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    A process approach to inferences of causation: empirical research from vaccine cases in the USA (2013)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2013-09-12
    Description: In law, inferences of causation are sometimes made through a structured process in which multiple participants play various roles, and make decisions concerning various logical components of the overall inference (such as legal rules, policy objectives, presumptions, evidence, burdens of proof and findings of fact). This article illustrates such a process using empirical research into compensation decisions in the USA for injuries allegedly caused by vaccinations. Empirical research into actual legal processes is essential, in order to discover how various players approach their sub-tasks of decision-making. It also provides insights for areas outside of law, such as non-monotonic logic, cognitive science, sociology and artificial intelligence.
    Print ISSN: 1470-8396
    Electronic ISSN: 1470-840X
    Topics: Mathematics , Law
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    An integrative somatic mutation analysis to identify pathways linked with survival outcomes across 19 cancer types (2016)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-01
    Description: Motivation: Identification of altered pathways that are clinically relevant across human cancers is a key challenge in cancer genomics. Precise identification and understanding of these altered pathways may provide novel insights into patient stratification, therapeutic strategies and the development of new drugs. However, a challenge remains in accurately identifying pathways altered by somatic mutations across human cancers, due to the diverse mutation spectrum. We developed an innovative approach to integrate somatic mutation data with gene networks and pathways, in order to identify pathways altered by somatic mutations across cancers. Results: We applied our approach to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset of somatic mutations in 4790 cancer patients with 19 different types of tumors. Our analysis identified cancer-type-specific altered pathways enriched with known cancer-relevant genes and targets of currently available drugs. To investigate the clinical significance of these altered pathways, we performed consensus clustering for patient stratification using member genes in the altered pathways coupled with gene expression datasets from 4870 patients from TCGA, and multiple independent cohorts confirmed that the altered pathways could be used to stratify patients into subgroups with significantly different clinical outcomes. Of particular significance, certain patient subpopulations with poor prognosis were identified because they had specific altered pathways for which there are available targeted therapies. These findings could be used to tailor and intensify therapy in these patients, for whom current therapy is suboptimal. Availability and implementation: The code is available at: http://www.taehyunlab.org . Contact: jhcheong@yuhs.ac or taehyun.hwang@utsouthwestern.edu or taehyun.cs@gmail.com Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
    Print ISSN: 1367-4803
    Electronic ISSN: 1460-2059
    Topics: Biology , Computer Science , Medicine
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    FlyNet: a versatile network prioritization server for the Drosophila community (2015)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2015-07-02
    Description: Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) has been a popular model organism in animal genetics due to the high accessibility of reverse-genetics tools. In addition, the close relationship between the Drosophila and human genomes rationalizes the use of Drosophila as an invertebrate model for human neurobiology and disease research. A platform technology for predicting candidate genes or functions would further enhance the usefulness of this long-established model organism for gene-to-phenotype mapping. Recently, the power of network prioritization for gene-to-phenotype mapping has been demonstrated in many organisms. Here we present a network prioritization server dedicated to Drosophila that covers ~95% of the coding genome. This server, dubbed FlyNet, has several distinctive features, including (i) prioritization for both genes and functions; (ii) two complementary network algorithms: direct neighborhood and network diffusion; (iii) spatiotemporal-specific networks as an additional prioritization strategy for traits associated with a specific developmental stage or tissue and (iv) prioritization for human disease genes. FlyNet is expected to serve as a versatile hypothesis-generation platform for genes and functions in the study of basic animal genetics, developmental biology and human disease. FlyNet is available for free at http://www.inetbio.org/flynet .
    Print ISSN: 0305-1048
    Electronic ISSN: 1362-4962
    Topics: Biology
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    The period ratio distribution of Kepler's candidate multiplanet systems (2015)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2015-02-26
    Description: We calculate and analyse the distribution of period ratios observed in systems of Kepler exoplanet candidates including studies of both adjacent planet pairs and all planet pairs. These distributions account for both the geometrical bias against detecting more distant planets and the effects of incompleteness due to planets missed by the data reduction pipeline. In addition to some of the known features near first-order mean-motion resonances (MMRs), there is a significant excess of planet pairs with period ratios near 2.2. The statistical significance of this feature is assessed using Monte Carlo simulation. We also investigate the distribution of period ratios near first-order MMR and compare different quantities used to measure this distribution. We find that beyond period ratios of ~2.5, the distribution of all period ratios follows a power law with an exponent –1.26 ± 0.05. We discuss implications that these results may have on the formation and dynamical evolution of Kepler -like planetary systems–systems of sub-Neptune/super-Earth planets with relatively short orbital periods.
