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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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GENE BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION IN LINKAGE ANALYSIS: THE EFFECTS OF BODY MASS INDEX ON SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

Goodloe, Robert James, Jr 05 April 2008 (has links)
No description available.
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Phenotypic and genetic evaluation of Fraser strain Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in brackish and freshwater

Chiasson, Marcia 08 April 2013 (has links)
I examined phenotypic and genetic variation in growth traits in 30 families of commercial Fraser strain Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) reared in freshwater (FRW) and brackish water (BRW) in Eastern Canada. I detected family by treatment interactions for all traits [body weight (BW), condition factor (K) and specific growth rate (SGR)] across all measurement dates and growth intervals, however, mean family BW in FRW was correlated phenotypically with BRW BW. In addition, FRW fish showed significantly greater survival than those transferred to BRW and fish which survived until the conclusion of the experiment were significantly heavier in BW at the baseline assessment than their full-sibs that died. These observations suggest that BW in FRW and BW in BRW should be analyzed as separate but correlated traits in Arctic charr breeding programs. I then tested the potential for genetic improvement in this species by calculating genetic parameters for BW and K, and tested if previously identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) for these traits were detectable across the broodstock. QTL with experiment-wide and chromosome-wide significance for body size and condition factor were detected on multiple linkage groups. Heritability for BW and K was moderate in FRW (0.29-0.38) but lower in BRW (0.14-0.17). Genetic correlations for BW across environments were positive and moderate (0.33-0.67), however equivalent K correlations were weaker (0.24-0.37). This information was then used to predict the rate of genetic change following one generation of selection for BW using phenotypic selection and genomic methodologies including marker-only selection and marker assisted selection. The greatest response in the rate of genetic change was achieved by selecting only from families in which significant BW QTL had been identified. As such, marker assisted selection showed the greatest gain in genetic response with 5.4% in FRW and 4.3% in BRW. These results have applications to commercial aquaculture as the Canadian aquaculture industry is attempting to diversify with alternative species. Such genetic improvement strategies will aid in developing a strain of Arctic charr characterised by increased BW. / Funding provided through the NSERC Strategic grants program. The project was sponsored by CanAqua Seafoods Ltd. in collaboration with the Coastal Zones Research Institute.
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Developmental Cascades from Early Childhood Attachment Security to Adolescent Level of Personality Functioning Among High-Risk Youth

O'Gorman, Emily T. 15 September 2022 (has links)
No description available.
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Etudes d'association prenant en compte des mécanismes complexes : application à l'asthme / Genetic Association Studies Taking Into Account Complex Mechanisms In The Context Of Asthma

Sarnowski, Chloé 18 December 2015 (has links)
L’asthme est une maladie inflammatoire chronique des voies respiratoires. C’est une maladie complexe et hétérogène, présentant un large spectre de manifestations cliniques dans lequel l’âge de début joue un rôle important. L’asthme résulte de nombreux facteurs génétiques et environnementaux et des interactions entre ces facteurs.Afin d’identifier de nouveaux gènes de susceptibilité à l’asthme et aux maladies allergiques, nous avons réalisé des études d’association pan-génomiques et de clonage positionnel en prenant en compte des mécanismes complexes : 1) empreinte parentale, 2) hétérogénéité de la maladie et 3) interactions gène-environnement.Nous avons tout d’abord réalisé une étude de clonage positionnel pour le phénotype asthme-plus-rhinite dans des familles d’origine européenne de quatre études indépendantes (770 familles recensées par un asthmatique et incluant 3200 sujets) en prenant en compte l'effet de l'origine parentale. L’intégration de données génétiques et épigénétiques, nous a permis d’identifier un mécanisme de médiation de l’effet d’un variant génétique transmis par le père sur le phénotype combiné asthme-plus-rhinite, par une méthylation différentielle d’un site CpG localisé dans le gène MTNR1A.Nous avons ensuite pris en compte la variabilité de l’âge de début de l'asthme dans la modélisation de la maladie par des méthodes d’analyse de survie et avons réalisé une méta-analyse d’études d'association pan-génomiques du délai de survenue de l’asthme dans neuf populations d’origine européenne (5462 asthmatiques et 8424 non asthmatiques). Nous avons ainsi identifié un nouveau locus de susceptibilité à l’asthme localisé dans la région 16q12. Nous avons également mis en évidence que les variants génétiques des régions 9p24 et 17q12-q21 étaient associés à un asthme précoce alors que les variants en 16q12 étaient associés à un asthme plus tardif. Enfin, nous avons réalisé une méta-analyse de cinq études d’interaction pan-génomiques du délai de survenue de l’asthme avec l’exposition au tabagisme passif dans l’enfance (3643 exposés et 5275 non-exposés). Nous avons montré que l’effet des variants génétiques des régions 9p24 et 17q12-q21 sur le délai de survenue de l’asthme était augmenté par l’exposition au tabagisme parental dans l’enfance.La prise en compte de mécanismes complexes dans les études génétiques, nous a permis d’identifier de nouveaux gènes de susceptibilité à l’asthme et de mieux comprendre les mécanismes physiopathologiques à l'origine de l’asthme et de son expression variable au cours de la vie. / Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease. It is a complex and heterogeneous disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations in which the age of onset plays an important role. Asthma results from many genetic and environmental factors and from interactions between these factors.To identify new susceptibility genes to asthma and allergic diseases, we performed genome-wide association studies and positional cloning studies, while taking into account complex mechanisms: 1) parental imprinting, 2) heterogeneity of the disease and 3) gene-by-environment interactions.We first conducted a positional cloning study for asthma-plus-rhinitis in European families of four independent studies (770 families ascertained through an asthmatic and including 3200 subjects) while taking into account parent-of-origin effects. The integration of genetic and epigenetic data enabled us to identify that the effect of a paternally inherited genetic variant on the combined phenotype asthma-plus-rhinitis was mediated by a differentially methylated CpG site within MTNR1A gene. We then took into account the variability of age-of-asthma onset in the disease modeling using survival analysis methods and conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of time-to-asthma onset in nine European populations (5,462 asthmatics and 8,424 non-asthmatics). We identified a new asthma susceptibility locus in 16q12. We also showed that genetic variants of 9p24 and 17q12-q21 regions were associated with early-onset asthma while 16q12 variants were associated with later-onset asthma. Finally, we performed a meta-analysis of five genome-wide interaction studies of time-to-asthma onset with early-life tobacco smoke exposure (3,643 exposed and 5,275 unexposed). We showed that the effect of genetic variants of 9p24 and 17q12-q21 regions on time-to-asthma onset was increased by early-life tobacco smoke exposure.Studying complex mechanisms in genetic studies led to identify new asthma susceptibility genes and to better understand the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying asthma and its variable expression throughout life.
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Co-morbidities as quantitative traits

Raska, Paola January 2010 (has links)
No description available.

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