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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji, Kazutaka M. Takeshita, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiromasa Igota, Mayumi Ueno, Yukiko Matsuura, Takashi Ikeda, Ryo Yoshizawa, Hino Takafumi, Tsuyoshi Yoshida   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graphical chain models for the analysis of complex genetic diseases: an application to hypertension [PDF]

, 2002
A crucial task in modern genetic medicine is the understanding of complex genetic diseases. The main complicating features are that a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors is involved, and the phenotype of interest may be complex ...
Di Serio, C., Vicard, P.
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Analysis of MMP2 promoter polymorphisms in childhood obesity

BMC Research Notes, 2011
Background Several lines of evidence suggest a possible functional role of Matrix metalloproteinase -2 (MMP-2) in obesity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of MMP-2 promoter polymorphisms in percentage body fat (PBF) as a measure of ...
Thompson John MD, Han Dug, Morgan Angharad R, Mitchell Edwin A, Ferguson Lynnette R   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust Methods for Disease-Genotype Association in Genetic Association Studies: Calculate P-values Using Exact Conditional Enumeration instead of Asymptotic Approximations [PDF]

, 2013
In genetic association studies, detecting disease-genotype associations is a primary goal. For most diseases, the underlying genetic model is unknown, and we study seven robust test statistics for monotone association. For a given test statistic, there are many ways to calculate a p-value, but in genetic association studies, calculations have ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Dendritic cells steering antigen and leukocyte traffic in lymph nodes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Dendritic cells are key players in the activation of T cells and their commitment to effector function. In this In a Nutshell Review, we will discuss how dendritic cells guide the trafficking of antigen and leukocytes in the lymph node, thus influencing T‐cell activation processes. Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in initiating and shaping the
Enrico Dotta, Agnieszka Katarzyna Maciola, Tania Baccega, Giulia Pasqual   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A weighted U statistic for association analysis considering genetic heterogeneity [PDF]

, 2015
Converging evidence suggests that common complex diseases with the same or similar clinical manifestations could have different underlying genetic etiologies. While current research interests have shifted toward uncovering rare variants and structural variations predisposing to human diseases, the impact of heterogeneity in genetic studies of complex ...
arxiv   +1 more source

The dual nature of TDC – bridging dendritic and T cells in immunity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
TDC are hematopoietic cells combining dendritic and T cell features. They reach secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) and peripheral organs (liver and lungs) after FLT3‐dependent development in the bone marrow and maturation in the thymus. TDC are activated and enriched in SLOs upon viral infection, suggesting that they might play unique immune roles, since
Maria Nelli, Mirela Kuka
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Environmental Exposure and Genetic Architecture of the 2q33 Locus With Esophageal Cancer in South Africa

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has a high prevalence in several countries in Africa and Asia. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Chinese populations have identified several ESCC susceptibility loci, including variants on ...
Marco Matejcic, Christopher G. Mathew, Christopher G. Mathew, M. Iqbal Parker   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging current insights on IL‐10‐producing dendritic cells for developing effective immunotherapeutic approaches

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In vivo IL‐10 produced by tissue‐resident tolDC is involved in maintaining/inducing tolerance. Depending on the agent used for ex vivo tolDC generation, cells acquire common features but prime T cells towards anergy, FOXP3+ Tregs, or Tr1 cells according to the levels of IL‐10 produced. Ex vivo‐induced tolDC were administered to patients to re‐establish/
Konstantina Morali, Gloria Giacomello, Michela Vuono, Silvia Gregori   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling and Testing for Joint Association Using a Genetic Random Field Model [PDF]

, 2014
Substantial progress has been made in identifying single genetic variants predisposing to common complex diseases. Nonetheless, the genetic etiology of human diseases remains largely unknown.
Adler, Ballard, Besag, Besag, Browning, Burridge, Chatterjee, Cliff, Cressie, Davies, De Iorio, Gauderman, Gotze, Laird, Manolio, Molitor, Molitor, Price, Ritchie, Romeo, Rotar, Thomas, Tzeng, Wu, Wu   +24 more
core   +2 more sources