Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Interdisciplinary Studies: Applied Statistics"
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(2012-12-21)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Applied StatisticsType 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex metabolic disease that disproportionately affects African Americans. Obesity is a major risk factor for T2D, and it is postulated that chronic inflammation possibly stemming from adipose ...
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(2010-08-04)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Applied StatisticsMultiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized as an autoimmune neurodegenerative disease. The disease manifests as demyelination or degradation of the myelin sheath in the central nervous system. The Major Histocompatibility ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Applied StatisticsPrevious evidence has shown that Parkinson disease (PD) has a heritable component, but only a small proportion of the total genetic contribution to PD has been identified. Genetic heterogeneity complicates the verification ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Applied StatisticsStudying population isolates with large, complex pedigrees has many advantages for discovering genetic susceptibility loci; however, statistical analyses can be computationally challenging. Allelic association tests need ...