This data note describes a new resource for crime-related research: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) linked to regional police records.
Anna Ferrante +9 more
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Childhood IQ and risk of bipolar disorder in adulthood: prospective birth cohort study [PDF]
Background: Intellectual ability may be an endophenotypic marker for bipolar disorder. Aims: Within a large birth cohort, we aimed to assess whether childhood IQ (including both verbal IQ (VIQ) and performance IQ (PIQ) subscales) was predictive of ...
Anderson, Jana +5 more
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Epigenomics of being bullied: changes in DNA methylation following bullying exposure
Bullying among children is ubiquitous and associated with pervasive mental health problems. However, little is known about the biological pathways that change after exposure to bullying.
Rosa H. Mulder +10 more
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Introduction: Linking longitudinal cohort resources with police-recorded records of criminal activity has the potential to inform public health style approaches to policing, and may reduce potential sources of bias from self-reported criminal data ...
Richard Thomas +6 more
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Genome-wide association study of primary tooth eruption identifies pleiotropic loci associated with height and craniofacial distances [PDF]
Twin and family studies indicate that the timing of primary tooth eruption is highly heritable, with estimates typically exceeding 80%. To identify variants involved in primary tooth eruption we performed a population based genome-wide association study ...
Alexei I. Zhurov +84 more
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Intellectual disability in the children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) [PDF]
Background: Intellectual disability (ID) describes a neurodevelopmental condition involving impaired cognitive and functional ability. Here, we describe a multisource variable of ID using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).
Paul Madley-Dowd +5 more
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Child undernutrition in affluent societies: what are we talking about? [PDF]
In this paper we set out to explore the prevalence of child undernutrition found in community studies in affluent societies, but a preliminary literature review revealed that, in the absence of a gold standard method of diagnosis, the prevalence largely ...
Ada L. Garcia +6 more
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Is the growth of the child of a smoking mother influenced by the father's prenatal exposure to tobacco? A hypothesis generating longitudinal study [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Transgenerational effects of different environmental exposures are of major interest, with rodent experiments focusing on epigenetic mechanisms. Previously, we have shown that if the study mother is a non-smoker, there is increased mean birth
Golding, Jean +4 more
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Paternal health in the first 12-13 years of the ALSPAC study
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) collected information from the enrolled pregnancy onwards to identify features of the environment in which the study child was brought up. Among data collected were features concerning the health of the mothers’ partners – generally the study father.
Jean Golding +3 more
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Evaluating the role of a galanin enhancer genotype on a range of metabolic, depressive and addictive phenotypes [PDF]
Funded by •ERC. Grant Number: 284167 •NIH. Grant Number: 1RO1DK0921127-01 •NWO.
Day, Ian +13 more
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