Background While the incidence of colorectal cancer is lower in Hispanics than in non-Hispanic Caucasians, it is the second most common cancer in this diverse ethnic population. Emerging data indicate hereditary colon cancer syndromes contribute to cancer burden regardless of race and ethnicity. These data derive from research and cohorts where Hispanics are underrepresented. Here we report on ...

This paper is a comprehensive study of the shrimp trawl by- catch from Bushehr coastal waters (N. Persian Gulf). Sampling operation was carried out in two shrimp fishing seasons using the (Saber and Jahanara) commercial trawlers Generally, 87.5% of the total catch was by-catch and 12.5% was target species (shrimp). The catch composition included: 114 species from 45 teleostei families, 13 speci...

an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of iran is presented based on records of amphibian and reptile species whose presence has been confirmed in iran as a result of extensive field expeditions, examination of herpetological collections, literature review, and personal communications from researchers. the herpetofauna of iran consists of 13 species and five subspecies of frogs and toads belo...

Domains of unknown function (DUFs) are a large set of uncharacterized protein families that are found in the Pfam database. Here, the scale and growth of functionally uncharacterized families in biological databases are surveyed and the prospects for discovering their function are examined. In particular, the important role that structural genomics can play in identifying potential function is ...

We use the Rosetta de novo structure prediction method to produce three-dimensional structure models for all Pfam-A sequence families with average length under 150 residues and no link to any protein of known structure. To estimate the reliability of the predictions, the method was calibrated on 131 proteins of known structure. For approximately 60% of the proteins one of the top five models wa...

1. Families of cusp forms and the local equidistribution problem 2 2. Families of L-functions 6 3. Analogy with sieve 8 4. Examples of local equidistribution 8 5. Families of cusp forms according to Sarnak’s letter 11 6. Families of L-functions according to Conrey, Farmer, Keating, Rubinstein and Snaith 13 7. Direct consequences of strong local equidistribution 14 8. Quantitative local equidist...