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Prevalence of the rs1801282 single nucleotide polymorphism of the PPARG gene in patients with metabolic syndrome

Objective This study aimed to get the genotypic and allelic frequencies of rs1801282 in 179 volunteer donors and 154 patients with Metabolic syndrome (MetS) in Brasilia, Brazil and also examine the association with anthropometric, biochemical and hemodynamic variables in the latter group. MetS comprises ...

Determinación del polimorfismo C677T de metilentetrahidrofolato reductasa (MTHFR) en una población piloto de estudiantes de la Universidad del Rosario

Introducción: la 5, 10-metilentetrahidrofolato reductasa (MTHFR) es una enzima clave en el metabolismo del folato; sus polimorfismos se han asociado al aumento de riesgo de padecer enfermedad coronaria, problemas obstétricos en mujeres gestantes, desarrollo de fetos con defectos de cierre del tubo neur...

Frecuencia del alelo causante de la enfermedad de Charcot-Marie-Tooth (tipo axonal con herencia autosómica recesiva) en Palmares, Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 57 (supl.1), 2009
Frecuency of the allele causing the axonal form of autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth in Palmares, Costa Rica. The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease constitutes is among the most frequent hereditary peripheral neuropathies world-wide. We identified a family from Palmares (Alajuela, Costa Rica) with 18 aff...

Polimorfismo do gene tp53 no códon 72 em pacientes com suspeita de LMC
Codon 72 polymorphism of the TP53 gene in patients suspected to have CML

A leucemia mielóide crônica (LMC) é uma doença proliferativa do sistema hematopoiético, caracterizada pela expansão clonal de uma célula-tronco primitiva e pluripotente denominada stem cell. Este tipo de leucemia está associado, em 90 por cento dos casos, à translocação t(9;22)(q34;q11). Essa ...

Bases de datos de STRs en Argentina: consideraciones para su utilización en casos forenses y de paternidad
STRs (Short Tandem Repeats) database in Argentina: considerations for its employement in forensic cases and paternity

Prensa méd. argent; 92 (7), 2005
The employmento fo genetic markers to study paternity and criminalistics requires the development of a database with allelic frequencies that allows an statistic evaluation of the results obtained. With the objective to determine if in Argentina could be possible to use a general database for forensic de...

Identification of a criminal by DNA typing in a rape case in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Säo Paulo med. j; 120 (3), 2002
CONTEXT: Human DNA identification is a powerful tool for paternity cases as well as for criminal investigation, in which biological evidence is typed after collection from crime scenes and for the identification of human remains. OBJECTIVE: Identification of a criminal in a rape case with 4 suspects usin...

Sistema Kidd en la población aymara
Kidd system in aymara population

Los grupos sanguíneos constituyen una buena forma de medir factores genéticos en una población habiéndose demostrado una gran variabilidad en los diferentes grupos étnicos a nivel mundial. El sistema Kidd, en primera instancia, fue un sistema sencillo de dos antígenos, Jka y Jkb. El descubrimiento ...