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A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection, and that variation in susceptibility to two marginally different ...

Children in communities with concentrated socioeconomic and structural disadvantage tend to have elevated rates of nonurgent visits to emergency departments (EDs). Using a spatial regression model of ...

In this review, we will first describe important factors influencing outcomes of surgical prostate cancer treatment. Although some of these are immutable (e.g., age, baseline function), others may ...

In recent years, GWAS have greatly extended our knowledge of genetic loci associated with human disease risk and other phenotypes. The output of these studies is a series of SNPs ("GWAS SNPs") ...

Basic knowledge about the rate and range of mutation is central to our understanding of numerous evolutionary processes that include maintaining sexual reproduction and rates of molecular evolution.

Personal history of atypical ductal hyperplasia and risk of multifocal breast cancer among newly diagnosed women: Implications for workup and management. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...