Evidence from twin studies suggests that genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing a fear or a phobia. The aim of the present study was to review the current literature regarding twin studies describing the genetic basis of specific phobias and their corresponding fears. The analysis included five twin studies on fears and ten twin studies on specific phobias. Heritability estimates ...

Many cases of chromosomal mosaicism of the XO/XY type have been described. The phenotype of these patients has shown a wide diversity. In a recent review of 19 published cases in which the XO/XY sex chromosome pattern was established (Jackson, Hoffman, and Makda, 1966), 14 were apparently female and 5 male. The occurrence of XO/XYY mosaicism has been reported less often. Jacobs, Harnden, Buckto...

Presently, pearl millet and wheat are belonging to highly important cereal crops. Pearl millet, however, is an under-utilized crop, despite its superior resilience drought heat stress in contrast wheat. To investigate this more detail, we performed comparative physiological screening large scale proteomics of responses drought-tolerant susceptible genotypes These chosen widely used breeding far...

when grown in monolayer culture at low density and with the addition of serum, cartilage cells dedifferentiate or are overgrown by fibroblast-like cells. the aim of this study was to optimize the cultivation of chondrocytes in monolayer culture and to slow down their transformation or their overgrowth by fibroblast-like cells. the interaction between chondrocytes and cartilage-specifc matrix is...

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a genetic disorder with wide range of manifestations and severity. Currently, the few available NF1 treatments target specific manifestations, no therapies targeted to correct underlying driver all manifestations. Evidence supports that haploinsufficiency in caused by decreased amount wild-type (WT) neurofibromin Nf1+/- cells directly causes or facilitates Cons...

prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men. in spite of on-going researches in this filed, the specific causes of prostate cancer are so far unknown. in this study, we used two methods of gene set analysis to improve the biological interpretation of the observed expression patterns in prostate cancer. the gene set analysis is a computational method to discover gene sets whose expre...

staphylococcus epidermidis is the most important member of coagulase negative staphylococci responsible for community and hospital acquired infections. most clinical isolates of s. epidermidis are resistant to methicillin making these infections difficult to treat. in this study, correlation of methicillin resistance phenotype was compared with methicillin resistance (meca) gene carriage in 55 ...