… On average, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations increased from 38 to 59 nmol l −1
in the cholecalciferol group, and from 34 to 78 nmol l −1 in the ergocalciferol group, with >80…

The authors evaluated empirical research addressing the relationship between induced
abortion and women’s mental health. Two issues were addressed:(a) the relative risks …

This article provides an overview of the social and psychological aspects surrounding the
surrogacy process including attitudes about surrogacy, perceptions and problems of surrogate …

The Reactome Knowledgebase ( https://reactome.org ), an Elixir core resource, provides
manually curated molecular details across a broad range of physiological and pathological …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have
been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ∼9…

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an incurable degenerative disorder of motoneurons.
We recently reported that reduced expression of Vegfa causes ALS-like motoneuron …

A genetic perspective of human history in Europe was derived from 22 binary markers of the
nonrecombining Y chromosome (NRY). Ten lineages account for >95% of the 1007 …

Clinal patterns of autosomal genetic diversity within Europe have been interpreted in
previous studies in terms of a Neolithic demic diffusion model for the spread of agriculture; in …

Background Hypofractionated radiotherapy for prostate cancer has gained increased
attention due to its proposed high radiation-fraction sensitivity. Recent reports from studies …

We present here a new interesting feature of the human tumor suppressor gene p53: a very
pronounced ethnic and clinal variation of polymorphic codon 72 alleles. The frequency of the …