The phrase "continuous trait" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a characteristic or quality that is generally consistent or sustained over a period of time. For example, "Winning the NBA championship five years in a row is a continuous trait of this team's excellence."
We present evidence that CAM is a continuous trait in P. afra and CAM is operating continuously at low levels during C3 photosynthesis which may explain the high variability in its carbon isotope composition.
Intraocular pressure (IOP), an important risk factor for glaucoma, is a continuous trait determined by a complex set of genetic and environmental factors that are largely unknown.
The NA was treated as a continuous trait in the statistical modeling.
For bivariate simulation, we simulated a binary trait and a continuous trait or two continuous traits.
Table 7 lists the gain of power by bivariate analysis for a binary trait and a continuous trait.
For continuous trait analysis, quantitative trait association analyses were performed by linear regression after adjusting age, gender and BMI as confounding factors.
We describe the full simulation method for the continuous trait and then state additional steps that were needed for the dichotomous phenotypes (random population sample and case control).
Salt sensitivity, i.e. the individual blood pressure reaction to a given change in salt intake is a continuous trait [4] and cut-off limits used to dichotomize the trait are arbitrary and have differed between studies.
Different patterns of gene interactions may produce further insights in the analysis of gene regulation structures; 2) this method can be not only applied to a binary trait, but also a continuous trait for gene interaction analyses.
Figure 1 displays the loss of power when the causal site contributes only to a binary trait (left panel) or only to a continuous trait (right panel), under the various population structures.
In previous analyses in the AFDS [52], [53], [54], [55], rs1884614 in HNF4A [52], rs2275703 and rs617698 in CASQ1 [54], and rs1029629 in ADIPOR2 [53] were found to be significantly associated with the continuous trait Glucose area under curve (GAUC).
