Parkinson’s disease (PD) is complex and most likely results from an unknown combination of genetic and environmental factors. Here, we defined discrete genes (DGs) in a microarray analysis and found that the percentage of DGs versus all analyzable genes correlated with PD progression. Furthermore, this new parameter was also easily used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of highfrequency electr...

Atypical complete DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) is an extremely rare congenital disease characterized by an eczematous dermatitis, lymphadenopathy, and an oligoclonal T-cell proliferation. Because its initial presentation may be confused with other types of eczematous dermatitis, diagnosis and treatment are usually delayed. We describe herein a case of an infant with atypical complete DGS to draw att...

A life cycle assessment of the impact of distillers grains plus solubles (DGS) on mitigation of energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comparing corn ethanol to gasoline demonstrates the importance of feeding wet DGS (WDGS) to feedlot cattle to optimize the environmental benefit of ethanol production relative to gasoline. Ethanol produced in Nebraska has a superior environmental impact compa...

Among the most well-characterized cardiac congenital malformations are those associated with DiGeorge syndrome (DGS)/velocardiofacial syndrome. DGS is mainly caused by heterozygous deletion of a region of chromosome 22q11.2 and is characterized by cardiac conotruncal malformations, aortic arch anomalies, dysmorphic face and hypoplasia of the thymus and parathyroid.1 This spectrum of anomalies i...

Recently, democratic group signatures(DGSs) particularly catch our attention due to their great flexibilities, i.e., no group manager, anonymity, and individual traceability. In existing DGS schemes, individual traceability says that any member in the group can reveal the actual signer’s identity from a given signature. In this paper, we formally describe the definition of DGS, revisit its secu...

YONG-CHAE JEONG Chonbuk National University Chonju, Korea SI-GYUN JEONG Samsung Electronics Gyeonggi-Do, Korea JONG-SIK LIM Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Daejeon, Korea CHUL-DONG KIM Sewon Teletech Inc. Kyeonggi-Do, Korea Recently, extensive research efforts on photonic band gap (PBG) structures where periodic patterns are etched on the ground plane of microstrip lines have been co...

A new technique to reduce the size, improve the rejection in the stop-band of a low-pass filter using modified defected ground structure (DGS) is proposed. An equivalent circuit model is used to study the DGS characteristics. The parameters are extracted by using a simple circuit analysis method. Several comparisons between the EMsimulations and the circuit simulations of the new structure are ...

Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS)/DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) is a human disorder characterized by a number of phenotypic features including cardiovascular defects. Most VCFS/DGS patients are hemizygous for a 1.5-3.0 Mb region of 22q11. To investigate the etiology of this disorder, we used a cre-loxP strategy to generate mice that are hemizygous for a 1.5 Mb deletion corresponding to that on 22q11...

Ionizing radiation (IR) induces highly cytotoxic double-strand breaks (DSBs) and also clustered oxidized bases in mammalian genomes. Base excision repair (BER) of bi-stranded oxidized bases could generate additional DSBs as repair intermediates in the vicinity of direct DSBs, leading to loss of DNA fragments. This could be avoided if DSB repair via DNA-PK-mediated nonhomologous end joining (NHE...

We report on five patients presenting with features of two congenital disorders, DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) and CHARGE association. CHARGE association is usually sporadic and its origin is as yet unknown. Conversely, more than 90% of DGS patients are monosomic for the 22q11.2 chromosomal region. In each of the five patients, both cytogenetic and molecular analysis for the 22q11.2 region were norma...