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The root growth angle (RGA) typically determines plant rooting depth, which is significant for plant anchorage and abiotic stress tolerance. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for RGA have been identified in crops. However, the underlying mechanisms of the RGA remain poorly understood, especially in apple rootstocks. The objective of this study was to identify QTLs, validate genetic variation networks, and develop molecular markers for the RGA in apple rootstock.

Bulked segregant analysis by sequencing (BSA-seq) identified 25 QTLs for RGA using 1955 hybrids of the apple rootstock cultivars 'Baleng Crab' (Malus robusta Rehd., large RGA) and 'M9' (M. pumila Mill., small RGA). With RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and parental resequencing, six major functional genes were identified and constituted two genetic variation networks for the RGA. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the MdLAZY1 promoter damaged the binding sites of MdDREB2A and MdHSFB3, while one SNP of MdDREB2A and MdIAA1 affected the interpple rootstocks.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires all emergency medicine (EM) training programs to evaluate resident performance and also requires core faculty to attend didactic conference. Assuring faculty participation in these activities can be challenging. Previously, our institution did not have a formal tracking program nor financial incentive for participation in these activities. In 2017, we initiated an educational dashboard which tracked and published all full-time university faculty conference attendance and participation in resident evaluations and other educational activities.

We sought to determine if the implementation of a financially-incentivized educational dashboard would lead to an increase in faculty conference attendance and the number of completed resident evaluations.

We conducted a pre- and post-intervention observational study at our EM residency training program between July 2017 and July 2019. Participants were 17 full-time EM attendings at one trainicentive.

Attaching a financial incentive to a tracked educational dashboard increased faculty participation in resident evaluations but did not change conference attendance. This difference likely reflects the minimum thresholds required to obtain the financial incentive.

RNA sequencing allows the study of both gene expression changes and transcribed mutations, providing a highly effective way to gain insight into cancer biology. When planning the sequencing of a large cohort of samples, library size is a fundamental factor affecting both the overall cost and the quality of the results. Here we specifically address how overall library size influences the detection of somatic mutations in RNA-seq data in two acute myeloid leukaemia datasets. PF-573228 cost RESULTS We simulated shallower sequencing depths by downsampling 45 acute myeloid leukaemia samples (100bp PE) that are part of the Leucegene project, which were originally sequenced at high depth. We compared the sensitivity of six methods of recovering validated mutations on the same samples. The methods compared are a combination of three popular callers (MuTect, VarScan, and VarDict) and two filtering strategies. We observed an incremental loss in sensitivity when simulating libraries of 80M, 50M, 40M, 30M and 20M fragments, with the uggested.

Between 30M and 40M 100 bp PE reads are needed to recover 90-95% of the initial variants on recurrently mutated myeloid genes. To extend this result to another cancer type, an exploration of the characteristics of its mutations and gene expression patterns is suggested.

Serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae is important for monitoring of vaccine impact. Unfortunately, conventional and molecular serotyping is expensive and technically demanding. This study aimed to determine the ability of matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionisation time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry to discriminate between pneumococcal serotypes and genotypes (defined by global pneumococcal sequence cluster, GPSC). In this study, MALDI-TOF mass spectra were generated for a diverse panel of whole genome sequenced pneumococcal isolates using the bioMerieux VITEK MS in clinical diagnostic (IVD) mode. Discriminatory mass peaks were identified and hierarchical clustering was performed to visually assess discriminatory ability. Random forest and classification and regression tree (CART) algorithms were used to formally determine how well serotypes and genotypes were identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrum.

One hundred and ninety-nine pneumococci, comprising 16 serotypes and non-typeable isolates from eumococcal serotype. MALDI-TOF mass spectra appear more associated with isolate genotype, which may still have utility for future pneumococcal surveillance activities.

DNA methylation is an important heritable epigenetic mark that plays a crucial role in transcriptional regulation and the pathogenesis of various human disorders. The commonly used DNA methylation measurement approaches, e.g., Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation-27 and -450 BeadChip arrays (27K and 450K arrays) and reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS), only cover a small proportion of the total CpG sites in the human genome, which considerably limited the scope of the DNA methylation analysis in those studies.

We proposed a new computational strategy to impute the methylation value at the unmeasured CpG sites using the mixture of regression model (MRM) of radial basis functions, integrating information of neighboring CpGs and the similarities in local methylation patterns across subjects and across multiple genomic regions. Our method achieved a better imputation accuracy over a set of competing methods on both simulated and empirical data, particularly when the missing rate is high. By applying MRM to an RRBS dataset from subjects with low versus high bone mineral density (BMD), we recovered methylation values of ~ 300K CpGs in the promoter regions of chromosome 17 and identified some novel differentially methylated CpGs that are significantly associated with BMD.