    Print ISSN: 0035-8711
    Electronic ISSN: 1365-2966
    Topics: Physics
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    Antibiotic stress-induced modulation of the endoribonucleolytic activity of RNase III and RNase G confers resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics in Escherichia coli (2014)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2014-04-15
    Description: Here, we report a resistance mechanism that is induced through the modulation of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) processing on the exposure of Escherichia coli cells to aminoglycoside antibiotics. We observed decreased expression levels of RNase G associated with increased RNase III activity on rng mRNA in a subgroup of E. coli isolates that transiently acquired resistance to low levels of kanamycin or streptomycin. Analyses of 16S rRNA from the aminoglycoside-resistant E. coli cells, in addition to mutagenesis studies, demonstrated that the accumulation of 16S rRNA precursors containing 3–8 extra nucleotides at the 5’ terminus, which results from incomplete processing by RNase G, is responsible for the observed aminoglycoside resistance. Chemical protection, mass spectrometry analysis and cell-free translation assays revealed that the ribosomes from rng -deleted E. coli have decreased binding capacity for, and diminished sensitivity to, streptomycin and neomycin, compared with wild-type cells. It was observed that the deletion of rng had similar effects in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain SL1344. Our findings suggest that modulation of the endoribonucleolytic activity of RNase III and RNase G constitutes a previously uncharacterized regulatory pathway for adaptive resistance in E. coli and related gram-negative bacteria to aminoglycoside antibiotics.
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    Electronic ISSN: 1362-4962
    Topics: Biology
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    C-O bond formation by polyketide synthases (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-08-24
    Description: Polyketide synthases (PKSs) assemble the polyketide carbon backbone by sequential decarboxylative condensation of acyl coenzyme A (CoA) precursors, and the C-C bond-forming step in this process is catalyzed by the beta-ketoacyl synthase (KS) domain or subunit. Genetic and biochemical characterization of the nonactin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces griseus revealed two KSs, NonJ and NonK, that are highly homologous to known KSs but catalyze sequential condensation of the acyl CoA substrates by forming C-O rather than C-C bonds. This chemistry can be used in PKS engineering to increase the scope and diversity of polyketide biosynthesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kwon, Hyung-Jin -- Smith, Wyatt C -- Scharon, A Janelle -- Hwang, Sung Hee -- Kurth, Mark J -- Shen, Ben -- AI51689/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM08505/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Aug 23;297(5585):1327-30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences and, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12193782" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3-Oxoacyl-(Acyl-Carrier-Protein) Synthase/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Acyl Coenzyme A/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Genes, Bacterial ; Macrolides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multienzyme Complexes/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Multigene Family ; Mutation ; Protein Engineering ; Protein Subunits ; Sequence Alignment ; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ; Streptomyces/genetics ; Streptomyces griseus/*enzymology/genetics ; Transformation, Bacterial
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Metastatic hibernomas in transgenic mice expressing an alpha-amylase-SV40 T antigen hybrid gene (1989)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1989-04-28
    Description: Mice transgenic for a hybrid gene containing the liver promoter of the mouse amylase gene (Amy-1a) fused to the SV40 tumor antigen coding region unexpected developed malignant brown adipose tissue tumors (malignant hibernomas). Expression of the alpha-amylase gene had previously been thought to be confined to the liver parotid, and pancreas; however, analysis of white and brown adipose tissue from nontransgenic mice revealed expression of the endogenous Amy-1a gene in these tissues. Gene constructs driven by the Amy-1a liver promoter thus provide a means of targeting gene expression to the adipocyte cell lineage in transgenic mice. Moreover the high frequency of metastases in the liver, lungs, spleen, heart, and adrenals of these mice provides an experimental system in which to study the development of disseminated malignancy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fox, N -- Crooke, R -- Hwang, L H -- Schibler, U -- Knowles, B B -- Solter, D -- CA-10815/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-18470/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-21124/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Apr 28;244(4903):460-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2785714" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adipose Tissue/metabolism/pathology ; *Adipose Tissue, Brown/metabolism/pathology ; Animals ; Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/*genetics ; Cloning, Molecular ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Liver/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Neoplasms, Experimental/*genetics/pathology ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Tissue Distribution ; Transcription, Genetic ; alpha-Amylases/*genetics
