Dr. Posthuma wanted to find the genes that influence intelligence.
They also concentrate in genes that influence skin and hair characteristics.
A long-running experiment provides clues to genes that influence friendliness to humans.
Ariizumi, T., Shinozaki, Y. & Ezura, H. Genes that influence yield in tomato.
But genes that influence diseases of old age, which kick in long after the years of fertility, escape that net.
Genes that influence learning, memory and vulnerability to cancer have been identified with the help of these "knock-out" mice.
Conclusions: Using RNAi, we identified genes that influence cytoskeletal organization and morphology in two distinct cell types.
Until recently, however, scientists did not have the tools to locate the genes that influence human behaviors.
There are also the ethical issues of genetic privacy, germ-line genetic engineering, and genes that influence human behavior.
Identifying genes that influence phenotypic variation within species has proven to be more difficult than expected.
Observed associations between these phenotypes could be because there are common genes that influence them all.
