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In jobs where meaningful training can take place, more than half of apprenticessaythey are not allocated the mandatory one day a week off the job to receive training.
在可以进行有意义的培训的工作岗位上，超过一半的学徒表示，他们没有收到每周强制休假一天去接收培训的安排。
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Parents worried that they maypass ontheir short stature to their children canrest easy, as a new study reveals nurture is more important than nature when it comes to a person’s height. A landmark piece of research has found that more than 12,000 genes are responsible for determining how tall a person becomes, but thishereditaryaspect is just 40 percent of the picture. The other 60 percent is caused by nurture-based traits like environment, upbringing and quality of life.
担心自己的矮个子会遗传给孩子的父母可以放宽心了，因为新研究发现，对一个人的身高而言，后天培养比遗传更重要。一项具有里程碑意义的研究发现，影响一个人身高的基因超过1.2万个，然而在决定身高上，遗传因素只占40%。另外60%取决于环境、养育和生活质量等后天特性。
Analysis of more than 5.4 million people discovered theculpablechunks of DNA involved in height determination and found them to live in parts of thegenomethat are responsible forskeletalgrowth. “Our study identified 12,111 genetic markers – or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) – associated with height in more than 5 million individuals from participating studies,” study author Dr Eirini Marouli, associate professor in computational biology at Queen Mary University of London, told the Telegraph.
这项研究在分析了逾540万人的资料后发现，决定身高的DNA片段存在于与骨骼生长有关的部分基因组中。该研究的作者、伦敦玛丽女王大学计算生物学副教授艾利尼•马柔里博士告诉《每日电讯报》：“我们的研究在500多万参与者中识别出了12111个与身高有关的基因标记（单核苷酸多态性）。”
“These explain 40 percent of height variation in individuals of European ancestries and between 10-20 percent in non-European populations.” But she added that genetics and its “complex manifestation” are just one part of the explanation.”Additional aspects could potentially include: advancement in healthcare, nutrition, lifestyle and environmental factors,” Dr Marouli said.
“欧洲血统的人身高差异的40%以及非欧洲血统者身高差异的10-20%都可以在这些基因标记中得到解释。”但是她也指出，基因与其“复杂表现”只能作出部分解释。马柔里博士称：“其他可能影响身高的因素包括：医疗进步、营养、生活方式和环境因素。”
The study, published in Nature, also predicted how tall a person would become based on their genes alone and found it to be more accurate than the current method, which estimates a child’s length by the height of their parents.
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This more accurate height prediction could be useful in healthcare. For example, if a child does not reach their predicted height, it could indicate an underlying condition that might be affecting growth, for example, related to hormonal deficiencies. “When we combined all the identified genetic variants together into our best polygenic score along with the parental height average that led to an accuracy of more than 54 percent.”
提高身高预测的准确性对于医疗保健很有用。举例而言，如果一个孩子没有达到预期身高，则可能意味着存在影响长高的潜在条件，比如激素缺乏。“当我们将所有已确定的遗传变异与父母的平均身高结合在一起，形成我们最好的多基因评分时，准确度超过54%。”
本文节选自：Telegraph（每日电讯报）
发布时间：2022.10.21
作者：Joe Pinkstone
原文标题：Height is only 40pc hereditary – the rest is nurture
词汇积累
1.hereditary
英/ həˈredɪt(ə)ri /美/ həˈredɪteri /
adj.（特点或疾病）遗传的；（头衔、职位或权利）承袭的，世袭的；有世袭身分（或头衔）的；（数）（集合的）遗传的
2.culpable
英/ ˈkʌlpəb(ə)l /美/ ˈkʌlpəb(ə)l /
adj.有罪的；该责备的；不周到的；应受处罚的
3.genome
英/ ˈdʒiːnəʊm /美/ ˈdʒiːnoʊm /
n.基因组，染色体组
4.skeletal
英/ ˈskelət(ə)l /美/ ˈskelət(ə)l /
adj.骨骼的，像骨骼的；骸骨的；骨瘦如柴的
词组搭配
1.pass on 传递；继续；去世
2.rest easy 高枕无忧；大放宽心
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原句：When we combined all the identified genetic variants together into our best polygenic score along with the parental height average that led to an accuracy of more than 54 percent
结构：When we combined all the things together into sth…
例句：When we combine all the coincidences together into the present-day situation, things are irreversible.
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