There is a growing number of lipoprotein markers recognized by immunological, electrophoretic, and other biochemical methods, and a beginning has been made on studying their modes of inheritance and linkage relations. Suggestive but inconclusive evidence of a relation between the cerumen polymorphism and arteriosclerosis has been published. Associations of the ABO blood groups with cardiovascul...

Purpose: The aim of study was to determine the relation vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) polymorphisms TaqI (rs731236), ApaI (rs7975232), BsmI (rs1544410), FokI (rs10735810) with risk obesity, metabolic syndrome and hepatosteatosis in children.Materials methods: 130 obese healthy children age range between 10-16 years included this study. Anthropometric measurements, biochemical evaluations abdomi...

Mycobacterium thermoresistibile is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium strongly associated with human infections. Since 1966, there have only been six reports of its isolation from clinical samples. We report on the first case from Europe and review all the previous cases. Identification was achieved with sequencing of the 16S rRNA and hsp65 genes. This study presents its phenotypic and biochemical...

A polyphasic taxonomic study that included DNA-DNA hybridizations, DNA base ratio determinations, 16S rDNA sequence analysis, whole-cell protein and fatty acid analyses, AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) fingerprinting and an extensive biochemical characterization was performed on 10 strains provisionally identified as Alcaligenes faecalis-like bacteria. The six environmental and fo...

explain differences between individuals in the development of coronary artery disease. Of the three other polymorphisms in this gene, the most extensively studied, intronic PvuII polymorphism, showed no association with coronary artery stenosis as measured by angiography. Although the biochemical evidence is presently lacking, we speculate that carriers of the long repeat variants have lower ex...