Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease

Autor: Zanoni, P., Khetarpal, S. A., Larach, D. B., Hancock-Cerutti, W. F., Millar, J. S., Cuchel, M., DerOhannessian, S., Kontush, A., Surendran, P., Saleheen, D., Trompet, S., Cooper, R. S., Chowdhury, R., Dedoussis, G., de Faire, U., Feranil, A. B., Sheu, W. H.- H., Ferrucci, L., Freimer, N. B., Gieger, C., Sengupta, S., Grallert, H., Groop, L. C., Gudnason, V., Tanaka, T., Gyllensten, U., Hamsten, A., Erdmann, J., Harris, T. B., Shuldiner, A. R., Hingorani, A., Hirschhorn, J. N., Gravito, M. L., Wilson, J. F., Hofman, A., Hovingh, G. K., Hsiung, C. A., Humphries, S. E., Teslovich, T. M., Hunt, S. C., Hveem, K., Iribarren, C., Siegbahn, A., Groves, C. J., Nordestgaard, B. G., Njolstad, I., Jarvelin, M.-R., Jula, A., Kahonen, M., Kaprio, J., Kesaniemi, A., Kivimaki, M., Thorleifsson, G., Kooner, J. S., Hallmans, G., Koudstaal, P. J., Kuulasmaa, K., Gustafsson, S., Krauss, R. M., Kuh, D., Nielsen, S. F., Kuusisto, J., Kyvik, K. O., Laakso, M., Lakka, T. A., Hartikainen, A.-L., Lind, L., Van den Herik, E. G., Lindgren, C. M., Kanoni, S., Spector, T. D., Martin, N. G., Marz, W., McCarthy, M. I., McKenzie, C. A., Tybjaerg-Hansen, A., Assimes, T. L., Meneton, P., Metspalu, A., Moilanen, L., Morris, A. D., Ganna, A., Voight, B. F., Stefansson, K., Munroe, P. B., van Pelt, L. J., Waite, L. L., Hayward, C., Strachan, D. P., Tayo, B. O., Tremoli, E., Tuomilehto, J., Uusitupa, M., Chen, J., van Duijn, C. M., Vollenweider, P., Wallentin, L., Liu, D. J., Hernandez, D., Vedantam, S., Wareham, N. J., Jukema, J. W., Whitfield, J. B., Wolffenbuttel, B. H. R., Ordovas, J. M., Buchkovich, M. L., Boerwinkle, E., Palmer, C. N. A., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Hicks, A. A., Chasman, D. I., Rotter, J. I., Wainwright, N., Franks, P. W., Perola, M., Wong, A., Riatti, S., Mora, S., Cupples, L. A., Sandhu, M. S., Rauramaa, R., Rich, S. S., Boehnke, M., Deloukas, P., Mohlke, K. L., Wijmenga, C., Ingelsson, E., Gu, D., Roberts, R., Beckmann, J. S., Wu, Y., Peloso, G. M., Blankenberg, S., Watkins, H., Clarke, R., Collins, R., Kim, B.-J., Wild, S. H., McPherson, R., Nieminen, M. S., Barroso, I., Holm, H., O'Donnell, C., Schreiber, S., Zhang, W., Salomaa, V., Zalloua, P. A., Mannisto, S., Amouyel, P., Willemsen, G., Arveiler, D., Hung, Y.-J., Bragg-Gresham, J. L., Ferrieres, J., Muller-Nurasyid, M., Ferrario, M., Kee, F., Absher, D., Willer, C. J., Samani, N., Schunkert, H., Butterworth, A. S., Sattar, N., Wilsgaard, T., Chang, H.-Y., Howson, J. M. M., Pedersen, N. L., Di Angelantonio, E., Demirkan, A., Den Hertog, H. M., Do, R., Donnelly, L. A., Ehret, G. B., Illig, T., Esko, T., Feitosa, M. F., Ferreira, T., Been, L. F., Power, C., Fischer, K., Song, C., Fontanillas, P., Fraser, R. M., Freitag, D. F., Jones, M. R., Gurdasani, D., Heikkila, K., Hypponen, E., Isaacs, A., Jackson, A. U., Pramstaller, P. P., Johansson, A., Bolton, J. L., Young, E. H., Johnson, T., Kaleebu, P., Kaakinen, M., Kettunen, J., Kleber, M. E., Li, X., Luan, J., Lyytikainen, L.-P., Price, J. F., Magnusson, P. K. E., Mangino, M., Mihailov, E., Kastelein, J. J. P., Zhao, J. H., Bonnycastle, L. L., Montasser, M. E., Nolte, I. M., OConnell, J. R., Palmer, C. D., Petersen, A.-K., Schmidt, R. F., Sanna, S., Saxena, R., Bandinelli, S., Service, S. K., Shah, S., Adair, L. S., Shungin, D., Brambilla, P., Sidore, C., De Craen, A., Burnett, M. S., Psaty, B. M., Cesana, G., Khaw, K.-T., Dimitriou, M., Doney, A. S. F., Doring, A., Elliott, P., Epstein, S. E., Eyjolfsson, G. I., Gigante, B., Goodarzi, M. O., Quertermous, T., Kim, E., Stitziel, N. O., Volcik, K. A., Klopp, N., Komulainen, P., Kumari, M., Langenberg, C., Ford, I., Lehtimaki, T., Lin, S.-Y., Lindstrom, J., Bennett, F., Danesh, J., Loos, R. J. F., Uitterlinden, A. G., Mach, F., McArdle, W. L., Meisinger, C., Mitchell, B. D., Muller, G., Nagaraja, R., Packard, C., Narisu, N., Kathiresan, S., Nieminen, T. V. M., Bochud, M., Nsubuga, R. N., Olafsson, I., Ong, K. K., Palotie, A., Papamarkou, T., Pomilla, C., Pouta, A., Rader, D. J., Reilly, M. P., Majumder, A. a. S., Ridker, P. M., Sanghera, D. K., Boehm, B. O., Rivadeneira, F., Rudan, I., Ruokonen, A., Scharnagl, H., Seeley, J., Asiki, G., Silander, K., Stancakova, A., Stirrups, K., Swift, A. J., Saramies, J., Alam, D. S., Boomsma, D. I., Tiret, L., Strawbridge, R. J., Abecasis, G., Watson, S., Borecki, I. B., Bornstein, S. R., Bovet, P., Burnier, M., Campbell, H., Schwarz, P. E. H., Chakravarti, A., Chambers, J. C., Chen, Y.-D. I., Collins, F. S., Schmidt, E. M., Surakka, I.

Scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) is the major receptor for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (HDL-C). In humans, high amounts of HDL-C in plasma are associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Mice that have depleted Scarb1 (S

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http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/623258

Mortuary practices, genetics and other factors relevant to the transmission of kuru in Papua New Guinea

Autor: Whitfield, J. T.

The large-scale epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom (UK) created significant fears of a possible threat to public health. This threat was realized in 1996 when variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first re

Externí odkaz: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565378

Ground State Spin Logic

Autor: Whitfield, J. D., Faccin, M., Biamonte, J. D.

Publikováno v: EPL 99 (2012) 57004

Designing and optimizing cost functions and energy landscapes is a problem encountered in many fields of science and engineering. These landscapes and cost functions can be embedded and annealed in experimentally controllable spin Hamiltonians. Using

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1742

Near-threshold production of the multi-strange $\Xi^-$ hyperon

Autor: Chung, P., Ajitanand, N. N., Alexander, J. M., Anderson, M., Best, D., Brady, F. P., Case, T., Caskey, W., Cebra, D., Chance, J. L., Cole, B., Crowe, K., Das, A. C., Draper, J. E., Gilkes, M. L., Gushue, S., Heffner, M., Hirsch, A. S., Hjort, E. L., Holzmann, W., Huo, L., Issah, M., Justice, M., Kaplan, M., Keane, D., Kintner, J. C., Klay, J., Krofcheck, D., Lacey, R. A., Lauret, J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, H., Liu, Y. M., Milan, J., McGrath, R., Milosevich, Z., Odyniec, G., Olson, D. L., Panitkin, S., Porile, N. T., Rai, G., Ritter, H. G., Romero, J. L., Scharenberg, R., Srivastava, B., Stone, N. T. B, Symons, T. J. M., Taranenko, A., Whitfield, J., Wienold, T., Witt, R., Wood, L., Zhang, W. N., Oeschler, H.

Publikováno v: Phys.Rev.Lett.91:202301,2003

The yield for the multi-strange $\Xi^{-}$ hyperon has been measured in 6 AGeV Au+Au collisions via reconstruction of its decay products $\pi^{-}$ and $\Lambda$, the latter also being reconstructed from its daughter tracks of $\pi^{-}$ and p. The meas

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0302021