124 Early Influences on Asthma

Family influences on pediatric asthma.

OBJECTIVE To describe pathways by which families may influence the onset and course of a child's asthma. METHODS We critically reviewed published articles and book chapters to identify research findings and integrated conceptualizations that demonstrate how families affect pediatric asthma. RESULTS Family emotional characteristics, asthma management behaviors, and physiological factors acco...

Early influences on taste preferences.

miR-124 rs531564 polymorphism influences genetic susceptibility to cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. It most frequently results from human papillomavirus (HPV) infection; however, recent evidence suggests that there may be underlying genetic factors, specifically in regions encoding microRNAs, dictating susceptibility to cervical cancer. This study investigated the relationship between the miR-124 rs531564 gene polymorphis...

Variations in genetic influences on the development of asthma throughout childhood, adolescence and early adult life.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Asthma is likely to be due to many aetiological factors, the effect of each varying considerably with age. Now that there are well established candidate genes for asthma, using genetics to examine age-related susceptibility to asthma offers a new approach to understanding the basic underlying mechanisms. RECENT FINDINGS Since few long-term, longitudinal asthma studies exist,...

Environmental and genetic influences on early attachment

Attachment theory predicts and subsequent empirical research has amply demonstrated that individual variations in patterns of early attachment behaviour are primarily influenced by differences in sensitive responsiveness of caregivers. However, meta-analyses have shown that parenting behaviour accounts for about one third of the variance in attachment security or disorganisation. The exclusivel...