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Where were those rabbits? A new paradigm to determine cerebral lateralisation of visuospatial memory function in childrenIn the majority of people, functional differences are observed between the two cerebral hemispheres: language production is typically subserved by the left...
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CNTNAP2 variants affect early language development in the general populationWe tested the hypothesis that these CNTNAP2 variants affect communicative behavior, measured at 2 years of age in a large epidemiological sample...
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Air Trapping on Chest CT Is Associated with Worse Ventilation Distribution in Infants with Cystic FibrosisIn school-aged children with cystic fibrosis (CF) structural lung damage assessed using chest CT is associated with abnormal ventilation distribution.
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Social Gradients in Indigenous HealthThe pattern of association between socioeconomic factors and health outcomes has primarily depicted better health for those who are higher in the social...
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Exciting new clinical trials in cystic fibrosis: Infants need not applyThe recent announcement of the negative results of the TIGER- 2 phase 3 study of denufosol tetrasodium
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Long-term survival for infants born with orofacial clefts in Western AustraliaParents with a child diagnosed with an OFC ± additional minor anomalies only can be reassured that the OFC does not influence survival rates in infancy
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Gross motor performance in children prenatally exposed to alcohol and living in remote AustraliaA higher than expected proportion of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders had gross motor scores that indicated impairment and need for therapy
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Lipidomics reveals associations of phospholipids with obesity and insulin resistance in young adultsLipidomic biomarkers associated with obesity and IR using plasma samples from a population-based cohort of young adults
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Diagnosis of Bacterial Bloodstream Infections: A 16S Metagenomics Approach16S metagenomics is a powerful approach for the diagnosis and understanding of Bacterial bloodstream infection
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Somatic activating mutations in Pik3ca cause sporadic venous malformations in mice and humansOur data demonstrate a causal relationship between activating Pik3ca mutations and the genesis of venous malformations