Phenotypic differences between two HIF lines, carrying either parental allele in the target region, while being otherwise genetically identical, can be attributed to genetic variation in the target QTL interval.
Because WT C. elegans are genetically identical, the differences cannot be attributed to genetic variation.
What these studies allow us to do is estimate the heritability of an outcome - the proportion of variability in the outcome that can be attributed to genetic factors across a population (and therefore also the proportion attributable to environmental factors).
Some of it could be attributed to genetic predisposition.
Could declines in violence in particular societies be attributed to genetic change among its members?
It strongly suggests, they add, that the ornament cannot be attributed to genetic correlation or the similarity between genes inherited by the two sexes, an argument that scientists have traditionally used to explain female ornamentation.
There is no single known cause of alcoholism, but the researchers wrote that about two-thirds of alcohol dependence could be attributed to genetic factors and one-third to environmental causes like stress or emotional problems.
But surprisingly, mathematical modeling suggested that only 38 percent of the cases could be attributed to genetic factors, compared with the 90 percent suggested by previous studies.
Much of this variability can be attributed to genetic polymorphisms.
The observed protein sequence limitations can primarily be attributed to genetic codon degeneracy and signal peptidase cleavage preferences.
Initially, epigenetics was used to design mitotic and meiotic changes in gene transcription that could not be attributed to genetic mutations.
