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Schizophrenia, genetics, epigenesis, environment: a systematic review of unifi ed etiological hypotheses and genetic profi le; and a new algorithm to cope with the main fi ndings

, 2010
Contexto: la esquizofrenia es un síndrome complejo relacionado con genes y factores de riesgo no genéticos. Estudios epidemiológicos reconocidos reportan su presencia en todas las culturas y regiones geográficas. En este sentido, las Hipótesis Etiológicas Unificadas enfrentan simultáneamente el desafío de presentar los datos experimentales y demostrar ...
Machado Dias, Alvaro, Luiz Rodriguez, E. Avelino   +1 more
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The genetic determinism of human performances. A comparison between teachers' conceptions in Finland and France [PDF]

, 2009
International audienceFinland has the best mean sciences scores among the OECD countries while France is in the OECD average (PISA 2006). Nevertheless, when measuring interactions between knowledge and values in teachers' conceptions, the comparison ...
Castéra, Jérémy, Clement, Pierre
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A Very Little Bit of Knowledge: Re-Evaluating the Meaning of the Heritability of IQ [PDF]

, 2006
There is a deeper assumption underlying adoption studies that is often not acknowledged by either adoption study researchers or their critics, and it is an assumptions that is at least as important as the two considered by Richardson and Norgate: the ...
Moore, David S.
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Within selection Dentro de la selección

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2007
The synthetic theory of evolution proposes that biotic variations generated by mutation are mostly fixed, lost or maintained polymorphic by natural selection, with a marginal effect due to genetic drift.
CARLOS Y VALENZUELA
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A Conceptual Approach to Complex Model Management with Generalized Modelling Patterns and Evolutionary Identification

, 2018
Complex systems' modeling and simulation are powerful ways to investigate a multitude of natural phenomena providing extended knowledge on their structure and behavior.
Bochenina, Klavdiya O., Funkner, Anastasia A., Kalyuzhnaya, Anna V., Kisliakovskii, Ilia O., Kovalchuk, Sergey V., Metsker, Oleg G., Nikitin, Nikolay O., Vaganov, Danila A.   +7 more
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Can developmental disorders be used to bolster claims from evolutionary psychology? a neuroconstructivist approach [PDF]

, 2004
Book synopsis: Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological ...
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette, Thomas, Michael S.C.   +1 more
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Evolving Gene Regulatory Networks with Mobile DNA Mechanisms

, 2013
This paper uses a recently presented abstract, tuneable Boolean regulatory network model extended to consider aspects of mobile DNA, such as transposons.
Adamatzky, Andrew, Bull, Larry
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The Machine Conception of the Organism in Development and Evolution: A Critical Analysis [PDF]

, 2014
This article critically examines one of the most prevalent metaphors in modern biology, namely the machine conception of the organism (MCO). Although the fundamental differences between organisms and machines make the MCO an inadequate metaphor for ...
Nicholson, Daniel J.
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Defining the Boundaries of Development wih Plasticity

, 2011
International audienceThe concept of plasticity has always been present in the history of developmental biology, both within the theory of epigenesis and within morphogenesis studies.
AD Bradshaw, Antonine Nicoglou, AP Gupta, B Wallace, BK Hall, BK Hall, BK Hall, C Weele Van der, CD Schlichting, CD Schlichting, CF Wolff, CH Waddington, E Larsen, F Duchesneau, G Forgacs, G Fusco, GS Stent, GV Lauder, H Driesch, H Nijhout, I Salazar-Ciudad, I Salazar-Ciudad, IM Lerner, J Bolker, J-C Dupont, JT Hoverman, K Gotthard, L Buss, LC Dunn, LL Cavalli-Sforza, M Malpighi, M Pigliucci, M Pigliucci, M Pigliucci, MB Adams, MD Laubichler, MJ West-Eberhard, MJ West-Eberhard, MP Pener, O Vogt, P Brakefield, PK Diggle, PK Diggle, R Cudworth, R Lewontin, R Sansom, R Woltereck, RA Fisher, S Gilbert, S Ioannidis, S Oyama, S Sarkar, S Stearns, S Via, S Wright, SA Roe, SE Sultan, SE Sultan, SJ Gould, SM Scheiner, T Piersma, TH Morgan, V Hamburger, W Coleman, WA Johannsen   +64 more
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Epigenetic therapy in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2013
DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena appear to be relevant in the pathogenesis of several malignant disorders. DNA methyltransferases add methyl groups to cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) islandsleading to gene promoter silencing.
Qaiser Bashir, Basem Magdy William, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Marcos de Lima   +3 more
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