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By progeny test is meant the estimation of the individual's heredity by study of the offspring.

Make breed improvements through wise selection

The F/T ratio and DRE were nearly always added to the model in the first or second step, and TRUS and heredity were added in the third or fourth steps.

Estimation of prostate cancer probability by logistic regression: free and total prostate-specific antigen, digital rectal examination, and heredity are significant variables

If genes and heredity are not exactly infallible guides to risk, the other commonly employed "risk factors"--or at least indications for surgery--are far dicier.

Breasts to Spare

A person's cholesterol level is affected by age, sex, heredity, and diet.

Risk factors for heart disease

The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's work of 1865 reawakened the excitement about the relationship between heredity and human disorders.

History of Medical Genetics in the United States: 1800-1922

In McTeague, Norris sought to describe the influence of heredity and environment on human life.

McTeague

For instance, the degree to which intelligence is attributed to heredity ranges from less than 40 per cent (Eysenck, 1981; Kamin, 1974) to about 80 per cent (Burt, 1971; Jensen, 1972).

Common beliefs about the heredity of human characteristics

Ever since they first learned the chemical nature of heredity, a few medical scientists have shared a dazzling vision: someday, faulty genes would be replaced to treat and cure disease.

Curing disease through human gene therapy

Heredity plays some role in lip pattern development (Similarities were found between parents and children.

Lip prints

Genes, the units of heredity discovered by Gregor Mendel more than a century ago, contain the recipes, or instructions, to make the proteins of which all living things, from bacteria to humans, are built, and that all organisms use to carry out their functions.

Genes and MS susceptibility: a project whose time has come

London works out in the course of the story his ideas on the need for adaptation to survive and on the influence of heredity.

Call of the Wild, The (1903)

Heredity (1987) has the best qualities of a first book: It is brave, full of intelligent spirit and experimental, though sometimes uneven.