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PROPOSITUS. The person proposed. In making genealogical tables, the person whose relations it is desirous to find out, is called the propositus.

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A significant divide in the patterning of -1 generation terms (children and niblings) in Australia is whether they are organized around the gender of the propositus (woman's child vs.
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Moreover, the propositus and grandmother had polythelia.
Char syndrome, a familial form of patent ductus arteriosus, with a new finding: hyperplasia of the 3rd finger/Ailesel patent duktus arteriyozus: char sendromu ve yeni bir bulgusu; 3. parmak hipoplazisi
pneumoniae genotype in at least 1 sample from our propositus patient while he was receiving treatment suggests that the A2063G mutation may have evolved de novo during therapy with azithromycin.
Macrolide resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Israel, 2010
To consider a case as familial, there must be at least a second affected person in the family besides the propositus, and the disease must be present in at least two generations.
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In the event of death of any son or daughter of the propositus before the opening of succession, the children of such son or daughter, if any, living at the time the succession opens, shall per stripes, receive a share equivalent to the share which such son or daughter, as the case may be, would have received if alive.
In search of equality: marriage related laws for Muslim women in Bangladesh
Second, to obtain the most comprehensive information, more than the person known to have FHCM (the propositus), meaning whole families, must be studied.
Families and the Genetic Revolution: Implications for Primary Healthcare, Education, and Research
In addition, compelling evidence provided by previous population-based cohort studies indicated that the risk of IBD was increased eight- to tenfold among relatives of UC or CD propositus. Moreover, twin and family studies have suggested that when a child suffered from CD, the risk of developing CD in another sibling had increased 26-fold, compared with a 9-fold increase in UC [11].
New Frontiers in Genetics, Gut Microbiota, and Immunity: A Rosetta Stone for the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Concomitant analysis of the [beta]-gene showed that the propositus carried the Hb D Punjab + IVSI -110 (G [right arrow] A) mutation.
Compound heterozygosity for Hb D-Punjab / [beta]-thalassemia and blood donation: case report/Hb D-Punjab / [beta]-talasemi ve kan bagisi icin bilesik heterozigozite: olgu raporu
Therefore, we stratified the single group analyses, including only the propositus of each family.
Tumor necrosis factor-[alpha] -308G>A allelic variant modulates iron accumulation in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis
Part of exon h of the F9 gene (Xg27) and part of exon 1 (used as reference) of the [beta]-globin gene (11p15) were amplified by real-time PCR from DNA obtained from the propositus, the two related female patients, unaffected males (n = 5), and female noncarriers (n = 6).
Quantitative real-time PCR assay for rapid identification of deletion carriers in hemophilia

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