Common variants typically explain a small fraction of genetic risk.

The TCF7L2 allele, for example, increases the risk of developing diabetes by 1.5 times and is the greatest risk of the common genetic variants.

It also helps reduce the risk of the most common cancers like breast, prostate and colon cancer.

New developments include partnerships in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to promote disaster risk reduction and to design subregional common policies on disaster risk reduction.

Draft common statement of the Special Session on the Indian Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction for a Safer Future

The global numbers are expected to continue increasing as risk factors remain common and the population continues to get older.

This confidence is based on data and or models and is usually mapped on Common Risk Segment Maps (CRS Maps).

Across Europe, risk avoidance seems to be the order of the day, even at the expense of the common interest and NATO solidarity.

Workers who are exposed to dead animals and animal products are at the highest risk, especially in countries where anthrax is more common.

What all these strategies had in common, writes Haldane, was that they involved banks assuming risk in the hunt for yield risk that was often disguised because it was parked in the tail of the return distribution.

Leaving the common currency would, of course, threaten collateral damage for the exiting country and raise the risk of contagion for other weak eurozone members.

21 Debt buy backs involve buying back the claims at the net present value of the remaining cash flows the net present value is calculated by discounting cash flows at risk free rate plus a market referenced common country risk spread.

First, capital requirements should be set as a straightforward ratio of common equity to total assets, thereby abandoning all reference to banks own risk management models.

Dulu s story is heartbreaking and heartbreakingly common in the developing world three billion people survive on diets that lack micronutrients like vitamin A and Zinc, and are at increased risk of illness from common infections like diarrheal disease, which kills nearly two million children annually.

As a result, after a few early successes with atypical single gene disorders such as Huntington s disease, progress has stalled. Common variants typically explain a small fraction of genetic risk.

In this connection, a special session on the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, convened at the World Conference to review that disaster from a risk reduction perspective, delivered the Common Statement of the Special Session on Indian Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction for a Safer Future as its outcome.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

A quarter has a history of high blood pressure, but this is a common problem in the general population, and it is not clear whether it significantly increase the risk of apoplexy.

With the increasing risk of married, monogamous women contracting HIV, it was reported to be common for women to be stigmatized and blamed for passing on the infection to her unborn child.

Common causes of ILI include the common cold and influenza, which tends to be less common but more severe than the common cold.

Common frontiers mean common ethnic origins, common cultures, and shared ways of life and environmental conditions.

The two diseases share so many common causes and risk factors, prevention strategies and interventions, and delivery platforms for care in clinics, communities, and schools that it makes sense to bring them together.

A comparison of the two most common types of cannabis in the United Kingdom, hash and sinsemilla ( skunk ), found that using skunk implied a significantly greater risk of psychosis, while hash did not.

Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

However, because many IVF practitioners transfer two or three embryos at a time to improve the odds of a pregnancy occurring, twins and higher multiple births are more common, and carry some additional risk.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

Common threats to Europe s energy security demand a common response.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

By developing a joint vision for the development of international waterways, these regional cooperation initiatives work towards common ownership of the resource, thereby reducing the risk that disputes over water use will escalate into violence.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

It is one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, along with the common kestrel and common buzzard.

We must reassert our common humanity and our common universal values.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

Another view held that paragraph (3) seemed unconvincing for, if it was common knowledge that the local courts were notoriously lacking in independence , the question arose why an investor would risk investing in the country concerned.

At the XVIth Meeting of Ministers of Health of MERCOSUR and Associated States, Agreement No. 05 04 established the Intergovernmental Commission on Risk Management and Vulnerability Reduction within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), providing as follows

Common Premises

Common services

Common tests

Risk reduction

Risk factors

But it needs to be a real union, with common deposit insurance and common resolution procedures, as well as common supervision.

Why should the few carry the many? Common security implies common commitment.

Common factors in equitable geographic distribution in the United Nations common system3

And while there is moral hazard risk, there is also meltdown risk.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.