Search for dissertations about: "adult-onset"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the word adult-onset.

  2. 6. Identification of Candidate Genes in Four Human Disorders

    Author : Malin Melin; Niklas Dahl; Anders Isaksson; Juha Kere; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Genetics; Ichthyosis; Leukodystrophy; Kostmann disease; Autism; Genetic disorders; Candidate gene; Genetik;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis has been to identify genes and gene regions underlying four different disorders. In papers I-IV, positional cloning methods, such as linkage, association and haplotype analysis have been used for the identification of genomic regions associated with the ichthyosis prematurity syndrome (IPS), adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy (ADLD) and Kostmann disease. READ MORE

  4. 7. Genetic causes and underlying disease mechanisms in early-onset osteoporosis

    Author : Anders Kämpe; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Adult-onset osteoporosis is a disorder that affects a significant proportion of the elderly population worldwide and entails a substantial disease burden for the affected individuals. Childhood-onset osteoporosis is a rare condition often associating with a severe bone disease and recurrent fractures already in early childhood. READ MORE

  5. 8. Criminal Careers in the Long Run : Patterns and Predictions of Criminal Convictions across Age, Time, and Gender

    Author : Fredrik Sivertsson; Anders Nilsson; Olof Bäckman; Torbjørn Skardhamar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Criminal career; Recidivism; Life course; Longitudinal; Birth cohort; Gender; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Why is it that a small proportion of the population accounts for the majority of crime? This question has stimulated a great deal of theoretical and methodological controversy in criminology. In essence, the debate is rooted in different theoretical underpinnings of continuity and change in crime, and the extent to which it is possible to foresee a life of crime by zeroing in on at-risk juvenile offenders. READ MORE

  6. 9. Asthma and cancer among pulp and paper mill workers

    Author : Eva Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; epidemiology; pulp and paper industry; irritant-induced asthma; gassings; cancer; sulfate mills; sulfite mills; maintenance work; brain tumors; glioma; lung cancer; asbestos;

    Abstract : There were two main aims of this thesis. One was to study if repeated high exposures to irritant gases give rise to new-onset asthma, and the other was to study if exposure in pulp and paper mills were associated with cancer. READ MORE

  7. 10. Diet and the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) : studies on the association with fish and sweetened beverages

    Author : Josefin Edwall Löfvenborg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Diabetes is an increasing public health problem affecting a breathtaking number of people worldwide. The knowledge about modifiable lifestyle factors influencing diabetes risk is extensive for type 2 diabetes, but limited for autoimmune forms of diabetes such as type 1 diabetes. READ MORE