Ensembles have been increasingly used to represent the heterogeneity of protein native states and there is a number of exciting recent work that determines such ensembles using experimental *** what extent these ensem...
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Ensembles have been increasingly used to represent the heterogeneity of protein native states and there is a number of exciting recent work that determines such ensembles using experimental *** what extent these ensembles represent the native states is debatable since the ensemble,which may contain over a hundred conformations,may be underconstrained by the experimental *** this work,we introduce a new feature,the
Admixture mapping is a disease-mapping strategy to identify disease susceptibility variants in an admixed population that is a result of mating between 2 historically separated populations differing in allele frequenc...
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Admixture mapping is a disease-mapping strategy to identify disease susceptibility variants in an admixed population that is a result of mating between 2 historically separated populations differing in allele frequencies and disease prevalence. With the increasing availability of high-density genotyping data generated in genome-wide association studies, it is of interest to investigate how to apply admixture mapping in the context of the genome-wide association studies and how to adjust for admixture in association tests. In this study, we first evaluated 3 different local ancestry inference methods, LAMP, LAMP-LD, and MULTIMIX. Then we applied admixture mapping analysis based on estimated local ancestry. Finally, we performed association tests with adjustment for local ancestry.
Introduction: Middle ear volume(MEV) is a clinically relevant parameter across middle ear diseases. MEV values between these techniques have never before been tested for agreement in ears with perforated tympanic memb...
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Introduction: Middle ear volume(MEV) is a clinically relevant parameter across middle ear diseases. MEV values between these techniques have never before been tested for agreement in ears with perforated tympanic membranes(TMs).Methods: Middle ears were identified from 36 patients ranging 18-89 years of age with TM perforations who underwent tympanometry and temporal bone computed tomography(CT) between 2005 and 2015. MEVs calculated by both tympanometry and three-dimensional volume reconstruction(3DVR) were analyzed for agreement using Bland Altman plots. The differences between tympanometric and 3DVR MEV values for each given middle ear were characterized across MEV quartiles(1= smallest; 4= largest) and across increasing states of middle ear disease using Kruskale Wallis and Wilcoxon testing with Bonferroni ***: Bland Altman plots demonstrated significant disagreement between MEV measurement techniques. Differences between tympanometric(T) and 3DVR MEV values were significantly greater with increasing average(i.e.(Tt3DVR)/2)) MEV per linear regression(p < 0.0001). Significance was demonstrated between fourth and first average MEV quartiles(p= 0.0024), fourth and second quartiles(p= 0.0024), third and first quartiles(p= 0.0048), and third and second quartiles(p= 0.048). Absolute MEV difference was not significantly different across varying states of middle ear disease(p= 0.44).Conclusion: Statistically and clinically significant disagreement was demonstrated between tympanometric and 3DVR MEV values. Studies that vary in MEV estimation techniques may be expected to demonstrate significantly different results. These preliminary results suggest that clinicians should endeavor to seek further confirmation when interpreting high tympanometric MEV values.
The calcium-activated chloride channel TMEM16A is a promising drug target for treating hypertension, secretory diarrheas, and various cancers, including head and neck cancer. Despite its potential, no FDA-approved dru...
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We propose a new type of generative model for high-dimensional data that learns a manifold geometry of the data, rather than density, and can generate points evenly along this manifold. This is in contrast to existing...
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Negative thermal expansion(NTE) behavior has roused wide interest for the control of thermomechanical properties of functional *** NTE behaviors have been found in kinds of compounds,it remains challenging for polymer...
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Negative thermal expansion(NTE) behavior has roused wide interest for the control of thermomechanical properties of functional *** NTE behaviors have been found in kinds of compounds,it remains challenging for polymers to achieve intrinsic NTE *** this work,we systematically studied the conformational change of dibenzocyclooctadiene(DBCOD) derivatives between chair(C) and twist-boat(TB) forms based on density-functional theo ry(DFT) calculations,and found clear evidence of the relationship between the structure of DBCOD units and the thermal contraction behavior of the related *** order to obtain the polymer with NTE property,two conditions should be met for the thermal contracting DBCOD related units as follows:(i) the TB conformation can turn into C conformation as the temperature increases,and(ii) the volume of C conformation is smaller than that of TB *** rule should offer a guidance to exploration of the new intrinsic NTE polymers in the future.
Background: CoreGenes3.5 is a webserver that determines sets of core genes from viral and small bacterial genomes as an automated batch process. Previous versions of CoreGenes have been used to classify bacteriophage ...
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Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing technologies enable deep insights into cellular development, gene regulation, and phenotypic diversity by measuring gene expression for thousands of cells in a single expe...
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We consider the problem of reconstructing a maximally parsimonious history of network evolution under models that support gene duplication and loss and independent interaction gain and loss. We introduce a combinatori...
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