Mitochondrial DNA stays home M itochondria stow their DNA in structures called nucleoids. As Gilkerson et al. reveal, nucleoids are selfi sh and don’t share their DNA with each other. The results might help explain some quirks of mitochondrial inheritance and support a proposed treatment strategy for illnesses caused by defects in the organelles. A nucleoid can house up to 10 copies of a mitoch...

introduction dilated cardiomyopathy (dcm) is the leading cause of heart failure and arrhythmia. case presentation a 47-year-old male, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, died due to heart failure. during the screening of his family members, his 17-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son also had dilated cardiomyopathy. another daughter had died suddenly at the age of 12 years. conclusions we he...

In this paper we propose a simple fast-search VQ of the LSF’s to be used on top of the split VQ, that is, in each of the sub-vector domains. The main trait of the proposed method is that no suboptimal codebooks are used and there is no further reduction in performance. In each sub-vector domain, a full-size optimally trained codebook, typically of size 1024, is searched using a fastsearch algor...