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Original Source: Selection of bull dams for production and functional traits in an open nucleus herd.
The aim of this study was to compare different scenarios for bull dam selection in a nucleus herd. A deterministic simulation study using selection index methodology was undertaken. In the scenarios studied, differing amounts of information on functional traits were available when bull dams were selected, and the resulting genetic responses in these traits were compared. Field-recorded fertility traits used in the scenarios were available as progeny test results of artificial insemination bulls: these inclu...
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The role of psychosocial factors and psychiatric disorders in functional dyspepsia
In this Review, Van Oudenhove and Aziz provide an overview of epidemiological studies that demonstrate an association between functional dyspepsia and psychological traits, states or psychiatric disor...
Personality traits linked with individual's susceptibility to placebo effect from pain medicines
Personality traits might do more than help you win a popularity contest. According to new University of Michigan-led neuroscience research, co-authored by University of Maryland (UM) School of Dentist...
Personality Traits May Determine How Long A Person Lives
Personality traits may play a role in how long an individual lives, say researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. After evalu...
University of Leicester to launch new research centre to explore complex traits and disease
This week, the University of Leicester launches a new Centre for Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits to explore the building blocks of complex traits and disease.
Impulsive and compulsive personality traits linked with traumatic upbringing during childhood
Previous research has shown that personality traits such as impulsivity or compulsiveness are indicators of an increased risk of addiction. Now, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests...
Playground Peers Can Predict Success In Adulthood
Your success as an adult can be best predicted by your childhood peers from grade school, even better than you can predict for yourself. Childhood peer evaluation of classmate personality traits can b...
New method for associating genetic variation with crop traits
(Norwich BioScience Institutes) A new technique developed at the John Innes Centre will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence of that c...
Don't be fooled: Flowers mislead traditional taxonomy
(American Journal of Botany) For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about thes...
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Functional evaluation of genetic variation in complex human traits.
Genome-wide association studies and, more recently, next-generation sequencing studies have accelerated the investigation of complex human traits by providing a wealth of association data linking gene...
Selection of bull dams for production and functional traits in an open nucleus herd.
The aim of this study was to compare different scenarios for bull dam selection in a nucleus herd. A deterministic simulation study using selection index methodology was undertaken. In the scenarios s...
Genetic evaluation of type traits in hypertrophic Piemontese cows.
The aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for type traits of hypertrophic Piemontese cows. Seven traditional type trait evaluations (70-100 grid scores), two body measurements (centimet...
Trait assembly in plant assemblages and its modulation by productivity and disturbance.
Understanding how communities assemble is a key challenge in ecology. Conflicting hypotheses suggest that plant traits within communities should show divergence to reflect strategies to reduce competi...
Phylogenetic conservatism of functional traits in microorganisms.
A central question in biology is how biodiversity influences ecosystem functioning. Underlying this is the relationship between organismal phylogeny and the presence of specific functional traits. The...
