rye (secale cereale) chromosome 1rs harbors multiple genes including lr26, sr31, yr9 and pm8 conferring disease resistance and tolerance to abiotic stresses. the introgression of the rye 1r chromosome short arm has enormously contributed to increase of genetic diversity in wheat. utilization of such translocations in breeding programs demands identification of wheat germplasm possessing the whe...

autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (adpkd) is the most common genetic nephropathy, which is characterized by replacement of renal parenchyma with multiple cysts. in iran, the disease prevalence within the chronic hemodialysis patient population is approximately 8-10%. so far, three genetic loci have been identified to be responsible for adpkd. little information is available concernin...

In this paper we present several numerical algorithms for registering fiducials in planar CT or MRI images to their corresponding three-dimensional locations. The unique strength of these methods is their ability to robustly handle incomplete fiducials patterns, even in extreme cases when as much as one third of the fiducial data is missing from the images. We compare the effectiveness of these...

Background & Aims: SLC26A4 gene mutations are the second identifiable genetic cause of autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) after GJB2 mutations and are currently investigated in molecular diagnosis.In databases, several potential STR markers related to this region have been introduced. In this investigation, the characteristics and informativeness of D7S2425 CA repeat STR mar...

The shape of the mandible was compared by morphometric methods to ascertain the genetic differences between two substrains of F344 rats, F344/DuCrlCrlj and F344/NSlc. Since these two substrains are clearly different in survival and the incidence of age associated disorders; thus, some genetic differences are suggested to be present between them. Although previous microsatellite analysis did not...

We discovered variable modes of parental care in a breeding population of color-banded Veeries (Catharus fuscescens), a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory songbird, long thought to be socially monogamous, and performed a multi-locus DNA microsatellite analysis to estimate parentage and kinship in a sample of 37 adults and 21 offspring. We detected multiple mating in both sexes, and four modes of pa...

A SIC consists of N equiangular unit vectors in an N dimensional Hilbert space. The frame potential is a function of N unit vectors. It has a unique global minimum if the vectors form a SIC, and this property has been made use of in numerical searches for SICs. When the vectors form an orbit of the Heisenberg group the frame potential becomes a function of a single fiducial vector. We analytica...