background: the b-cell defect in x-linked agammaglobulinemia (xla) is caused by mutations in the gene for bruton's tyrosine kinase (btk). btk mutations result in deficient expression of btk protein in peripheral blood monocytes. methods: using the anti-btk monoclonal antibody (48-2h), a flow cytometric analysis of intra cytoplasmic btk protein expression in monocytes was performed to ident...

OBJECTIVE The aim of family focused grief therapy is to reduce the morbid effects of grief among families at risk of poor psychosocial outcome. It commences during palliative care of terminally ill patients and continues into bereavement. The authors report a randomized, controlled trial. METHOD Using the Family Relationships Index, the authors screened 257 families of patients dying from can...

We calculate the asymptotic merit factor, under all cyclic rotations of rows and columns, of two families of binary two-dimensional arrays derived from the quadratic character. The arrays in these families have size p × q, where p and q are not necessarily distinct odd primes, and can be considered as two-dimensional generalisations of a Legendre sequence. The asymptotic values of the merit fac...

background: hearing loss (hl) is the most frequent neurosensory impairment. hl is highly heterogeneous defect. this disorder affects 1 out of 500 newborns. this study aimed to determine the role of dfnb2 locus and frequency of myo7a gene mutations in a population from west of iran. methods: thirty families investigated in shahrekord university of medical sciences in 2014, genetic linkage analys...

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is one of the most common metabolic inborn diseases caused by mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene. This gene is linked to a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) region which is a polymorphic marker that facilitates the implementation of prenatal diagnosis and carrier screening. In this study, VNTR with 13 repeats that has not been reported previously ...