Hor, H. et al. Genome-wide association study identifies new HLA class II haplotypes strongly protective against narcolepsy.
Adrenomedullin (AM) is a novel hypotensive peptide that exerts a variety of strongly protective effects against multiorgan damage.
In contrast, HSV-1 and HHV-8 showed a strongly protective effect on progression from fibroadenoma to breast cancer.
Eating fruit and vegetables may protect against some forms of cancer, although the World Cancer Report says it "does not appear to be as strongly protective against cancer as initially believed".
A particularly strongly protective variant was found most commonly among children in Kenya, where it reduced the risk of severe malaria by about 40%, with a slightly smaller effect across the other African populations studied.
But there's another side to the Maldives, one of the world's newest democracies: a nation strongly protective of its Islamic heritage, grappling to understand the modern agenda of its young Wiltshire-educated president, and distrustful of change after 30 years of stable autocratic rule.
Social support from female friends was strongly protective.
Two versions of the vaccine triggered an immune response, but only one was strongly protective: 60 days after the vaccination, six of seven subjects in this group remained uninfected.
Lehzen became strongly protective of the princess, who resided in a household dominated by the controlling Kensington System, implemented by the Duchess and her comptroller Sir John Conroy.
At INRA111 a single genotype appears strongly protective with an overall odds ratio of 2.2, the effect being consistent across nine diverse breeds.
Even after adjusting for the non-genetic factors, age, sex and number of sex partners, the effect of this SNP was strongly protective.
