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What are the unique factors associated with early onset obesity in different ethnic and racial groups?
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What characteristics distinguish a healthy maternal pregnancy-microbiome from one that experienced microbial perturbations?
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What are the genetic and environmental risk factors that contribute to the broader autism phenotype in adolescents and adults?
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Are individuals with Down’s Syndrome more likely to be overweight or obese? If so, why? What can we do to help them? And how doe
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Associations between genetics, environment, household, parenting time, and nutrition on early child development (ages 0-6)
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What is the genetic architecture of neurodevelopmental problems and how does it relate to health disparities?
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What genetic markers predict consequences of pregnancy associated hypertension & gestational diabetes for mothers & offspring?
This study will focus on women who are pregnant at enrollment or become pregnant during the study and the offspring of observed pregnancies. The information will help to define genetic and epigenetic predictors of long-term effects of common pregnancy complications.
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What factors are involved in loss of fecundity in males and females?
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What risk factors predispose children to sepsis, and what interventions are most effective for prevention and treatment?
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What genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to the development of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) as females age?
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Which genetic and environmental factors contribute to sexual orientation, and related health conditions?
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Is there a genetic component to conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, anxiety and depression?
Utilize existing health records, genomic and epigenomic data to identify factors that predispose or are otherwise associated with the conditions of fibromyalgia, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, anxiety and depression.
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Does a parent’s passive nuclear exposure increase the risk for a child to have a chromosome defect?
Is there any correlation between nuclear exposure of a parent, through working in a nuclear facility or around radiation, and the diagnosis of chromosome defects in their biological offspring? This data could be collected utilizing existing patient records of children diagnosed with chromosome anomalies and surveying their parents’ exposure to radiation through their military service and employment records.
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