watermelon mosaic virus is the most prevalent potyvirus infecting cucurbits in iran. in order to determine the distribution and frequency of the virus, 326 watermelon, melon, cucumber, winter and summer squash samples were collected from 22 villages around urmia during summer 2010 and tested by das-elisa with a polyclonal antibody. ninety four samples were detected as infected by elisa. to dete...

In this article, we consider the problem of predicting times to failure of units censored in multiple stages in a progressively censored sample from normal distribution. The best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP), the maximum likelihood predictor (MLP), a modified maximum likelihood predictor (MMLP), an approximate maximum likelihood predictor (AMLP), and the conditional median predictor (CMP) a...

Association studies in candidate genes have been widely used to search for common low penetrance susceptibility alleles, but few definite associations have been established. We have conducted association studies in breast cancer using an empirical single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) tagging approach to capture common genetic variation in genes that are candidates for breast cancer based on the...

Maximum Likelihood learning of graphical models is not possible in problems where inference is intractable. In such settings it is common to use approximate inference (e.g. Loopy BP) and maximize the so-called “surrogate” likelihood objective. We examine the effect of using different approximate inference methods and, therefore, different surrogate likelihoods, on the accuracy of parameter esti...

OBJECTIVE Detection of chromosomal translocations has an important role in diagnosis and treatment of hematological disorders. We aimed to evaluate the 46 new cases of de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients for common translocations and to assess the effect of geographic and ethnic differences on their frequencies. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive study, reverse transcriptase-...