Sentence examples for paternal associations from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, according to our informant, Perelmann's son spent all day and all night in a ten-gallon hat of thus far unknown paternal associations.

Maternal and paternal BMI were each weakly correlated with both daughters' and sons' anthropometric measurements at age 6.5 (0.09 to 0.21), with no clear pattern of differences between maternal and paternal associations or between associations with daughters and sons.

Two previous large studies in East Asian populations reported larger maternal than paternal associations, but both only examined these associations with categorical exposures and outcomes.[6]; [7] In both studies the proportion of fathers in the obese category was considerably greater than the proportion of mothers defined as obese.

There was no strong or consistent evidence of gender assortment - i.e. associations of maternal adiposity exposures with offspring outcomes were similar in magnitude for their daughters compared to equivalent associations in their sons and paternal associations were also similar in sons and daughters.

We then reanalyzed maternal and paternal associations simultaneously.

Two studies suggest maternal but not paternal associations, [ 40, 42] and two suggest both [ 41, 44].

A biological intrauterine effect would be expected to produce a stronger maternal association, compared with the paternal association, since paternal exposures would not normally be expected to affect the intrauterine environment.

In this approach, the paternal association acts as a negative control, because a direct intrauterine mechanism should result in a considerably stronger estimate for the maternal exposure than for the paternal exposure (20).

The rationale is that if maternal stress is truly causing offspring outcomes via intrauterine mechanisms (as opposed to family based confounding) then one would expect a stronger maternal association, compared to paternal association.

The top SNP in the region of paternal association on chromosome 14 (rs4280164) corresponds to a missense variant in the NOP9 gene (also known as C14orf21), yielding an S308N substitution in the encoded protein.

In the stratum in which neither parents had an A level or higher qualification, there was either a smaller maternal association or a greater paternal association with each of the bone outcomes than in the other strata, which led to a smaller difference between maternal and paternal effects.