echocardiogram) may be expected to facilitate the identification of patients with chest pain of
an ischemic etiology (angina). In a patient presenting to the emergency department with …

Positive natural selection is the force that drives the increase in prevalence of advantageous
traits, and it has played a central role in our development as a species. Until recently, the …

Many refer to the textbook Radiobiology for the Radiologist as the “bible” of radiation biology
for educating residents, researchers, and clinicians. Dr. Eric Hall has compiled, written, and …

The most highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) in mammalian genomes cluster
within regions enriched for genes encoding developmentally important transcription factors …

A striking feature of the human genome is the dearth of CpG dinucleotides (CpGs)
interrupted occasionally by CpG islands (CGIs), regions with relatively high content of the …

Metalloproteins are proteins capable of binding one or more metal ions, which may be
required for their biological function, or for regulation of their activities or for structural …

DNA methylation is the most stable type of epigenetic modification modulating the
transcriptional plasticity of mammalian genomes. Using bisulfite DNA sequencing, we report …

Recent analyses of sequence and microarray data have suggested that alternative splicing
plays a major role in the generation of proteomic and functional diversity in metazoan …

Over the past decade, the human identity testing community has settled on a set of core
short tandem repeat (STR) loci that are widely used for DNA typing applications. A variety of …

ERK1/2 is an important subfamily of mitogen‐activated protein kinases that control a broad
range of cellular activities and physiological processes. ERK1/2 can be activated transiently …