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    Nanoassembly of a fractal polymer: a molecular "Sierpinski hexagonal gasket" (2006)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2006-05-13
    Description: Mathematics and art converge in the fractal forms that also abound in nature. We used molecular self-assembly to create a synthetic, nanometer-scale, Sierpinski hexagonal gasket. This nondendritic, perfectly self-similar fractal macromolecule is composed of bis-terpyridine building blocks that are bound together by coordination to 36 Ru and 6 Fe ions to form a nearly planar array of increasingly larger hexagons around a hollow center.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Newkome, George R -- Wang, Pingshan -- Moorefield, Charles N -- Cho, Tae Joon -- Mohapatra, Prabhu P -- Li, Sinan -- Hwang, Seok-Ho -- Lukoyanova, Olena -- Echegoyen, Luis -- Palagallo, Judith A -- Iancu, Violeta -- Hla, Saw-Wai -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1782-5. Epub 2006 May 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA. newkome@uakron.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16690820" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Achieving lambda/20 resolution by one-color initiation and deactivation of polymerization (2009)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2009-04-11
    Description: In conventional photolithography, diffraction limits the resolution to about one-quarter of the wavelength of the light used. We introduce an approach to photolithography in which multiphoton absorption of pulsed 800-nanometer (nm) light is used to initiate cross-linking in a polymer photoresist and one-photon absorption of continuous-wave 800-nm light is used simultaneously to deactivate the photopolymerization. By employing spatial phase-shaping of the deactivation beam, we demonstrate the fabrication of features with scalable resolution along the beam axis, down to a 40-nm minimum feature size. We anticipate application of this technique for the fabrication of diverse two- and three-dimensional structures with a feature size that is a small fraction of the wavelength of the light employed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Linjie -- Gattass, Rafael R -- Gershgoren, Erez -- Hwang, Hana -- Fourkas, John T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 May 15;324(5929):910-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1168996. Epub 2009 Apr 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19359543" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Color ; Nanotechnology/*methods ; Optics and Photonics/*methods ; *Photochemical Processes ; *Photons ; Polymers/*chemistry
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    Budding yeast Cdc20: a target of the spindle checkpoint (1998)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-07
    Description: The spindle checkpoint regulates the cell division cycle by keeping cells with defective spindles from leaving mitosis. In the two-hybrid system, three proteins that are components of the checkpoint, Mad1, Mad2, and Mad3, were shown to interact with Cdc20, a protein required for exit from mitosis. Mad2 and Mad3 coprecipitated with Cdc20 at all stages of the cell cycle. The binding of Mad2 depended on Mad1 and that of Mad3 on Mad1 and Mad2. Overexpression of Cdc20 allowed cells with a depolymerized spindle or damaged DNA to leave mitosis but did not overcome the arrest caused by unreplicated DNA. Mutants in Cdc20 that were resistant to the spindle checkpoint no longer bound Mad proteins, suggesting that Cdc20 is the target of the spindle checkpoint.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hwang, L H -- Lau, L F -- Smith, D L -- Mistrot, C A -- Hardwick, K G -- Hwang, E S -- Amon, A -- Murray, A W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 13;279(5353):1041-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0444, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9461437" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Anaphase ; Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome ; Cadherins ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; *Carrier Proteins ; Cdc20 Proteins ; Cdh1 Proteins ; Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA Damage ; DNA Replication ; Fungal Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ligases/metabolism ; Mad2 Proteins ; *Mitosis ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism ; Phosphoproteins/metabolism ; *Repressor Proteins ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*cytology/*metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Spindle Apparatus/*metabolism ; *Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
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