We study inequalities for the infima of Green potentials on a compact subset of an arbitrary domain in the complex plane. The results are based on a new representation of the pseudohyperbolic farthest-point distance function via a Green potential. We also give applications to sharp inequalities for the supremum norms of Blaschke products. 1. Green potentials Let G ⊂ C be a domain possessing the...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Disruption of apoptosis has been implicated in carcinogenesis. Specifically, various single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in apoptotic genes, such as FAS-1377 G/A SNP, have been associated with cancer risk. FAS-1377 G/A SNP has been shown to alter FAS gene promoter transcriptional activity. Down-regulation of FAS and cell death resistance is key to many cancers, but ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene polymorphism and coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS Several databases were used to retrieve relevant literature up to March 2013 by keywords. A Meta-analysis was performed by Stata12.0 software to estimate the pooled odds ratio (OR) and the 95% confidence interval (CI). Heterogeneity among studies was tested and sensit...

The tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) G-308A polymorphism has been suggested to be a susceptibility factor for myocardial infarction (MI). However, differing results from various studies have led to controversial conclusions. Hence, we performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the association between TNF-α G-308A polymorphism and MI. Reported studies published before March 30, 2015 were included ...

todeschini et al. have recently suggested to consider multiplicative variants of additive graphinvariants, which applied to the zagreb indices would lead to the multiplicative zagrebindices of a graph g, denoted by ( ) 1  g and ( ) 2  g , under the name first and secondmultiplicative zagreb index, respectively. these are define as  ( )21 ( ) ( )v v gg g d vand ( ) ( ) ( )( )2 g d v d v gu...

BACKGROUND Many publications have evaluated the correlation between RET, PHOX2B polymorphisms and Hirschsprung's disease with conflicting results. We performed this meta-analysis to clarify the association of RET, PHOX2B polymorphisms with HSCR. METHODS We searched Pubmed, Elsevier Science Direct, China National Knowledge Infrastructure database, Chinese Biomedical database, Google scholar. T...

The infrared spectra of furfuryl alcohol (2-furanmethanol, FFA) were investigated for FFA monomers isolated in low-temperature argon matrices. The structural interpretation of the obtained experimental spectra was assisted by analysis of the molecule's conformational landscape. According to the DFT(B3LYP)/6-311++G(d,p) calculations, five different minimum energy structures were found on the pot...

Purpose/Background. Mounting evidence designates that HLA-G plays a role in the regulation of inflammatory processes and autoimmune diseases. There are controversial reports concerning the impact of HLA-G gene polymorphism on rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study was aimed at examining the impact of 14 bp ins/del and +3142G>C polymorphism with susceptibility and early disease activity in RA pat...

BACKGROUND The onset and progression of breast cancer (BC) is influenced by many factors, including the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs13281615 at 8q24. However, studies of the potential association between rs13281615 at 8q24 and risk of BC have given inconsistent results. We performed a meta-analysis to address this controversy. METHODS PubMed, EMBASE and the Chinese National Knowled...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Several studies have been conducted to examine the associations between osteopontin (OPN) promoter gene SPP1 polymorphisms with human cancers in Chinese population, but the results remain inconsistent. The aim of this meta-analysis is to clarify the associations between SPP1 polymorphisms and cancer susceptibility. METHODS All eligible case-control studies published up to M...