Andrés A Ingason,
George G Kirov,
Ina I Giegling,
Thomas T Hansen,
Anthony R AR Isles,
Klaus D KD Jakobsen,
Kari T KT Kristinsson,
Louise L le Roux,
Omar O Gustafsson,
Nick N Craddock,
Hans-Jürgen HJ Möller,
Andrew A McQuillin,
Pierandrea P Muglia,
Sven S Cichon,
Marcella M Rietschel,
Roel A RA Ophoff,
Srdjan S Djurovic,
Ole A OA Andreassen,
Olli P H OP Pietiläinen,
Leena L Peltonen,
Emma E Dempster,
David A DA Collier,
David D St Clair,
Henrik B HB Rasmussen,
Birte Y BY Glenthøj,
Lambertus A LA Kiemeney,
Barbara B Franke,
Sarah S Tosato,
Chiara C Bonetto,
Evald E Saemundsen,
Stefán J SJ Hreidarsson,
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Markus M MM Nöthen,
Hugh H Gurling,
Michael C MC O'Donovan,
Michael J MJ Owen,
Engilbert E Sigurdsson,
Hannes H Petursson,
Hreinn H Stefansson,
Dan D Rujescu,
Kari K Stefansson and
Thomas T Werge
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Rare copy number variants have been implicated in different neurodevelopmental disorders, with the same copy number variants often increasing risk of more than one of these phenotypes. In a discovery sample of 22 schizophrenia patients with an early onset of illness (10-15 years of age), the authors...
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PMID: 21324950
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Text messaging is a dominant form of communication in our society. However, little research has been conducted to evaluate its effectiveness as an appointment reminder in the dental setting.
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PMID: 21454845
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To examine whether the relationship between obesity and asthma in young girls and boys can be explained by social and physical characteristics of the home environment.
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PMID: 21392787
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Rice, the staple food of the Philippines, is an appropriate vehicle for iron fortification to combat the high prevalence of iron-deficiency anemia. A previous study among schoolchildren supplemented with iron-fortified rice showed a significant reduction in the rate of iron-deficiency anemia from 100...
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PMID: 21560459
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The study aimed to describe oral hygiene habits, oral hygiene status and gingival health in Flemish pre-school children and to explore factors associated with these clinical oral health variables.
Cross-sectional data from 1,071 3-year-old and 1,119 5-year-old childre...
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PMID: 21485240
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The purpose of this study was to identify socio-environmental and personal variables associated with high school students smoking behavior by applying multilevel analyses.
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PMID: 21591553
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In adult women with retrospective data, childhood adiposity, pubertal growth and development were associated with benign breast disease (BBD) and/or breast cancer. The authors prospectively evaluated these childhood/adolescent characteristics and BBD risk.
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PMID: 21328325
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We conducted a population based, case-control study of genome-wide maternal DNA methylation to determine if alterations in gene-specific methylation were associated with CHDs. Using the Illumina Infinium Human Methylation27 BeadChip, we assessed maternal gene-specific methylation in over 27,000 CpG...
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PMID: 21297937
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Neospora caninum is an intracellular protozoan parasite which is a major cause of abortion in cattle worldwide. It forms persistent infections which recrudesce during pregnancy leading to foetal infection and in a proportion of cases, abortion. The mechanisms underlying abortion are not understood. I...
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PMID: 21283810
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We aimed to examine these associations in one of the largest studies to date using data from a low-middle income country that has recently undergone a major political and economic transition....
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PMID: 21298034
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We demonstrated that young animal's intrinsic fearfulness affects strongly their sensitivity to non-genetic maternal influences. A young animal's behavioural characteristics play a fundamental role in its own behavioural development processes....
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PMID: 21298038
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We last estimated these parameters in nature in 1993. Here we provide new estimates, under both field and laboratory conditions. Five years ago, we found that wRi had apparently evolved over 15 years to enhance the fecundity of infected females; here we examine whether CI intensity has also evolved....
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PMID: 21799900
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I compare the phylogeographic patterns revealed through the maternally inherited mitochondrial COI region and the paternally inherited 7(th) intron region of the Dby gene on the Y-chromosome in eight common Neotropical bat species. These species are diverse and include members of two families from t...
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PMID: 21814545
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The microbiota in the human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is highly exposed to antibiotics, and may be an important reservoir of resistant strains and transferable resistance genes. Maternal GIT strains can be transmitted to the offspring, and resistances could be acquired from birth....
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PMID: 21738748
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To explore the factors that encompass maternal self-efficacy in providing food for the home.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 mothers of nutritionally at risk children in an urban area of East Jakarta, Indonesia. This study was based on Social Cognitive Theo...
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PMID: 21094093
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We conduct a textual analysis of memorial websites created by mothers who have experienced a loss due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Using an online Internet ethnographic approach, we reviewed a series of 20 sites in an attempt to analyze the motivations of the site creators as manifested i...
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PMID: 21748920
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The purpose of this pilot study was to assess neurological function in newborn infants born to mothers working in citrus orchards in Northern Thailand for a period in excess of one year where pesticide applications average 35 times a year. Forty-one infants from uncomplicated term births at the commu...
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PMID: 21618945
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We evaluated the efficacy of a 6-month clinic and home-based behavioral intervention (Learning about Activity and Understanding Nutrition for Child Health; LAUNCH) to reduce obesity in preschool children ≥95th BMI percentile compared to enhanced standard of care (Pediatrician Counseling; PC). LAUN...
