Size at birth and accelerometer-measured physical activity or sedentary behavior in healthy term-born adults. [PDF]
Am J Hum Biol, 2022 Garay JL +3 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To compare the incidence of diabetes mellitus and its associations with hospitalisation and mortality in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) and matched controls. Methods Using English primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked to hospital and mortality records, we matched adults with MS with up to 10 ...
Yolanda Lau +8 more
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Effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in India [PDF]
The paper explores the effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in India using the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS).
Makino, Momoe
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Effects of Sibship Size and Birth Order on Sexual and Reproductive Health among Sexually Active Young People in China. [PDF]
Children (Basel), 2022 Yuan L, Cao W.
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Juvenile Huntington Disease With Cerebellar‐Predominant Atrophy Identified by Genome Sequencing
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Juvenile Huntington disease accounts for a small fraction of Huntington disease cases and is driven by the largest trinucleotide repeat expansions. We describe a 6‐year‐old boy with progressive global regression, generalized dystonia, and epilepsy, in whom serial imaging showed striking cerebellar‐predominant atrophy with an initially normal ...
Enrique Gonzalez Saez‐Diez +5 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Biallelic FIG4 variants classically cause distinct conditions characterized by peripheral neuropathy (Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth disease type 4J) or skeletal dysplasia (Yunis‐Varón syndrome). However, central nervous system involvement is increasingly recognized. The prevalence and specific characteristics of movement disorders within FIG4‐
Andrea Gangfuß +22 more
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Myostatin/Smad3 in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Biomarkers of Disease Severity and Treatment Response
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Given the role of Myostatin (MSTN) in muscle homeostasis and its modulation by current spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) therapies, we investigated serum MSTN and, for the first time, its downstream effector Smad3 as candidate non‐invasive biomarkers in SMA patients undergoing disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs).
Giorgia Riolo +11 more
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s [PDF]
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique ...
Timothy J. Hatton, Richard M. Martin
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Prenatal exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and size at birth in urban pregnant women. [PDF]
Environ Res, 2021 Balalian AA +8 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Febrile seizures (FS) are currently classified as simple or complex primarily to describe seizure characteristics, with limited ability to identify the underlying etiology. We evaluated whether molecular diagnosis could complement conventional classification and improve the diagnosis and management of FS.
Jia Wang +22 more
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