Publications by authors named "Fumiko Nakajima"
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- Body temperature is commonly used to track menstrual cycles and ovulation, but its accuracy is often debated.
- This study aimed to enhance the identification accuracy of ovulation by estimating core body temperature (CBT) from skin and ambient temperatures during sleep.
- Two experiments were conducted: the first assessed the validity of the CBT estimation method, while the second compared the effectiveness of this method to traditional oral basal body temperature measurements for identifying ovulatory cycles using urine luteinizing hormone as a reference.
Although intraocular pressure (IOP) is the most definitive cause of glaucoma, a subtype of open angle glaucoma (OAG) termed normal tension glaucoma (NTG), which occurs in spite of normal IOP, accounts for a large part of glaucoma cases, especially in Japan. To find common genetic variants contributing to NTG in Japanese patients, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS). We performed the first screening for 531,009 autosomal SNPs with a discovery cohort of 286 cases and 557 controls, and then a second screening for the top 30 suggestive loci in an independent cohort of 183 cases and 514 controls.
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