Genetic Association for Common Traits

Running Head: LIFE SCIENCES
Genetic Association for Common Traits
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Genetic Association for Common Traits
Aim of conducting the study
The study was conducted to find out the relationship between human traits such as pigmentation and genetics. There was an argument that although many individuals believed that human traits mostly depended on genetics, recent research has found out that the cases which are influenced by genes are limited.
Tested hypothesis
The tested hypothesis was that there is a relationship between human traits and genetics. Data was therefore collected for testing so that the reality would be realized.
Conclusions or results
The results indicate that only a few numbers of human traits are associated with genetics. After the saliva obtained from various individuals was analyzed, it revealed that although some individuals had similar traits, there genetic composition was different.
Effects of the results
The results bring to individuals` attention that human traits do not entirely depend on genetics. That is the reason why some individuals with similar traits had varying genetic composition.
Questions raised by the paper
How is it possible for an individual to acquire traits which are not influenced by genetic factors? How can testing of individuals of different family lines provide correct results in testing the relationship between human traits and genetics?
Methodological problems
The method used had various problems. For instance, it only tested saliva of individuals to determine whether individuals with same traits were genetically related. For effective results, it should have tested individuals from same family line to find out whether the human traits exhibited were influenced by genetics (Eriksson, et al. 2010). People were also asked various questions and may not have given correct results because some times individuals answer questions for the sake of answering and ...