Reply (by Kevin Welch) to Zara Patel Correspondence

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In response to a comment on their previous note about the Voigt line profile, here the authors clarify relevant statements and numeric algorithms in the original note. In Huang and Yung (2004, hereafter HY04) we described a mistake commonly found in several textbooks regarding the Voigt line profile. Five years after the original note was published, Schreier (2009; see also the associated corri...

Correspondence: Reply to ‘DNA shape is insufficient to explain binding'

Transcription factors (TFs) are DNA-binding proteins that regulate gene expression. Sequence-specific TFs recognize DNA via specific amino acid-base hydrogen bonds and contacts that read local DNA shape1. Studying base and shape readout modes of TFs in vivo has been challenging due to technical issues associated with current approaches for mapping TF-binding sites (TFBSs). We recently introduce...

Jignesh Patel

The thesis work is about the investigation of different handovers in the 3G UMTS network which is the vital issue to the network to maintain the user's connection during in the ongoing session with the user's movement. The investigation is based on the UMTS QoS traffic classes. For this purpose the soft and the hard handovers techniques are analyzed in different scenarios implemented in the OPN...

Rakesh Patel

Correspondence: Reply to 'SEMA4A variation and risk of colorectal cancer'.

Kinnersley et al. comment on our recently published study1 and report a failure to support semaphorin A (SEMA4A) variations as risk alleles for colorectal cancer (CRC)2. The authors investigated the contribution of the recurrent SEMA4A variants p.Gly484Ala (rs148744804) and p.Pro682Ser (rs76381440) in cohorts of CRC cases from different European populations. No significant association could be ...