| Ignoramus30282 2006-01-10, 1:04 am |
| On 10 Jan 2006 02:29:08 GMT, DZ <22514@32146772.1613719812.10314.17424.19347> wrote:
> Ignoramus30282 <ignoramus30282@NOSPAM.30282.invalid> wrote:
> [...]
>
> I found the table with the data from the experiment. The table is in
> Russian (http://www.pcr-rus.com/article.html). Although the sample
> sizes were moderate 44, 45, 33, the second column says that these
> three groups were the offspring of only 4 (no soy), 4 (GM soy), and 3
> (non-GM soy) rats (i.e. 11 rats split into 3 groups gave birth in
> total).
>
> Thus, these results are likely to be accounted for by the variation in
> maternal and genetic effects resulted from the very small pool of
> mothers. In population genetics, this is referred to as the effect of
> genetic drift. The smaller is the population of breeders, the larger
> are the deviations in various trait values in the offspring, due to
> the random sampling of breeders.
>
> I wouldn't get too excited about these results yet.
That's good to know, but differences were quite large as well. I
woould like to see more research on this.
i
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