Some Aspects of Heredity

Heredity and Health-Related Fitness

In this issue of the Digest readers have the opportunity to read a synthesis paper on "Heredity and Health-Related Fitness" written by the most prominent scholar in the area. While we have known for some time that heredity was a factor affecting fitness performances, it was not until Dr. Bouchard and his colleagues began their in-depth studies in the area that we began to really know the extent...

Some aspects of the management of the pregnant diabetic.

is now becoming much less so. Furthermore the passage of the next decade will see more and more children born of diabetic mothers, themselves entering the childbearing age group. If the influence of heredity on the development of diabetes is accepted, and a family history of the disease is frequently found, such patients should show an increased incidence of diabetes which in turn will serve to...

The National Merit Twin Studyl

This chapter will be concerned with some of the methodological problems and some early results of the National Merit Twin Study which is still in progress and when finished will be reported in detail elsewhere. Analyses completed so far have been primarily concerned with the relative effects of heredity and environment on ability measures, which will therefore be the major focus of this chapter...

Heredity in Ovarian Cystoma

Electroencephalographic variants and genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.

Schizophrenic patients (249) were divided into those with and those without a family history of major functional psychosis. The same patients were then divided into those with entirely normal electroencephalograms and those whose traces contained some variant of normal. Traces were interpreted without knowledge of the patients' identities, and the question of the presence or absence of positive...