Ingrid Krapels defends her PhD thesis
On Thursday 10, 2005 Ingrid Krapels defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “The etiology of orofacial clefts. An emphasis on lifestyle and nutrition other than folate’’. The study was conducted in a collaboration between the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and our department at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.
Increasing evidence indicates that nonsyndromic orofacial clefts should be considered as a complex trait, in which genetic and environmental determinants interact. As the genetic component cannot modified yet, the main aim of this thesis was to provide more insight into the role of amendable factors as nutrition, smoking and other lifestyle factors in the etiology of nonsyndromic clefts. For more detailed information click here.
Ingrid worked on her PhD thesis from October 2001 to November 2005. In the meantime she also was a main contributor to a book on Preconception Care at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam. Since January 2005 she worked at the Department of Clinical Genetics at the same university and since January 2006 she is resident in training in clinical genetics at the Academic Hospital in Maastricht.