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Chemoprevention of Familial Melanoma
… MBEH can be used for prophylactic treatment of familial melanoma by being specifically toxic to melanocytes and activating an immune response against distant pigment cells. Cytotoxic experiments reveal that similar to 4-TBP, MBEH induces specific melanocyte death. To compare death pathways …
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Familial colorectal cancer 2.0. Implementation of guidelines on familial and hereditary colorectal cancer
Contains fulltext : 118430.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Statistical analysis of familial correlations.
Inferences for familial (intraclass and interclass) correlations are considered for unbalanced familial data from multivariate normal populations. The most commonly used familial correlation is that between siblings (without regard to gender), called intraclass or sib-sib correlation coefficient. …
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The Morality of Familial Obligation
… this dissertation is to examine the morality of familial obligations and to draw conclusions about how they ought to be approached. The work presents a general description of the obligations commonly associated with family membership and a study of possible moral foundations. It also seeks to …
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Monogenic hypercholesterolemia in South Africans : familial hypercholesterolemia in Indians and familial defective apolipoprotein B-100
LDL-receptor mutations and familial defective apolipoprotein B-100 (codon 3500) (FOB), the known causes of monogenic hypercholesterolemia (MH), have similar clinical features. The nature of the mutations responsible for MH in South Africans of Indian origin was previously unknown. Similarly, the …
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Familial influences of anxiety in youngsters
… that maternal level of anxiety was the only familial factor that was significantly correlated with child anxiety. There was a non-significant but noteworthy negative correlation between child anxiety and the "independence" subscale of the Family Environment Scale. Based on these findings, …
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Denotations of Memory: A Familial Archive
Denotations of Memory: A Familial Archive is an evocative exploration of memory centred on a familial archive. Notions of memory as well the memories themselves in the archive are explored in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, installation and videos. A major part of this work focuses …
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Denotations of memory a familial archive
Denotations of Memory: A Familial Archive is an evocative exploration of memory centred on a familial archive. Notions of memory as well the memories themselves in the archive are explored in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, installation and videos. A major part of this work focuses …
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia - the Cape Town experience
… is a descriptive study of 1029 patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia attending a referral clinic for severe dyslipidaemia. The author was involved in patient management and clinical research over a period of almost 20 years. Information for the thesis was extracted from patient records …
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The molecular genetics of familial cardiomyopathy
Introduction The cardiomyopathies are responsible for approximately 5.9 of 100,000 deaths in the general global population and in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), these myocardial diseases are observed in 21.4% of patients with heart failure. The precise etiology of the cardiomyopathies is currently not …
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Familial adenomatous polyposis: a genotype - phenotype correlation
This document only includes an excerpt of the corresponding thesis or dissertation. To request a digital scan of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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Intra-familial Cariological Studies on a Saudi Population
Objectives: The aims of this thesis were to: 1) describe the caries experience and caries-related factors in mothers and their preschool and school children, 2) correlate quantified supragingival plaque bacteria between mothers and their children and identify possible microbial associations, 3) …
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Familial support in the mutual fund performance competition
… methodology, and again fail to find evidence of familial cross-subsidization. However, we find evidence of an alternative response to tournament opportunities: a modification of the risk level, conditional on year-to-date investment performance, consistent with Kempf, Ruenzi and Thiele (2009).
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Estimating Familial Correlations Using a Kotz Type Density
<p>Two useful familial correlations often used to study the resemblance between the family members are the sib-sib correlation (ρ<sub><em>ss</em></sub>) and the mom-sib or parent-sib correlation (ρ<sub><em>ps</em></sub>). Since their introduction early in the last century by Galton, Fisher and …
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The familial and behavioral antecedents of children's injuries
This research uses a national longitudinal sample of children (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) to make two new contributions to our understanding of the antecedents of children's injuries. First, it employs path analysis to examine both family and behavioral influences on injuries, …
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Whole-exome sequencing of cases with familial cardiomyopathy
Introduction: Cardiomyopathies are disorders of the myocardium that can lead to heart failure, arrhythmias and sudden death. Heritable forms include dilated, hypertrophic and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (DCM, HCM and ACM respectively). As heterogeneous disorders, over 50 genes have been …
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
<p>The focus of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of how families construct autism. Studies have overwhelmingly used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this …
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Barriers to Civilian and Familial Acclimation for Returning Veterans
Reintegration is a hard process for any returning service member to go through. For a number of veterans reintegration into communities and families is a tumultuous time of adjustment where many barriers must be faced. Some of these barriers include relationship stability, employment barriers, and …
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