While the atopic dermatitis/AD phenotype has been classically defined as a systemic Th2/22 skewed inflammatory disease, heterogeneities between different ancestries and races, such those Asians Asian Americans, have shown that both environmental genetic factors contribute to progression severity of disease which can give rise differential treatment responses. However, proteomic characterization...

Jalili syndrome denotes a recessively inherited combination of an eye disease (cone-rod dystrophy) and a dental disorder (amelogenesis imperfecta), which is caused by mutations in the CNNM4 gene. Whereas the ophthalmic consequences of these mutations have been studied comprehensively, the dental phenotype has obtained less attention. A defective transport of magnesium ions by the photoreceptors...

INTRODUCTION The tobacco use among the youth, in both smoking and smokeless forms, is quite high in the South East Asian region. Tobacco use is a major proven risk factor and contributes substantially to the rising epidemic of non-communicable diseases. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of tobacco use and determine associated factors among adolescent students of Dharan municipality. DES...

AIM To determine the association between HLA-DRB1 haplotypes and risk of cervical cancer in unselected and samples from Chinese ethnicities. METHODS A comprehensive search for articles from their inception to April 1st, 2013 was conducted from PubMed, Medline, Elsevier Science, Springer Link, Cochrane Library database, China biology medical literature database (CBM),China National Knowledge I...