Previously the concept of genetics was applied to a limited number of diseases with obvious phenotypes where simple people use to observe and relate. It was never easy to establish a clear cut of heritability range between genetic variation and a risk of suffering from a complex disorder due to many reasons including but not limited to; gene variations, non-linear interactions between genetic v...

For a real reductive dual pair the Capelli identities define a homomorphism C from the center of the universal enveloping algebra of the larger group to the center of the universal enveloping algebra of the smaller group. In terms of the Harish-Chandra isomorphism, this map involves a ρ-shift. We view a dual pair as a Lie supergroup and offer a construction of the homomorphism C based solely on...

Vol. 26 No. 5, 2014 649 Received August 28, 2013, Revised September 28, 2013, Accepted for publication October 5, 2013 Corresponding author: Bong Seok Shin, Department of Dermatology, Chosun University Hospital, 365 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-717, Korea. Tel: 82-62-220-3130, Fax: 82-62-222-3215, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of th...

The androgen receptor (AR) gene encodes a transcription factor, which mediates androgen action in target tissues, including the prostate. Prostate cancer is androgen dependent, implicating AR in susceptibility to this male condition. Male pattern balding, androgenetic alopecia, has recently been associated with prostate cancer, suggesting shared androgen pathways. The CAG and GGC repeats in the...

2-mercapto-1(beta-4-pyridethyl)benzimidazole (MPB) inhibited the development of antiviral activity induced by interferon in chick cells. The MPB effect was reversed by washing the cells. The action of MPB was on a step immediately following interferon binding but before the cellular RNA and protein synthesis that appear to be required for interferon action. The step blocked by MPB possibly invo...

Dermatoglyphics in infertile male patients were studied and compared with that of age matched controls to see whether any specific dermatoglyphic pattern exists in infertile male patients. Infertile male patients with abnormal semen profile were referred to Cytogenetic Laboratory for karyotyping. We selected twenty-four infertile male patients with abnormal semen profile. Out of twenty-four inf...