Brazilian population
A review of psychiatric genetics research in the Brazilian population
... Currently, the genomic of drug addiction is one of the fields most investigated in the Brazilian population. Different groups have been examining this subject in two different populations from the States of ...
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Association of leprosy with HLA-DR2 in a Southern Brazilian population
... Earlier studies have reported increased frequencies of HLA-DR2 and DR3 in TT patients (14-21) and of HLA-DQ1 and DR2 in LL patients (18,22-24), with interpopula- tion heterogeneity. Association studies be- tween leprosy ...
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CYP1A1 and CYP2E1 polymorphism frequencies in a large Brazilian population
... The enzymes encoded by the polymorphic genes CYP1A1 and CYP2E1 play an important role in the activation and inactivation of xenobiotics. These enzymes have been associated with xenobiotic-induced diseases, such as ...
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TP53 codon 72 polymorphism as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in a Brazilian population
... sidered to be obese (18,19). Cognitive func- tion was evaluated by the Mini-Mental State Examination screening instrument (20) vali- dated for the Brazilian population (21). A Mini-Mental State Examination ...
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Brazilian population perception about suicide / Percepção da população brasileira sobre o suicídio
... Objective: The study’s goal has been to understand the perception of the Brazilian population about the suicide issue. Methods: It is a descriptive-exploratory research with a quantitative approach that was ...
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Photoanthropometry of the Face in the Young White Brazilian Population
... Caucasian population for 30 years ...across population groups and have thus underscored the importance of investigating several ...the Brazilian population is still lacking, probably because ...
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Ethnicity and glutathione S-transferase (GSTM1GSTT1) polymorphisms in a Brazilian population
... The Brazilian population resulted basi- cally from the racial mixture between whites from the Iberian Peninsula and Africans of various ethnic groups, with a small contribu- tion by native ...The ...
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Knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease in the Brazilian population
... A limitation of this study was the high educational level of the participants, of whom 87.27% had studied for 12 or more years, while 43.7% of the Brazilian population has 11 or more years of schooling. ...
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Distribution of CYP2D6 alleles and phenotypes in the Brazilian population.
... The CYP2D6 enzyme is one of the most important members of the cytochrome P450 superfamily. This enzyme metabolizes approximately 25% of currently prescribed medications. The CYP2D6 gene presents a high allele ...
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Haptoglobin gene subtypes in three Brazilian population groups of different ethnicities
... general Brazilian population, although sev- eral reports on Hp subtypes (phenotypes) and types have been published, mostly for indigenous populations (re- viewed by Salzano and Callegari-Jacques, 1988; ...
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KNOWLEDGE of BRAZILIAN POPULATION ON BREAST CANCER and ITS DIAGNOSIS
... No Brasil, a avaliação desta contribuição se dá a partir da freqüência com que estudos e evidências produzi- dos pela Coordenação Geral de Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde (CG-ATS) ser[r] ...
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Epigenetic alterations in human brain tumors in a Brazilian population
... Fresh brain-tumor tissue and blood samples were ob- tained from 25 women and 30 men (n = 55) Brazilian indi- viduals whose age ranged from 10 to 77 years (mean = 50 ± 17.3 years). These individuals were treated ...
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Hepatitis C virus infection in a Brazilian population with sickle-cell anemia
... a population at high risk to acquire HCV infection (23), as demon- strated by the frequency of HCV infection in the world population in general, which is estimated at 3% (24), while the frequency of HCV ...
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Spirometry reference values in the Brazilian population
... Statistical analysis and derivation of equations Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were performed in order to determine whether the study population was homoge- neous. Subsequently, parametric tests (Student’s t-test and ...
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Mutations in the HFE gene (C282Y, H63D, S65C) in a Brazilian population
... The allelic frequencies of the 3 mutations in the blood donor group were: 0.014 for the C282Y allele, 0.108 for H63D and 0.010 for the S65C mutation. When we calculated the genetic frequency for each mutation according ...
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Cognition and renal function: findings from a Brazilian population
... Semantic fluency, Mental State Mini Exam and Trail Making Test (TMT) were applied to evaluate cognitive per- formance. In the TMT, lower scores are associated with better cognition. In li- near regression, cognitive ...
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Cognition and renal function: findings from a Brazilian population
... Semantic fluency, Mental State Mini Exam and Trail Making Test (TMT) were applied to evaluate cognitive per- formance. In the TMT, lower scores are associated with better cognition. In li- near regression, cognitive ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.58 número4
... the Brazilian population should help families at risk and improve genetic ...the Brazilian population to asses the frequency of catastrophic events, such as suicide, suicide attempt and ...
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Braz. Dent. J. vol.26 número6
... The results of this study suggest that further investigations should be performed in order to confirm the involvement of MTRR in the etiology of NSCL/P, maybe by looking for other polymorphic loci on MTRR gene. In ...
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Rev. bras. ter. intensiva vol.22 número3
... adult Brazilian population to be at the lower end of the range (1/1000 population), the estimated number of years of productive life saved after the implementation of the pro- tocol for the early ...
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