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The Coronavirus Standards Working Group’s roadmap for improved population testing
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Open AccessCost Effectiveness of Sequencing 34 Cancer-Associated Genes as an Aid for Treatment Selection in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
To determine whether a next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel of 34 cancer-associated genes would cost-effectively aid in the treatment selection for patients with metastatic melanoma, compared with a single-s...
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Open AccessGenetic Testing for Early Detection of Individuals at Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Monitoring Response to Therapy: Challenges and Promises
Coronary heart disease (CHD) often presents suddenly with little warning. Traditional risk factors are inadequate to identify the asymptomatic high-risk individuals. Early identification of patients with subcl...
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Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations
The analysis of genome-wide patterns of variation in human populations can provide genetic evidence of patterns of human migration and adaptation across the world. Two contrasting papers in this issue illustra...
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Natural selection on protein-coding genes in the human genome
Are we still evolving? The simple answer is yes. A comparison of the sequences of over 11,000 genes from 39 human individuals and from chimpanzees reveals more than 1,139 genes that show evidence of either pos...
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Diagnosis of HIV Infection and the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Since the description of the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1981, the global impact of this new epidemic has been dramatic. By July, 1993, more than 150 countries had reported over...
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Direct Detection of HIV Infection Using Nucleic Amplification Techniques
Although infectious viral particles of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encapsidate single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) as the genetic information, the viral life cycle includes a compulsory conversion to double-str...
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Direct Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction
Although infectious viral particles of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encapsidate single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) as the genetic information, the viral life cycle includes a compulsory conversion to doublestra...
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Application of PCR to the Detection of Human Infectious Diseases
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)1,2 has revolutionized the detection of bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens. The targeted amplification of nucleic acid sequences provides not only dramatic increases in the ...
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Cloning and endonuclease map** of the hepatitis B viral genome
THE virus that causes hepatitis B, or serum hepatitis, seems to infect only humans in nature, and experimental infection has been achieved in only a few additional mammals. The limited host range of the hepati...