Search for dissertations about: "MultiGeneration Register"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words MultiGeneration Register.
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1. Truncation and missing family links in population-based registers
Abstract : Studies of familial aggregation of disease routinely use linked population registers to construct retrospective cohorts. Although such resources have provided numerous estimates of familial risk, little is known regarding the sensitivity of the estimates to assumed disease models and incompleteness of the data, such as truncation and/or missing family links. READ MORE
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2. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and associations with malignancies
Abstract : In immune homeostasis, natural killer cells and cytotoxic T cells are responsible for clearance of virus-infected and tumor transformed cells, but also for turning off the immune response. Patients with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) have impaired cytotoxic function due to genetic aberrations in genes in the perforindependent cytotoxic pathway. READ MORE
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3. Fertility in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Abstract : Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) often present in adolescence or early adulthood and is thus frequently diagnosed in men and women in their reproductive age. Previous population-based studies of fertility in patients with IBD are scarce. READ MORE