Mapping Marginality Hotspots and Agricultural Potentials in Bangladesh

Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh

Although Bangladesh made some remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and in improving social and economic outcomes in recent decades, about one-third of the rural population still lives below the upper poverty line most of whom depend on agriculture as their primary source of income. One of the reasons for their poverty is the low productivity that results from sub-optimal use of inputs an...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

Mapping recombination hotspots in human phosphoglucomutase (PGM1).

Human phosphoglucomutase (PGM1) is a highly poly-morphic protein. Three mutations and four intragenic recombination events between the three mutation sites generate eight protein variants including the four universally common alleles, 1+, 1 -, 2+ and 2 -, and four others that are polymorphic in some Oriental populations, 3+, 3-, 7+ and 7-. The mutations 3/7, 2/1 and +/-are in exons 1A, 4 and 8,...

Dissecting and fine-mapping trans-eQTL hotspots

These are slides for a talk that I gave to the Jackson Lab Center for Genome Dynamics (remotely) on 10 Feb 2015, at the Complex Trait Community meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 11 June 2015, the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University on 18 Apr 2016, and for the Queenstown Research Week conference in Nelson, New Zealand, on 1 Sep 2016, and at the Genet...

Marginality: A Numerical Mapping for Enhanced Exploitation of Taxonomic Attributes

Hierarchical attributes appear in taxonomic or ontologybased data (e.g. NACE economic activities, ICD-classified diseases, animal/plant species, etc.). Such taxonomic data are often exploited as if they were flat nominal data without hierarchy, which implies losing substantial information and analytical power. We introduce marginality, a numerical mapping for taxonomic data that allows using on...