Sentence examples for genes contributed to from inspiring English sources

In some cases, people confuse the "biological" approach of evolutionary science, which seeks to understand how genes contributed to the evolution of humans as a species, with the field of behavioral genetics, which investigates to what extent heredity accounts for how traits like shyness or schizophrenia vary from person to person.

These results suggest that additive-effect genes contributed to the differences in juvenile growth.

James Leebens-Mack, a plant geneticist at the University of Georgia in Athens, agrees: "We now need to determine whether certain types of genes tended to be retained in duplicate and investigate how functional evolution of these genes contributed to major innovations such as the origin of the seed".

Grant and his colleagues wondered whether duplications of certain genes contributed to this explosion in the number of brain proteins, and as a result, to vertebrate intelligence.

Also presence of sites under positive selection in some Ymf genes contributed to such rapid evolution.

Here we use phylogenomics to search for genes contributed to Plantae by a surprising source, Chlamydiae bacteria.

Characterization of the 1918 pandemic virus reconstructed by reverse genetics showed that PB1, hemagglutinin (HA), and neuraminidase (NA) genes contributed to the viral replication and virulence of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus.

It is believed many genes contribute to such diseases, with each one having a small effect.

Figuring out which genes contribute to disease could help in developing drugs.

And more work will need to be done to determine exactly how the reactivated virus genes contribute to the disease.

"Genetic mutations and unlucky combinations of normal genes contribute to the risk of autism and schizophrenia," Dr. Hyman said.