Selection in finite populations
with multiple alleles.
Not exact matches
The queen bee, who, in the course of their mating flight, mate
with different drones
multiple times, passes on to fertilized eggs a random combinations of two csd copies, so - called
alleles.
However, prevailing GWA data analysis methods are focusing on the association of individual SNP
alleles with a complex disease, although
multiple alleles are involved by definition.
The WGS data was included 582 individuals from 111 multiplex AD families of European or Caribbean Hispanic ancestry, favoring families
with multiple cases across generations excluding families
with higher frequency of the APOE ε4
allele.
They applied a strategy for seraching genes
with multiple rare (minor
allele frequency < 0.001) variants in cases but not in controls
with a potentially damaging effect.
These GEMM - ESCs,
with often
multiple modified
alleles, form the basis for further genetic engineering either by Flp - recombinase mediated integration, gene targeting or Crispr / Cas9 to allow for the evaluation of altered target gene expression in a spontaneous tumor model.
«What was somewhat surprising is that we observe
multiple different Neanderthal
alleles contributing to skin and hair tones,» Janet Kelso, a computational biologist who co-authored the study
with her colleague Michael Dannemann, told Seeker.
Performing genetic studies in
multiple human populations can identify disease risk
alleles that are common in one population but rare in others,
with the potential to illuminate pathophysiology, health disparities, and the population genetic origins of disease
alleles.
The large sample size combined
with sensitive sequencing techniques that detected even rare
alleles and infections by
multiple parasites enabled researchers to find an
allele - specific response that smaller studies had missed.
The affected dogs (A) are homozygous for the dodecamer repeat expansion mutation
with multiple dodecamer repeats, carrier (C) dogs have the normal and mutated
allele and clear dogs (WT) have three copies of the repeat [8]
Second, we sought to determine whether the frequency of S
allele carriers predicts cultural individualism and collectivism by conducting a
multiple regression analysis
with individualism — collectivism as the criterion variable and frequency of S
allele carriers, as well as four other economic and health factors previously associated
with individualism — collectivism including GDP per capita, inequity in the distribution of wealth (Gini index) as well as historical and contemporary pathogen prevalence as predictor variables (Fincher et al. 2008).