When one parent insists that getting rid of a trait will increase her child's relative freedom and the group of people who live with that trait point to the ways that the choice contributes to and reinforces social prejudice against their group (Lane and Grodin 1997; Saxton 2000; Asch 2000), how are we to proceed with the regulation of "liberal" eugenics?
The phenotypic selection gradient for seed quality traits points also to a potential role of inbreeding.
The increase in saccharification efficiency in the fpgs1 mutant without dramatic negative effects on biomass traits points to an alternative target for improvement of lignocellulosic feedstocks.
Besides, the fact that HNF1A polymorphism has been linked with susceptibility to both CAD and its important risk traits points to some pleiotropic actions of the gene on disease pathways leading to atherosclerosis.
Location-based analysis of demographic traits pointed out areas where the test product would likely become a customer favorite.
"It would indeed be wonderful, if, [the] mind of [an] animal was not closely allied to that of men, when the five senses were the same," Darwin wrote, expressing hope that shared biological traits pointed to even stronger evolutionary ties between man and his best friend.
Studies on cortisol in adults with psychopathic traits point toward an inversely proportional association between psychopathic traits and both daily cortisol levels [ 16] and stress-induced cortisol reactivity [ 23, 24].
Initial insights into the contribution of rare variants in common diseases and medically relevant quantitative traits point to low-frequency and rare alleles acting either independently or in aggregate and in several cases alongside common variants.
That both genes affecting dopaminergic brain pathways and climatic demand interact with each other in how they affect personality traits is theoretically important because it offers both a plausible mechanism underlying cultural differences in personality traits and points to a possible reason for the often noted absence of correlations between personality and specific genes39.
Among the characteristic Hunanese traits she points to are a love for smoked foods, a wealth of steamed dishes and hotpots, a preference for hot-salty and hot-sour flavors, and a distaste for sweetness in most savory dishes.
