Sentences with phrase «including genetic association studies»

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African populations harbour the greatest genetic diversity and have the highest per capita health burden, yet they are rarely included in large genome studies of disease association.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

April 17, 2013 Gene study helps understand pulmonary fibrosis A new study looking at the genomes of more than 1,500 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare and devastating lung disease, found multiple genetic associations with the disease, including one gene variant that was linked to an increase in the risk of death.

Again, putting aside questions about the accuracy or utility of this information, there is a lot of published scientific literature that is potentially relevant to people with a particular genotype (including genome - wide association studies as well as a lot of classical human genetic literature and other functional studies).

This includes Genome - Wide Association Studies (GWAS) to identify genetic loci associated with insecticide resistance and population genetic studies to describe population sub-strucStudies (GWAS) to identify genetic loci associated with insecticide resistance and population genetic studies to describe population sub-strucstudies to describe population sub-structuring.

Whole genome association analysis studies that utilize single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have been used to identify the molecular causes of various traits and conditions including genetic mutations within breeds that cause coat color variations [15], hairlessness [25] and defects in spinal development [26].

In their study of monozygotic twin pairs in the Add Health sample, the associations of sleep duration with several outcomes including suicidal ideation, delinquency, and drug use were reduced to non-significance when genetic and shared environmental factors were accounted for in the model.