LAY PERCEPTIONS OF PREDICTIVE TESTING FOR DIABETES BASED ON DNA TEST RESULTS VERSUS FAMILY HISTORY ASSESSMENT: A FOCUS GROUP STUDY

Lay perceptions of predictive testing for diabetes based on DNA test results versus family history assessment: a focus group study

Abstract Background This study assessed lay perceptions of issues related to predictive genetic testing for multifactorial diseases.These perceived issues may differ from the "classic" issues, e.g.autonomy, discrimination, and Button Module psychological harm that are considered important in predictive testing for monogenic disorders.In this study,

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Trends in global shark attacks.

Shark attacks are a global RESTORE phenomenon that attracts widespread attention and publicity, often with negative outcomes for shark populations.Despite the widespread perceptions of shark attacks, trends in human water activities and shark populations are both dynamic, resulting in variable rates of shark attacks over space and time.Understandin

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Domain Adaptation via Low Rank and Class Discriminative Representation for Autism Spectrum Disorder Identification: A Multi-Site fMRI Study

To construct a more effective model with good Face generalization performance for inter-site autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, domain adaptation based ASD diagnostic models are proposed to alleviate the inter-site heterogeneity.However, most existing methods only reduce the marginal distribution difference without considering class discrimi

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