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Open AccessKetone body 3-hydroxybutyrate as a biomarker of aggression
Human aggression is a complex behaviour, the biological underpinnings of which remain poorly known. To gain insights into aggression biology, we studied relationships with aggression of 11 low-molecular-weight...
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Open AccessComparing the genetic architecture of childhood behavioral problems across socioeconomic strata in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
Socioeconomic status (SES) affects the development of childhood behavioral problems. It has been frequently observed that children from low SES background tend to show more behavioral problems. There also is s...
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Correction to: A Genetic Investigation of the Well-Being Spectrum
In the original version of this article, unfortunately, in the acknowledgement section “National Institutes of Health (NIH, R37 AG033590‐08) to J Cacioppo” was omitted. This has been corrected by publishing th...
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Open AccessA Genetic Investigation of the Well-Being Spectrum
The interrelations among well-being, neuroticism, and depression can be captured in a so-called well-being spectrum (3-phenotype well-being spectrum, 3-WBS). Several other human traits are likely linked to the...
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Open AccessRisk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
The parents of children with psychopathology are at increased risk for psychiatric symptoms. To investigate which parents are mostly at risk, we assessed in a clinical sample of families with children with psy...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Associations between subjective well-being and subcortical brain volumes
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.
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Open AccessA genetic perspective on the relationship between eudaimonic –and hedonic well-being
Whether hedonism or eudaimonia are two distinguishable forms of well-being is a topic of ongoing debate. To shed light on the relation between the two, large-scale available molecular genetic data were leverag...
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Open AccessA rare disorder or not? How a child with jaundice changed a nationwide regimen in the Netherlands
Due to global migration, there is an increased frequency of diseases, which used to be rare in Western countries. Here, we describe a striking case in order to create awareness for diseases that are known for ...
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Open AccessAssociations between subjective well-being and subcortical brain volumes
To study the underpinnings of individual differences in subjective well-being (SWB), we tested for associations of SWB with subcortical brain volumes in a dataset of 724 twins and siblings. For significant SWB...
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Current strategies for preoperative conditioning of the liver to expand criteria for resectability of hepatic metastases
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most commonly diagnosed cancers, and the liver is its most frequent metastatic site. Colorectal liver metastases (CLM) are synchronous in 15–25 % of the CRC patients and me...
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Open AccessTesting Causal Effects of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy on Offspring’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior
Maternal smoking during pregnancy (SDP) is associated with increased risk of externalizing and internalizing behaviors in offspring. Two explanations (not mutually exclusive) for this association are direct ca...
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Open AccessChorionicity and Heritability Estimates from Twin Studies: The Prenatal Environment of Twins and Their Resemblance Across a Large Number of Traits
There are three types of monozygotic (MZ) twins. MZ twins can either share one chorion and one amnion, each twin can have its own amnion, or MZ twins can—like dizygotic twins—each have their own chorion and am...
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Percutaneous and Intraoperative Irreversible Electroporation of Liver Cancer – A Monocenter Experience
Background: There is a huge variety of image guided local ablation technique to treat primary and secondary liver cancer. While thermal ablations are most common, these modalities have some limitations like co...
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Colonization of liver transplant recipients with KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is associated with high infection rates and excess mortality: a case–control analysis
From mid-2010 to early 2013 there was a large single-center (Leipzig University Hospital, Germany) outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) type 2 producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-2-KP) involving a total...
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Neoadjuvante Chemotherapie oder primäre Chirurgie bei kolorektalen Lebermetastasen
Die medikamentöse Behandlung kolorektaler Lebermetastasen hat sich in den zurückliegenden zwei Jahrzehnten erheblich weiterentwickelt. Kombinationsregime zeigten eine höhere Effizienz und verbesserten das Über...
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3D nanoimprinted Fabry–Pérot filter arrays and methodologies for optical characterization
Fabry–Pérot (FP) filter arrays fabricated by high-resolution three dimensional (3D) NanoImprint technology are presented. A fabrication process to implement 3D templates with very high vertical resolution is d...
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Akuter M. Wilson
Der M. Wilson ist eine autosomal-rezessiv vererbte Störung des hepatischen Kupferstoffwechsels. Er äußert sich klinisch in einer Leberschädigung unterschiedlicher Ausprägung und/oder neurologischen Symptomen. ...
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Micromachined Tunable Fabry-Pérot Filter Integrated into a Miniaturized Spectrometer for Low-Cost Applications
Producing miniaturized and low-cost components of high precision optical sensors has attracted a wide variety of fields. Fabry-Pérot-based filters can be considerably miniaturized without decreasing high spect...
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The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood
Although common sense suggests that environmental influences increasingly account for individual differences in behavior as experiences accumulate during the course of life, this hypothesis has not previously ...
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Open AccessBreastfeeding, Maternal Education and Cognitive Function: A Prospective Study in Twins
The effect of breastfeeding on cognitive abilities is examined in the offspring of highly educated women and compared to the effects in women with low or middle educational attainment. All offspring consisted ...
