Sentence examples for an affected case from inspiring English sources

This assumes that an affected case has only one defect, but there is evidence that women who smoke are more likely to have a baby with ≥2 defects: excess risks 15% (Kallen, 2000), 19% (Yushkiv et al., 2005) and 61% (Bitsko et al., 2007), compared with non-smokers.

Five hundred and sixty out of 725 (77%, 95% CI 74 80) of all affected cases were electively terminated.

With this method it is theoretically possible to confound linkage with association unless a strict test of transmission disequilibrium is carried out by using only one affected case in a family together with one set of parents.

There was also very strong and significant relation between non-insulin dependant diabetes (NIDDM) and breast cancer (OR = 8.4, 95% CI 1.7 41) although this was based on a very small number of affected case women (n = 3).

This allele was found equally in affected and non-affected family members, and in one affected case was inherited from an unaffected homozygous parent.

To investigate this, local tyrosine kinase activity and AChR clusters were visualized at nascent motor endplates in muscle biopsies from an affected fetus (case 8, 23 weeks of gestation) and a control fetus aborted at 22 weeks due to cervical insufficiency.

The most seriously affected case was also unusual with dysmorphic features suggestive of a superimposed congenital defect (Table 1).

As specific examples, schizophrenia-related personality traits that are unrelated to affective symptoms and performance deficits on tasks of eye tracking and continuous attention are considered for strategies for broadening phenotype characterization without reducing the specificity of affected case identification.

Strictly matched case-control pairs, e.g., affected case and its unaffected sib, provide the most reliable guard against population stratification.

We do not think deployment of the handheld lactate machine for screening (introduced in 2006) differentially affected case finding between the two groups.

In the most affected case (Fig.  3g, h), no branches are seen at all, while in a less affected case folial branches are reduced to two or less (Fig.  3e, f).