INTRODUCTION Reports on the quality of life (QOL) of family caregivers of schizophrenia patients are uncommon. Relations of different degree of kinship to caregivers' QOL are unexplored, but may be relevant. The purpose of this study was to assess the subjective QOL of caregivers of stable outpatients with diagnosis of schizophrenia compared with controls, and to assess factors associated with ...

Bi-subject kinship verification addresses the problem of verifying whether there exists some kind of kin relationship (i.e., father–son, father-daughter, mother–son and mother–daughter) between a pair of parent–child subjects based purely on their visual appearance. The task is challenging due to the involvement of two different subjects possibly with different genders and ages. In addition, co...

The genetic structure of the Utah Mormon population is examined using 25 blood group and 47 RFLP alleles obtained from 442 subjects living in 8 geographic subdivisions. Nei's GST was 0.013 (p < 0.002) for the RFLP data and 0.012 (p > 0.4) for the blood group data, showing that only 1% of the genetic variance in this population can be attributed to subdivision effects. A comparison of intersubdi...

Genetic relatedness (kinship) among Anopheles gambiae Giles female mosquitoes was assessed using microsatellite loci in five locations across Africa and in nine samples taken between 1994 and 1999 in western Kenya. We assessed variation among samples in kinship as well as the effect of distance on kinship. Relatedness within populations was low, and differences among samples taken at various ti...

There has been much interest in using social evolution theory to predict the damage to a host from parasite infection, termed parasite virulence. Most of this work has focused on how high kinship between the parasites infecting a host can select for more prudent exploitation of the host, leading to a negative relationship between virulence and parasite kinship. However, it has also been shown t...

African American children are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to live in kinship care, yet there is little empirical knowledge available to help understand the attributes of these families that contribute to children's development of competence. This study analyzed existing longitudinal data to explore the family-level factors that promote these children's competence. Hierarch...

Title of Document: INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS OF ADOLESCENTS IN KINSHIP AND FOSTER CARE: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING Sarah Kaye, Ph.D. Family Studies, 2007 Directed By: Sandra Hofferth, Ph.D. Professor Department of Family Studies The mission of the United States child welfare system is to promote safety, permanency and well-being for chil...

The determination of relatedness between individuals in a family is crucial in analysis of common complex diseases. We present a method to infer close inter-familial relationships based on SNP genotyping data and provide the relationship coefficient of kinship in Korean families. We obtained blood samples from 43 Korean individuals in two families. SNP data was obtained using the Affymetrix Gen...