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PMID: 20395948
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This article describes the development and tests the reliability and validity of a new survey instrument, the Child-to-Mother Violence Scale (CMVS). This instrument was devised specifically to measure data regarding the incidence, perpetrators, targets, experiences and influences on...
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PMID: 21319485
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The purpose of this pilot study was to uncover the perceived usefulness of a contemporary antenatal education strategy for mother's experience of breastfeeding initiation.
How useful do first time mothers perceive an antenatal education strategy to be for initiating breastfeeding?
This was a simple...
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PMID: 20493795
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Depressive symptoms in adolescent mothers have been associated with a variety of negative outcomes for both the adolescent mother and her child. The purpose of this article is to describe the dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory®-II and to provide a discussion of how depression may appear in...
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PMID: 20873701
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To examine morbidity experience, pattern of nutrition status and development of the children born to HIV infected mothers under the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Program compared to the national standard.
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PMID: 21344810
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The aim of this study was to test a new method for continuous monitoring of the Danish contact person concept and to evaluate the impact of the concept on the mothers' perception of nursing care and on their self-efficacy.
This is a descriptive study, carried out at a neonatal unit forming part of a...
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PMID: 21073832
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We examined knowledge and attitudes about sickle cell trait (SCT) and sickle cell disease (SCD) in women whose infants were identified with SCT through newborn screening.
Mothers of infants identified with SCT by newborn screening were contacted 8 to 52 weeks post partum. Mothers were recruited if:...
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PMID: 21141296
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Human milk oligosaccharides, representing the third largest fraction of human milk, have been assigned important protective functions for newborns acting as bifidogenic substrates or as inhibitory agents towards pathogens. Using high-pH anion-exchange chromatography and an enzyme test kit, twenty ol...
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PMID: 20522272
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The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of Parenting Stress Index-Short Form. After translating the instrument from English into Spanish using the forward-backward translation method, it was administered to a sample of 129 mothers of children aged betw...
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PMID: 21044549
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Despite their being good markers of oxidative stress for clinical use, little is known about ubiquinol-10 (reduced coenzyme Q10) and ubiquinone-10 (oxidized coenzyme Q10) levels in foetuses and their mothers. This study investigates oxidative stress in 10 healthy maternal venous, umbilical arterial...
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PMID: 20815779
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Mothers of children with bronchial asthma consecutively admitted to Aseer central hospital, Saudi Arabia (n = 171), were interviewed using a questionnaire based on the Chicago Community Asthma Survey to study their knowledge and behaviours concerning bronchial asthma. The least known information amo...
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PMID: 21218739
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Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis based on detection of fetal cell-free DNA is hampered when mother and father are both carriers for the same autosomal recessive mutation.
To compare the diagnosis of Bart's hydrops fetalis using conventional Gap-PCR analysis of fetal cells/tissues with the measurement...
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PMID: 21114201
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This study aimed to investigate characteristics of Brazilian mothers' beliefs system, in the dimensions of autonomy and interdependence. A group of 600 women, half from state capitals and half from small towns, participated in the study. They were individually interviewed with Scales of Allocentrism...
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PMID: 20977030
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Jongdae Shin,
Michael Bossenz,
Young Chung,
Hong Ma,
Meg Byron,
Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki,
Xiaochun Zhu,
Baowei Jiao,
Lisa L Hall,
Michael R Green,
Stephen N Jones,
Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer,
Jeanne B Lawrence and
Ingolf Bach
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We show, by targeting a conditional knockout of Rnf12 to oocytes where RLIM accumulates to high levels, that the maternal transmission of the mutant X chromosome (Δm) leads to lethality in female embryos as a result of defective imprinted XCI. We provide evidence that in Δm female embryos the in...
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PMID: 20962847
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The Greek myth of Kore/Persephone captures a particular psychopathology of women who are torn between a deadened and often asexual husband (Hades) and an ongoing close relationship with a caretaking mother (Demeter). Psychoanalytic work often reveals that these women live in the shadow of their moth...
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PMID: 21141782
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African American infants continue to be at more than twice the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than Caucasian Americans. In addition, African Americans are twice as likely to place their infants prone for sleep.
To investigate, using qualitative methods, factors influencing African Amer...
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PMID: 21053701
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African American infants are of higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental suffocation than other infants and are up to 4 times more likely to bedshare with their parents.
To investigate, using qualitative methods, factors influencing African American parents' decisions regar...
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PMID: 21053702
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We refer to mothers of overweight and obese children. Mothers with overweight and obese children, having a monthly income higher than 600 dollars, less than 6 years of education, and having migrated to their current state of residence are more likely to underestimate their child's weight. A high per...
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PMID: 20407922
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The study investigates whether preintervention depressive symptoms predict weight loss and whether an increase in depressive symptoms during a group-based lifestyle intervention of 1 year's duration is associated with failure in weight reduction while controlling for the influence of psychosocial ri...
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PMID: 20814339
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Little is known about the impact of in utero exposure to antidepressants on children's long-term mental health. This study analyzed the impact of exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy on the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the offspring.
Claims-based data from 38,07...
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PMID: 20613624
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We assessed eight World Health Organization (WHO) core child feeding indicators for their association with stunting and underweight in Cambodia in 2000 and 2005. We compared the feeding data from the Cambodian Demographic and Health Surveys for 2000 with 2005 for 0-24 months children using the WHO f...
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PMID: 21050390
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