(1) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(2) Dogs with mammary adenocarcinoma and mixed mammary cancer had similar degrees of inbreeding.
(3) Although many studies report deleterious effects of inbreeding on prereproductive mortality (death before age 20 years), such effects are usually measured in terms of genetic load, a concept much debated in the literature.
(4) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(5) Experimental increase in the fraction of tolerant response was obtained by decreasing the virus dose or by phenotypic inbreeding of rodents.
(6) Fitness measures appeared linearly related to the inbreeding coefficient of the liters, with no diminution of deleterious effects through subsequent generations of inbreeding.
(7) He postulates that this greater antimeric variance could be due to a greater degree of inbreeding in the Neandertal populations.
(8) However, in the Frankfurt line at least, one of the presumed alleles is likely to be lost due to inbreeding.
(9) The increase in inter se relationship without corresponding increase in inbreeding indicates that a change in mating strategies has evolved over time.
(10) The calculated values of gamete and endogamy indices were indicative of intensive migration processes, weak isolation by distance, and minimal inbreeding.
(11) Inbreeding coefficient was estimated for Adyg population and its structure analysed: a random component contributes mostly to the inbreeding coefficient (Fst = 0.00991), non-random component of the inbreeding coefficient being Fis = 0.010009, which testifies to negative marital assortativity among Adygs.
(12) Inbreeding depression was not enough to cause large reductions of milk and fat yield of a cow with average inbreeding.
(13) The rise in inbreeding levels in the Amish over time can be uniquely contrasted with the decline in inbreeding in most areas of the world.
(14) The present inbreeding in Norway is low (alpha4 = 0-000242), approximately one-eighth of the estimated level according to the 1891 census.
(15) This is supported by the dependence established between the frequency of the cases of oligophrenia among female persons and the inbreeding coefficient for the X-linked loci.
(16) The significance of such selection models is discussed for the retention of variability in inbreeding populations with a minimum of segregational load and higher overall stability in contrast to the overdominance models.
(17) Although the finding of a preference for siblings in estrous females is counter to expectations from an inbreeding avoidance approach, this is one of a variety of findings to suggest that not all animals avoid inbreeding all of the time.
(18) Suppression of reproduction in female offspring while they remain with the extended family unit is discussed as a life-history tactic and as a possible mechanism for inbreeding avoidance.
(19) Therefore the isonymy analysis gives a misestimation of the inbreeding coefficient, depending on the prevailing form of nonrandomness.
(20) Skin grafts were exchanged between siblings from 16 inbreeding lines of rabbits.
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(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(3) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(5) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(6) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(7) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(8) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(9) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(10) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(12) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(14) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(15) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(16) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(18) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(19) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(20) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.