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Effectiveness of sms technology on timely community health worker follow-up for childhood malnutrition: A retrospective cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa
(U.S. Agency for International Development, 2018)The Millennium Villages Project facilitated technology-based health interventions in rural under-resourced areas of subSaharan Africa. Our study examined whether data entry using SMS compared with paper forms by community ... -
Ellagic acid controls cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells via inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 6
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 6 (CDK6) plays an important role in cancer progression, and thus, it is considered as an attractive drug target in anticancer therapeutics. This study presents an evaluation of dietary phytochemicals, ... -
Emerging evidence implicating a role for neurexins in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders
(The Royal Society, 2021)Synaptopathies are brain disorders characterized by dysfunctional synapses, which are specialized junctions between neurons that are essential for the transmission of information. Synaptic dysfunction can occur due to ... -
Equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
(Cell Press, 2023)A lack of diversity in genomics for health continues to hinder equitable leadership and access to precision medicine approaches for underrepresented populations. To avoid perpetuating biases within the genomics workforce ... -
Evaluation of protein purification techniques and effects of storage duration on lc-ms/ms analysis of archived ffpe human crc tissues
(Frontiers Media, 2021)To elucidate cancer pathogenesis and its mechanisms at the molecular level, the collecting and characterization of large individual patient tissue cohorts are required. Since most pathology institutes routinely preserve ... -
Evidence of pervasive biologically functional secondary structures within the Genomes of Eukaryotic Single-Stranded DNA Viruses
(American Society for Microbiology, 2013)Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses have genomes that are potentially capable of forming complex secondary structures through Watson-Crick base pairing between their constituent nucleotides. A few of the structural elements ... -
Evidence that dicot-infecting mastreviruses are particularly prone to inter-species recombination and have likely been circulating in Australia for longer than in Africa and the Middle East
(Elsevier, 2013)Viruses of the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae) are transmitted by leafhoppers and infect either mono- or dicotyledonous plants. Here we have determined the full length sequences of 49 dicot-infecting mastrevirus ... -
Evolution and structural analysis of Glossina morsitans (Diptera; Glossinidae) Tetraspanins
(MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2014)Tetraspanins are important conserved integral membrane proteins expressed in many organisms. Although there is limited knowledge about the full repertoire, evolution and structural characteristics of individual members ... -
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022)Investment in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing in Africa over the past year has led to a major increase in the number of sequences that have been generated and used to track the ... -
Exome sequencing identifies novel dysferlin mutation in a family with pauci-symptomatic heterozygous carriers
(Springer Nature, 2018)Background: We investigated a South African family of admixed ancestry in which the first generation (G1) developed insidious progressive distal to proximal weakness in their twenties, while their offspring (G2) experienced ... -
Exome sequencing identifies novel dysferlin mutation in a family with paucisymptomatic heterozygous carriers
(BioMed Central, 2018)BACKGROUND: We investigated a South African family of admixed ancestry in which the first generation (G1) developed insidious progressive distal to proximal weakness in their twenties, while their offspring (G2) experienced ... -
Exploring new genetic variants within col5a1 intron 4‐exon 5 region and tgf‐β family with risk of anterior cruciate ligament ruptures
(Wiley, 2020)Variants within genes encoding structural and regulatory elements of ligaments have been associated with musculoskeletal soft tissue injury risk. The role of intron 4‐exon 5 variants within the α1 chain of type V collagen ... -
Extensive recombination detected among beak and feather disease virus isolates from breeding facilities in Poland
(Microbiology Society, 2013)Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) causes the highly contagious, in some cases fatal, psittacine beak and feather disease in parrots. The European continent has no native parrots, yet in the past has been one of the ... -
FRAGS: Estimation of coding sequence substitution rates from fragmentary data
(BMC, 2004)Rates of substitution in protein-coding sequences can provide important insights into evolutionary processes that are of biomedical and theoretical interest. Increased availability of coding sequence data has enabled ... -
Functional and structural analysis of predicted proteins obtained from homo sapiens' minisatellite 33.15-tagged transcript pAKT-45 variants
(Hindawi, 2020)The spermatozoa are transcriptionally dormant entities which have been recognized to be an archive of mRNA, coding for a variety of functionally crucial cellular proteins. This significant repository of mRNA is predicted ... -
Galaxy training: A powerful framework for teaching!
(NLM (Medline), 2023)There is an ongoing explosion of scientific datasets being generated, brought on by recent technological advances in many areas of the natural sciences. As a result, the life sciences have become increasingly computational ... -
Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (glossina morsitans): vector of African trypanosomiasis
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014)Tsetse flies are the sole vectors of human African trypanosomiasis throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Both sexes of adult tsetse feed exclusively on blood and contribute to disease transmission. Notable differences between ... -
Genome sequencing of a severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 isolate obtained from a South African patient with Coronavirus disease 2019
(American Society for Microbiology, 2020)As a contribution to the global efforts to track and trace the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, here we present the sequence, phylogenetic analysis, and modeling of nonsynonymous mutations for a severe acute respiratory ... -
Genome-wide SNP identification by high-throughput sequencing and selective mapping allows sequence assembly positioning using a framework genetic linkage map
(BioMed Central, 2010)Determining the position and order of contigs and scaffolds from a genome assembly within an organism’s genome remains a technical challenge in a majority of sequencing projects. In order to exploit contemporary technologies ... -
Geometagenomics illuminates the impact of agriculture on the distribution and prevalence of plant viruses at the ecosystem scale
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)Disease emergence events regularly result from human activities such as agriculture, which frequently brings large populations of genetically uniform hosts into contact with potential pathogens. Although viruses cause ...