The leading biotechnology trait provider in corn, Monsanto Company, together with trait discovery partner, BASF, anticipates that by 2020 new corn hybrids will include >10 biotechnology traits [ 30] and as many as 20 by 2030 [ 31].
In particular, the phosphocholine PC ae C44:5 was found as a common leading trait in 374 out of the 391 loci.
He thinks that this explains why self-centeredness was the leading personality trait of the period — why Tom Wolfe was right to call the nineteen-seventies the Me Decade.
His leading traits — idealism, vagueness, sentimentality — were exactly what the young writers of the twenties were running away from.
In her youth, Nichols's leading traits were strength,… If the avant-garde theatre ever had a femme fatale, it was Judith Malina.
In her youth, Nichols's leading traits were strength, precision, and a ravishing variety of musical phrasing.
For each trait, the leading five SNPs captured much of the phenotypic variation.
One impact of this assumption is that the leading factor of a simulated trait often accounts for a nontrivial fraction of the genetic variance of the trait (e.g., often 20 25% in traits with 100 QTL; Supporting Information, Figure S1) and that genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have high power to detect this leading factor as long as the heritability is modest.
And as he left the State Department at the end of the Clinton administration, he agreed to discuss the critical moments in the peace process as well as the personal traits of the leading figures he came to know so intimately.
The number of parameters to be estimated can be reduced by taking into account only the leading principal components of the traits considered.
