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I knew Troy for nearly 15 years, and in that time I don't recall hearing any childhood stories like those in seemingly every personal statement I've read from aspiring scientists or medical students. No stories about hours spent gazing at an anthill. I don't recall hearing about shelves crowded with insects collected on Styrofoam, or animal skulls kept in a shoebox under his bed. If these collected crania existed, it was more likely because Troy was a crack shot with a pellet gun than a need to know adaptations in the dentition of local squirrel populations. I don't recall hearing about science projects taken to the Iowa State Capitol to share with politely interested legislators. But I do recall hearing about spending the entirety of the daylight hours in the summer, with his brother Doug, finding where the crappie were biting. About crystal clear water on a lake in Minnesota that you didn't quite need to know the exact location of, just in case you were thinking of going and plundering the walleye within. I definitely heard about triumphs as a starting lineman not only for his high school football team, but the mighty Norse of Luther College. I heard about summer warehouse jobs in sweltering Iowa Julys. And I saw, firsthand, love and commitment and family. Troy's story demonstrates that the finest scientists are not just cultivated in narrow STEM curricula that begin at age 5. They are just as likely to be football-playing fishermen, fathers, husbands, and friends who can navigate an operant conditioning paradigm during the week, and dance a polka and produce a magnificent smoked pork shoulder on Saturday. Nature and an independent spirit and a little bit of mischief is a different kind of Magnet school. And it gave us truly one of the best.Troy D. Zars (1967-2018) was an American biologist. He studied the relationships between genes, neuronal circuits and behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Zars co-pioneered the use of transgene expression to locally restore gene function in memory-defective fly mutants, an approach that provided breakthrough insights into the localization of memory traces in the fly brain. With ensuing refinements of the methods of transgene expression and the broadening in the range of transgenes to be expressed, this shaped the field of modern behavioral neurogenetics.Increasing evidence indicates the pivotal role of long noncoding RNAs in a variety of cancers, but there is limited focus on the link between long noncoding RNAs and gestational choriocarcinoma. This study aimed to examine the role of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 in JEG-3 and JAR cells. Small interfering RNA was used to downregulate long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 level. Cell proliferation was measured by cell counting kit-8 and clone formation assays. Cell cycle and apoptosis were analyzed by flow cytometry. Cell invasion was examined by transwell assay. Protein expression was determined by Western blot. A double-effect inhibitor (BEZ235) that inhibits AKT and mTOR phosphorylation was used as a positive control. Knockdown of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 significantly inhibited the proliferation of JEG-3 and JAR cells. Knockdown of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 induced cell cycle arrest in G1 phase and apoptosis. On the other hand, knockdown of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 inhibited the invasion of JEG-3 and JAR cells. Finally, knockdown of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 resulted in the inactivation of AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. In addition, knockdown of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 caused changes in the expression of intracellular cell cycle-related proteins and apoptosis-related proteins, including downregulation of CDK4, CDK6, Cyclin D1, Nusap1, and Bcl2 protein expression and upregulation of Bax protein expression. In conclusion, we found that downregulation of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 inhibited cell proliferation, cell cycle progression, and invasion of JEG-3 and JAR cells and induced apoptosis through AKT/mTOR pathway. Ruboxistaurin concentration This study extends the understanding of the function of long noncoding RNA OGFRP1 in tumorigenesis, and these findings may be important for developing a potential therapeutic target for gestational choriocarcinoma therapy.Objective The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) processing speed subtests are among the most ubiquitous indices of processing speed in the field. The aim of this study was to develop and examine demographically-adjusted normative data for Spanish language versions of the WAIS-III Digit Symbol Coding (DSC) and Symbol Search (SS) subtests for US-dwelling Spanish-speakers living in the US/Mexico border region.Methods The sample included 203 healthy participants who were part of the larger Neuropsychological Norms for the US-Mexico Border Region in Spanish (NP-NUMBRS) project (DSC n = 201; SS n = 200).Results Older age and higher education were both related to lower scores on the DSC and SS subtests (all ps  .05). Raw-to-scaled score conversions were calculated for both subtests, and fractional polynomial equations were derived to compute demographically-adjusted T-scores accounting for age, education, and gender for each subtest and the Processing Speed Index. Published norms for English-speaking non-Hispanic white adults slightly overestimated impairment rates (T-scores less then 40) on both the DSC and SS subtests, while the norms for English-speaking non-Hispanic Black/African Americans and the new NP-NUMBRS norms Spanish-speakers both yielded impairment rates that fell within expected limits for healthy controls (i.e. 13%-14%).Conclusions This study suggests that population-specific normative data can improve the diagnostic validity of these measures for U.S.-dwelling Spanish-speakers living in the US/Mexico border region. Future research is needed to investigate the utility of these norms for other U.S.-dwelling Spanish-speaking subpopulations (e.g. Caribbean, Central American, South American).OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical relevance of mutations in tumor suppressor genes using whole-exome sequencing data from centenarians and young healthy individuals. METHODS Two pools, one of centenarians and one of young individuals, were constructed and whole-exome sequencing was performed. We examined the whole-exome sequencing data of Bulgarian individuals for carriership of tumor suppressor gene variants. RESULTS Of all variants annotated in both pools, 5080 (0.06%) are variants in tumor suppressor genes but only 46 show significant difference in allele frequencies between the two studied groups. Four variants (0.004%) are pathogenic/risk factors according to single nucleotide polymorphism database rs1566734 in PTPRJ, rs861539 in XRCC3, rs203462 in AKAP10, and rs486907 in RNASEL. DISCUSSION Based on their high minor allele frequencies and presence in the centenarian group, we could reclassify them from pathogenic/risk factors to benign. Our study shows that centenarian exomes can be used for re-evaluating the clinically uncertain variants.