The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European ancestry.
To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a genome-wide …

… (r 2 ) between the remaining 183 SNPs and selected the 91 SNPs with the lowest P value
within each r … For general statistical analysis, we used R statistical environment version 2.6.1 or …

Results: The rate of curative en bloc resection was 84%(93% of the lesions overall were
resected in one piece), with a perforation rate of 6.1%(all perforations were managed …

… the pairwise tagging method with the following criteria: r 2 > 0.9, minor allele frequency >5% …
(B) Pair-wise linkage disequilibrium map as measured by r 2 using SNP with MAF ≥0.05. …

Use of peptide‐based vaccines as therapeutics aims to elicit immune responses through
antigenic epitopes derived from tumor antigens. Peptide‐based vaccines are easily …

To characterize the molecular feature in prostate carcinogenesis and the putative transition
from prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) to invasive prostate cancer (PC), we analyzed …

… Mean (μ) and standard deviation (σ) were calculated from the log-transformed relative
expression ratios of each gene in responder (r) and nonresponder (n) cases. A discrimination …

One of the most critical issues in prostate cancer clinic is emerging hormone-refractory
prostate cancers (HRPCs) and their management. Prostate cancer is usually androgen …

Distal hereditary motor neuropathies comprise a clinically and genetically heterogeneous
group of disorders. We recently mapped an X-linked form of this condition to chromosome …

Background We aimed to elucidate the relationship between serum myostatin levels and
other markers including skeletal muscle mass and to investigate the influence of serum …