AUTHORS Camila Ferreira de Souza, Thais S. Sabedot, Tathiane M. Malta, Lindsay Stetson, Olena Morozova, Artem Sokolov, Peter W. Laird, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Antonio Iavarone, James Snyder, Ana deCarvalho, Zachary Sanborn, Kerrie L. McDonald, William A. Friedman, Daniela Tirapelli, Laila Poisson, Tom Mikkelsen, Carlos G. Carlotti Jr., Steven Kalkanis, Jean Zenklusen, Sofie R. Salama, Jill S. Barnh...

Copy number variation (CNV) is a major genetic polymorphism contributing to genetic diversity and human evolution. Clinical application of CNVs for diagnostic purposes largely depends on sufficient population CNV data for accurate interpretation. CNVs from general population in currently available databases help classify CNVs of uncertain clinical significance, and benign CNVs. Earlier studies ...

October 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 10 | e439 Over the past decade, several scholars have advocated for international standards in medical ethics and human rights [1–3]. Others have countered that such standards risk ignoring important cultural differences in the way people conceptualize medical decision-making [4–8]. Within this debate hangs a question for international bioethics: as developing co...

Genetic diversity can benefit social insects by providing variability in immune defences against parasites and pathogens. However, social parasites of ants infest colonies and not individuals, and for them a different relationship between genetic diversity and resistance may exist. Here, we investigate the genetic variation, assessed using up to 12 microsatellite loci, of workers in 91 Formica ...

The abundance of Aedes mosquito species enabled widespread transmission of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) in Southeast Asia. Periodic seroprevalence surveys are therefore necessary to assess the viral burden in the population and the effectiveness of public health interventions. Since the current seroprevalence for CHIKV and DENV in Thailand are unknown, we eva...