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05). We also did not find any significant association between the risk of the cancer and mir-499 polymorphisms in the recessive (Odds ratio [OR] 6.60; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.77-56.74;

= 0.11) and dominant (OR 1; 95% CI 0.37-2.74;

= 1) inheritance models even after adjustment for smoking.

The results of the present study indicated that the polymorphisms of mir-499 are not associated with the risk of oral and oropharyngeal SCC in Iranian population. However, further large scale studies are needed to validate our findings.

The results of the present study indicated that the polymorphisms of mir-499 are not associated with the risk of oral and oropharyngeal SCC in Iranian population. However, further large scale studies are needed to validate our findings.Child abuse, a reprehensible act, pervades all strata of society. HS148 inhibitor Dentists are more likely to encounter such cases in their daily practice. However, such cases usually go unreported due to lack of adequate knowledge. Practitioners flinch from reporting these due to various reasons, and this sets up a vicious cycle which traps the victim leading to grave long-term consequences. This review aims to collect all literature available on PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, Google Scholar, and Google search engines on the role of dentists in child abuse identification and information and summarize these details. The review will shed light on the identification of abuse in dental settings, the various legal recourses and organizations related to it, and how dentists can better equip themselves to tackle such cases if they come across one. The review also makes certain recommendations by which dentists and healthcare providers in general can better prepare themselves for such contingencies.Protein stability predictions are becoming essential in medicine to develop novel immunotherapeutic agents and for drug discovery. Despite the large number of computational approaches for predicting the protein stability upon mutation, there are still critical unsolved problems 1) the limited number of thermodynamic measurements for proteins provided by current databases; 2) the large intrinsic variability of ΔΔG values due to different experimental conditions; 3) biases in the development of predictive methods caused by ignoring the anti-symmetry of ΔΔG values between mutant and native protein forms; 4) over-optimistic prediction performance, due to sequence similarity between proteins used in training and test datasets. Here, we review these issues, highlighting new challenges required to improve current tools and to achieve more reliable predictions. In addition, we provide a perspective of how these methods will be beneficial for designing novel precision medicine approaches for several genetic disorders caused by mutations, such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.Runs of Homozygosity (RoHs) are popular among geneticists as the footprint of demographic processes, evolutionary forces and inbreeding in shaping our genome, and are known to confer risk of Mendelian and complex diseases. Notwithstanding growing interest in their study, there is unmet need for reliable and rapid methods for genomic analyses in large data sets. AUDACITY is a tool integrating novel RoH detection algorithm and autozygosity prediction score for prioritization of mutation-surrounding regions. It processes data in VCF file format, and outperforms existing methods in identifying RoHs of any size. Simulations and analysis of real exomes/genomes show its potential to foster future RoH studies in medical and population genomics.Chemosensory pathways represent a major prokaryotic signal transduction mechanism that is based on signal sensing by chemoreceptors. An essential feature of chemosensory pathways is the CheR and CheB mediated control of chemoreceptor methylation causing pathway adaptation. At their C-terminal extension the Tar and Tsr model chemoreceptors contain a pentapeptide that acts as an additional CheR and CheB binding site. The relevance of this pentapeptide is poorly understood since pentapeptide removal from Tar/Tsr causes receptor inactivation, whereas many other chemoreceptors do not require this pentapeptide for correct function. We report here a bioinformatic analysis of pentapeptide containing chemoreceptors. These receptors were detected in 11 bacterial phyla and represent approximately 10% of all chemoreceptors. Pentapeptide containing chemoreceptors are mainly found in Gram-negative bacteria, are of low abundance in Gram-positive species and almost absent from archaea. Almost 50% of TarH (Tar homologue) ligand binding domain containing chemoreceptors possess pentapeptides, whereas chemoreceptor families with other ligand binding domains are devoid of pentapeptides. The abundance of chemoreceptors with C-terminal pentapeptides correlated negatively with the number of chemoreceptor genes per genome. The consensus sequence reveals a negative net charge for many pentapeptides. Pentapeptide containing chemoreceptors are very abundant in the order Enterobacterales, particularly in the families Pectobacterium and Dickeya, where they represent about 50% of the total number. In contrast, bacteria with primarily free living lifestyles have a reduced number of pentapeptides, such as approximately 1% for Pseudomonadales. It is proposed that pentapeptide function is related to mechanisms that permit host interaction.Telomeres are DNA repeats at the ends of linear chromosomes and are replicated by telomerase, a ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase. Telomere length regulation and chromosome end capping are essential for genome stability and are mediated primarily by the shelterin and CST complexes. POT1-TPP1, a subunit of shelterin, binds the telomeric overhang, suppresses ATR-dependent DNA damage response, and recruits telomerase to telomeres for DNA replication. POT1 localization to telomeres and chromosome end protection requires its interaction with TPP1. Therefore, the POT1-TPP1 complex is critical to telomere maintenance and full telomerase processivity. The aim of this mini-review is to summarize recent POT1-TPP1 structural studies and discuss how the complex contributes to telomere length regulation. In addition, we review how disruption of POT1-TPP1 function leads to human disease.