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BMC Genomics 2021 Mar 4;22(1):154. Epub 2021 Mar 4.

School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.

Background: Heat tolerance is becoming increasingly important where maize is grown under spring season in India which coincide with grain filling stage of crop resulting in tassel blast, reduced pollen viability, pollination failure and barren ears that causes devastating yield losses. So, there is need to identify the genomic regions associated with heat tolerance component traits which could be further employed in maize breeding program.

Results: An association mapping panel, consisting of 662 doubled haploid (DH) lines, was evaluated for yield contributing traits under normal and natural heat stress conditions. Read More

J Allergy Clin Immunol 2021 Mar 1. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address:

Background: Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 results in seizures, cortical blindness, and microcephaly syndrome (SCBMS). We studied five Finnish and two Omani patients with loss of DIAPH1 presenting with SCBMS, mitochondrial dysfunction and immunodeficiency.

Objective: To further characterize phenotypes and disease mechanisms associated with loss of DIAPH1. Read More

Hum Immunol 2021 Feb 19. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

William J. von Liebig Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States. Electronic address:

Eplet mismatches are associated with de novo DSA (dnDSA) and antibody mediated rejection (ABMR) among the general kidney transplant population. However, it is unclear whether the level of eplet mismatch can be used for risk stratification among patients with dnDSA. We performed a retrospective observational study of kidney transplant recipients with dnDSA (n = 44) transplanted between 10/2007 and 5/2014 to evaluate eplet mismatch as a risk factor for ABMR and allograft loss among dnDSA patients. Read More

Clin Lab 2021 Feb;67(2)

Background: Over the past years, the vast majority of blood grouping research in Saudi Arabia has been noted to be mainly focusing on ABO and D antigens. Consequently, knowledge on other clinically significant antigens regarding the RH and KEL blood group systems is required. Therefore, an experimental study using serotyping of ABO antigens, five main antigens (D, C, c, E and e) of the RH blood group system and the KEL1 antigen of the KEL blood group system will be carried out. Read More

Front Genet 2020 4;11:622494. Epub 2021 Feb 4.

Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy.

The αs2-casein is one of the phosphoproteins secreted in all ruminants' milk, and it is the most hydrophilic of all caseins. However, this important gene () has not been characterized in detail in buffaloes with only two alleles detected (reported as alleles A and B), and no association studies with milk traits have been carried out unlike what has been achieved for other species of ruminants. In this study, we sequenced the whole gene of two Mediterranean river buffalo homozygotes for the presence/absence of the nucleotide C (g. Read More