Disease mapping
A More Robust Random Effects Model for Disease Mapping
... Abstract: Disease mapping studies have found wide applications within geographical epidemiology and public health and are typically analysed within a Bayesian hierarchical model ...popular disease ...
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Incorporating data on residential history for Disease Mapping
... cases, disease mapping methods focus on estimating a change in the spatial dis- tribution of cases from a reference distribution across the study ...
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On the specification of prior distributions for variance components in disease mapping models
... of this work is to propose a simple strategy for this specification that allows one to highlight the meaning of prior specification in terms of a hypothesis on the amount and structure of the variability of the ...
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A CASE STUDY ON POINT PROCESS MODELLING IN DISEASE MAPPING
... of disease mapping one fixed population map is regarded as the truth, but our results suggest that such an approach can easily be ...in disease mapping has been an issue since 1990 when first ...
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Rubber disease mapping using low altitude multispectral images
... that disease infection is a conjunction of lack of nutrient and inappropriate fertiliser application that contribute to the chlorophyll content and water content in the ...
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Adjusting for sampling variability in sparse data: geostatistical approaches to disease mapping
... in disease maps at a geographical resolution corresponding to an aggregation of counts over fixed small geographical regions - in this case, postal codes of residence (US postal service ‘ ZIP codes ’ ...
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Linking rare and common disease: mapping clinical disease-phenotypes to ontologies in therapeutic target validation
... the disease or phenotype ...assign disease terms when the record was initially curated, and serves to harmonize the ...where disease and phenotype labeling is not stan- dardized for consistency ...
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Spatio Temporal Variation of HIV Infection in Kenya
... for disease mapping have grown very fast in the last ...Spatio-temporal disease mapping models are widely used to describe the temporal variation and geographical patterns of mortality risks ...
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Reaching the last mile: main challenges relating to and recommendations to accelerate onchocerciasis elimination in Africa
... elimination mapping to determine eligi- bility for MDA, as this would help to detect a status of infection and parasite transmission at a low level of en- demicity [86, ...elimination mapping, therefore, ...
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The Variance of Identity-by-Descent Sharing in the Wright–Fisher Model
... In the remainder of this article, we first review the derivation of the mean fraction of the genome shared between two individuals (Palamara et al. 2012). We then calculate the variance of this quantity, using coalescent ...
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The effect of spatial aggregation on performance when mapping a risk of disease.
... in disease surveillance (see [7] and references ...of disease, exploratory disease mapping methods estimate a change in the spatial dis- tribution of cases from a reference distribution, which ...
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Online GIS services for mapping and sharing disease information
... Recent disease outbreaks have demonstrated the need for GIS- and mapping-related applications in public ...for Disease Control, and Health Canada are all proactively engaged in mapping viral ...
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A structured review of health utility measures and elicitation in advanced/metastatic breast cancer
... In addition to the targeted literature review, a gray lit- erature search was undertaken to identify supplementary evidence that would augment findings in areas not well reported in the published literature. Databases ...
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Development of molecular markers for crown rot resistance in wheat: mapping of QTLs for seedling resistance in a '2-49' x 'Janz' population
... Targeted mapping of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers using bulked segregant analysis could be an efficient strategy to map this specific chromosomal region (Campbell et ...
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Application of a disease-specific mapping function to estimate utility gains with effective treatment of schizophrenia
... eight disease states with varying levels of pos- itive, negative, and cognitive impairment were estab- ...the disease and other aspects of quality of ...this mapping function to a 50- week, ...
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Molecular analysis of inherited choroidoretinal dystrophies
... the disease interval above G Y Sl by recom bination ev en ts in a new branch o f the CORD2 fam ily (see chapter V, section ...content mapping and ...
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One Hundred Years of Linkage Disequilibrium
... the mapping of disease alleles and quantitative trait loci, in the detection of sites of selection in the human genome, in the application of genomic prediction of quantitative traits in animal and plant ...
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Distribution of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium based on microsatellite loci in the Samoan population
... The results we present here are relevant to both the potential use of LD to map disease genes in the Samoan population and to inferences about the evolutionary history of the Samoan population. From our results, ...
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Associations among entities related to Alzheimer Disease using Ontology based approach
... The DL Query is a powerful and easy-to-use feature for extracting information from a classified ontology. The query language (class expression) is based on the Manchester OWL syntax, a user friendly syntax for OWL DL ...
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Reproducibility of native myocardial T1 mapping in the assessment of Fabry disease and its role in early detection of cardiac involvement by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
... breath-hold mapping sequence ...Fabry disease with LVH, both our group and another have shown that native myocardial T1 is substantially lower compared to other LVH aetiologies [12,13] and around half of ...
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