As a result, the males were more exposed to environmental factors that affected food resources.
Their root causes are poorly understood, but medical researchers suspect environmental factors are important.
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This will encourage more investors to invest in companies who have considered social and environmental factors.
Dr Guillet said much more work was needed into the environmental factors controlling malaria spread.
Genetics, socioeconomic factors, environmental factors and accidents all affect an individual's health outcomes and medical costs.
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Methods must be developed to examine the full ecosystem response to multiple environmental factors.
Scientists trying to determine whether genetic or environmental factors influence disease risk often study twins.
And he also suggested that environmental factors, such as strong social networks, could be at play.
Environmental factors will become one of the top six buying criteria for information technology organizations, Gartner predicts.
Gene expression is complicated, and a good portion of it is very much dependent on environmental factors.
However, the paper didn't identify any of the myriad genes or environmental factors that might be involved.
There is undoubtedly a shift change as more business people incorporate social and environmental factors into their operations.
But if only one has a condition, it is likely that environmental factors play a relatively greater influence.
In 2008, four in 10 car buyers cited environmental factors as important, according to the consumer watchdog Consumer Reports.
Most cases of autism probably involve some combination of genetic and environmental factors, experts say, and research is burgeoning.
Environmental factors are a big part of the thinking for people under 35.
This means genes can be re-programmed with small molecules that mimic these environmental factors, what is called molecular medicine.
Post-Mortem provides a detailed critique of the numerous unsound strategic, economic, and environmental factors arguing against such an initiative.
Bark beetles are known to attack trees already weakened by other environmental factors.
He cautions that these health risks are very small and that environmental factors must be taken into account as well.
The global food system drivers interact with local environmental factors to create a wide variation in obesity prevalence between populations.
Potential routes are chosen based on construction costs determined in part by terrain, environmental factors and projected population growth.
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However, studies are looking into environmental factors that may trigger autism in those who are genetically prone to the disorder.
Environmental factors along with genetics and unknown immunologic factors are believed to play a role in the development of autism.
As for environmental factors that affect the young brain, lead is neurotoxic and particularly damages the prefrontal region, which regulates behavior.
Environmental factors premature delivery, low birth weight, maternal infections and maternal nutrition have been implicated in autism, as well as advanced parental age.
But, the researchers add that these findings will now assist further studies in revealing genetic and environmental factors that affect sperm length.
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That is called epigenetics and is controlled by environmental factors such a temperature, solar radiation exposure or food or lack of food.
Many Americans suffer from it, and it is most likely caused by a complex set of genetic and environmental factors, it says.
Scientists say Type 1 diabetes is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors but they don't know what the trigger is.
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