(1) The secretion of the ABH antigens in saliva was tested in indigenous individuals of several populations: Icelanders in Reykjavik and Husavik (northeastern Iceland), Aland Islanders, Finno-Ugrians (Finns, Finnish Lapps, Komi) and Eskimos (Augpilagtok, northwestern Greenland).
(2) Because of this similarity and the defective dark adaptometry that has been reported in patients with this disorder, we believe that Aland Island eye disease is more appropriately classified as a form of congenital night blindness than as a form of ocular albinism.
(3) The series of triplet families from both Aland and Finland as a whole indicate a considerably higher frequency of twinning on the maternal than on the paternal side.
(4) A reinvestigation of a Danish family with X-linked inherited congenital nystagmus through 6 generations revealed a congenital stationary retinal dysfunction syndrome with characteristics of both incomplete congenital stationary night blindness and Aland Eye Disease.
(5) These differences in migration rates can in turn be attributed to greater geographic isolation in Aland and the contrasting social structures of the two populations.
(6) These findings are in agreement with clinical, nystagmographic and EM findings that Aland eye disease is distinct from the Nettleship-Falls type of X-linked ocular albinism.
(7) Among Alanders and Swedes on the Finnish mainland the frequency (around 20%) was comparable to Swedish values but considerably higher than among Finns (13-14%).
(8) These attempts have resulted in a more general model, which was then applied to data from Aland Islands (1750-1939), Nmes (1790-1875), Stuttgart (about 1790-1900) and Utah (1850-1900).
(9) Electrophysiological studies showed that a patient with Aland eye disease had no misrouting of the optic pathways which is always found in all forms of albinism as a consequence of the retino-geniculate anomaly.
(10) Most cases were from Aland Islands and nearby south-western main Finland.
(11) Comparison with a Finnish population and one from the Aland Islands revealed similar systolic blood pressures in females, but definitely lower values in male Lapps and Skolts.
(12) Furthermore, Aland eye disease is different from X-chromosomal congenital stationary night blindness with myopia by the fact that the scotopic functions are only moderately affected and there is no restriction of the peripheral photopic visual fields.
(13) These trends are consistent with changing migration patterns and isolate breakdown in Aland since 1900.
(14) Bites of the tick are believed to be common in Aland, an island province of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
(15) The contribution of inbreeding to the prevalence of recessive genetic diseases in the Aland Island parish of Sottunga is investigated.
(16) A study was conducted on twinning in relatives of consecutive triplet sets in the Aland Islands in the years 1740-1939.
(17) In the Alandic familial cases the cataracts appear to be an autosomal recessive trait.
(18) Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against mammalian intermediate filament (IF) proteins were used to demonstrate IF expression in tissues and lymphoma tumors of northern pikes, Esox lucius L., from the Aland Islands of Finland by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy.
(19) If further studies confirm that the disorders are the same, we recommend use of the term Aland Island eye disease or Forsius-Eriksson-Miyake syndrome.
(20) On the Aland Islands, a 1-month-old girl was diagnosed as having Wolman disease.
Ashore
Definition:
(adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the advances in the conservative management of surgical emergencies over the last 20 years medical hazards at sea are relatively few and do not differ significantly from those experienced ashore.
(2) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(3) As his plane landed, more than 160 Eritreans were coming ashore in the port, the latest of almost 8,000 arrivals on Italy's southern coasts so far this year, according to UN figures.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view of the museum from the air The name Arken means The Arc, as the building was originally meant to be built on the beach resembling a large ship washed ashore.
(5) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(6) A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials have said.
(7) This year the MCS is already receiving reports of tens of thousands of toothbrushes being washed ashore from Southampton to Scotland.
(8) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(9) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(10) Some 25,000 residents – 10% of his constituents – have been displaced, and nearly 2,000 killed, with gruesome reminders of the tragedy becoming ever more apparent every day: this week a second mass burial site was dug to accommodate the growing number of corpses found washed ashore or from the mounds of debris that line the city's streets and canals.
(11) "It would seem that the French were successful in preventing the bulk of this very large oil mass from coming ashore," the MBA researchers concluded.
(12) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
(13) About 95% will probably never come ashore and is destined for that massive swirl of floating plastic known as the north Pacific garbage patch.
(14) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(15) "For every pirate that goes to legal finish there are three or four that end up being put back ashore.
(16) The introduction of strict weight control guidelines in the American Navy has drawn attention to a theory that obese sailors lose weight more readily at sea than ashore.
(17) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
(18) We can imagine swarms of terrorists charging ashore off the Dover ferry, but it would make more sense putting Dad’s Army back in uniform and issuing teachers with machine guns.
(19) But Savitz says that most of the birds and fish die from the spill out to sea and will not wash ashore, never to be seen, let alone counted.
(20) Duplication of the monitors has been provided in the “Salvage Room” ashore, where all the other engineers and technicians will follow the operation and be able to provide assistance if and when the need arises.