Sentence examples for examining linkage from inspiring English sources

These included examination of differential patterns of inheritance for imprinting and anticipation effects [ 7- 10], examining linkage in genetically isolated cohorts [ 11- 14], and searching for 'intermediate phenotypes' or 'endophenotypes' [ 15, 16] to use as alternative variables in linkage analyses.

As a first step to understand the full genetic complexity (i.e., the genetic landscape) underlying the regulation of sleep, we carried out a genome wide scan for the various components of this complex mammalian behavior by examining linkage between 2,310 informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 20 sleep-wake traits in 269 male mice from a genetically segregating population.

Since the emergence of intensified political polarization in the late 1970s, there has been a burst of studies examining linkages between ideology, partisan identification and moral values.

Many natural resource management researchers have focused either on institutional design and evaluation or on livelihood outcomes per se without explicitly acknowledging and rigorously examining linkages between the two.

Subsequently, the synoptic approach has been used in a number of studies examining linkages between weather situations and health outcomes [ 21, 24- 26], and between weather situations, air pollution [ 27], and health outcomes [ 28, 29].

Taking a systemic approach to health innovation in Africa – i.e examining linkages between groups and seeking to understand the context affecting health innovation – reveals interesting results and rich areas for future enquiry.

They propose a conceptual framework that allows identifying and examining linkages between urbanization dynamics and the associated land system changes, which can occur in distant places, and discuss the sustainability implications of this increasingly important land system change.

Our study also contributes to the emergent literature examining linkages between community effects and weight for age, as we found significant division-level effects for this measure of child malnutrition at age one.

Four scenarios for the relationship between the marker and disease loci were examined: linkage and association, linkage without association, association without linkage, and absence of both linkage and association.

We examined linkage disequilibrium between rs3811647 and rs1358024.

A previous genome scan by Wheeler et al. [23] examined linkage to TB immune phenotypes; these phenotypes were immunoglobulin and IFNγ responses to various Mtb proteins.