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Disease Gene Mapping in General Pedigrees [PDF]

, 2005
Disease gene mapping is one of the main focuses of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics. This dissertation explores some methods and algorithms in this area, especially in pedigrees.
Li, Li
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Mapping the global potential distributions of two arboviral vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus under changing climate [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundAedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the primary vectors that transmit several arboviral diseases, including dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. The world is presently experiencing a series of outbreaks of these diseases, so, we still require to ...
Disease Mapping (831340), Abdallah Samy (652348)   +1 more
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An Autoregressive Disease Mapping Model for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting

Mathematics, 2021
One of the more evident uses of spatio-temporal disease mapping is forecasting the spatial distribution of diseases for the next few years following the end of the period of study.
Francisca Corpas-Burgos, Miguel A. Martinez-Beneito   +1 more
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Resting state cortical EEG rhythms in Alzheimer's disease: toward EEG markers for clinical applications: a review [PDF]

, 2012
The human brain contains an intricate network of about 100 billion neurons. Aging of the brain is characterized by a combination of synaptic pruning, loss of cortico-cortical connections, and neuronal apoptosis that provoke an age-dependent decline of ...
Lizio, Roberta, De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio, Fabrizio Vecchio, F. De Vico Fallani, Frisoni, Giovanni, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Giulio Verrienti, Giovanni Frisoni, Vecchio, Fabrizio, Rossini, Paolo M, G. Verrienti, P. M. Rossini, F. Vecchio, Verrienti, Giulio, Frisoni, Giovanni B., Paolo M. Rossini, Rossini, Paolo M., Babiloni, Claudio, Fde V. Fallani, Blinowska, Katarzyna, G. Frisoni, Rossini, Paolo Maria, Claudio Babiloni, K. Blinowska, Katarzyna Blinowska, Roberta Lizio   +25 more
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Statistical Topics in Disease Gene Mapping [PDF]

, 2003
Efforts in disease gene mapping have achieved a great deal of success in mendelain diseases, but made slower progress in common disease studies because of their complexity.
Meng, Zhaoling
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Remote sensing, geographical information system and spatial analysis for schistosomiasis epidemiology and ecology in Africa. [PDF]

, 2009
Beginning in 1970, the potential of remote sensing (RS) techniques, coupled with geographical information systems (GIS), to improve our understanding of the epidemiology and control of schistosomiasis in Africa, has steadily grown. In our current review,
Utzinger, J, Stensgaard, AS, Simoonga, C., Olsen, A., Kristensen, TK, Utzinger, J., Vounatsou, P, Brooker, S, Olsen, Annette, Kristensen, T. K., Simoonga, C, Appleton, CC, Stensgaard, Anna-Sofie, Olsen, A, Stensgaard, A. S., Vounatsou, P., Appleton, C. C., Kristensen, Thomas K., Appleton, C.C., Brooker, S.   +19 more
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Mutant huntingtin fragmentation in immune cells tracks Huntington's disease progression. [PDF]

, 2012
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the gene encoding huntingtin (HTT). Therapeutic approaches to lower mutant HTT (mHTT) levels are expected to proceed to human trials, but ...
Salman Haider, Weiss, A, Rachael I. Scahill, Sarah J. Tabrizi, Ulrike Träger, Bates, G, Stephan Grueninger, Wild, Edward J., Weiss, Andreas, Scahill, R, Ralph Andre, Farmer, Ruth, Macdonald, Douglas, Haider, Salman, Macdonald, D, Scahil, Rachael I., Grueninger, Stephan, Chris Frost, Frost, C, Farmer, R, Wild, E, Bilbe, G, Tabrizi, SJ, Ruth Farmer, Tabrizi, Sarah J., Landles, C, Nayana Lahiri, Gillian P. Bates, Edward J. Wild, Scahill, Rachael I, Douglas Macdonald, Rainer Kuhn, Andre, R, Frost, Chris, Kuhn, R, Grueninger, S, Bates, GP, Wild, Edward J, Wild, EJ, Kuhn, Rainer, Graeme Bilbe, Träger, U, Andreas Weiss, Christian Landles, Lahiri, N, Tabrizi, Sarah J, Scahill, RI, Andre, Ralph, Landles, Christian, Traeger, Ulrike, Lahiri, Nayana, Träger, Ulrike, Bilbe, Graeme, Haider, S, Bates, Gillian P, Bates, Gillian P.   +55 more
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Tracing the tumors: navigating challenges in mapping cancer trends across twentieth-century Belgium

Espace populations sociétés
This article delves into the challenges and methodologies involved in mapping cancer trends across Belgium during the twentieth century. Disease mapping, pioneered by John Snow and Alfred Haviland, has been instrumental in understanding spatial disease ...
Philippe Paeps, Isabelle Devos, Sylvie Gadeyne, Sven Vrielinck, Torsten Wiedemann   +4 more
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Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa

eLife, 2014
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a complex zoonosis that is highly virulent in humans. The largest recorded outbreak of EVD is ongoing in West Africa, outside of its previously reported and predicted niche. We assembled location data on all recorded zoonotic
David M Pigott, Nick Golding, Adrian Mylne, Zhi Huang, Andrew J Henry, Daniel J Weiss, Oliver J Brady, Moritz UG Kraemer, David L Smith, Catherine L Moyes, Samir Bhatt, Peter W Gething, Peter W Horby, Isaac I Bogoch, John S Brownstein, Sumiko R Mekaru, Andrew J Tatem, Kamran Khan, Simon I Hay   +18 more
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Structural network efficiency is associated with cognitive impairment in small-vessel disease. [PDF]

, 2014
To characterize brain network connectivity impairment in cerebral small-vessel disease (SVD) and its relationship with MRI disease markers and cognitive impairment.METHODS: A cross-sectional design applied graph-based efficiency analysis to deterministic
Lawrence, AJ, A. W. Chung, T. R. Barrick, Chung, AW, Barrick, Thomas R., Lawrence, Andrew J.; id_orcid, A. J. Lawrence, H. S. Markus, Morris, RG, Morris, Robin G., Barrick, TR, Chung, Ai Wern, R. G. Morris, Markus, Hugh S., Markus, HS   +14 more
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