Sentence examples for contributing a very small from inspiring English sources

This is largely because the genetic architecture of endophenotypes appears to be very much like that of behavioral traits and disorders: they are complex, influenced by many variants (e.g., tens of thousands) within many genes, each contributing a very small effect.

Large effect QTL may be due to the inbreeding nature of some species, while out-crossing plants such as tall fescue and maize may have very large number of genes contributing a very small amount to a quantitative trait [ 46].

From the observation that combinations of autosomal SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) predicting schizophrenia in one sample also predict illness in independent samples it has been argued [Purcell et al., 2009] that heritability is highly polygenic with perhaps more than a thousand genes each contributing a very small effect.

The genetic variants that emerged from these analyses explained <1 12% of the variance in the phenotype examined, once again suggesting these traits are highly polygenic with many loci contributing a very small proportion of the variation, and these phenotype-genotype associations were often sex specific.

Other components of aboveground biomass such as palms and herbaceous vegetation contribute a very small fraction compared to the contributions of tree aboveground biomass.

The rich contribute a very small quantity of money to this.

Thus the inferior vena caval compression in the abdomen would only occur at its downstream extremity and this could only contribute a very small fraction to the blood shift volumes we measured.

We detected only one instance of sneaking, so cuckoldry contributed a very small percentage (~0.1%) of the total fertilizations in this population.

Our data suggest that amino acids are relatively poor sources of nitrogen compared to nitrate, and that amino acids contribute a very small amount to growth and potential reproductive output in A. thaliana.

BCG-specific IL-2+ CD8+ T cells contributed a very small proportion of the overall response; however, the frequency was significantly different between the four groups of infants, P =  0.005.

A: Very small quantities, and we stopped.