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The Challenges and Limitations of Conducting Research Among the Old Order Amish [PDF]

, 1987
The Old Order or horse and buggy Amish have been a part of American society for more than two centuries. Today, some 95,000 Amish persons reside in over twenty states, a Canadian province, and two countries in Latin America.
Foster, Thomas, Savells, Jerry
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Ciliary Defects in Inherited Retinal Diseases

Advanced Genetics, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2026.
The photoreceptor cilium is a specialized sensory organelle essential for vision. This review systematically summarizes the structural and functional defects of the cilium that lead to inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). It highlights key pathogenic genes, elucidates molecular mechanisms of degeneration, and evaluates emerging therapeutic strategies ...
Guizhi Guo, Lin Li, Jun Zhou, Jie Ran
wiley   +1 more source

A Brief History of Amish Churches in Holmes County, Ohio

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2019
This article provides a brief history of several Amish church schisms in Holmes County during the 20th century. After a 1917 Diener Versammlung, Sam Yoder divided from the South Churches (Old Order) due to differences in Ordnung.
Anonymous
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Persistent Staphylococcus aureus colonization is not a strongly heritable trait in Amish families. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
About 20% of adults are persistently colonized with S. aureus in the anterior nares. Host genetic factors could contribute susceptibility to this phenotype. The objective of this study was to determine whether the phenotype of persistent S.
Mary-Claire Roghmann, J Kristie Johnson, O Colin Stine, Alison D Lydecker, Kathleen A Ryan, Braxton D Mitchell, Alan R Shuldiner   +6 more
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Examining Atopic Dermatitis Through the One Health Concept Lens

Allergy, Volume 81, Issue 2, Page 345-357, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the application of the One Health framework to atopic dermatitis (AD), a complex, chronic skin disease, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to prevention and management. One Health integrates human, animal, environmental, and plant health, addressing challenges such as antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, and
Dijana Minić‐Pantić, Bernadette Abela, Jenni Lehtimäki, Alexander Zink, Erika Jensen‐Jarolim, Antonia Fettelschoss‐Gabriel, Claudia Traidl‐Hoffmann, Johannes Ring, Peter Schmid‐Grendelmeir, Pascal Prélaud, Alain Taïeb   +10 more
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Amish Women, Business Sense: Old Order Women Entrepreneurs in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Tourist Marketplace [PDF]

, 2008
This dissertation is an examination of Amish businesswomen and gender roles in the tourist marketplace of Lancaster County, PA. Tourism in Lancaster is a $1.5 billion business; most tourists come because of the Amish and values associated with them ...
Graybill, Beth E.
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From Genotype to Phenotype: Nonsense Variants in SLC13A1 Are Associated with Decreased Serum Sulfate and Increased Serum Aminotransferases

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2016
Using genomic applications to glean insights into human biology, we systematically searched for nonsense single nucleotide variants (SNVs) that are rare in the general population but enriched in the Old Order Amish (Amish) due to founder effect.
Christina G. Tise, James A. Perry, Leslie E. Anforth, Mary A. Pavlovich, Joshua D. Backman, Kathleen A. Ryan, Joshua P. Lewis, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Alan R. Shuldiner   +9 more
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Pathogenic Variants in Mennonites From Southern Brazil: Implications for Preventive Measures in Public Health

Clinical Genetics, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 266-276, February 2026.
In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Luiza Beatriz Mayer de Lima, Eduardo Delabio Auer, Isabela Dall’Oglio Bucco, Valéria Bumiller‐Bini Hoch, Priscila Ianzen dos Santos, Fabiana L. Lopes, Alan Shuldiner, Emilton Lima Júnior, Angelica Beate Winter Boldt   +8 more
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More than Forty Amish Affiliations? Charting the Fault Lines

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2017
The Amish are notoriously difficult to chart in terms of affiliations. However, defining affiliations is important to researchers: as a suitable measurement of conservatism, as a useful context for making sense of a particular district or settlement, for
Christopher Petrovich
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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 272-285, January 2026.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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