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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"family histories"”.
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Family Histories of Mental Illness and Violence in State Patients
… about its prevalence in state patients and their family members. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of violence and mental illness in the families of state patients, to what extend these coincide and to compare schizophrenia and mood psychosis in that context. Setting: The study …
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Relationship between family histories and allergic disease with childhood atopic Dermatitis
This study aims to examine the relationship between parent's history of allergic disease and children's atopic dermatitis. Data from the 2011 Research on the Current Status of Atopic Disease with Elementary Schools and Kindergartens in Suwon were used for analysis. Among 20,052 persons agreeing to …
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Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947
… the power relations generated within a colonial family at a particular moment in the British colonial past in India between 1933-47. My research practice, Diving, presents a series of multimedia assemblages, which recount a fictional story viewed from multiple perspectives and are played out by …
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
… a qualitative study of seven privately-published family histories written by descendants of Mormon polygamists. Using methods of discourse and rhetorical analysis, these texts and various interviews are analyzed with the contention that identity is a rhetorical production and that the authors …
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Mismatch Repair Deficient Tumors Lacking Known Sporadic Causes: Are They All Due to Lynch Syndrome?
… individuals with LS should have a stronger family history of LS-related cancers than individuals with sporadic tumors. We hypothesized that MMRD+/germline- CRC and/or EC patients would have less suggestive family histories than LS CRC and/or EC patients.</p> <p>METHODS: 253 individuals with …
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The Laurence-Moon-Biedl Syndrome
The purpose of this paper is; (1) to record the histories and findings, with special reference to the family histories, of four patients in two families who are, in the opinion of the author, entitled to the diagnosis of "the Laurence-Moon-Biedl Syndrome"; (2) to point out that this syndrome is not …
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Identifying Interest In and Barriers to Psychiatric Genetic Counseling
… United States, individuals with personal and/or family histories of psychiatric conditions are very rarely accessing psychiatric genetic counseling services. The purpose of our study was to identify interest in and barriers to psychiatric genetic counseling with the hopes of better characterizing …
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Latino\a Ethnic Identity in the New Diaspora: Perspectives of a Select Group of Latino\a Undergraduates at a Predominantly White Land Grant University
… because of the diversity of national origins, family histories, linguistic preferences, and cultural traditions that exists among the different nationalities that comprise this ethnic group. Unlike previous generations of immigrants, new diaspora "Latinos" seek integration into American society …
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"We Heard Canada Was a Free Country": African American Migration in the Great Plains, 1890-1911
… American immigrants themselves. The use of family histories, newspaper articles, and immigration files show how black migrants searched for land and equality in Canada and attempted to build all black communities. Encouraged by the promises of Canadian immigration recruiters, black migrants …
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Natural History Study of Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, Amyoplasia Type
… the following information: prenatal, birth, and family histories, and phenotypic descriptions. Forty-four children were identified with amyoplasia and 15 children with other multiple congenital contractures and other anomalies (MCC) were used as a comparison group. With the exception of abnormal …
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Traveling a hard road: pathways to womanhood among generations of poor females of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic
… cues (e.g. structural and direct violence) and family histories (relatively early morbidity and mortality) indicate to them that the benefits of adolescent motherhood might outweigh costs. Currently the disconnect between international advocacy and women’s lived choices in the bateyes is …
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Breast Cancer Risk For Female Relatives of Male Breast Cancer Patients With Negative Brca1/2 Testing
… various factors such as reproductive history and family history, but few models take a family history of male breast cancer into account. This study aims to evaluate if prevalence of breast cancer among female relatives is higher when there is a family history of male breast cancer in the context …
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The Small Histories project: the internet, life stories and ‘performances of reconstruction’
This project revolves around Small Histories, an online web-based software system for the uploading and sharing of life stories: http://www.smallhistories.com. I created Small Histories to explore the ways in which the internet can facilitate the urge to tell, share and compare one’s personal …
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Characteristics of Individuals Undergoing Panel Genetic Testing For Primary Brain Tumors
… is largely understudied in terms of the family history, tumor grade, pathology, and their relation to genetic contribution. Our aim was to describe patient-specific characteristics and family histories across mutation-positive, negative, and variant of uncertain significance (VUS) cohorts …
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The Textile Archive: curating personal histories and family narratives
… for their ability to prompt personal and family histories and stories, in a phenomenon identified within the study as the personal textile archive. Textile design research is increasingly concerned with incorporating interdisciplinary social and cultural frameworks within its traditional …
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Genetic Counselors' Approaches to Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing For Hereditary Breast Cancer
… case scenarios with variable personal and family histories of cancer. The majority of participants would recommend confirmatory clinical-grade genetic testing for both probands’ DTC-GT results and TPI data (77/80, 96%). For probands with a personal diagnosis of breast cancer and a DTC-GT …
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The values of nature: personal narratives of conservation in South Africa
… their identities, spirituality, belonging and family histories. Dynamics of politics manifested in different forms such as fear, mistrust, corruption and exclusion throughout landowner's experiences and attitudes. These political factors, emotions and economic dynamics play a role in shaping …
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Distributed computation and inference
… regards the reconstruction of pedigrees, or family histories, from genetic data. We are given strings of genetic data for many individuals, and want to reconstruct how they are related. We show how to do this when we assume that both inheritance and mating are governed by some simple …
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Assessing Genetic Counselors' Clinical Approach and Practices Regarding Pathogenic/Likely Pathogenic Variant Downgrades
… or <em>ATM</em> genes with variable family histories. Genetic counselors appear to be united in whether they would discuss how the variant reclassification was reached, the possibility of another reclassification in the future, and implications for family members across the three …
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Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease
<p>Exploring family health histories (FHHs) has emerged in recent years as an inexpensive genomic tool in public health. Families and clinicians can also use them to uncover family histories and experiences, which could inform better lifestyle choices to prevent or delay the onset of diseases. …
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