autosomal dominant congenital cataract (adcc) is the most common form of inherited cataracts and accounts for one-third of congenital cataracts. heterozygous null mutations in the crystallin genes are the major cause of the adcc. this study aims to detect the mutational spectrum of four crystallin genes, cryba1/a3 , crybb1 , crybb2 and crygd in an iranian family. genomic dna was isolated from w...

mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main cause of tuberculosis (tb), has still remained a global health crisis especially in developing countries. tuberculosis treatment is a laborious and lengthy process with high risk of non compliance, cytotoxicity adverse events and drug resistance in patient. recently, there has been an alarming rise of drug resistant in tb. in this regard, it is an unmet need...

INTRODUCTION Ten viral genotypes (A-J) distributed in all continents have been described for hepatitis B virus (HBV). One of the methodologies for determining the viral genotype is the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) technique, a simple and relatively inexpensive method, albeit with some limitations. OBJECTIVE The initial objective of the project was to identify the HBV genoty...

The stress responsive transcription factor p53 is a powerful tumor suppressor implicated in over 50 % of all human cancers. The complexity and nonlinear dynamics of p53 network coupled with extensive literature is challenging. Systems biology methodologies offer promising tools to investigate large networks, providing structured in silico representations for integrative analysis. The Boolean p5...

Defects at the level of pre-mRNA splicing are a common source of genetic mutation but such mutations are not always easy to identify from DNA sequence data alone. Clinical practice has only recently begun to incorporate analysis for this type of abnormality. Some base changes at the DNA level currently viewed as unclassified variants or missense mutations may influence RNA splicing. To address ...

globally, brucella melitensis and b. abortus are the most common cause of human brucellosis. the outer membrane protein 31 (omp31) and l7/l12 are immunodominant and protective antigens conserved in human brucella pathogens which are considered as potential vaccine candidates. we aimed to design the fusion protein from brucella l7/l12 and truncated omp31proteins, in silico , clone the fusion in ...