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Identification of a novel truncating PALB2mutation and analysis of its contribution to early onset breast cancer in French Canadian women
... (c) French-Canadian ancestry (all four ...600 French-Canadian women with breast cancer was undertaken using standard ...five French-Canadian founder mutations (BRCA1: 4666C>T ...
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BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation predictions using the BOADICEA and BRCAPRO models and penetrance estimation in high risk French Canadian families
... Testing services were performed according to the Memoran- dum of Understanding of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) for NCI-funded research testing services for BRCA1 and BRCA2 (project no. NCI 173). This second ...
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Quality of life in multiple sclerosis: translation in French Canadian of the MSQoL-54
... In general, there are four major stages (figure 1) involved in a linguistic validation: forward translation, quality con- trol through backward translation, test of understanding or cognitive debriefing, international ...
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Common low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in the French Canadian population
... the French Canadians, the disease is more frequent due to the founder ...so-called French Canadian deletion, makes up 60% of the mutant genes responsible for FH in the French Canadian ...
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Hereditary C7 deficiency Diagnosis and HLA studies in a French Canadian family
... of French-Canadian descent having a B-27 positive ankylosing spondylitis was deficient in the seventh component of complement (C7) as determined by hemolytic and immunochemical ...
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Screening of novel restless legs syndrome–associated genes in French-Canadian families
... population. In an effort to identify coding variants in the 6 previously identified RLS loci (MEIS1, BTBD9, PTPRD, MAP2K5/SKOR1, TOX3, and rs6747972), we have pre- viously examined 7 French-Canadian families ...
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Development and relative validation of a food frequency questionnaire for French-Canadian adolescent and young adult survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
... values. It is recognized that the 3-DFR is not a perfect tool to measure dietary intake [53], but there is no gold stand- ard to validate FFQs [53]. One of the constraints of our study was that, to facilitate the ...
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Representations of language education in English and French Canadian newspapers
... in French-Canadian newspapers, the fact that language education is represented as most important for immigrants suggests the intrinsic value of the French language as central to ...the French ...
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Validation of the French Canadian version of the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) in a French Canadian population
... the French-Canadian version of the EPIC proved to be sensitive to clinical changes associated with prostate cancer ...the French-Canadian version of the EPIC can be routinely used in clinics ...
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Validity and reproducibility of an interviewer-administered food frequency questionnaire for healthy French-Canadian men and women
... In Québec, no validated FFQ was adapted for the needs of our nutritional intervention design. In fact, in the context of our nutritional intervention we wanted to use a FFQ to evaluate a Mediterranean food pattern in a ...
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Type 1 hereditary tyrosinemia Evidence for molecular heterogeneity and identification of a causal mutation in a French Canadian patient
... Type 1 hereditary tyrosinemia (HT1) is a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). Using a full-length FAH cDNA and specific antibodies, we investigated liver specimens from seven ...
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Molecular, Biochemical, and Clinical Characterization of a French-Canadian Pediatric Population
... H#{244}pital Sainte-Justine between 1990 and 1992 were reviewed for potential participation in the study. In total, 88 patients were selected. The criteria for inclusion were as follows:[r] ...
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Validation of the French Canadian version of the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) in a French Canadian population
... Inclusion criteria were: a) having received radiation treatments (external beam radiation therapy or brachy- therapy) and/or a radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer in the past or being scheduled to receive ...
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A phonological and sociolinguistic survey of students in a French Canadian high school
... linguistic code used by French Canadians in formal situations as academic French, and the linguistic code generally associated with the lower strata of society as standard Quebec French.[r] ...
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Canadian French translation and linguistic validation of the child health utility 9D (CHU9D)
... The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) is a generic measure of health-related quality of life for children aged 7–17 years. It consists of 9 dimensions, including wor- ried, sad, pain, tired, annoyed, schoolwork, sleep, ...
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A targeted analysis identifies a high frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers in women with ovarian cancer from a founder population
... largest French hospital servicing gynecologic- oncology patients in ...the French Canadian population of ...in French Canadian cancer families at the time the study was ...
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N gram and Neural Language Models for Discriminating Similar Languages
... Discriminating between languages is often the first task to many natural language applications (NLP), such as machine translation or information retrieval. Current approaches to address this problem achieve impressive ...
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Dental age estimation in southern Chinese population using panoramic radiographs: validation of three population specific reference datasets
... A panoramic radiograph serves as an excellent tool to visualize the entire dentition in a single image. The pro- cedure for age assessment using radiographs involves two distinct phases; firstly, staging of the dental ...
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FokI and BsmI Polymorphisms of the VDR Gene and Breast Cancer Risk
... Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms (FokI, BsmI) and breast cancer risk: association replication in two case-control studies within French Canadian population. Endocr Relat Can- cer[r] ...
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Multiple crm mutations in familial hypercholesterolemia Evidence for 13 alleles, including four deletions
... To test whether FH 26 carried the same deletion as that found in the French Canadians, DNA samples from a normal subject, FH 26, her parents, and one of the French Canadian homozygotes F[r] ...
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