Even though we reduced the number of candidates by using multiple filtering methods, it is necessary to eliminate genes that have genetic differences that may not represent phenotypic differences.
Differences in size distributions and mortality schedules may represent a phenotypic response to different environmental conditions [18].
Resulting protease-antiprotease imbalance in high-grade dysplasia may represent the phenotypic change associated with malignant transformation and invasive behaviour.
In a similar way, we may represent the phenotypic sample variance as (19) s p 2 = 1 n - 1 ∑ i = 1 n p i - p ¯ 2 = p T P u p, where p = μ ^ = μ ^ 1, μ ^ 2, …, μ ^ n T is the vector of observed phenotypes.
The total number of independent phenotypes, i.e. the dimensionality of the phenotypic space, is taken to represent phenotypic complexity.
Thus, sarcopenia may represent a unique phenotypic feature of aging that requires specific and individually tailored therapeutic strategies.
It follows that such patterns may represent not only phenotypic plasticity to local conditions (and contaminants), but raises the possibility they may comprise a genetic component.
Genes showing strikingly different M F ratios among tissues warrant further investigation as they may represent candidates for phenotypic differences in the physiology.
Nonetheless, the predictor HCNSG would work equally well in either case given that both species occur as hexaploids, and the ability to form polyploids may represent a kind of phenotypic plasticity or genetic archictecture promoting invasion success within species or genera.
