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Biological Information, Causality and Specificity - an Intimate Relationship [PDF]
, 2017 In this chapter we examine the relationship between biological information, the key biological concept of specificity, and recent philosophical work on causation.
Griffiths, Paul E., Stotz, Karola
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Development has intrigued humanity since ancient times. Today, the main paradigm in developmental biology and evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is the genetic program, in which development is explained by the interplay and interaction of ...
Agustín Ostachuk
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Spectrum of genetic diversity and networks of clonal organisms [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 4, 1093-1102 (2007), 2006 Clonal organisms present a particular challenge in population genetics because, in addition to the possible existence of replicates of the same genotype in a given sample, some of the hypotheses and concepts underlying classical population genetics models are irreconcilable with clonality.
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Epigenetics: What it is about? [PDF]
, 2014 Epigenetics has captured the attention of scientists in the past decades, yet its scope has been continuously changing. In this paper, we give an overview on how and why its definition has evolved and suggest several clarification on the concepts used in
Ogryzko, Vasily, Saade, Evelyne
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Does your gene need a background check? How genetic background impacts the analysis of mutations, genes, and evolution [PDF]
Trends in Genetics 2013 29(6):358-366, 2013 The premise of genetic analysis is that a causal link exists between phenotypic and allelic variation. Yet it has long been documented that mutant phenotypes are not a simple result of a single DNA lesion, but rather are due to interactions of the focal allele with other genes and the environment.
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Genetic similarity versus genetic ancestry groups as sample descriptors in human genetics [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 A common sample descriptor in human genomics studies is that of 'genetic ancestry group', with terms such as 'European genetic ancestry' or 'East Asian genetic ancestry' frequently used in publications to describe the genetics of groups of individuals based on the analysis of their genotypes.
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Genome-wide DNA methylation and long-term ambient air pollution exposure in Korean adults
Clinical Epigenetics, 2019 Background Ambient air pollution is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood; epigenetic effects including altered DNA methylation could play a role. To evaluate associations of long-term air
Mi Kyeong Lee +9 more
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An investigation into the application of genetic programming to combinatorial game theory [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Genetic programming is the practice of evolving formulas using crossover and mutation of genes representing functional operations. Motivated by genetic evolution we develop and solve two combinatorial games, and we demonstrate some advantages and pitfalls of using genetic programming to investigate Grundy values.
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Stephane Leduc and the vital exception in the Life Sciences
, 2016 Embryogenesis, the process by which an organism forms and develops, has long been and still is a major field of investigation in the natural sciences.
Clement, Raphael
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Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2019 The aim of the work is to establish the relationship between the expression levels of microRNA-378f, microRNA-4311, microRNA-4714-3p and anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical parameters of functional disorders of the gallbladder and Oddi's sphincter (FD ...
O. Ye. Abaturov, V. L. Babуch
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