been challenged by the myriad variables that we are now coming to understand as being more
important than genes in determining wellness.
This fact is rooted in a packaging problem: the gene encoding FIX is much
smaller than the gene for FVIII, and better fits into a vector, usually a harmless virus, designed to deliver therapeutic genes to a patient.
«There's a lot more to the
genome than genes,» says Mark Gerstein, a bioinformatician at Yale University.
But a study now finds that the environment may play a bigger
role than genes do in revving up the immune system and shutting it down when the battle is over.
It's a fine performance, but certainly not stronger
than Gene Hackman in «The Royal Tenenbaums,» who sadly was not even nominated for a performance many consider among the finest of his career.
So, on average, the genes from humans and chimpanzees changed faster
than genes from monkeys, which changed faster than those from mice.
This is the concept of nutrigenomics: inputs like alcohol and folate from dark leafy greens may exert a greater impact on your body
than your genes do.
Just prove humans did in fact splice these genes to create a new type of goat rather
than the genes mutating / evolving naturally over time without any «creator or intelligence».
External factors are likely to play a bigger part in developing the personality of an
individual than the genes it inherits from its parents, suggests the study.
The discovery that much of the mammalian genome is transcribed, in some places without gaps (so - called transcriptional «forests»), shines a bright light on this embarrassing plentitude: an order of magnitude more
transcripts than genes (pp. 1559, 1564, and 1529).
They found that foster parents have a greater influence on the personalities of fostered
offspring than the genes inherited from birth parents.
And 40 genes involved in these nine schizophrenia - related pathways also differed much more between chimps and
humans than genes associated with the other 12.
Transposon element sites were far more likely to be
methylated than genes, which tended to be demethylated.
«The results suggest that the environment is a stronger contributor to adverse birth
outcomes than genes, since there are differences in rates of birth outcomes across states» Thayer said.
So antisense treatments may be easier to
develop than gene therapies which aim to replace defective genes with normal ones.
The insulin genes were more highly expressed in the venom
gland than genes for some of the established venom toxins.
Genes that are expressed only in the brain evolved more slowly than those that are expressed in the brain as well as other tissues, and those genes evolved more
slowly than genes expressed throughout the rest of the organism.
Perhaps, a molecule that could stimulate neurotrophic factors, such as NGF in vivo, would be more efficient, more safe and cost effective
than gene delivery directly into the brain.
The challenge of commercializing CRISPR has an even closer
cousin than gene therapy.
We conclude that the Seqping pipeline predictions are more
accurate than gene predictions using the other three approaches with the default or available HMMs.
If we can find them, it's likely they'll make more opportune drug
targets than genes that contribute comparably smaller risk.»
Because of its rapid rise, the gene becomes fixed in the genome with less
variation than a gene that spread more slowly and was subject to the shuffling effects of recombination.
These deliberate imperfections make it more Star
Wars than Gene Roddenberry's utopian vision of 22nd century life.
However, puppies spayed or neutered prior to maturity grow taller and
lankier than their genes intended, and are more likely to become obese, in addition to other health consequences.
Moreover, for the first time, they show that changes in whole - organism phenotypic responses are accompanied by changes in the expression of genes related to intracellular regulatory processes rather
than genes thought to be essential for calcification.
«Ultimately, we brought a motion before Justice Hackland for the dismissal of the action as against my clients, other
than Gene Simmons, on those formal grounds.
And it appears increasingly likely that this «second genome,» as it is sometimes called, exerts an influence on our health as great and possibly even
greater than the genes we inherit from our parents.