Sentences with phrase «studies of the affected families»

Studies of the affected families had previously determined that the Werner gene must lie somewhere on chromosome 8.

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The Division for Parish Resources of the Lutheran Church in America has included several brochures on family violence in its family - resource series; these resources are valuable for families affected by abuse as well as for congregational study.

To his discredit, Sherkat, a sociologist of religion who does not appear to have done any research on family and sexuality issues (but for a single article studying how religion and political affiliation affect views of same - sex marriage), nonetheless appoints himself a final referee of the merits of Regnerus's research — not a function he was asked to perform — and opines that it should not have been published.

Two years ago, M. Christian Green, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a former lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, wrote that divorce doesn't just affect a couple and their immediate family — friends, neighbors and entire communities are impacted as well.

«For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.

A large body of additional research suggests that a child's early attachment affects the quality of their adult relationships, and a recent longitudinal study of 81 men showed that those who grew up in warm, secure families were more likely to have secure attachments with romantic partners well into their 70s and 80s.

Studies show that ADHD affects almost three times as many boys as girls, and there's often a family history of the condition.

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

«The population growth is affecting the infrastructure, sectors and the environments, but it has been established by study that «if they plan the family very well, it can curb or control the growth of the population and we can reduce Nigeria's population,» Fayehun said.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

It is exceptionally rare and only affects a handful of families worldwide, including an Iowa family studied and treated by Mahajan when he was at the University of Iowa.

I was studying a handful of families in which people had inherited a recessive disease affecting platelet aggregation, looking for mutations in their genomic DNA.

We urge the adoption of policies that ensure opportunities for people to participate in research studies and clinical trials without fear that the information generated by their participation will be inappropriately disclosed and adversely affect their health insurance status or that of their families, either as individuals or as members of a particular group.

Their efforts are part of a larger push to study more than 300 known genetic hair disorders, which range from rare diseases detected in a few dozen families to male - pattern baldness, which affects hundreds of millions.

Contrary to public perception, the number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found, raising the question of whether federal policies affecting immigrants should be significantly altered.

This study was based on DNA sequence and deep phenotypic data from the Simons Simplex Collection, a set of 2,760 families that have a single child affected by ASD.

Professor Tom Gillingwater from the University of Edinburgh, who led the study, said: «This is an important step that could one day improve quality of life for the babies affected by this condition and their families.

There she works in computer analysis for the study of identifying fungi that affect the plant family Cucurbitaceae (cucumber, pumpkin, cantaloupe, watermelon) in order to understand them.

Researchers studying two generations of a family affected by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have identified an inherited variation in the ETV6 gene that is associated with an increased risk of developing the disease.

«This study showed that inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics also affects families at a much more practical level, such as missed days from school and work, side effects of the drugs, and costs for extra childcare.

Surprisingly, no one seems to have studied this family or their interesting mutation from a biophysical perspective or toward the goal of how the mutation might affect the gene - regulatory properties of SRY.»

Studying individuals and families who have these eye abnormalities might eventually be able to shed light on the genetics behind the affected parts of the brain, Mosconi notes.

The gene was revealed only in the affected children, but not in the unaffected children of the families studied.

To conduct their study, researchers enrolled hundreds of volunteers from families with one child affected by ASD and sequenced the complete genomes of every family member, including the parents and typically developing siblings.

They have studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in military families are at higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

A final study, led by University of California, San Francisco, Washington University in St Louis and Yale School of Medicine, USA, analyzed genetic data from over 4,500 families affected by autism.

The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

Researchers also studied how family factors affected risk of abuse.

While previous studies have shown that WFC interventions such as STAR can positively affect the health and well - being of workers and families, the new study is the first to estimate the ROI of such programs.

In work published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and presented today, researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, studied 11 families with Li - Fraumeni syndrome and reported that those affected had an average of 12 CNVs in their genome, compared with three in controls.

It involved the analysis of 5,205 whole genomes from families affected by autism — making it the largest whole genome study of autism to date.

The Arizona researchers studied whether cage conditions affect mice with one copy of a gene called fibulin - 4, a member of a family of genes believed to code for proteins that stabilize the connective tissue found between cells in arteries and other blood vessels.

For instance, some of the genetic alterations found in the study occurred in families with one person severely affected by autism and others on the milder end of the spectrum, Dr. Scherer notes.

Family - level preventive intervention can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes for military families affected by wartime deployment, a new study published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports.

Studies of specific families with a history of these types of illnesses have revealed that affected family...

Volunteers can also donate samples of their blood, giving scientists the chance to study tiny differences in DNA that may play a role in how the disorder develops, why it runs in families, how it affects people over time and what makes people vary in their response to treatment.

The largest study to date of testing errors reported by family physician offices in the United States found that problems occur throughout the testing process and disproportionately affect minority patients.

This may sound similar to application # 1 (newborn / pediatric sequencing) but it's a different kind of study that taps into a unique resource: multiplex pedigrees from families affected by genetic disorders.

After studying 56 families — whenever possible including the mother, father and affected child — they found that one particular version of the marker accompanied susceptibility to ADHD.

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).

The Alzheimer Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Family Based Study The ADSP has generated whole genome sequence (WGS) data from members of families multiply affected by late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

Studies have suggested that «genetic anticipation» — progressively earlier onset and increased severity of disease in successive generations of affected families — is a feature of HPAH.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

Through my personal journey, years of yoga studies, and lifestyle and wellness changes, I've learned that being informed how lifestyle can affect our bodies, having a plan, and having support has helped me to be more in control over of my body and mind and I want to share it with you in the hope of making your dream of creating a family a reality.

I've chosen not to side with the results of the China study because it will negatively affect my income and that of my family.

The purpose of these studies is to better understand the cause of PCOS, the problems associated with it, how PCOS affects family members and to determine if there is a way to predict if a girl will get PCOS later in life.

Ultimately, more studies are needed to determine how arsenic in food affects human health, said Carolyn Murray, an assistant professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.

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A remarkable study of poverty, family and personal responsibility, The Florida Project meticulously illustrates how life on the margins affects one impressionable six - year - old.