In contrast, the modifiable trait in our model is the efficiency of producing a particular metabolite.
"As mindfulness is likely a modifiable trait, this study provides preliminary evidence for a fairly novel and modifiable potential determinant of diabetes risk," Lockus said.
Whilst we cannot be sure that compliance is a modifiable trait, research from other areas suggest that it is, and issues such as family and work commitments in scheduling of sessions, or even in the mode of delivery (for example requiring attendance at a face to face meeting), may render better compliance [ 26].
In addition to inherent interest, and its role as a modifiable trait on the causal path to disease, the known heterogeneity of POAG means that a focus on the genetic basis of IOP may be more powerful than studies of POAG directly (22, 23).
One misinterpretations of the heritability coefficient is that it provides an index of trait malleability, i.e. the higher the heritability the less modifiable the trait is through environmental intervention [ 33].
The primary form of circulating vitamin D, 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH D], is a modifiable quantitative trait associated with multiple medical outcomes, including osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, selected malignancies, and especially colorectal cancer, with rickets being the most common expression of severe clinical vitamin D deficiency in children (1).
While the genetic basis of rope-building has not been studied directly, due to the lack of genetically modifiable strains, it is likely a genetically controlled trait, inasmuch as it appears easily lost in spontaneous genetic variants upon continued cultivation [4].
This would imply that coping style is not so much a personality variable (trait) but modifiable, at least in chronically stressful situations such as immigrating to a foreign country.
We have assumed that each interaction coefficient is independently modifiable whereas in natural populations traits may affect many interactions simultaneously.
This indicates that fear-avoidance beliefs not are static personal traits but are modifiable and depend on the experience (e.g. pain experience).
