DAGESTAN

Twenty-Year Clinical Progression of Dysferlinopathy in Patients from Dagestan

To date, over 30 genes with mutations causing limb-girdle muscle dystrophy have been described. Dysferlinopathies are a form of limb-girdle muscle dystrophy type 2B with an incidence ranging from 1:1,300 to 1:200,000 in different populations. In 1996, Dr. S. N. Illarioshkin described a family from the Botlikhsky district of Dagestan, where limb-girdle muscle dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopat...

Introducing Books/ Dagestan: A Natural History, Mehrnaz Shirazi Adl

Geothermal Resources of Dagestan, the Experience and Technology of Their Development

Dagestan is one of the pioneers in matter of analysis and industrial development of geothermal resources in Russia. Despite lacking obvious volcanism, mountain-filled Dagestan is rather rich in thermomineral sources and geothermal anomalies (Ahti, Hnov, Richalsy, Giljar, Berikey, Duzlak, Alchadjikent, Kayjakent, Adgi, Istisy, Miatli, Hzanor etc.). In premountain-flat Dagestan by drilling in gas...

Overview of genetic-epidemiological studies in ethnically and demographically diverse isolates of Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, Russia.

AIM To assess genetic diversity and genetic distances among isolated populations from Dagestan. METHODS A cross-population genetic epidemiology design was applied in ethnically and demographically diverse isolates from Dagestan, some with more than 200 and some with less than 100 generations of demographical history since their founding. RESULTS The analysis of genetic diversity showed that...

The ICRC announced that it has completed its economic security survey of IDPs in Dagestan