"I didn't expect that to be the primary trait of whomever they hired".
We did however concentrate on parasite burden as the primary trait of interest so that in choosing the most extreme animals for this trait for genotyping we were reducing our chances of finding QTL for the other traits examined.
This touched upon two of the primary traits of our readers — their literary acumen and their tasteless sense of humor — and, as a result, it was a runaway success.
To evaluate the best pre-processing method for specific code sets and study designs, a function was created to rank methods based on the coefficient of variation of control probes, the intra-class correlation of replicate groups and the fold change accuracy for primary traits of interest.
We examined whether the inducible morphology is a secondary reaction that compensates for the cost incurred as a result of a primary indelible trait to the risk of predation.
Among the across-family regression analyses, 16 showed chromosome-wide significance for the primary traits incidence of clinical mastitis in first (CM1), second (CM2), and third (CM3) lactations, and SCS.
The major limitation of using these methods is the expense of identifying large numbers of subjects with and without the full spectrum of the primary trait.
Our data suggested that the rapidity of the articular response to injury seems to also be governed genetically and independently of the primary trait.
Many of these studies use clinic-based case-control subjects ascertained for the presence or absence of the primary trait (e.g., AMD) and systematically document phenotypes on few, if any, other complex ocular traits [6] [10].
It is well established that root length is one of the primary traits that support plants to tolerate the limited water conditions [ 16].
Greater pleiotropic effects are seen for mutations with larger effects on the primary trait (48, 49), as would be anticipated for type II pleiotropic influences that are downstream effects of considerable perturbation of the primary trait.
