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Mit den Erinnerungstexten jüdischer Emigranten, in denen die Kindheit im altösterreichischen Galizien eine herausragende Rolle spielt, behandelt diese Arbeit eine bisher wenig beachtete Komponente der deutschen Exilliteratur. Enttäuscht in ihrer Identifikation mit Deutschland und verunsichert durch das Leben im Exil richten die Autoren die Gedanken nach rückwärts: Sie besinnen sich auf die schon weit entfernte Welt ihrer Kindheit im galizischen Schtetl. Trotz unterschiedlicher Formen weisen die Texte viele thematische Parallelen auf und sind in der farbigen Zeichnung der 'Welt von Vorgestern' von der unwirtlichen Exilgegenwart geprägt. Exemplarisch wird diese 'imaginative Aneignung ihrer Herkunft als Heimat' (B.Spies) an der Autobiographie des Schauspielers Granach und dem autobiographischen Roman des Journalisten Katz gezeigt.
Men and women differ substantially regarding height, weight, and body fat. Interestingly, previous work detecting genetic effects for waist-to-hip ratio, to assess body fat distribution, has found that many of these showed sex-differences. However, systematic searches for sex-differences in genetic effects have not yet been conducted. Therefore, we undertook a genome-wide search for sexually dimorphic genetic effects for anthropometric traits including 133,723 individuals in a large meta-analysis and followed promising variants in further 137,052 individuals, including a total of 94 studies. We identified seven loci with significant sex-difference including four previously established (near GRB14/COBLL1, LYPLAL1/SLC30A10, VEGFA, ADAMTS9) and three novel anthropometric trait loci (near MAP3K1, HSD17B4, PPARG), all of which were significant in women, but not in men. Of interest is that sex-difference was only observed for waist phenotypes, but not for height or body-mass-index. We found no evidence for sex-differences with opposite effect direction for men and women. The PPARG locus is of specific interest due to its link to diabetes genetics and therapy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of investigating sex differences, which may lead to a better understanding of disease mechanisms with a potential relevance to treatment options.
