Sentences with phrase «environmental etiology»

The genetic - environmental etiology of parents» perceptions and self - assessed behaviours towards their 5 - month - old infants in a large twin and singleton sample

Genetic and Environmental Etiology of the Relationship Between Childhood Hyperactivity / Inattention and Conduct Problems in a South Korean Twin Sample.

We investigated the temporal pattern of genetic and environmental etiology of PA during this crucial developmental period.

Numerous twin studies have examined the genetic and environmental etiology of reading comprehension, though it is likely that etiological estimates are influenced by unidentified sample conditions

Kushlev emphasized, however, that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex biological and environmental etiology.

Opportunities to refine phenotypes through an understanding of their genetic influences will be important to characterize genetic and environmental etiologies.

Not exact matches

Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.

These findings also will help investigators to understand the etiology of common complex diseases because we can anticipate more functionally significant variants to influence diseases with a stronger environmental component, while uncommon variants may be more important for diseases with a weak environmental contribution.

Multiple genetic and environmental risk factors give rise to a complex etiology for this trait.

Environmental factors, which include diet and other lifestyle factors, are known to be involved in the etiology of most cancers.

Its etiology remains elusive, although genetics, environmental and dietary factors have been proposed.

Previous studies suggest that genetic and environmental factors play a role in the etiology of ASD.1 - 3

As well as monitoring maternal nutrition during pregnancy, the study will regularly assess their children's health and developmental status during the first 10 years of life, in order to elucidate the role of environmental factors in the etiology of allergic disease.

In preparation for TACT 2, Dr. Lamas studied the role of metal toxicity and other environmental factors in the etiology of cardiovascular disease.

Although the etiology of obesity is multifactorial, several behavioral and environmental factors have been implicated.

Although both scientists and lay people alike may frequently identify a single dietary element as the cause of chronic disease (eg, saturated fat causes heart disease and salt causes high blood pressure), evidence gleaned over the past 3 decades now indicates that virtually all so - called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility.

Perhaps for this reason, the etiology of ASD is not well defined and the combinations of environmental and genetic factors that protect against or increase risk of developing autism are not well understood.

Recent research suggests that the etiology of reading achievement can differ across environmental contexts.

For epilepsy in the golden retriever, a multifactorial etiology, including genetic and environmental factors has been described 9.

Type 2 diabetes has a complex etiology and is caused by a combination of genetic factors and environmental interactions, and risk increases with aging (11,12).

Altogether our results add more evidence for shared etiology and mechanisms of OCD in dogs and humans [6], and suggest that both environmental and genetic factors affect compulsive behaviour.

This is most likely because diseases like CM and syringomyelia have a complex etiology and disease expression probably occurs when there is a threshold combination of genetic and environmental factors.

The complexity of human cancer etiology is particularly challenging for those types of cancer with long latency, which are associated with exposure to ubiquitous environmental carcinogens 34.

The moderation by the serotonin transporter gene of environmental adversity in the etiology of depression: 2009 update

It is concluded that peer victimization in childhood is a precursor of both short - lived and persistent internalizing symptoms, underlining the importance of environmental factors such as peer relationships in the etiology of internalizing problems.

Our goals were (1) to compare the trajectory of depressive symptoms among boys and girls from childhood into adolescence; (2) to analyze the role of genetic, shared, and unique environmental factors in depression among prepubertal and pubertal male and female twins; and (3) to investigate a possible common etiology between liability to depression and one salient index of the child's environment: past - year life events.

Considering the complexity of mental illnesses etiology, which involves multiple interacting genetic, environmental and biological factors; large effect sizes are unlikely to be detected; therefore the magnitude of the associations described in this community - based study are noteworthy and possibly indicative of clinical relevance.