Our method is well applicable to the numerous methylation studies. By expanding the coverage of the methylation dataset to unmeasured sites, it can significantly enhance the discovery of novel differential methylation signals and thus reveal the mechanisms underlying various human disorders/traits.

Our method is well applicable to the numerous methylation studies. link2 By expanding the coverage of the methylation dataset to unmeasured sites, it can significantly enhance the discovery of novel differential methylation signals and thus reveal the mechanisms underlying various human disorders/traits.

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to play critical roles in diverse growth and development processes in plants. However, the systematic identification and characterization of lncRNAs in foxtail millet is nearly blank.

In this study, we performed high-throughput sequencing of young spikelets from four foxtail millet varieties in different yield levels at booting stage. As a result, a total of 12,378 novel lncRNAs were identified, and 70 were commonly significantly differentially expressed in comparisons between high-yield varieties and conventional varieties, suggesting that they involved in yield formation and regulation in foxtail millet. Functional analysis revealed that among the 70 significantly differentially expressed lncRNAs, 67 could transcriptionally modulate target genes in cis and in trans. link3 Moreover, 18 lncRNAs related to grain yield in foxtail millet were predicted to function as miRNA target mimics and regulate gene expression by competing for the interaction between miRNAs and their target mRNAs.

Our results will provide materials for elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of lncRNAs participate in yield regulation, and will contribute to high yield foxtail millet breeding.

Our results will provide materials for elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of lncRNAs participate in yield regulation, and will contribute to high yield foxtail millet breeding.

Patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer face a poor prognosis because of recurrent peritoneal cavity metastases following surgery and chemotherapy. Alpha-emitters may enable the efficient treatment of such disseminated diseases because of their short range and highly energetic radiation. Radium-224 is a candidate αemitter due to its convenient 3.6-day half-life, with more than 90% of the decay energy originating from α-particles. However, its inherent skeletal accumulation must be overcome to facilitate intraperitoneal delivery of the radiation dose. Therefore, 224Ra-labeled CaCO3 microparticles have been developed.

The antitumor effect of CaCO3 microparticles as a carrier for 224Ra was investigated, with an emphasis on the ratio of activity to mass dose of CaCO3, that is, specific activity.

Nude athymic mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with human ovarian cancer cells (ES-2) and treated with a single intraperitoneal injection of 224Ra-labeled CaCO3 microparticles with varying combinations of mass and activity dose, or cationic 224Ra in solution. Survival and ascites volume at sacrifice were evaluated.

Significant therapeutic effect was achieved for all tested specific activities ranging from 0.4 to 4.6 kBq/mg. Although treatment with a mean activity dose of 1305 kBq/kg of cationic 224Ra prolonged the survival compared with the control, equivalent median survival could be achieved with 224Ra-labeled microparticles with a mean dose of only 420 kBq/kg. The best outcome was achieved with the highest specific activities (2.6 and 4.6 kBq/mg).

Radium-224-labeled CaCO3 microparticles present a promising therapy against cancer dissemination in body cavities.

Radium-224-labeled CaCO3 microparticles present a promising therapy against cancer dissemination in body cavities.The development of new radiolabeled Positron emission tomography tracers has been extensively utilized to access the increasing diversity in research process and to facilitate the development in research methodology, clinical usage of drug discovery and patient care. Recent advances in radiochemistry as well as latest techniques in automated radiosynthesizer have encouraged and challenge the radiochemist to produce the routinely developed radiotracers. Various radionuclides like 18F, 11C, 15O, 13N 99mTc, 131I, 124I and 64Cu are used for incorporating into different chemical scaffolds among them 18F and 11C tagged radiotracers are mostly explored such as 11C-Methionine, 11C-Choline, 18FFDG, 18F-FLT, and 18F-FES. This review is focused on the development of radiochemistry routes to synthesized different radiotracers of 11C and 18F for clinical studies.

Melatonin is a biomarker of the central circadian clock and its chronobiotic actions entraining circadian rhythms to the light-dark cycle are well known. Reduction in melatonin levels and altered circadian rhythms have been associated with a high risk of breast cancer. Melatonin has also shown to display anti-proliferative effects on breast cancer growth and proliferation. Evaluation of melatonin circadian rhythm alterations in patients bearing breast cancer may have interesting prognostic and therapeutic applications.

To review studies evaluating the circadian rhythm of melatonin in breast cancer patients. The effects of surgery and chemotherapy on melatonin secretion were also reviewed.

Electronic databases including PubMed/MEDLINE and Scopus were searched from their inception to May 2020, using the keywords 'Melatonin', 'Circadian rhythm' and 'Breast cancer'.

Patients with breast cancer maintain a circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion with relatively high levels during the night, and low levels during the day however a reduction of nocturnal melatonin peak and decreased amplitude of melatonin circadian rhythms in these patients have been also reported.