Information freshness and high energy-efficiency are key requirements for sensor nodes serving Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, where a sink node must collect informative data before deadline to control an external element. Pull-based communication is interesting approach optimizing information saving wasteful energy. To this end, we apply Content-based Wake-up (CoWu), in whic...

Sixty-nine unrelated Chinese DMD patients were studied with a series of genomic and cDNA probes. Analysis of 13 polymorphic sites showed that pERT87-1, 87-8, 87-15, and XJ probes gave favourable allele frequencies in the Chinese population, and nearly 90% of the DMD families in this study were informative for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection using these four polymorphic markers. Nine ou...

Glycogen storage disease type III (GSD-III), an autosomal recessive disease, is caused by deficient glycogen debranching enzyme (GDE) activity. We identified three polymorphic markers in the GDE gene using single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and DNA sequencing. They were -10G/A in the 5' non-translated region of exon 3,2001 + 8C/T in intron 16, and 3199C/T (P1067S) in exon 2...

The origins of the initial mutations in sporadic retinoblastoma were explored using polymorphic markers from chromosome 13q. The paternal chromosome was maintained in 3 of 3 informative bilateral tumors which had undergone reduction to homozygosity for regions of this chromosome. The paternal chromosome was maintained in 7 of 8 informative unilateral tumors which likewise demonstrated a reducti...

Use of high density Single Nucleotide Polymorphic (SNP) marker information allows for prediction of genetic merit via genome wide selection and for localization of markers in gene regions of biological interest through Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). We report on a replicated GWAS in dairy cattle using 1,945 progeny tested bulls genotyped with three high density SNP panels representing ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY We developed novel microsatellite markers for the perennial plant Pulsatilla vulgaris (Ranunculaceae) to investigate the effects of fragmentation on gene flow in this imperiled species. METHODS AND RESULTS We identified microsatellites and developed primers based on 454 shotgun sequences. We identified 14 markers that were polymorphic and produced clean bands. Of these, e...

INTRODUCTION The amount of information being uploaded onto social video platforms, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Veoh, continues to spiral, making it increasingly difficult to discern reliable health information from misleading content. There are thousands of YouTube videos promoting misleading information about anorexia (eg, anorexia as a healthy lifestyle). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was...

Our strategy for genotyping polymorphic deletion variants within populations of moderate size (~100-1000 samples) is implemented by two algorithms: SCIMM, a clustering algorithm which derives genotypes from a set of copy-number-informative probes, and SCIMM-Search, a search algorithm which determines a set of copy-number informative probes for each annotated deletion variant. The central idea i...

Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl is an important horticultural and medicinal crop grown worldwide in the food pharmaceutical industries. The exhibits extensive phenotypic genetic variation useful for cultivar development targeting economic traits; however, limited genomic resources are available effective germplasm characterization into breeding conservation strategies. This study determined...