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introduction : pancreatic cancer has not been well studied, especially in developing countries. materials and methods : we studied the variations in genetic mutations in pancreatic adenocarcinoma between moroccan and egyptian populations. the molecular pathology of 30 tumors from a large hospital in casablanca, morocco were examined and compared with the findings of 44 tumors from the gharbiah ...

In Morocco, breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women and a major public health problem. Several Moroccan studies have focused on studying this disease, but more are needed, especially at the genetic and molecular levels. It is therefore interesting to establish the genetic and molecular profile of Moroccan patients with breast cancer. In this paper, we will highlight some pertinent h...

Is collaboration between U.S. and Moroccan university-students to study intercultural communication together through distance education feasible? This study focussed on determining the needs of students, educators and administrators in Morocco’s higher education system in order to learn how to address those needs in the design of a proposed distance education project. Moroccan culture in genera...

Germline mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known predictive markers for the development of hereditary breast cancer. Nevertheless, no comprehensive study has been performed targeting the presence and relevance of BRCA1 mutations in Moroccan breast cancer patients. We here present an analysis of BRCA1 gene regions (exon 2 and exon 11a/b) of 50 female Moroccan breast cancer patients with early dise...

The world's growing population and the need for food security require rigorous research development towards climate change-resilient agroecosystems a major shift toward grain legumes. Faba bean is an important crop in Morocco, providing essential source of vegetable protein both humans livestock with outstanding agronomic, nutritional, environmental properties. In this review, we present overvi...

We present new language resources for Moroccan and Sanaani Yemeni Arabic. The resources include corpora for each dialect which have been morphologically annotated, and morphological analyzers for each dialect which are derived from these corpora. These are the first sets of resources for Moroccan and Yemeni Arabic. The resources will be made available to the public.

With interest we read the report of a psychosis incidence study in the Dutch town of Utrecht (Zandi et al., 2010). The authors hypothesized that previous reports of an increased incidence of schizophrenia among Moroccan–Dutch people in the Netherlands were due to cross-cultural bias. They examined first-onset cases using a “culturally sensitive” version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Sympto...

Genetic characterization, diversity analysis and estimate of the genetic relationship among varieties using functional and random DNA markers linked to agronomic traits can provide relevant guidelines in selecting parents and designing new breeding strategies for marker-assisted wheat cultivar improvement. Here, we characterize 20 Moroccan and 19 exotic bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultiv...

BACKGROUND Ethnic minorities living in Western societies may have a higher prevalence of diabetes. We investigated whether the prevalence of diabetes among Turkish and Moroccan migrants differs from the indigenous urban population in the Netherlands, and whether these differences can be explained by differences in risk factors. METHODS In 2004 a general health survey, stratified by ethnicity ...