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Open AccessAssociation of sun-seeking behaviors with indoor tanning behavior in US white females during high school/college in Nurses’ Health Study II
Frequent exposure to ultraviolet light has more detrimental and longer-term effects on the skin in early life than in adulthood. Teenagers with strong sun-seeking behaviors may be more likely to use an indoor ...
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Phase Transition at Small-Medium Scales Vicsek Model Based on Eigen Microstate Method
Vicsek Model is widely recognized as one of the classic models for studying flocking problems. The presence of discontinuous phase transitions in the Vicsek Model under vector noise has been widely recognized,...
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Open AccessAssociation between plasma L-carnitine levels and mitochondrial DNA copy number
Mitochondria are key cytoplasmic organelles in eukaryotic cells that generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy num...
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Open AccessAlcohol and Smoking Cessation as Potential Modulators for Smoking-Associated Psoriasis Risk in Postmenopausal Women: The Women’s Health Initiative
The association of alcohol with psoriasis has been inconsistent among studies.
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Hierarchical Flocking Based on a Strictly Metric-Free Model with Restricted Visual Field
The biological swarm model based on the limited visual field is necessary to be discussed due to the experimental evidence that the vision of a single individual in biological swarms cannot fully cover the env...
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Agent-based automated persuasion with adaptive concessions tuned by emotions
Human-to-agent automated negotiation has many potentials in a variety of applications. How to design an agent with equivalent persuasion capabilities with its human rivals is the key to the success of such sys...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 29 new acne susceptibility loci
Acne vulgaris is a highly heritable skin disorder that primarily impacts facial skin. Severely inflamed lesions may leave permanent scars that have been associated with long-term psychosocial consequences. Her...
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Open AccessSpeech enhancement from fused features based on deep neural network and gated recurrent unit network
Speech is easily interfered by external environment in reality, which results in the loss of important features. Deep learning has become a popular speech enhancement method because of its superior potential i...
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Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness
Handedness has been extensively studied because of its relationship with language and the over-representation of left-handers in some neurodevelopmental disorders. Using data from the UK Biobank, 23andMe and t...
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Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility
Most genetic susceptibility to cutaneous melanoma remains to be discovered. Meta-analysis genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 36,760 cases of melanoma (67% newly genotyped) and 375,188 controls identified ...
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Open AccessGenome-wide meta-analysis identifies eight new susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common cancers in the United States. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associa...
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Open AccessScalable point cloud meshing for image-based large-scale 3D modeling
Image-based 3D modeling is an effective method for reconstructing large-scale scenes, especially city-level scenarios. In the image-based modeling pipeline, obtaining a watertight mesh model from a noisy multi...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Novel pleiotropic risk loci for melanoma and nevus density implicate multiple biological pathways
The original version of this Article contained errors in the spelling of the authors Fan Liu and M. Arfan Ikram, which were incorrectly given as Fan Lui and Arfan M. Ikram. In addition, the original version of...
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Open AccessNovel disease syndromes unveiled by integrative multiscale network analysis of diseases sharing molecular effectors and comorbidities
Forty-two percent of patients experience disease comorbidity, contributing substantially to mortality rates and increased healthcare costs. Yet, the possibility of underlying shared mechanisms for diseases rem...
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Open AccessNovel pleiotropic risk loci for melanoma and nevus density implicate multiple biological pathways
The total number of acquired melanocytic nevi on the skin is strongly correlated with melanoma risk. Here we report a meta-analysis of 11 nevus GWAS from Australia, Netherlands, UK, and USA comprising 52,506 i...
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SNP rs2071095 in LincRNA H19 is associated with breast cancer risk
An increasing number of long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) appear to play critical roles in cancer development and progression. To assess the association between SNPs that reside in regions of lincRNAs...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association study in 176,678 Europeans reveals genetic loci for tanning response to sun exposure
The skin’s tendency to sunburn rather than tan is a major risk factor for skin cancer. Here we report a large genome-wide association study of ease of skin tanning in 176,678 subjects of European ancestry. We ...
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Use of Antihypertensive Drugs and Risk of Malignant Melanoma: A Meta-analysis of Observational Studies
Several antihypertensive drugs are photosensitizing and may promote the development of malignant melanoma (MM), but evidence remains inconsistent. We sought to quantify the association between use of antihyper...
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Open AccessDiet/lifestyle and risk of diabetes and glycemic traits: a Mendelian randomization study
Observational studies have demonstrated diet/lifestyle play roles in development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM); however, it remains unclear whether these relationships are causal.
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Cancer risk in the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial. Reply to Shaikh AMY [letter] and Kohler S, Lee J, George JT et al [letter]
