A New Autosomal Recessive Form of Stickler Syndrome is caused by a Mutation in the COL9A1 Gene
1-What are the central questions or hypotheses addressed by the article? Untill this investigation; Stickler Syndromes mode of transmission was autosomal dominant exclusively. But after the discovery of a Moroccan family having affected members with this disease, scientists found out that ....

A womans perspective in Ancient Rome and Athens
Here lies Marcus [wife] Amymone, the best and most beautiful. Busy at her working, devoted modest, thrifty, chaste, happy to stay at home. -Chronicles Two, C.M Williams This funeral inscription shows the universal views of women in ancient history. Womans status was inferior to men....

ADHD: Is your child's behavior normal?
According to Michael Fumento, the old saying Boys will be boys is now known as Boys will be medicated. In addition, Fumento believes the old lost my homework excuse is now My child has ADHD (1). Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is defined by Paula Anne Ford-Martin as a....

Are We Winning the War on Cancer?
Are We Winning the War on Cancer? In the American society, cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people within the U.S. Cancer has been known and described throughout history. In the early 1990s nearly 6 million cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths have been reported....

Darwin vs. Lamarck
Darwin vs. Lamarck Unlike most other people at that time, Darwin and Lamarck both thought that life had changed gradually over time and was still changing, that living things change to be better suited and adapted to their environments, and that all organisms are related. Darwin and Lamarck als....

earagon
Eragon Paolini Summary: Eragon is a 15-year-old boy who lives with his poor but proud family on the edge of the village of Carvahall. He was out hunting one day in the Spine, a mountain range that is known for the bad luck that befalls those who enter it, a magical explosion shakes the ground. ....

Epilepsy
Introduction Epilepsy is often known as seizure disorder. It is a result of the brain malfunctioning due to abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. (Magill283) Some of the results of the brain not working include muscle spasms, convulsions, and twitching. Brain damage, illness, and abnor....

fragile x
Fragile X is a family of genetic conditions, which can impact individuals and families in various ways. These genetic conditions are related in that they are all caused by gene changes in the same gene, called the FMR1 gene. Fragile X includes: fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common cause of in....

German Background
Just like many other Europeans, Germans came to North America ever since it was founded and settled by the French and English. There were very many different reasons why people left their homelands in Europe to come over to America. The price of freedom was cheap, and worth the hard traveled road to....

Human genome
The Human Genome The nucleus of each human cell contains chromosomes. Chromosomes are threadlike structure that contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is a complex molecule that contains genetic information. Genes, units of hereditary information, are short pieces of DNA. Rather than being an i....

Inheritance Tax
Inheritance Tax The Estate Tax is a tax on your right to transfer property at your death. It consists of an accounting of everything you own or have certain interests in at the date of death. The fair market value of these items is used, not necessarily what you paid for them or what their values....

law and legal
Law and Legal Task 1 - Common law Who makes common law and how is it recorded? The common law was produced by judges and it would be recorded only in the records of a courtyard case. What is judicial precedent? Judicial precedent is when a judge is trying a murder case, where they will ....

Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular DystrophyScientists have been struggling with the cause, treatment of, and cure for Muscular dystrophy since its discovery in 1886, by Dr. Guillaume Duchenne. Muscular dystrophy is a hereditary disease, affecting thousands of people every year, two-thirds being children between the age of....

Music and Shakespeare
1. Inheritance from Medieval Drama · From the medieval drama the Elizabethans inherited in palpable and concrete dramatic form that association of music with the divine which is an invariable part of their mental furniture. When, in the mystery cycles, God appears on a scaffold, between tw....

Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
The construction of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems started in the middle 80's, at a prototype building level, and at the beginning of the 90's the first commercial systems appeared. The interest for the development of such systems stems from the need to cover the modeling deficiencies ....

programming lab: error exception handling
OVERVIEW: The Lab10 exercise is done to demonstrate the handling of errors. Exceptions are run time anomalies that a program can detect. It can be division by 0, or when the condition is not satisfied or access to an array outside of its bounds ect. The exceptions in the program are han....

QUEST FOR JUSTICE: JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN
QUEST FOR JUSTICE: JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN INTRODUCTION: Dispensation of Justice is the defining characteristic of the modern nation-state. Since, the nation-state stand on the edifice of a social contract between citizens and the state, the state is bound t function by rule of law....

Richard, John, and the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta translates to the Great Charter in latin, and it was exactly that. This document is famous for being the first written document to actually lessen the power of a king. The Magna Carta was put in place by the people of England against King John of England. It was put in place because ....

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