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Introduction to free radicals and the oxygen paradox oxidative stress in biology, aging & disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The oxygen paradox -- Oxygen origin -- Free radicals, oxidants and oxidative stress -- Sources of free radicals -- Environmental toxins -- Metabolic sources of free radicals: mitochondrial electron transport, phagocytes, peroxisomes, autooxidation -- Medical and dental sources of free radicals: x-rays, g-rays, drugs -- DNA damage and oxygen radical toxicity -- Antioxidant compounds and enzymes -- The dismutation of superoxide -- Mechanisms of antioxidant enzymes -- Antioxidant defense and repair systems -- Removal of oxidized DNA bases and DNA repair -- Lipolysis and the repair of oxidized lipids and lipid membranes -- Selective proteolytic degradation of oxidized proteins -- The LON protease -- Adaptation to oxidative stress -- Long-term effects of free radicals and oxidative stress: aging and disease.…”
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Admixture mapping

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Applications of statistical modelling of population admixture -- Genetic and environmental explanations for ethnic differences in disease risk -- Methods for finding genes that influence complex traits -- Exploiting admixture to map genes -- Statistical power of admixture mapping -- Advantages of admixture mapping in comparison with other approaches to finding disease susceptibility genes -- Methodological problems of extending linkage analysis of a cross to admixed human populations -- Statistical methods that allow linkage analysis of a cross to be extended to admixed humans -- Model for stochastic variation of ancestry on chromosomes inherited from an admixed parent -- Multipoint inference of ancestry at marker loci from genotypes -- Null hypothesis as graphical model -- Statistical approach to model fitting and hypothesis testing -- The score test algorithm -- Other model diagnostics: "Bayesian p-values" -- How many markers are required for genome-wide admixture mapping? …”
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Love your town like your shamba : by TVE International