Approximately 10% of ischemic strokes are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) first diagnosed
at the time of stroke. Detecting asymptomatic AF would provide an opportunity to prevent …

Molecular ecologists increasingly require ‘universal’ genetic markers that can easily be
transferred between species. The distribution of cross‐species transferability of nuclear …

G-quadruplexes (G4s) are extremely stable DNA or RNA secondary structures formed by
sequences rich in guanine. These structures are implicated in many essential cellular …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and families
of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales, Dilleniales…

Background Recent studies have reported associations between particulate air pollution and
daily mortality rates. Population-based, cross-sectional studies of metropolitan areas in the …

A Correction has been published for this article in Statistics in Medicine 2001; 20:655. The
identification of changes in the recent trend is an important issue in the analysis of cancer …

A phylogenetic analysis of a combined data set for 560 angiosperms and seven outgroups
based on three genes, 18S rDNA (1855 bp), rbcL (1428 bp), and atpB (1450 bp) representing …

In a mathematical approach to hypothesis tests, we start with a clearly defined set of hypotheses
and choose the test with the best properties for those hypotheses. In practice, we often …

Background Glioblastoma is associated with a poor prognosis in the elderly. Survival has
been shown to increase among patients 70 years of age or younger when temozolomide …

Infection with the obligate intracellular protozoan Leishmania is thought to be initiated by
direct parasitization of macrophages, but the early events following transmission to the skin by …