Objectives & Aim of the Study: Evidence for the higher prevalence of NSS in schizophrenics and their 1 degree relatives is substantial whereas evidence for the specificity of the subtypes of the NSS is relatively sparse. This study was performed to find out if there is a subset of NSS discriminating 1 degree relatives of schizophrenic when compared with 1 degree relatives of bipolar disorder pa...

It is generally believed that the incidence of congenital malformation of the heart is raised in relatives of affected individuals. The evidence in support of this view consists mainly of isolated records of families with more than one affected member (Courter et al., 1948, refer to 63 reported cases), but a few examples have been noted in the course of investigations of large series of patient...

This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partne...

Tropheryma whipplei, which causes Whipple disease, has been detected in 4% of fecal samples from the general adult population of France. To identify T. whipplei within families, we conducted serologic and molecular studies, including genotyping, on saliva, feces, and serum from 74 relatives of 13 patients with classic Whipple disease, 5 with localized chronic T. whipplei infection, and 3 carrie...

One prominent concern about genetically modified crops is the possibility of environmental impacts from the movement of fitness-enhancing traits to wild plant populations. Decisions to deregulate Bt crops in the USA have relied strongly on arguments that these crops will not interbreed with wild relatives in the permitted growing regions. Limited attention therefore has been directed to analyse...

The importance of competition in determining species coexistence has been much debated. A phylogenetic analysis of sedges indicates that competitive exclusion may inhibit co-occurrence among closely related species, but not among more distant relatives.

Whether a family history user is beginning to build their family tree or working in a well-developed tree already containing thousands of relatives, retaining context of how all of their relatives are related to them is often difficult. To aid users with this problem, many genealogy products include relationship calculators to show the relationships between two persons. However, these relations...

A genetic family study was undertaken by photofluorography of the first, second, and third degree relatives of 116 index patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The index patients were ascertained in the course of an epidemiological screening. The pattern of familial clusters and the recurrence risk related to the number of affected relatives and to the severity of the disorder in ...

A study was conducted on 57 relatives (34 male and 23 female) of 57 (32 male and 25 female) schizophrenic patients in Kerala. The rejection response was found to be related to gender of patients and relatives, being significantly higher in males. The test reliability alpha of the Patient Rejection Scale was found to be 0.93 and it is higher than English and German version of the scale. Compared...