"Amish" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An ethnic group with shared religious beliefs in PROTESTANISM. Originating in Switzerland in the late 1600s, and first migrating to the mid-Atlantic, they now live throughout Eastern and Mid-Western United States and elsewhere. Communities are usually close-knit and marriage is within the community.
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D061365
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.686.754.133
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| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Amish" by people in Profiles.
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Williams KB, Horst M, Young M, Pascua C, Puffenberger EG, Brigatti KW, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Shuldiner AR, Gidding S, Strauss KA, Chowdhury D. Clinical characterization of familial hypercholesterolemia due to an amish founder mutation in Apolipoprotein B. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2022 03 17; 22(1):109.
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Tester DJ, Bombei HM, Fitzgerald KK, Giudicessi JR, Pitel BA, Thorland EC, Russell BG, Hamrick SK, Kim CSJ, Haglund-Turnquist CM, Johnsrude CL, Atkins DL, Ochoa Nunez LA, Law I, Temple J, Ackerman MJ. Identification of a Novel Homozygous Multi-Exon Duplication in RYR2 Among Children With Exertion-Related Unexplained Sudden Deaths in the Amish Community. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 03 01; 5(3):13-18.
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Crowgey EL, Washburn MC, Kolb EA, Puffenberger EG. Development of a Novel Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Carrier Screening in Old Order Amish and Mennonite Populations of Pennsylvania. J Mol Diagn. 2019 07; 21(4):687-694.
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Fox MD, Carson VJ, Feng HZ, Lawlor MW, Gray JT, Brigatti KW, Jin JP, Strauss KA. TNNT1 nemaline myopathy: natural history and therapeutic frontier. Hum Mol Genet. 2018 09 15; 27(18):3272-3282.
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Carson VJ, Puffenberger EG, Bowser LE, Brigatti KW, Young M, Korulczyk D, Rodrigues AS, Loeven KK, Strauss KA. Spinal muscular atrophy within Amish and Mennonite populations: Ancestral haplotypes and natural history. PLoS One. 2018; 13(9):e0202104.