{"id":367,"date":"2006-11-15T12:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/are-genes-becoming-more-important-with-increasing-age\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T06:24:59","slug":"are-genes-becoming-more-important-with-increasing-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/are-genes-becoming-more-important-with-increasing-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Are genes becoming more important with increasing age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an apparent paradox between two studies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&#038;cmd=Retrieve&#038;dopt=AbstractPlus&#038;list_uids=15836806&#038;query_hl=10&#038;itool=pubmed_docsum\">John Whitfield<\/a> did a twin study in Australia and concluded that shared environmental effects decreased with age (from about 50% to 10%) while additive genetic effects increased. The new <a hef=\"\">Sardinian<\/> study found <em>higher heritabilities among younger individuals<\/em> and explained that by an increase of environmental insults with age. Nice said, but who is right?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an apparent paradox between two studies. John Whitfield did a twin study in Australia and concluded that shared environmental effects decreased with age (from about 50% to 10%) while additive genetic effects increased. The new Sardinian study found higher heritabilities among younger individuals and explained that by an increase of environmental insults with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/are-genes-becoming-more-important-with-increasing-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are genes becoming more important with increasing age?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945,4,177,176,178],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology","tag-population-epidemiology","tag-ageing","tag-apparent_paradox","tag-gene-effect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}