The qi stagnation constitution is associated with depression in traditional Chinese medicine. It is unclear how rumination and stressful life events affect the relationship between the qi stagnation constitution and depression. The Qi Stagnation Constitution Scale, Ruminative Response Scale, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, and Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist were...

Recent research has indicated that part of the interindividual variability in cardiovascular responses to caffeine has a genetic basis. Therefore, knowledge of the individual's genetic constitution may allow an individual tailoring of dietary advice for the use of caffeine-containing beverages, yielding an example of the potential of practical translation of nutrigenetic information. This paper...

Family studies throughout the 1970s and 1980s documented the role of shared genetic factors in the familial aggregation of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, including hypertension. These familial aggregation studies, however, do not identify and characterize the role of particular genes. Identification of the genes contributing to interindividual variation in disease risk may facilit...

Background(s) and Objective(s) In mammals and birds, sex is dictated by the chromosomal constitution and is thus genetic (mammalian males are XY and females are XX). However, many fi shes have environmental sex determination without sex chromosomes. Their sex is determined by egg incubation temperature or by social status. The objective of this project was to evaluate the working hypothesis tha...