XG blood group puzzle solved: what’s next?

Xg blood group frequencies in some further populations.

Received August 5, I966. * Caylor-Nickel Clinic and Foundation, Bluffton, Indiana. t University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. $ Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. § American Mission, Box I, Bahrain, Arabian Gulf. principally of Swiss extraction. The effective population size is not known, but the level of inbreeding is extremely high. The population appears to deviate from random mat...

International differences in secular trends in childhood blood pressure: a puzzle to be solved.

Hypertension is a potent independent risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, renal failure, and mortality in adults.1 Although most of these adverse outcomes occur in adulthood, it has become clear that hypertension is a life course problem that can become evident in childhood and can be progressive throughout childhood into adolescence and adulthood.2 It has also become c...

Privacy - Preserving Data Mining at 10: Whats Next?

It has been 10 years since the first papers entitled “Privacy–Preserving Data Mining” appeared. The past decade has witnessed a flood of papers with new techniques to protect and mine data, but little real– world impact. Is privacy dead? Or are there still challenges that must be addressed? This talk will begin with a brief retrospective on advances in privacy–preserving data mining. We will th...

Comments on patients with sex chromosome aneuploidy: dermatoglyphs, parental ages, Xg a blood group.

Papillary Muscle Ventricular Tachycardia: Another Zigsaw Puzzle to Be Solved

Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) with diverse mechanisms have been described in the left ventricle (LV). The predilection sites for these VAs are LV outflow tract, aortic cusps, mitral annulus, or epicardium (LV summit) and epicardial venous tissue (LV crux). Recently, idiopathic ventricular tachycardias (VT) or premature ventricular contractions (PVC) originating from the papillary mus...