ESTIMATING RISKS AND RELATIVE RISKS IN CASE-BASE STUDIES UNDER THE ASSUMPTIONS OF GENE-ENVIRONMENT INDEPENDENCE AND HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM.

Estimating risks and relative risks in case-base studies under the assumptions of gene-environment independence and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Many diseases result from the interactions between genes and the environment.An efficient method has been Makeup Powder proposed for a case-control study to estimate the genetic and environmental main effects and their interactions, which exploits the assumptions of gene-environment independence and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.To estimate the absolu

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Specific patterns of gene space organisation revealed in wheat by using the combination of barley and wheat genomic resources

Abstract Background Because of its size, allohexaploid nature and high repeat content, the wheat genome has always been perceived as too complex for efficient molecular studies.We recently constructed the first physical map of a wheat chromosome (3B).However gene mapping is still laborious in wheat because of high redundancy between the three homoe

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Cytokinesis in vertebrate cells initiates by contraction of an equatorial actomyosin network composed of randomly oriented filaments

The actomyosin ring generates force to ingress the cytokinetic cleavage furrow in animal cells, yet its filament organization and the mechanism of contractility is not well understood.We quantified actin filament order in human cells using fluorescence polarization microscopy and found that cleavage furrow ingression initiates by contraction of an

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Oral Versus Intragastric Inoculation: Similar Pathways of Trypanosoma cruzi Experimental Infection? From Target Tissues, Parasite Evasion, and Immune Response

Currently, oral infection is the most frequent transmission mechanism of Chagas disease in Brazil and others Latin American countries.This transmission pathway presents increased mortality rate in the first 2 weeks, which is higher than the calculated mortality after the biting of infected insect vectors.Thus, the oral route of Trypanosoma cruzi in

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