Objectives Cardiovascular disease is a condition of enormous public health concern. Recently, a population study newly revealed associations between cardiovascular diseases and birth month. Here, we investigated the association between atrial fibrillation in cardiovascular disease and birth month. Methods We retrospectively extracted birth date data from 6,016 patients with atrial fibrillatio...

Prenatal and perinatal exposures vary seasonally (e.g., sunlight, allergens) and many diseases are linked with variance in exposure. Epidemiologists often measure these changes using birth month as a proxy for seasonal variance. Likewise, Genome-Wide Association Studies have associated or implicated these same diseases with many genes. Both disparate data types (epidemiological and genetic) can...

For estimating genetic parameters for body weight traits in Kourdi sheep data were collected from 1996 to 2013 in Kourdi Breeding Station in Northern Khorasan province of Iran. Studied traits were birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), six-month weight (6MW), nine-month weight (9MW) and yearling weight (YW). The fixed effects in the model were lambing year, sex, type of birth and age of dam. (...

introduction: the acquisition of speech and language constitutes a dynamic part of two-year-old children’s growth. expressive lexicon is a key indicator of language ability in these children. premature birth, birth before gestational week 37, is one of the most common risk factors associated with learning skill development. a review of literature suggests inconsistent results on the relationshi...

In the domain of Genetic Deafness in medicine, it is important to detect some patterns. Medical doctors needs to search and deal with information from diverse sources and it is important to be able to cross information between sources. As part of a solution, one approach to minimize the impact of this lack and increase the success of the retrieval process crossing diverse sources of information...