At each doctor visit, you continue to have urine testing to check for protein and sugar and any signs of infection. The doctor or nurse checks your weight and blood pressure as well. More exciting are ...

Results of triple marker testing are usually reported as both actual concentration and MoM values, and an individual risk assessment is provided. An MoM is defined as the ratio of an individual marker ...

To identify disease variants, genetic epidemiological methods perform association tests between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypes of interest. Most often, the number of SNPs range ...

Pregnancy is a unique journey filled with hopes, dreams, and even important responsibilities when it comes to the child. One of the most important aspects of a healthy pregnancy is ensuring the baby’s ...

The triple test cross (TTC) is an experimental design for detecting epistasis and estimating the components of genetic variance for quantitative traits. In this paper, we extend the analysis to ...

Second-trimester screening of a pregnant woman's serum for markers of such congenital abnormalities as fetal trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and neural tube defects has become an important part of ...