There is movement to expand newborn screening (NBS) to include conditions that challenge the traditional public health screening criteria. Little is known about the attitudes of genetic counselors towards expanding NBS and offering predictive genetic tests to children. For our study genetic counselors completed an internet survey posted on the National Society of Genetic Counselors Listserv reg...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The potential application of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to state-mandated standard newborn screening (NBS) challenges the traditional public health approach to NBS and raises ethical, policy, and clinical practice issues. This article examines the perspectives and values of diverse healthy pregnant women and parents of children diagnosed with a primary immunodeficien...

NBS-LRR genes are the major class of disease resistance genes in flowering plants, and are arranged as single genes and as clustered loci. The evolution of these genes has been investigated in Arabidopsis thaliana by combining data on their genomic organisation and position in phylogenetic trees. Tandem and segmental duplications distribute and separate NBS-LRR genes in the genome. It is, howev...

P romyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies (PML NBs) are nucleoplasmic particles that contain numerous proteins , including the PML protein itself. In patients with promyelocytic leukemia, PML is fused to retinoic acid receptor ␣, resulting in a loss of PML NBs and a block in promy-elocyte differentiation. Yet the precise function of PML NBs remains unclear. To learn more about these particles, Chi...

In this paper we formulate the static load balancing problem in single class job distributed systems as a cooperative game among computers. It is shown that the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) provides a Pareto optimal allocation which is also fair to all jobs. We propose a cooperative load balancing game and present the structure of the NBS. For this game an algorithm for computing NBS is deriv...

We report structure/property relationships in bicrystalline α-Fe2O3 nanowires (NWs) and nanoblades (NBs), synthesized by thermal oxidation of iron foils with different surface roughness. The electrical properties of individual nanostructures were studied by in situ transmission electron microscopy. Current-voltage (I-V) measurements using gold electrodes showed that a Schottky contact forms bet...

PML nuclear bodies (NBs) are involved in the regulation of key nuclear pathways but their biochemical function in nuclear metabolism is unknown. In this study PML NB assembly dynamics were assessed by live cell imaging and mathematic modeling of its major component parts. We show that all six nuclear PML isoforms exhibit individual exchange rates at NBs and identify PML V as a scaffold subunit....

The nucleotide-binding site (NBS)-leucine-rich repeat (LRR) gene family is a class of R genes in plants. NBS genes play a very important role in disease defence. To further study the variation and homology of mango NBS-LRR genes, 16 resistance gene analogues (RGAs) (GenBank accession number HM446507-22) were isolated from the polymerase chain reaction fragments and sequenced by using two degene...

Bicrystalline α-Fe2O3 nanoblades (NBs) synthesized by thermal oxidation of iron foils were reduced in vacuum, to study the effect of reduction treatment on microstructural changes and photocatalytic properties. After the vacuum reduction, most bicrystalline α-Fe2O3 NBs transform into single-layered NBs, which contain more defects such as oxygen vacancies, perfect dislocations and dense pores. B...

Newborn screening (NBS) of inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) is a coordinated comprehensive system consisting of education, screening, follow-up of abnormal test results, confirmatory testing, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of periodic outcome and efficiency. The ultimate goal of NBS and follow-up programs is to reduce morbidity and mortality from the disorders. Over the past decade, tand...