Objective(s): Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in both male and female worldwide. The main cause of CAD is the atherosclerosis of coronary arteries, which is, mostly caused by genetic alteration. 50% of such cases occur in mitotic cells where single-strand breaks occur spontaneously or due to ionizing radiation. X-ray repair cross-complementing protein 1 (XRCC1) as a ...

introduction: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system with various degrees of axonal damage. the tnf-related apoptosis inducing ligand receptor (trail-r) might be playing an important role in the pathogenesis of ms. the objective of our study was to evaluate the association of two common polymorphisms is located in the trail-r1 and ...

Conventional methods for fungal identification in the clinical laboratory rely on morphological andphysiological tests. These tests often need several days or weeks to complete and are frequentlyunspecific. Molecular identification mostly implies sequencing, which is relatively expensive andtime-consuming, as well as impractical for large numbers of isolates. The Rolling CircleAmplification app...

There is growing interest in the use of single nucleotide polymorphisms for evolutionary and population genetics. We tested the efficacy of one of the available single nucleotide polymorphism techniques, single-base extension, in distinguishing four cryptic species of Microtus. Sequence data were available for these species at nuclear and mitochondrial loci and their identity could be independe...

Background: Tumor necrosis factor alpha is a proinflammatory cytokine and  as  polyvalent initial response of inflammatory cells which facilitated through the creation of coronary atherosclerosis . It also seems that the polymorphism and susceptibility to atherosclerosis is related to TNF-α gene promoter. The purpose of this study was to investigate single nucleotide polymorphis...