Skin reflectance was measured on the inner arm and forehead of a sample of 209 Mestizos ranging in age from 2 to 64 years living in the town of Lamas in the Eastern peruvian Lowlands. The sample consisted of 43 father-son, 42 father-daughter, 62 mother-son, and 70 mother-daughter pairs. The sample also consisted of 57 brother-brother, 60 sister-sister and 139 brother-sister pairs. The reflectan...

Song learning is hypothesized to allow social adaptation to a local song neighbourhood. Maintaining social associations is particularly important in cooperative breeders, yet vocal learning in such species has only been assessed in systems where social association was correlated with relatedness. Thus, benefits of vocal learning as a means of maintaining social associations could not be disenta...

A father and his two sons each presented with atrial tachycardia in the newborn period. The father went on to develop dilated cardiomyopathy. The first son (who also had transposition of the great arteries) died from the arrhythmia after surgery. The second son is currently successfully managed pharmacologically.

THE DISCOVERY by ANGT+” and PERRIS’ that manic-depressive illness (MDI) is genetically different from unipolar depression has led to renewed interest in the genetic predisposition to to MDI. WINOKUR~-5 and his collaborators proposed a sex-linked dominant (SLD) mode of of inheritance, on the basis of familial transmission patterns in 61 pedigrees and on the basis of apparent linkage with X-chrom...

OBJECTIVES To obtain valid estimates of the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality by using offspring BMI as an instrumental variable for own BMI. DESIGN Cohort study based on record linkage, with 50 years of follow-up for mortality. Associations of offspring BMI with all cause and cause specific maternal and paternal mortality were estimated as hazard ratios per standard dev...

Objective. A multi-phase, sequential mixed methods study aimed to determine acceptable age-appropriate physical intimate behaviors shared between Filipino parents and children that are related hygiene, affection privacy.
 Methods. Following an exploratory qualitative phase (Phase 1) instrumentation 2), the quantitative survey 3) utilized resultant Family Behavior Questionnaire (FFBQ). tota...