In the absence of biochemical distinctions, the nosography of the inherited amyloidoses must at present depend largely upon clinical subdivisions. In the broad classification adopted here, the disorders have for convenience been grouped according to the anatomical system that is predominantly affected. It is evident that the amyloid syndromes display considerable heterogeneity. However, they ov...

abstract-due to the important role productivity plays in future decision making and programming, the productivity indexes should have accurate quantities. in this study, auto-regressive distributed lag (ardl) and genetic algorithm (ga) methods are applied to time series of 1978-2008 to accurately measure total factor productivity (tfp) in the agricultural sector of iran. the comparison of these...

The purpose of the present study was to identify gene polymorphisms for the reliable assessment of genetic factors for obesity. The study population comprised 3906 unrelated Japanese individuals (2286 men, 1620 women), including 1196 subjects (677 men, 519 women) with obesity (body mass index of > or = 25 kg/m2) and 2710 controls (1609 men, 1101 women). The genotypes for 147 polymorphisms of 12...

objective: in recent years different hypotheses with respect to the formation of cerebral laterality were proposed. some of the researchers claim that cerebral dominance and laterality are determined by genetic factors, just as the case with eye color and blood type. however, another group states that in addition to genetic factors, environmental factors, too, have a remarkable role in hemisphe...

anxiety comprises many clinical descriptions and phenotypes. a genetic predisposition to anxiety is undoubted; however, the nature and extent of that contribution is still unclear. extensive genetic studies of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-ht) transporter (5-htt) gene have revealed how variation in gene expression can be correlated with anxiety phenotypes. complete genome-wide linkage s...

the molecular mechanisms of the fact that more than 50% of the individuals with the same genetic make up (e.g. identical twins in schizophrenia) do not show the same psychiatric phenotype remained undefined in psychiatry. this along with the failure to find responsible genes with major effects in psychiatric disorders and lack of consistency of genetic association studies led to the current una...

the aim of this study was to estimate the genetic and phonotypic trends of somatic cell score in iranian holstein cows. also, the environmental factors affecting this trait are investigated. a total of 375351 test day records of somatic cells take from 54374 animals between year 2002 and 2007 were used in this study. the breeding values were estimated by fitting animal model in asreml software....

Anxiety comprises many clinical descriptions and phenotypes. A genetic predisposition to anxiety is undoubted; however, the nature and extent of that contribution is still unclear. Extensive genetic studies of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) transporter (5-HTT) gene have revealed how variation in gene expression can be correlated with anxiety phenotypes. Complete genome-wide linkage s...