The Second Highest Prevalence of Celiac Disease Worldwide: Genetic and Metabolic Insights in Southern Brazilian Mennonites [PDF]
Genes, 2023 Celiac disease (CD), despite its high morbidity, is an often-underdiagnosed autoimmune enteropathy. Using a modified version of the Brazilian questionnaire of the 2013 National Health Survey, we interviewed 604 Mennonites of Frisian/Flemish origin that ...
Maria-Luiza Petzl-Erler +2 more
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Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2021 “Excess deaths” is a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly). Assessing “excess death” in closed religious communities provides information on how COVID-19 impacted these communities. We use obituary information published in
Stein RE +4 more
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Sustainability, 2022 All tangible and intangible elements of cultural heritage that the past has conceded to local communities create unique landscapes shaped by tightly connected anthropogenic and natural factors.
K. Nowicka
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Biomarkers of Development of Immunity and Allergic Diseases in Farming and Non-farming Lifestyle Infants: Design, Methods and 1 Year Outcomes in the "Zooming in to Old Order Mennonites" Birth Cohort Study. [PDF]
Front Pediatr, 2022 Traditional farming lifestyle has been shown to be protective against asthma and allergic diseases. The individual factors that appear to be associated with this “farm-life effect” include consumption of unpasteurized farm milk and exposure to farm ...
Järvinen KM +14 more
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Infant gut microbiome is enriched with Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis in Old Order Mennonites with traditional farming lifestyle. [PDF]
Allergy, 2021 Growing up on traditional, single‐family farms is associated with protection against asthma in school age, but the mechanisms against early manifestations of atopic disease are largely unknown.
Seppo AE +14 more
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Forest Teams as an Alternative Service of the Mennonites in the Russian Empire Until 1914
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. In the Russian Empire, the Mennonites, like German colonists, had numerous privileges, including they were not drafted for military service. This privilege was abolished after the Edict of 1874 was issued.
Ol’ga V. Erokhina
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Religions, 2021 Religious beliefs, practices, and social support facilitate coping with psychologically distressful events and circumstances. However, COVID-19 and governmental mandates for social distancing and isolation make in-person communal forms of religious ...
Bernard D. DiGregorio +3 more
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The Hoover Mennonites in Belize: A History of Expansion in the Shadow of Separation
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 We examine the migration history of the Old Order Hoover Mennonites located in the small, multi-ethnic country of Belize. The Hoover Mennonites live in the settlements of Upper Barton Creek, Springfield, Birdwalk, and Roseville.
Carel Roessingh
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Heterogeneity in primary dystonia: Lessons from THAP1, GNAL, and TOR1A in Amish‐Mennonites
Movement Disorders, 2014 A founder mutation in the Thanatos‐associated (THAP) domain containing, apoptosis associated protein 1 (THAP1) gene causing primary dystonia was originally described in the Amish‐Mennonites.
Rachel Saunders-Pullman +1 more
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Genomic continuity of Argentinean Mennonites. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 Mennonites are Anabaptist communities that originated in Central Europe about 500 years ago. They initially migrated to different European countries, and in the early 18th century they established their first communities in North America, from where they
Pardo-Seco J +7 more
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