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Working Together: Women and Men on the Amish Family Farm in 1930s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Old Order Amish men did not own gasoline tractors or other large power farm implements to amplify their manhood, and Amish women did not own mechanical household appliances to symbolize their feminine role as housekeepers.
Katherine Jellison, Steven Reschly
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Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania [PDF]

, 2021
Excerpts from the report Foreword: This is a report on one of six communities which were studied contemporaneously by six different participant observers or field workers during the year 1940.
Kollmorgen, Walter M.
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Ethical considerations for treating the old order Amish

Ethics & Behavior, 2020
The Old Order Amish are the fastest growing religious subpopulation in the United States. The Amish population, most recently estimated at 340,000, is expected to double in size during the next 20 years. While still relatively few in number, their growing population and increasing interaction with American society will likely result in more Amish ...
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Gender differences in first and secondhand smoke exposure, spirometric lung function and cardiometabolic health in the old order Amish: A novel population without female smoking. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Due to their relatively homogeneous lifestyle and living environment, the Amish offer a novel opportunity to study the health associations of tobacco smoke exposure, particularly secondhand smoke.
Robert M Reed, Mark T Dransfield, Michael Eberlein, Michael Miller, Giora Netzer, Mary Pavlovich, Toni I Pollin, Steven M Scharf, Alan R Shuldiner, Don Sin, Braxton D Mitchell   +10 more
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Phenotypic Variability in Atherosclerosis Burden in an Old-Order Amish Family With Homozygous Sitosterolemia

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
Sitosterolemia is a rare atherogenic sterol storage disease with variability in its presentation requiring a high degree of clinical suspicion. We present 8 cases of sitosterolemia from an Amish kindred that, despite a background of decreased genetic and
Amy L. Peterson, MD, James DeLine, MD, Claudia E. Korcarz, DVM, Ann M. Dodge, RN, MSN, CPNP, James H. Stein, MD   +4 more
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Genetic Linkage for Bipolar Disorder to the Distal Region of Chromosome 19q: A Large Family Whole Genome Sequencing Study

Bipolar Disorders, Volume 28, Issue 4, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Bipolar disorder (BD) is among the most heritable psychiatric disorders, with a genetic architecture likely consisting of both common genetic variants with small effects and rare variants with strong effects in certain families or populations.
Albert H. C. Wong, Andrew D. Paterson, Nicole M. Roslin, Elizabeth Tetzlaff, Andrew B. Sedrak, Young Zhou, Gaurav Sharma, Paul Grof, Anne Duffy   +8 more
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Genetics of Response to Canagliflozin (GRC) Study: Rationale, Design, and Pharmacodynamic Responses

Clinical and Translational Science, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Sodium glucose cotransporter‐2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are a class of antidiabetics with benefits including HbA1c‐lowering, weight loss, cardiovascular and renal protection in addition to adverse effects including genitourinary tract infections, ketoacidosis, and bone loss.
May E. Montasser, Salma A. Bargal, Elizabeth A. Streeten, Hilary B. Whitlatch, Zhinous Shahidzadeh Yazdi, Jordin Sirody, Rosanna Kiplagat, Merna Beshara, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Simeon I. Taylor, Amber L. Beitelshees   +10 more
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Mast Syndrome Outside the Amish Community: SPG21 in Europe

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Background:Mast syndrome is a rare disorder belonging to the group of hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs). It is caused by bi-allelic mutations in the ACP33 gene, and is originally described in Old Order Amish.
Matthias Amprosi, Elisabetta Indelicato, Wolfgang Nachbauer, Anna Hussl, Claudia Stendel, Claudia Stendel, Andreas Eigentler, Constanze Gallenmüller, Sylvia Boesch, Thomas Klopstock, Thomas Klopstock, Thomas Klopstock   +11 more
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Carrier screening in the reproductive setting—Are there medical implications for the heterozygote?—A guide for clinicians

Pregnancy, Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2026.
Abstract Carrier screening for genetic conditions performed preconception or during pregnancy allows identification of fetal risk for inherited autosomal recessive and X‐linked conditions. The goal is to identify at‐risk patients/couples and offer them reproductive options such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, or targeted newborn
Emily B. Rosenfeld, Nicole Kasatkin, Bi Liu Yu, Milen Velinov, Justin S. Brandt, Elena Ashkinadze   +5 more
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Constitutive Disorder As Method: A Multilingual Dictionary From Within the Camp

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 4, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes Multilingual Dictionary – Living Together in a Refugee Camp, a co‐research project documenting words and expressions created, invented, and circulated among migrant communities in the Moria and Mavrovouni camps on Lesvos Island between 2018 and 2022.
Nagehan Uskan
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