Sentence examples for be ascribed to selection from inspiring English sources

Later, he and geneticist Richard Lewontin challenged the notion that all traits could be ascribed to selection, pointing out that, like ornate but nonfunctional spandrels between the arches of a building, many traits may simply be unavoidable byproducts of functionally important traits.

Conservation of these sequence elements cannot be ascribed to selection against changes in the encoded primary protein sequence because such selection would not prevent synonymous variation.

We found that GPs attending a feedback meeting made more changes and plans than those who did not, but this may be ascribed to selection bias and does not necessarily reflect a benefit from the meetings.

This is reminiscent of the intense selection for amino acid change seen previously in alleles from the Japanese islands, and which was ascribed to selection for adaptation to local conditions [34].

To roughly estimate the extent of phenomena that could be ascribed to natural selection in our LRG set, we used an approach similar to that proposed by Barreiro et al. [ 29].

In our study, the observed weak correlation of E2 DNA copy numbers with LEPR mRNA levels in LCLs might be ascribed to inappropriate selection of target tissues for LEPR and LEPROT expression studies.

This finding may be ascribed to the stringent selection criteria we have applied to assemble the reference retinome by excluding all transcripts (n = 2,608) that were reported in only a single study.

From this perspective, because the same contextual preferences shown here also apply across exonic, intronic, and intergenic DNA (fig. 1 and tables 1 and 2), the distributions cannot be ascribed to ongoing natural selection for optimizing or conserving amino acid sequence.

The divergence between those studies and ours might be ascribed to the different patient selection procedures: in those studies MwoA patients were selected from a cohort of subjects (i.e., population-based register) on the basis of self-report measures.

The decrease in mortality over time evidenced by our study cannot be ascribed to changes in patient selection for ICU admission, as no significant changes occurred in the burden of co-morbidities or in the HIV load and CD4 cell count.

However, despite the positive phase II data there remains a high failure rate in late stage clinical trials which, in many cases can be ascribed to inappropriate trial design, poor patient selection and inconsistency in patient management.