Modigliani also evinced another congenital trait: spending money as fast as he got it, usually in small allotments from relatives.
Building on Ulrichs's insight that same-sex desire was a congenital trait, Hirschfeld developed a minutely variegated conception of human sexuality, with a spectrum of "sexual intermediaries" appearing between the poles of the purely male and the purely female.
In a third study, mutations in MYH11 [MIM 160745], the gene coding for smooth muscle (SM) myosin heavy chain were shown to trigger patent ductus arteriosus as a congenital trait and the formation of thoracic aortic aneurysms or aortic dissections in adults.
Hall wrote The Well of Loneliness in part to popularize the ideas of sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, who regarded homosexuality as an inborn and inalterable trait: congenital sexual inversion.
The ability of ROH to reveal information about ancient and recent genetic events makes them useful tools to analyze population history [ 3], inbreeding levels [ 4] and effects of inbreeding on complex traits and congenital disorders [ 5].
Parents of the deleted children did not harbour any congenital defects including heart or other principal trait characteristics for the 22q11.2DS.
Hirschprung's disease, or congenital megacolon, is the prototype of a complex genetic trait and displays an inheritance pattern that could well be representative of autism.
The siblings in Family 2 share several unusual traits in addition to paraplegia and intellectual disability: congenital cervical spinal narrowing, dysmorphological features (prognathism, wide mouth, deep-set eyes), and tumours (ovarian teratoma and colonic adenocarcinoma).
Thus, genomic disorders encompass not only rare multiple congenital anomaly and mental retardation syndromes, but also common and complex traits, such as autism and schizophrenia, as well as other neurobehavioral phenotypes.
