Among women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, a frameshift mutation of the BRCA1 gene, designated 185delAG, occurs with a carrier frequency of approximately 1% and is estimated to account for about 39% of ovarian cancer cases occurring prior to age 50 years. To determine the actual frequency of this mutation among Jewish women with ovarian cancer, we tested DNA collected as part of an ongoing populat...

Klasik Türk edebiyatı Orta Asya’dan Avrupa’ya uzanan geniş bir coğrafyada yüzyıllar boyunca işlenmiş çok çeşitli ve renkli kültürel birikimin üstünde inşa edilmiş zengin içeriğe sahiptir. İçeriği oluşturan kaynakların başında özellikle İslam coğrafyasında yaşayan kadim toplulukların ortaya koyduğu dinî mitolojik yapıtlar gelir. Bu yapıtların oluşumuna zemin hazırlayan kavimler arasında Yahudile...

A profound transformation of the cultural memory in the former Soviet Union has resulted in deep changes in the cultural identities of all Soviet—and ex-Soviet—ethnic and religious groups. This transformation led to a change of perceptions about sacred and profane spaces and the connections of these spaces to the urban landscape. As a result of complex historical and cultural processes, contemp...

discussing tales and proverbs of different tribes and nations is very interesting; especially when compared to each other and their origin is searched. the shared themes mean that two different persons in two different places and at two different times have been influenced by one subject and have quoted it. there are a lot of examples of this in literature of different nations.in this article, ...

BACKGROUND Parental fear and misconceptions about fever are widespread in western society. Ethnicity and sociodemographic factors have been suggested as contributing factors. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that undue parental concern about fever is less in traditional than in western cultural-ethnic groups. METHODS Bedouin (traditional society) and Jewish (western society) parents of chi...

writing sacred words of a text in the header or along the right margins of documents is of a long tradition in documentation of the iranian islamic period. the present article deals with the time of origin, developmental process, type of words and the name of this tradition. included among other issues covered in this study are the non-iranian origins and the iranian-islamic influence over the ...

Abstract ‘Insight’ or vipassanā meditation refers to meditative practices employed within Buddhist traditions. But following the secularization of in recent decades – that is, its differentiation from Buddhism orthodox Jewish Israeli meditators frame it as a religiously neutral, therapeutic technique centred on mundane human body. They thus consider involving no forbidden ‘Eastern’ religious co...

To the Editor: The identification of highly polymorphic markers, which are widely distributed throughout the human genome, has allowed the mapping of several disease genes. These markers have been used to analyze the origin, in time and place, of the most prevalent mutations for different diseases, such as cystic fibrosis (Morral et al. 1994), idio-pathic torsion dystonia (Risch et al. 1995), h...