Introduction: Pharmacogenetics (PGx) is the study of how genetic variants affect drug response. PGx variants can affect either pharmacokinetics – the processes of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination – or pharmacodynamics – the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action. Pharmacokinetics gene variants often define haplotypes, which are described using the...
Background/Objective: Dietitians and nutritionists, like many healthcare professionals, frequently experience stress, which can be influenced by coping strategies (BriefCOPE) and the psychosocial work environment (COPSOQ-II) and their impact on work ability and stress levels (WAI). The main objective of this short paper is to examine how BriefCOPE and COPSOQ-II scales can be used to study coping with work-relat...
Background/Objective: Dietitians and nutritionists, like many healthcare professionals, frequently experience stress, which can be influenced by coping strategies (BriefCOPE) and the psychosocial work environment (COPSOQ-II) and their impact on work ability and stress levels (WAI). The main objective of this short paper is to examine how BriefCOPE and COPSOQ-II scales can be used to study coping with work-relat...
In kinship testing powerful statistical results are usually obtained when genetic information is expected to be shared between a pair of samples, which happens in paternity and identification testing. However, there are other pedigrees where genetic information sharing is not required, such as when a pair of full-siblings or avuncular, is analyzed. Studying these pedigrees, where the sharing of genetic informat...