Sentences with phrase «discordant family»

Nariman Vakeel is a seventy - nine - year - old Parsi widower and the patriarch of a small discordant family.

As is her wont, Holofcener assembles a cast of brilliant, slightly under - the - radar actors who come together believably as a discordant family unit.

About one third of the young men had experienced unhappy or discordant family relationships, and the majority had hated school or found it boring.

Not exact matches

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

We study common, low frequency and rare variants [1] in an ancestrally diverse population of > 40,000 individuals recruited from throughout New York City through the Mount Sinai's ongoing BioMe EMR - linked Biobank, [2] in the large - scale UK Biobank (n = 500,000), and [3] in a unique discordant - sib family study.

Discordant two - parent families Most studies in this literature have compared children living with a single parent with a broad group of children living with continuously married parents.

They employed a family - based discordant sib - pair analysis, which indicated that DRD4 and DAT1 failed to have significant and independent effects on ADHD.

Within - family analyses of the pregnancy outcomes were consistent with a causal interpretation as the associations persisted when siblings discordant for SDP were compared.