Nuclear Family
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: The aims of this study were (a) to locate the breakpoints of a balanced translocation (7;13) within a mother (B) and daughter (T); (b) to describe the language and cognitive skills of B and T; and (c) to compare this profile with affected ... Read more...

Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between various patient, disease, situation, and caregiver characteristics (organized by five conceptual domains) and global self-esteem among caregiver daughters to parents with cancer. METHOD: Dyads comprised ... Read more...

Maternal pelvic size not predictive of daughter's breast cancer or ovarian cancer in a large Swedish cohort.

30 Jul 2009 Recent studies from Finland reported that maternal pelvic size predicted daughters' breast and ovarian cancer, possibly because maternal pelvic size is a marker for in utero hormone exposure. We sought to replicate this association in 3,845 women ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nuclear Family'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2. 29 Sep 2009
• Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer. 29 Sep 2009
• Maternal pelvic size not predictive of daughter's breast cancer or ovarian cancer in a large Swedish cohort. 30 Jul 2009
• Refusal of treatment--the need for better communication. 30 Jul 2009
• 3q29 Microdeletion: a mental retardation disorder unassociated with a recognizable phenotype in two mother-daughter pairs. 30 Jul 2009
• [Female doctors in the early history of European medicine] 29 Jun 2009
• Clinical presentation of asbestosis with intractable pleural pain in the adult child of a taconite miner and radiographic demonstration of the probable pathology causing the pain. 29 Jun 2009
• Goal direction and effectiveness, emotional maturity, and nuclear family functioning. 29 Jun 2009
• Genetic and environmental risks for high blood pressure among African American mothers and daughters. 30 May 2009
• Impaired vascular reactivity in healthy first-degree relatives of subjects with type 2 diabetes is related to metabolic factors. 30 May 2009
• MTHFR 677TT alone and IRF6 820GG together with MTHFR 677CT, but not MTHFR A1298C, are risks for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in an Indian population. 30 May 2009
• Familial odontoid hypoplasia. 30 May 2009
• Familial acampomelic form of campomelic dysplasia caused by a 960 kb deletion upstream of SOX9. 30 May 2009
• Independent NF1 and PTPN11 mutations in a family with neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome. 30 May 2009
• Novel mutations in IRF6 in nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate: when should IRF6 mutational screening be done? 30 May 2009
• van den Ende-Gupta syndrome: evidence for genetic heterogeneity. 30 May 2009
• Mothers' intention for their daughters and themselves to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine: a national study of nurses. 30 May 2009
• The hopes and dreams of Honduran women regarding their daughters' sexuality. 6 May 2009
• Familial aggregation of the metabolic syndrome: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. 4 May 2009
• Heritability of central corneal thickness in nuclear families. 4 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Nuclear Family'

Definition: A family composed of spouses and their children.

Descriptor UI: D009679

Alternative terms: Nuclear Family; Families, Nuclear; Family, Nuclear; Nuclear Families; Sons; Son; Daughters; Daughter;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.500; I01.880.225.500;

Online Note: use FAMILY to search DAUGHTERS 1991, SIBLINGS 1991, SONS 1980-91

History Note: 91(75); was see under FAMILY 1975-90

Technical Notes: parents & children: does not include grandparents