Sentences with phrase «icelandic population»

Around half of the Faroese population was securely attached, contrary to the Danish and Icelandic population, where the ma

Around half of the Faroese population was securely attached, contrary to the Danish and Icelandic population, where the majority was dismissive attached.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

This demonstrates how important knowledge about human disease can come from a close partnership among deCODE, Icelandic physicians, and the Icelandic population.»

Close to 4 % of individuals in the overall Icelandic population carry this variant, and ~ 0.2 % of the individuals assessed by academic collaborators in Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and the United States.

Approximately 3 % of the Icelandic population carry this variant and 1.5 % of the European subjects.

December 19, 2004 A major study by deCODE scientists of the geographic distribution of genetic variability in the Icelandic population has been published in the online edition of Nature Genetics.

Large - scale whole - genome sequencing of the Icelandic population.

From a list of more than 5000 Icelandic patients receiving treatment for hypertension, deCODE used its genealogy database of the Icelandic population to draw up 120 extended families with a high incidence of the condition.

Through active engagement with the Icelandic population, deCODE has now collected DNA samples from more than 160,000 individuals and contributed greatly to public education about genetics in the country.

This we can do because of the large amount of data we have assembled on the Icelandic population.

In its population gene discovery work, deCODE has mapped several key genes linked to obesity and has gathered detailed genotypic and clinical data from more than 10,000 adult volunteers among the Icelandic population.

«The discovery of such variants is made possible through the breadth and quality of the data that the Icelandic population provides.»

This e.g. also explains why in nature mice do not develop Alzheimer's and why a small section of the Icelandic population seems to be more or less resistant to the disease.

A poll in March last year highlighted that 71 per cent of the Icelandic population opposed Icelandic membership in the European Union.

Not exact matches

In this study, deCODE used its population - wide genealogy database and proprietary statistical tools to determine the parent of origin of a number of SNPs in some 40,000 Icelandic participants in the company's gene discovery programs.

Study groups were drawn from the Icelandic Cancer Registry; CAPS1, a population - based study of prostate cancer patients in Sweden; the Prostate Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) at Northwestern University; and the Flint Men's Health Study and the Prostate Cancer Genetics Project, both of the University of Michigan.

HLA class II alleles and haplotypes in Icelandic Type I diabetic patients: comparison of Icelandic and Norwegian populations Diabetologia (Vol.

Bjornsdottir G Psychometric properties of the Icelandic NEO-FFI in a general population sample compared to a sample recruited for a study on the genetics of addiction.

Agnar Helgason, Bryndís Yngvadóttir, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Jeffrey Gulcher & Kári Stefánsson An Icelandic example of the impact of population structure on association studies Nature Genetics: Published online: 19 December 2004

After he's informed by the grody Karlsson (Peter Stormare, existentially grody) that the clown suit is actually an Icelandic demon which needs to eat five children before it returns to hibernation, Kent fails to overcome his new horrifying hunger, eating his way through the juvenile population of his small town.

On behalf of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF), representing Icelandic and Faroese fisherman, 2007 Goldman Prize winner Orri Vigfusson wrote a strongly worded letter to all Members of Scottish Parliament accusing the country of contributing to a catastrophic decline in north Atlantic wild salmon populations.

A team of Icelandic cryptocurrency enthusiasts is gearing up to launch an altcoin designed specifically for the population of Iceland.

The majority of the Danish adolescent population with PTSD was dismissive attached; the majority of the Faroese adolescent population with PTSD was securely attached, and in the Icelandic adolescents with PTSD were distributed somewhat even between the four attachment styles.