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Associations between human leukocyte antigen class I variants and the Mycobacterium tuberculosis subtypes causing disease
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
BACKGROUND. The development of active tuberculosis disease has been shown to be multifactorial. Interactions between host and bacterial genotype may influence disease outcome, with some studies indicating the adaptation ...
Patient-Control Association Study of the Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) Gene in South African Parkinson's Disease Patients
(National Institute of Health, 2013)
The leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene is of interest to Parkinson's disease (PD) as it
has been implicated in both familial and sporadic forms of the disorder.1 PD-susceptibility
alleles in LRRK2 appear to be ...
A Panel of Ancestry Informative Markers for the Complex Five-Way Admixed South African Coloured Population
(PloS, 2013)
Admixture is a well known confounder in genetic association studies. If genome-wide data is not available, as would be the case for candidate gene studies, ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are required in order to adjust ...
Epidemiological analysis of spatially misaligned data: a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreak in Nigeria
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
This research is focused on the epidemiological analysis of the transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus outbreak in Nigeria. The data included 145 outbreaks together with the locations of ...
Spectroscopy of the variable K-dwarf UNSW-V-760: is it a pre-main-sequence pulsator?
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
The star UNSW-V-760 is a known variable, showing both flares and two non-sinusoidal
periodicities. Availability of high signal-to-noise spectra reported in this paper has enabled
a revision of the spectral type of this ...
BDNF Val66Met modifies the risk of childhood trauma on obsessive-compulsive disorder
(Elsevier, 2013)
Childhood trauma has been linked to the development of later psychopathology, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Although evidence exists to suggest that genetic and environmental factors are involved in the ...
Variants within the COMP and THBS2 genes are not associated with Achilles tendinopathy in a case-control study of South African and Australian populations
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein is a structural protein of the extracellular matrix, while thrombospondin-2 is a matricellular protein involved in cell–matrix interactions. Recent studies have shown that genetic variation ...
La migration ouvrière dans le secteur agricole sud-africain
(Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, 2013)
En Afrique du Sud, le système de production agricole,
concentré dans les mains des fermiers blancs, repose toujours
sur l’utilisation des migrations des ouvriers agricoles.
Si la fin de l’apartheid a permis la création ...
Matrimony relations and business in a fishing migrant community (periphery of Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville)
(l'Association des amis de la Revue de Géographie de Lyon, 2013)
This paper examines the entrepreneurial activities of female migrants in the informal artisanal
fishing sector along the coastal line of Congo-Brazzaville. It shows the extent to which these
women have achieved an insertion ...
The effect of weak lensing on distance estimates from supernovae
(American Astronomical Society, 2013)
Using a sample of 608 Type Ia supernovae from the SDSS-II and BOSS surveys, combined with a sample of
foreground galaxies from SDSS-II, we estimate the weak lensing convergence for each supernova line of sight.
We find ...