Sentence examples for maternal pattern from inspiring English sources
The mitochondria are only a single genetic lineage and it was not clear if the mitochondrial pattern was typical of the genome at large or if the pattern was anomalous perhaps due to its maternal pattern of inheritance.
We have not examined this maternal pattern any further.
Each human cell contains hundreds to several thousand copies of the 16.5 kb human mitochondrial genome, which incidentally exhibits a maternal pattern of inheritance.
Therefore, although the sample size is very small, in the SLI families we did not observe a clear maternal pattern that would support the 3 M hypothesis.
24 25 The present analysis of BMI has extended this to include both birth weight and data when the children were aged 9 years and shows this strong maternal pattern consistently for children while height, by comparison, is heritable across lineages.
The study suggests that environment influences methylation patterns in maternal blood, and then the maternal patterns influence the methylation status and levels of folate and vitamin B12 in cord blood.
As shown in figure 8, the initial expression domain of toy at the cellular blastoderm stage is cooperatively regulated by the three maternal patterning systems (the anterior, terminal, and dorsoventral systems) cooperatively with the zygotically active gap genes.
Although glucose plays a major role in fetal growth, this paradox underscores the likely role of other nutrients in fetal growth, but also the need to critically reexamine our definition of "normal" maternal patterns of glycemia and the effects on fetal growth.
Likewise, DNA methylation at the regulatory regions should become homogeneous and resemble either the maternal or the paternal pattern.
Moreover, the patterns at the two imprinted loci were not the traditional paternal or maternal expression pattern.
In combination with the maternal inheritance pattern of mitochondrial disease, this disease clearly lays different burdens on women than it does on their male counterparts.
