A comparison W~LS made of vectors derived by using ordinary co-occurrence statistics from large text corpora and of vectors derived by measuring the interword distances in dictionary definitions. The precision of word sense disambiguation by using co-occurrence vectors frorn the 1987 Wall Street Journal (20M total words) was higher than that by using distance vectors from the Collins English l)...

Loss of muscle mass is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Uncertainties of treatment efficiency by short-term artificial nutrition remain, specifically improvement of protein balance in skeletal muscles. In this study, algorithmic microarray analysis was applied to map cellular changes related to muscle protein metabolism in human skeletal muscle...

BACKGROUND Organic anion transporters 1 (Oat1) and 3 (Oat3) mediate the transport of organic anions, including frequently prescribed drugs, across cell membranes in kidney proximal tubule cells. In rats, these transporters are known to be male-dominant and testosterone-dependently expressed. The molecular mechanisms that are involved in the sex-dependent expression are unknown. Our aim was to i...

We conducted a selection signature analysis using the chicken 60k SNP chip in two chicken lines that had been divergently selected for abdominal fat content (AFC) for 11 generations. The selection signature analysis used multiple signals of selection, including long-range allele frequency differences between the lean and fat lines, long-range heterozygosity changes, linkage disequilibrium, hapl...

We attempted to generate a linkage map using Illumina Porcine 60K SNP Beadchip genotypes of the F2 offspring from Korean native pig (KNP) crossed with Yorkshire (YS) pig, and to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) using the line-cross model. Among the genotype information of the 62,136 SNPs obtained from the high-density SNP analysis, 45,308 SNPs were used to select informative markers with ...

Camelina (Camelina sativa), a Brassicaceae oilseed, has received recent interest as a biofuel crop and production platform for industrial oils. Limiting wider production of camelina for these uses is the need to improve the quality and content of the seed protein-rich meal and oil, which is enriched in oxidatively unstable polyunsaturated fatty acids that are deleterious for biodiesel. To ident...

The US Army Natick Soldier Center (NSC) is teamed with the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), US Air Force Air Mobility Command (USAF AMC), the US Army Project Manager Force Sustainment and Support (PM-FSS), and under the oversight of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Advance Systems and Concepts (AS&C) office, along with numerous other government agencies and contractors to plan and exec...

Physical appearance traits, such as feather-crested head, comb size and type, beard, wattles size, and feathered feet, are used to distinguish between breeds of chicken and also may be associated with economic traits. In this study, a genome-wide linkage analysis was used to identify candidate regions and genes for physical appearance traits and to potentially provide further knowledge of the m...

Introduction The deductive method: from karyotyping to aCGH and WES is an important aspect in the diagnosis search for causes of intellectual disability due congenital brain anomalies. There recommendation exclude presence CNV or monogenic variants patients with a normal karyotype, but clinical picture syndromic disease. Objectives Improvement disability. Methods 60K Agilent microarrays, SureSe...

Abstract Background One of the main drivers colitis associated colorectal cancer (CA-CRC) is suspected to be long-standing mucosal inflammation, but far from all patients develop cancer. We analyzed gene expression profiles in ulcerative (UC) who have progressed neoplasia (progressors) compared those not (non-progressors) order identify underlying mechanisms for neoplastic progression UC patien...