Sentences with phrase «with heritable»

I wanted to make something that resonated more with heritable information — «autobiographical information» might be a better way of saying it.

The small English town of Loves Bridge vibrates with heritable curses, tension between social castes, and the insatiable longings of its beguiling inhabitants.

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.

This committee provides expert opinion in formulating guidelines for care of patient and families with heritable cancer syndromes.

«This provides the first plausible molecular mechanism for a cell to respond to its environment with a heritable change in phenotype,» offers Lindquist.

Broadly speaking, we are interested in understanding how genes affect behaviour, but despite rapid advances in technology for sequencing and engineering genomes, it is still a challenge to associate particular genes with heritable behavioural differences because behaviour is time consuming to measure and difficult to quantify.

While genetics deals with the DNA sequence itself and the heritable changes in the DNA (mutations), epigenetics deals with heritable traits that are not caused by mutations.

Cuervo's group found that a mutant protein associated with a heritable version of Parkinson's gums up lysosomal channels.

Before they had to deal with heritable breast cancer and its lead agent, the BRCA1.185 delAG mutation, a previous generation of Ashkenazim had confronted Tay - Sachs, another genetic disease.

Not exact matches

«Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations» so, what you have to say is «Evolution by an entirely random process with out supernatural intervention» and, unfortunately that doenst really say anything yet..

Having family members with these pre-menopausal cancers increase your chances of genetically heritable mutations that increase your risk of developing these cancers.

Actually, type I diabetes is associated with genetic predisposition, specifically it is common with certain tissue types (which makes sense, as it is an autoimmune disorder), and also certain ethnicities, and is highly heritable.

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.

«At 16 %, longevity is one of the least heritable traits with medical relevance.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

Heritable, biological factors interact with environmental experiences to produce sexual orientation.

In line with the views of most biomedical researchers, lawmakers struck a note of caution about the implications of new gene editing techniques that make heritable changes to human embryos.

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.»

Although studying genetic diversity in African populations tells us a great deal about human history, there is even more to learn by juxtaposing the genetic diversity with the diversity of heritable traits (phenotypes).

Both conditions are associated with cognitive and sensory - processing problems, both are strongly heritable, and both involve atypical brain development.

Although ASD is heritable, children with no family history of the disorder can still develop it through genetic mutations.

«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.

After testing the candidates with several tools used to identify prions, the scientists determined that one of the proteins, called Luminidependens (LD), has several traits associated with prions and could maintain a heritable, self - perpetuating state.

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.

The study has been adjusted for social conditions and parental educational levels; however, it can not be ruled out that heritable and environmental factors associated with infections might also influence the associations.

I explain to my students that evolution is a process that follows many rules, foremost among them that certain random changes in heritable factors provide their possessors with advantages in coping with an ever - changing environment.

White matter disease in midlife is heritable, related to hypertension, and shares some genetic influence with systolic blood pressure

ASD are highly heritable and many different stretches of DNA have been found to be duplicated or deleted in individuals with ASD.

The late Dr. Lemuel Herrera was a surgical oncologist whose astute clinical observation led him to team up with distinguished geneticist Dr. Avery Sandberg at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to find the APC gene, associated with familial adenomatous polyposis, the first described heritable colorectal cancer syndrome.

These data suggest either that there are limited differences in methylation between patients with diabetes and nondiabetic subjects or that DNA methylation in human adipose tissue is highly heritable.

It enables rank - and - file scientists — just about anyone with a modern laboratory and the right skills — to alter specific genes within plants and animals and make those changes heritable.

While environmental factors play a role in developing T2D, it is also highly heritable — and the genetics involved are complex, with many genes contributing to disease risk.

Dr. Gibbs also gave an overview of their investigations into heritable variants in pediatric cancers (in collaboration with MD Anderson).

Fragile X syndrome (FraX), the most common heritable cause of developmental disability, is associated with IQ, memory, and visuospatial processing deficits.

Primary care physicians can utilize True Health's genTrue ™ hereditary cancer tests to identify individuals with suspected heritable cancer syndrome.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

Since «dyslexia is strongly heritable, occurring in up to 50 % of individuals who have a first - degree relative with dyslexia» (Gaab, 2017) initial screening should include family history.

I've summarised the first here: http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2018/03/selective-schools-advantage-based-on-heritable-factors-not-school-type-says-new-report I don't entirely agree with the authors about heritable factors — they cite environment as one, for example.

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.

The term, «canine familial dermatomyositis» currently should be reserved for dogs with clinical and histopathologic evidence of a juvenile onset heritable inflammatory disease affecting skin and muscle in a breed known to be at increased risk.

These include hip and elbow dysplasia (heritable condition can lead to lameness and severe pain), bloat or gastric torsion (a serious condition that affects large sized dogs with deep chests),

Here again, you only want to work with a breeder willing to disclose all heritable conditions associated with the breed and present in that breeder's line.

The information derived from these exams will help the individual breeder and the breed club to avoid heritable ocular diseases with potential for blindness from becoming common in this breed.

Since this is a heritable trait, any pet with this condition should be neutered to not pass on this trait.

Our pet dogs share our environment closely, allowing us to examine not only the heritable risk factors, but also those associated with the environment.

If you contributed your dog's DNA to the University of Missouri's TT DNA bank, please remember to update your dog's health information if your dog is diagnosed with a possible heritable disease (for example, PRA or other eye disease, deafness, orthopedic disorders, AIHA, lymphoma, etc.) since the sample was submitted.

By not having a dual registry with a special category of pure - breed dogs who have been progeny - tested and screened for genetic abnormalities and heritable diseases, the «papers» are of little value, although many believe them to be like some Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Do remember that after January 1997 the breed will be registered by the Kennel Club with Glaucoma and Dysplacia as «Heritable diseases», this will make breeders legally liable.

Working with them to help reduce the incidence of heritable health problems may require more patience and tolerance, but will ultimately improve the health status of your breed.

It has also been seen as a congenital and heritable condition associated with retinal dysplasia in certain breeds, such as the Labrador retriever.