Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are a member of nuclear receptors superfamily, which mainly regulate the expression of target genes involved in lipid and energy metabolism. These receptors are divided to three isotypes: PPARα, PPARγ and PPARβ/δ. Each isotype has a distinct tissue distribution relating to the distinct functions. In this study, the mRNA abundance for PPARα, PP...

We developed a classification approach to multiple quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping built upon a Bayesian framework that incorporates the important prior information that most genotypic markers are not cotransmitted with a QTL or their QTL effects are negligible. The genetic effect of each marker is modeled using a three-component mixture prior with a class for markers having negligible ef...

background: the wilms tumor 1 (wt1) gene is originally defined as a tumor suppressor gene and a transcription factor that overexpressed in leukemic cells. it is highly expressed in more than 80% of acute myeloid leukemia (aml) patients, both in bone marrow (bm) and in peripheral blood (pb), and it is used as a powerful and independent marker of minimal residual disease (mrd);we have determined ...

False discovery rate control has become an essential tool in any study that has a very large multiplicity problem. False discovery rate-controlling procedures have also been found to be very effective in QTL analysis, ensuring reproducible results with few falsely discovered linkages and offering increased power to discover QTL, although their acceptance has been slower than in microarray analy...

This article presents a method to combine QTL results from different independent analyses. This method provides a modified Akaike criterion that can be used to decide how many QTL are actually represented by the QTL detected in different experiments. This criterion is computed to choose between models with one, two, three, etc., QTL. Simulations are carried out to investigate the quality of the...

in order to estimate responses of growth rate and growth hormone of clarias gariepinus to stocking density, fish (initial weight 30.71 ± 0.89 g) were stocked in 120-l tanks at densities of 35, 65, 95, and 125 kg/m3 for 60 days. on day 30 and 60, the fish growth rates were measured, pituitary growth hormone (gh) mrna levels and serum gh concentrations were examined by real-time qpcr and elisa te...

systemic lupus erythemathosus is an autoimmune disease that affected many various types of tissues in 10% of world population and over 30 genes has associated with it. nouroimmunoendocrynology concepts have shown that immune system could be affected by neuron system and vice versa, 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor a (5ht3ra) was studied as a main receptor in these relations. in this study, peripher...