Background/objectives: Core strength diagnostics often focus on measuring core endurance rather than maximal core strength or core power. This study investigates whether core strength can be considered as a general ability that can be measured by a single core strength test or whether it needs to be differentiated into several components.
Methods: Forty-two adult sports students ( = 20; = 22; age: 24.
Background: To evaluate the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on polysomnographic evaluation in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).
Patients And Methods: A retrospective cohort study of two consecutive overnight polysomnograms (PSG) in 92 PWS patients (mean age 9.1, range 3.
Introduction: Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate is increased in formerly small-for-gestational age singletons and in smaller twins compared to their normal-weight co-twin. Less is known concerning other adrenal hormones. We compared diurnal salivary profiles in monozygotic twins with intra-twin birthweight (bw) differences to analyse the long-term impact of bw and persistent intra-twin auxological differences on various adrenal hormones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpistasis refers to changes in the effect on phenotype of a unit of genetic information, such as a single nucleotide polymorphism or a gene, dependent on the context of other genetic units. Such interactions are both biologically plausible and good candidates to explain observations which are not fully explained by an additive heritability model. However, the search for epistasis has so far largely failed to recover this missing heritability.
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