(1) The Lapps and Skolts did not have the clear age dependence of the diastolic blood pressure as occurs in Finns.
(2) This insert encoded a fusion protein with the leader sequence of the yeast alpha mating factor and the mature LAPP cDNA.
(3) The Swedish Lapps showed a higher degree of alpha 1B polymorphism (polymorphism information content = 0.19) than other Caucasian populations that have been studied.
(4) 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).
(5) The World Bank can still fund major projects like Lagos, but it must drop its ideological commitment to privatisation “In the last five years the failure rate of water and sewerage privatisations has increased to 34%, compared with a failure rate of just 6% for energy, 3% for telecommunications and 7% for transportation, during the same period”, said Anna Lapp é , director of the Small Planet Institute.
(6) The ethnic difference is not, however, very large when compared with the stereotypic view of the drunken Lapp.
(7) The frequency of the poor metabolizer phenotype was 3.2% among Finns (95% confidence interval 0.4-6.0%) and 8.6% among Lapps (95% confidence interval 2.0-15.1%).
(8) The GLO frequency is 0.442 in 216 Norwegians, while it is 0.304 in 184 Lapps; the difference is statistically significant.
(9) A general tendency towards higher blood pressure in Lapps than in Skolts was noted up to the age of 50-60 years.
(10) High organic and total mercury and selenium values were more common in the Lapps than the Finns.
(11) Serum cholesterol and TG concentrations of the Lapp children were higher in the age group 0--4 than in the age groups 5-9 and 10-14.
(12) The depth of the lingual fossa in permanent maxillary incisors of three groups of Norwegian Lapps was measured.
(13) The cohort consisted of 2,034 Lapps who were recorded in the 1960 Population and Housing census as members of a household where someone were occupied in reindeer breeding.
(14) It is probable that the non-secretor allele ABH*se was absent from the ancient Lapps and Greenland Eskimos but introduced by invading populations.
(15) Malling regarded reconstructive surgery performed by himself on a severely multilated Lapp woman as one of his greatest triumphs.
(16) Asymmetry in the shape and location of the temporomandibular joint and its associations with mandibulofacial asymmetry were studied in 40 Lapp skulls by a method in which the configuration of the fossa is clearly defined.
(17) Altogether 11626 Finns, aged 15 or above and 828 Lapps of all ages were studied.
(18) Chewing efficiency, defined as the ability to grind a certain portion of a test food during a given time, was tested in 139 Skolt Lapps, ages 14-65.
(19) The C2 gene frequency in Swedes and Swedish Lapps was similar to that found previously in Danes and Germans.
(20) We analyzed the mortality pattern among Swedish reindeer breeding Lapps, a unique group with a carefully preserved culture and a lifestyle that differs considerably from that of the rest of the population.
Lappish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
(n.) The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.
Example Sentences:
(1) An analysis of variance showed that alcohol intake was significantly related to age, marital status, region and being of Lappish origin, but not to being a full-time reindeer herder.
(2) Lappish men ate more reindeer meat (p = 0.001) and less fish (p = 0.013) than men in the control group.
(3) These geographical patterns could be explained in terms of Finnish and Lappish influence.
(4) The traditional ways of treating earache among the Lappish people have been charted.
(5) During the years 1939-1945 Finland was involved in the Second World War, divided for her part into three different wars: The Winter War, The Continuation War and The Lappish War.
(6) The lipid levels in cord blood from children of Norwegian, Finnish, and Lappish origin were nearly identical.
(7) Two population samples comprising 150 Lappish and 1,264 non-Lappish Norwegians were examined for phenotype distributions in C8A and C8B.
(8) This study investigated the relationship of serum selenium to its dietary sources in a group of Lappish men and a control population.
(9) The geographical pattern of the GC*1F gene frequency could be explained in terms of Lappish influence.
(10) GLO phenotype distribution and GLO allele frequencies in samples of the Norwegian population and the Lappish minority of Norway are presented.
(11) The Lappish treatment principles for earache are discussed in relation to modern knowledge of pain relief.
(12) This geographical pattern could be explained in terms of Lappish and Finnish influence.
(13) Bf phenotype distribution and Bf allele frequencies in samples of the Norwegian population and the Lappish minority of Norway are presented.
(14) In linear regression models, however, being Lappish was the most significant predictor of high serum selenium.
(15) The Lappish reindeer herders drink more than their Finnish counterparts.
(16) We conclude that high serum selenium concentrations in Lappish men may be important since low mortality from cancer is reported in this group.
(17) We investigated if red blood cell thiopurine methyltransferase was subject to interethnic variation in a Saami (Lappish; n = 36) and a Caucasian population (n = 50).
(18) Yet, some language families--i.e., Basque, Finnic (including Lappish), and Semitic (Maltese)--have distant genetic relationships with their geographic neighbors.