Quiz Page October 2016

Helix: October 2016 issue

This issue contains a wide variety of articles covering new genes and mutations, unusual phenotypes, and a reminder that novel genetic technologies need to be paired with the appropriate mechanisms to inform patients of new results or annotations of DNA variants.

In the literature: October 2016

Correspondence to Professor Andres Cervantes; [email protected] MUTATIONAL SIGNATURES WITH POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC INTEREST IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA A consortium on clinical and molecular stratification on oesophageal adenocarcinoma established in Britain has recently published in Nature Genetics, a whole-genomic sequencing analysis of more than 100 samples. Interestingly, they describe...

Cover vol. 13, no. 5, October 2016

Quiz page: an unusual cause of nephrotic syndrome.

CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 53-year-old man presented with pedal edema and facial puffiness of 6 months’ duration. Nephroticrange proteinuria was diagnosed 3 months earlier and empirically treated with prednisolone, 50 mg/d, without a response. Physical examination was notable for blood pressure of 140/86 mm Hg while on treatment with losartan, 25 mg/d, and pitting pedal edema (21) up to the knees....

Field Electron Emission Theory ( October 2016 ) Richard

This conference paper provides an overview of the material presented in two field electron emission tutorial lectures given at the 2016 Young Researchers' School in Vacuum Microand NanoElectronics, held in Saint-Petersburg in October 2016. This paper aims to indicate the scope and structure of the tutorials, and also where some of the related published material can be found. Keywords—field elec...