Heritability and tissue specificity of expression quantitative trait loci. [PDF]
Variation in gene expression is heritable and has been mapped to the genome in humans and model organisms as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). We applied integrated genome-wide expression profiling and linkage analysis to the regulation of gene
Enrico Petretto +11 more
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Quantitative trait loci and transcriptome signatures associated with avian heritable resistance to Campylobacter [PDF]
Campylobacter is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide. Handling or consumption of contaminated poultry meat is a key risk factor for human campylobacteriosis.
Androniki Psifidi +16 more
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Endocranial volume is variable and heritable, but not related to fitness, in a free-ranging primate
Large relative brain size is a defining characteristic of the order Primates. Arguably, this can be attributed to selection for behavioral aptitudes linked to a larger brain size.
Abigail E. Colby +2 more
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Niche construction in quantitative traits: heritability and response to selection
A central tenet of niche construction (NC) theory is that organisms can alter their environments in heritable and evolutionarily important ways, often altering selection pressures. We suggest that the physical changes niche constructors make to their environments may also alter trait heritability and the response of phenotypes to selection. This effect
Laurel Fogarty, Michael J. Wade
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Heritability of bipolar affective disorder: Family study [PDF]
Background/Aim. Bipolar affective disorder is mental disorder with polygenic type of heredity. Heritability - relation between genetic and environmental variance is used to estimate the level of influence of genetic variance to phenotype variance ...
Obradović Tanja +3 more
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Introduction: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes respiratory disease in piglets and reproductive disease in sows. Piglet and fetal serum thyroid hormone (i.e., T3 and T4) levels decrease rapidly in response to Porcine ...
Angelica Van Goor +7 more
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Capturing indirect genetic effects on phenotypic variability: Competition meets canalization
Phenotypic variability of a genotype is relevant both in natural and domestic populations. In the past two decades, variability has been studied as a heritable quantitative genetic trait in its own right, often referred to as inherited variability or ...
Jovana Marjanovic +4 more
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Broad and Narrow Heritabilities of Quantitative Traits in a Founder Population [PDF]
Estimation of the components of variance for a quantitative trait allows one to evaluate both the degree to which genetics influences the trait and the trait's underlying genetic architecture. For particular traits, the estimates also may have implications for discriminating between potential models of selection and for choosing an appropriate model ...
Abney, Mark +2 more
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The role of heritability in mapping expression quantitative trait loci [PDF]
Abstract Gene expression, as a heritable complex trait, has recently been used in many genome-wide linkage studies. The estimated overall heritability of each trait may be considered as evidence of a genetic contribution to the total phenotypic variation, which implies the possibility of mapping genome regions responsible for the gene ...
Huang, Song +2 more
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Heritability Estimates of Some Quantitative Traits in Potatoes
Broad-sense heritability (H) values of some quantitative traits in a potato population comprising 21 genotypes grown at Bornova, Izmir, Turkey during the 2013 and 2014 growing seasons were estimated by using the variance components analysis method. Based on the combined analysis of variance performed over two years, the following moderate to high level
OZTURK, Gulsum, YILDIRIM, Zihin
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