Family history is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular
disease, and diabetes. Professional guidelines usually include family history to assess …

Psychotic experiences (PE) in individuals of the general population are hypothesized to
mark the early expression of the pathology underlying psychosis. This notion of PE as an …

BackgroundThere is increased interest in assessing the family history of psychiatric
disorders for both genetic research and public health screening. It is unclear how best to …

A history of psychiatric illnesses in family members of those diagnosed to have an illness
has been of significant interest both in research and in clinical practice. Almost all of the …

Background Family history (FH) is an underutilized genetically informative tool that can
influence disease prevention and treatment. It is unclear how FH fits into the development of …

Uncertainty remains on the relationship between a family history of liver cancer and liver
cancer risk in prospective cohort studies in a general population. Thus, we examined this …

Aims/hypothesis Despite the overlap in occurrence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and
type 2 diabetes and their risk factors, family history of these diseases has not yet been …

Objective Temperament has associations with later physical health outcomes, yet there is a
dearth of research exploring the connection between temperament and mechanisms that …

Typically long‐lived sibling pairs have been collected for linkage analysis of human
longevity and information on life span of first‐degree relatives is available to assess familial …

For many multifactorial diseases, aetiology is poorly understood. A major research aim is the
identification of disease predictors (environmental, biological, and genetic markers). In order …