Sentences with phrase «twin study data»

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Trials recruited 5787 women (this included 512 women interviewed as part of a cluster randomised trial); of these, data were available from two studies for 42 women with twins or higher order multiples.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

A recent study by the University of Delaware's Jessica Warren and colleagues at the University of Oxford and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, provides a new data set that scientists can use to understand this problem.

Using a major new data source — merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 — the researchers studied the relationships between birth weight and cognitive development by following more than 1.3 million children and nearly 15,000 pairs of twins from birth through middle school.

A recent study by a researcher at the Kent State University found that genetics outweighed environment in social media use using twin study survey data.

Past behavior genetics research using twin study survey data has shown genetic influence on a wide range of communication behaviors.

The new study — by bringing together data from more than 20,000 people participating in 11 multi-ethnic studies around the world — builds a strong case for the role of genetics in PTSD, which had been previously documented on a smaller scale in studies of twins.

Latvala and his colleagues used data from two ongoing population - based longitudinal studies of Finnish twins, FinnTwin12 (FT12), of twins born 1983 - 1987, and FinnTwin16 (FT16), of twins born 1975 to 1979.

By including data from both identical and fraternal twins who were raised together, the study seeks to account for both environmental and genetic contributions.

Muin Khoury, director of the Office of Public Health Genomics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was not involved in the new study, notes that it is solid work and that the twin data is an excellent source.

From that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 years.

Data came from TwinsUK — the biggest UK adult twin registry of 12,000 twins which is used to study the genetic and environmental causes of age related disease.

So instead, Risch looked at data from both twin and family studies to estimate the probability that a first - degree relative of a cancer victim — that is, a parent, child, or sibling — would develop the same cancer.

Whole Genome Sequencing Not Informative for All A study involving data of thousands of identical twins by Johns Hopkins investigators finds that whole genome sequencing fails to provide informative guidance to most people about their risk for most common diseases, and warns against complacency born of negative genome test results.

The researchers analysed data from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), which included more than 6,500 twin pairs in the UK.

For the study, Nordstrom and colleagues used a Swedish register of identical twins to collect data on about 4,000 pairs whose weights differed.

The epidemiological and population data, high sibling risk ratio, family and twin studies confirmed strong genetic involvement in the development of Hashimoto's disease.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who recently studied data for more than 4,700 11 - to 18 - year - olds in St. Paul, concluded that students who ate family meals more frequently than their peers tended to have better grades.

Investigating brain connectivity heritability in a twin study using diffusion imaging data.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

To evaluate the three possible explanations, we used model - fitting procedures applied to parent - rating data averaged across 14, 20, 24, and 36 months of age in a sample of 196 twin pairs participating in the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Sttwin pairs participating in the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin StTwin Study.

A twin study of infant attachment security at age 24 months was conducted on archival data for a sample of 99 MZ pairs and 108 DZ pairs from the Louisville Twin Sttwin study of infant attachment security at age 24 months was conducted on archival data for a sample of 99 MZ pairs and 108 DZ pairs from the Louisville Twin Sstudy of infant attachment security at age 24 months was conducted on archival data for a sample of 99 MZ pairs and 108 DZ pairs from the Louisville Twin StTwin StudyStudy.

Using data from an epidemiological sample of 1,116 5 - year - old twin pairs and their parents, this study found that the less time fathers lived with their children, the more conduct problems their children had, but only if the fathers engaged in low levels of antisocial behavior.

The current study used longitudinal, behavioral genetic data on 519 same - sex twin pairs (48.6 % female) divided into two age cohorts (13 — 15 and 16 — 18 years olds) drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Hestudy used longitudinal, behavioral genetic data on 519 same - sex twin pairs (48.6 % female) divided into two age cohorts (13 — 15 and 16 — 18 years olds) drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent HeStudy of Adolescent Health.

To further explore the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors on adolescent depression, particularly among adolescent girls, data on depression in prepubertal and pubertal male and female same - sex twins from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development were analyzed.