genetic similarity

collocation in English

meaningsofgeneticandsimilarity

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genetic
adjective
uk
/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us
/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us
/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition ofgeneticandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sibling relative risk is an important indicator of "familiality," but does not distinguish effects of family environment fromgeneticsimilarity.
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Large differences ingeneticsimilaritywere observed between these groups.
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First, the findings could be due togeneticsimilaritybetween children and others in their social environment.
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We propose a new approach based on a centre-based clustering procedure to cluster populations into groups following rules of geographical proximity andgeneticsimilarity.
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Thus, the genetic contribution to the association between environmental measures and child psychopathology may be passive, in the sense that it reflects onlygeneticsimilarity.
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Thegeneticsimilarityindex varies from zero, when no alleles are shared, to one, where populations have identical gene frequencies.
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The shared environment variance component will reflect the extent to which the correlations depart from this theoretical expectation, due to similarity between twins beyond that accounted for bygeneticsimilarity.
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Results from searches using both uniform and informed priors are illustrated as cluster plots that represent thegeneticsimilarityof each individual to each inferred cluster.
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Twin studies assuming equal environments for the two kinds of twins would falsely identify greater phenotypic similarity of monozygotic twins as being due exclusively to theirgeneticsimilarity.
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Culture-independent genetic surveys have shown that soda lakes contain an unusually high amount of alkaliphilic microorganisms with lowgeneticsimilarityto known species.
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The saddleback carapace probably evolved independently several times in dry habitats, sincegeneticsimilaritybetween populations does not correspond to carapace shape.
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The easiest way to generate relatedness between social partners is limited dispersal, a mechanism in whichgeneticsimilaritycorrelates with spatial proximity.
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Geneticsimilaritybetween these ants was measured as well.
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Practically, biologists define species as "populations of organisms that have a high level ofgeneticsimilarity".
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Secondly,geneticsimilarityis directly correlated with geographic proximity.
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This has been established by examining the degree ofgeneticsimilaritybetween the offspring in the gastrovascular cavity and their parent.
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An increase ingeneticsimilarityof agricultural plants and animals means an increased risk of food loss from major epidemics.
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Additionally, nest distance did not correlate withgeneticsimilarity.
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These results are combined to determine the degree ofgeneticsimilaritybetween organisms.
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