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China Journal of Accounting Research, 2008 In emerging markets, the deviation between the ultimate controlling shareholders' voting rights and their cash flow rights (hereafter “DVC”) in the listed firms is quite prevalent.
Lijun Xia
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The effective founder effect in a spatially expanding population [PDF]
Evolution, 2014 1 Abstract The gradual loss of diversity associated with range expansions is a well known pattern observed in many species, and can be explained with a serial founder model. We show that under a branching process approximation, this loss in diversity is due to the difference in offspring variance ...
Peter, Benjamin Marco +1 more
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An Early SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Outbreak in a Dormitory in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Viruses, 2023 The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread worldwide in late 2021–early 2022, displacing the previously prevalent Delta variant. Before 16 December 2021, community transmission had already been observed in tens of countries globally.
Galya V. Klink +19 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Monitoring the demographics and genetics of reintroduced populations is critical to evaluating reintroduction success, but species ecology and the landscapes that they inhabit often present challenges for accurate assessments.
Sean M. Murphy +3 more
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Is the High Frequency of Machado-Joseph Disease in China Due to New Mutational Origins?
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Machado-Joseph disease (MJD, also known as spinocerebellar ataxia 3 or SCA3) is the most common dominant ataxia worldwide, with an overall average prevalence of 1–5/100,000. To this date, two major ancestral lineages have been found throughout the world.
Tianjiao Li +22 more
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2020 Background Gaucher disease (GD) is caused by a deficiency of β-glucocerebrosidase, encoded by GBA. Haplotype analyses previously demonstrated founder effects for particular GBA mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish and French-Canadian populations.
Yoo-Mi Kim +9 more
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Biology, 2022 The American blue crab Callinectes sapidus is a particularly successful invader in estuarine ecosystems worldwide. Despite increasing awareness of its potential harm, the invasion history and underlying genetic diversity of this species within the ...
Christoph D. Schubart +6 more
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HINT1 founder mutation causing axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia in South America: A case report
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2021 Background Recessive loss‐of‐function mutations in HINT1 are associated with predominantly motor axonal peripheral neuropathy with neuromyotonia. Twenty‐four distinct pathogenic variants are reported all over the world, including four confirmed founder ...
Bianca deAguiar Coelho Silva Madeiro +7 more
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Diversity, 2023 The tragic decline of plains bison (Bison bison bison) in North America is well known. By the turn of the 20th century, plains bison, once numbering in the tens of millions, were extirpated from the wild in Canada.
Gregory A. Wilson +2 more
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Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2012 There are two stocks of American paddlefish Polyodon spathula in Poland, one in Pogorze and the other in Wasosze. These stocks were established from small quantities of eggs imported from the USA in 1995.
D. Kaczmarczyk, M. Luczynski, P. Brzuzan
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