Kim Schrøder, Kristen Drotner, Stephen

Abstracts Presenting Residents Kristen Cotter

Presenting Residents

Kristen Ricchetti - Masterson , MSPH Karin

The primary goal of the epidemiologist is to identify those factors that have a causal impact on development or prevention of a health outcome, thereby providing a target for prevention and intervention. At first glance, causality may appear to be a relatively simple concept to define. However, adequately distinguishing causal agents from non-causal agents is not an easy task from an epidemiolo...

In Memory of Kristen Nygaard

Genes , Memes and Human History by Stephen Shennan London : Thames and Hudson , 2002 , Pp . 304 . KIM STERELNY

Perhaps the most critical problem facing the human sciences is that of integrating two conceptions of human activity. On the one hand, humans are evolved primates. And humans are encultured beings: intentional agents who are profoundly influenced by the particular cultures in which they are immersed. It has proved remarkably difficult to develop an account of human nature and of the broad patte...

Kim 19_09

Testing for cancer susceptibility gene, in particular mutations in the BRCA1 gene in association with hereditary breast/ovarian cancer has been extensively studied. We investigated germline mutations in the BRCA1 gene from two Korean hereditary breast/ovarian cancer families using direct DNA sequencing. Blood samples of the thirteen family members were studied. We found three missense mutations...