"We looked at each other and said: 'We need to be here, we need to engage, we need to contribute a tiny bit,'" Simonides said.
"We think that there are many genes — there might be hundreds, there might be thousands, each of which might contribute a tiny amount individually" to heightened risk, says Jordan Smoller, a psychiatric geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has collaborated with Nock.
That means that while the average American contributes approximately 6.2percentt of her or his annual earnings to Social Security, the wealthiest 16percentt of Americans contribute a tiny proportion.
Whenever the hint of a scintilla of a suggestion arises that perhaps billionaires could contribute a tiny, wee, microscopic bit more to our society, you can expect the Republicans to respond with one particular term.
But along the way, the research helps provides answers as to why certain drugs fail in humans after working on animals, and "if we can just contribute a tiny bit to that understanding and making our science better, that will save animals," Bajramovic said.
Foundation programmes, however, contribute a tiny fraction to the annual national intake of medical students, and it is unsurprising therefore that little impact on the national picture has emerged, in which the proportion of students from under-represented groups remains steady.
