dermatophytes are a group of keratinophilic fungi capable of invading keratinized tissues (skin, hair and nails). they cause dermatophytosis (commonly known as tinea or ring worm) in human and animals. in this report, dna similarities and genomic linkage of 40 dermatophytes strains was obtained from different universities, were studied by random amplified polymorphic dna (rapd–pcr) using 11 ran...

We performed linkage analysis on families with rheumatoid arthritis, stratifying by ethnic origin. We compared results using either Kong and Cox nonparametric LOD scores or MOD score analysis using the software GeneHunter MODSCORE. We first applied SNPLINK to remove markers showing excess linkage disequilibrium from the SNPs in the Illumina IV SNP Linkage panel. In this analysis there were 659 ...

We report the development and characterization of a "wide-cross whole-genome radiation hybrid" (WWRH) panel from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Chromosomes were segmented by gamma-irradiation of G. hirsutum (n = 26) pollen, and segmented chromosomes were rescued after in vivo fertilization of G. barbadense egg cells (n = 26). A 5-krad gamma-ray WWRH mapping panel (N = 93) was constructed and g...

In this paper, we study the task of product record linkage across multiple e-commerce websites. We solve this task via a semi-supervised approach and adopt the self-training algorithm for learning with little labeled data. In previous self-training algorithms, the learner tries to convert the most confidently predicted unlabeled examples of each class into labeled training examples. However, th...

We explored approaches to using multiple related traits (gene expression levels) in linkage analysis. We first grouped mRNA transcripts according to their functions annotated in biological process of gene ontology (GO). We then compared using sample average, principal-components analysis (PCA), and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to derive a univariate composite trait. Our results showed tha...

chromosomes are rather small, so it is quite likely that minor chromosome deficiencies or deletions would not be detected. Recently, we have obtained from commercial sources two spontaneous chromosome aberrants, one of which appears to be wholly tetraploid, while the other is chimaeric, containing diploid as well as tetraploid tissues. The first named is known to be, and the other probably is, ...