Studies of children with ADHD and Tourette syndrome, and their families, show that both the patients and their relatives are at increased risk for alcoholism, and other behavioral disorders. Defective serotonin metabolism has been implicated in all of these disorders. Platelet serotonin and blood tryptophan levels are low in the patients and both parents. Analysis of pedigrees suggest that a ge...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To measure total body fat percentage of persons with evident family history of diabetes mellitus; to assess the BMI and other risk factors of persons at risk of developing diabetes mellitus; and to compare the body fat percentage between first degree relatives of diabetics and nondiabetic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 140 subjects, first degree relatives of diabeti...

Three founder mutations in BRCA1 are common in Poland (5382insC, C61G, and 4153delA). At birth, it is expected that 50% of the children of a parent who carries a BRCA1 mutation will inherit a mutant allele. However, in a recent paper we observed a greater than expected frequency of mutation carriers among daughters (but not among sons) of women with BRCA1 mutations in Poland. We observed 75 car...

This is a reply to Caponigro 2019, which argues that the phrase structure theory proposed in Donati and Cecchetto 2011 2015 falls short of accounting for attested patterns free relative clauses. questions reliability data supporting D&C’s hypothesis ever-relatives introduced by (ever+NP relatives) should not be assimilated relatives. reports findings four controlled experiments English Ital...

Blood-feeding insects, as vectors of disease for humans and livestock alike, have garnered significant interest, but our understanding of their early evolution is hindered by the scarcity of available material and the difficulty in distinguishing early hematophages from non-blood-feeding relatives. Here, we report a new family of true bugs including two new genera and species from the Early Cre...