Sentence examples for more complex trait from inspiring English sources
The known genetic mechanisms underlying lower azole sensitivity include mutations affecting the CYP51 gene that encodes the target protein, but in many cases azole resistance is a more complex trait with an unknown genetic basis.
Together, these results may indicate that the incidence(s) giving rise to the sakacin P resistance in L502-6 resulted in a more complex trait(s) than in L502-1.
The results suggest that BMI is predominantly associated with the maternal line, possibly either with intrauterine development, or inherited through the X chromosome, or both, while height is a more complex trait with genetic influences of the parents and that of the paternal grandfather predominating.
The idea that their technology might one day be used to screen for more complex traits does not sit well with everyone.
The more complex traits have been facilitated by the development of increasingly efficient and sophisticated approaches, including the vastly increased knowledge of genomes and gene function.
This also paves the way to the characterization of even more complex traits (e.g., yield, resistance to stresses, diseases) or processes (e.g., fruit ripening, growth efficiency, senescence) [4, 8].
As new arrays are developed that can assay more SNPs, it may be possible to use across breed mapping for more complex traits.
These observations, if generalizable to more complex traits, imply that we need to understand the organization of such complex traits in their genotype space, before we can hope to understand constrained evolution well.
Small populations are useful for identifying loci if a trait is controlled by a few loci with large phenotypic effect; however, more complex traits controlled by multiple loci with relatively small phenotypic effect will require large experimental populations.
Furthermore, it is quite plausible that simple traits are acquired faster than more complex traits.
Obviously, more complex traits, affected by factors such as epistasis and plieotropy, will be more challenging.
