Sentences with phrase «genetic epidemiologic»

Expand genetic epidemiologic research to identify risk and protective factors for Alzheimer's Disease.»

The sample comprised of 118 children, aged 3 - 5, enrolled in ZOE 2.0, a community - based genetic epidemiologic study in North Carolina.

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Beyond the cardiovascular risk associated with LDL - C, genetic, epidemiologic, clinical and real - world data suggest that patients with elevated triglycerides (TG)(fats in the blood), and TG - rich lipoproteins, are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

[24] Stumpf, et al., «The Infant with Anencephaly,» The New England Journal of Medicine, 322, no. 10 (8 March 1990): 670, report that «it may not be possible in all cases to distinguish anencephaly from other very severe anomalies of the head... For purposes of genetic and reproductive counseling and epidemiologic reporting, the diagnosis should be confirmed by an experienced observer following delivery of an abortus or stillborn infant.»

Then the researchers found that those participants in the epidemiologic study with a genetic variant in the ALDH gene were at increased risk of Parkinson's when exposed to these pesticides.

«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.

A distinct pattern of genetic abnormalities mirrors the distinct epidemiologic and clinical features of mucosal melanoma.