A combined genome-wide association and linkage study was used to identify loci causing
variation in cystic fibrosis lung disease severity. We identified a significant association (P = …

Variants associated with meconium ileus in cystic fibrosis were identified in 3,763 affected
individuals by genome-wide association study (GWAS). Five SNPs at two loci near SLC6A14 …

Background: Improved nutrition early in life is associated with better pulmonary function for
patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, nutritional status is poorly correlated with the …

Meconium ileus (MI), a life-threatening intestinal obstruction due to meconium with abnormal
protein content, occurs in approximately 15 percent of neonates with cystic fibrosis (CF). …

Coexistence of Mycobacterium xenopi with lung cancer has been reported. However, lung
cancer originating within a pre-existing cavity caused by M. xenopi has not. A 55-y-old woman …

Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma (EMPSGC) is a rare adnexal tumor of
the skin with immunoexpression and neuroendocrine differentiation. It can be easily …

The Alteon Acenic is a programmable PCI based Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card at
the heart of which lie two 32 bit processors running at 88Mhz each. PCI bus is a high …

Brief Background: Orthodontists are often confronted with adult patients who have large
edentulous spaces in the molar areas or need molar extractions. Cases involving extraction of …

Background Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on
their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are …

… Instead of directly approximating the distribution of πk in our variational model, we will work
with the distribution of the stick-breaking variables v = {v1,...,vK}. In our truncated model with …