Sentences with phrase «generations of affected families»

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.

Not exact matches

Multiple ultrasounds will move cells in the brain around and also affect future generations of your family.

She notes:»... the ripple effect of adoption means it is an issue that affects thousands of families throughout their lifetimes, the lifetimes of succeeding generations, and ultimately our whole society and its future.»

Laws can be overturned and politicians voted out of office, but the decisions we make today will affect our people, their families and entire communities for generations.

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.

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.

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).

In families affected with SCA1, the number of CAG repeats increases with each generation, correlating with increased severity and an earlier age of disease onset.

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.

Breast cancer had affected three generations of women in Lindsay's family, and after multiple rounds of rigorous tests, she realized that she did not want to spend her life plagued by fear, waiting for a positive diagnosis.

Instead she makes it a multi-generational story about how marriage and relationships affect three generations of the family.

Always at his best as a character involved in the process of defining his place in a broken family dynamic (a plight closest to his own peculiar family experience), Nicholson's turn as Schmidt is as affecting an everyman for the aging new millennium as his disaffected Robert Dupea was for roughly the same generation about thirty - two years ago.

Rae Meadows takes us on our own journey of discovery in Mercy Train, an affecting and wonderfully woven novel about three generations of motherhood, family, and the surprising sacrifices we make for the people we love.

This is called «familial Alzheimer's disease» and it can affect many generations of family members.

Then there's the constant threat of maiming, which in turn affects income generation and the ability to feed one's family.

The U.S. government, together with employers, should be providing this crucial support to new parents, as it has a profound effect on the psychological and emotional wellbeing of families, whose health in turn affects the entire country and, if unstable, can have a ripple effect throughout generations.

Almost every Aboriginal family has been affected by the forcible removal of one or more children across generations.

Many Australians, including our political leaders, are now attempting to put themselves in the shoes of families affected by the Stolen Generations policies.

Intergenerational trauma is deeply felt in our community from myriad past practices, including the relatively recent Stolen Generations — I work with people born to parents who were stolen, many of my friends were stolen or come from families affected by the woeful policies of the past.

In the context of three - generation, adolescent African American parent families, maternal maturity, maternal self - esteem, and mother - grandmother relationships characterized by autonomy, mutuality, and positive affect served as important resiliency factors protecting adolescents from poor and inadequate parenting outcomes during the infancy period.

It's heartbreaking to hear the names and see the faces of those innocents who were lost and to know that so many families who were affected, literally over the generations, not just parents and siblings, but grandparents, all the extended family, and the first responders and those in law enforcement, will live with the shock and pain of yesterday's horrific events for the rest of their lives.