Background: Natural selection eliminates detrimental and favors advantageous phenotypes. This process leaves characteristic signatures in underlying genomic segments that can be r...
Background: Determining a suitable sample size is an important step in the planning of microarray experiments. Increasing the number of arrays gives more statistical power, but ad...
Ilari Scheinin, Jose A. Ferreira, Sakari Knuutila,...
Background: Combining data from different ethnic populations in a study can increase efficacy of methods designed to identify expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) compared to...
Background: Tag-based techniques, such as SAGE, are commonly used to sample the mRNA pool of an organism's transcriptome. Incomplete digestion during the tag formation proces...
Russell L. Zaretzki, Michael A. Gilchrist, William...
Up to few years ago astrocytes have been considered as passive elements of brain, providing structural and metabolic support to the neurons, but playing little role in information...
Angelo Di Garbo, Michele Barbi, Santi Chillemi, Su...