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Section 12
Section 12

... Heredity is the passing of traits or characteristics from parents to offspring. The units of heredity are called genes. Genes are found on the chromosomes in a cell. The combinations of genes for each trait occur by chance. An alternate form of a gene is called an allele. For example, if the gene is ...
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... both maternal alcohol intake and the human capital formation of the child. The ALSPAC data set is unique, however, in the sense that we have information for the mother on the presence of a genetic marker for alcohol consumption: ADH1B. This genetic marker has been robustly shown to be associated wit ...
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... that occur in a locus and the phenotypes (physical forms or traits) that they produce. Limitations of using natural populations:  It requires the growth of three generations before linkage analysis is possible.  Very large segregating populations are needed to achieve a high resolution map.  The ...
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... has limited power to detect genes of modest effect”[1]. What is meant by a gene of modest effect? A classical measure of the genetic effect of a diallelic locus on a binary trait is the odds ratio (OR), either for one versus no copies of the susceptibility variant allele, or for two versus one copy ...
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... study subjects whose perceived age was older than their true age. To confirm their findings, the scientists repeated the exercise with 600 additional Dutch seniors and some 1,200 British seniors. The results pointed to MC1R, known previously as a gene for red hair and freckles. It’s also involved in ...
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Twin study



Twin studies reveal the absolute and relative importance of environmental and genetic influences on individuals in a sample. Twin research is considered a key tool in behavioral genetics and in content fields, from biology to psychology. Twin studies are part of the methods used in behavior genetics, which includes all data that are genetically informative – siblings, adoptees, pedigree data etc.Twins are a valuable source for observation because they allow the study of varying family environments (across pairs) and widely differing genetic makeup: ""identical"" or monozygotic (MZ) twins share nearly 100% of their genes, which means that most differences between the twins (such as height, susceptibility to boredom, intelligence, depression, etc.) is due to experiences that one twin has but not the other twin. ""Fraternal"" or dizygotic (DZ) twins share only about 50% of their genes. Thus powerful tests of the effects of genes can be made. Twins share many aspects of their environment (e.g., uterine environment, parenting style, education, wealth, culture, community) by virtue of being born in the same time and place. The presence of a given genetic trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins (called discordance) provides a powerful window into environmental effects.The classical twin design compares the similarity of monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins. If identical twins are considerably more similar than fraternal twins (which is found for most traits), this implicates that genes play an important role in these traits. By comparing many hundreds of families of twins, researchers can then understand more about the roles of genetic effects, shared environment, and unique environment in shaping behavior.Modern twin studies have shown that almost all traits are in part influenced by genetic differences, with some characteristics showing a strong influence (e.g. height), others an intermediate level (e.g. personality traits) and some more complex heritabilities, with evidence for different genes affecting different aspects of the trait — as in the case of autism.
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