Asian Continental Ancestry Group
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Runx2, p53, and pRB status as diagnostic parameters for deregulation of osteoblast growth and differentiation in a new pre-chemotherapeutic osteosarcoma cell line (OS1).

29 Nov 2009 Osteosarcomas are the most prevalent primary bone tumors found in pediatric patients. To understand their molecular etiology, cell culture models are used to define disease mechanisms under controlled conditions. Many osteosarcoma cell lines (e.g., ... Read more...

Synergistic effect of HLA class II loci and cytokine gene polymorphisms on the risk of gastric cancer in Japanese patients with Helicobacter pylori infection.

29 Nov 2009 It has been reported that polymorphisms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes and several cytokine genes are associated with an increased risk of developing gastric cancer (GC). However, the results of studies from different geographic regions, ... Read more...

Sex affects the steady-state pharmacokinetics of primaquine but not doxycycline in healthy subjects.

30 Oct 2009 We evaluated whether sex affects the steady-state pharmacokinetics of the antimalarial drugs, primaquine and doxycycline, in healthy subjects. Seventeen male and 17 female healthy Vietnamese subjects were administered 30 mg (base) of primaquine ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Asian Continental Ancestry Group'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Infection of T lymphocytes in non-Asian patients with Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. 13 Dec 2009
• Runx2, p53, and pRB status as diagnostic parameters for deregulation of osteoblast growth and differentiation in a new pre-chemotherapeutic osteosarcoma cell line (OS1). 29 Nov 2009
• Synergistic effect of HLA class II loci and cytokine gene polymorphisms on the risk of gastric cancer in Japanese patients with Helicobacter pylori infection. 29 Nov 2009
• Sex affects the steady-state pharmacokinetics of primaquine but not doxycycline in healthy subjects. 30 Oct 2009
• Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture. 30 Oct 2009
• More on Schnyder corneal dystrophy. 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• The study of personal constructs of death and fear of death among Taiwanese adolescents. 30 Oct 2009
• Influences of religion and culture on continuing bonds in a sample of British Muslims of Pakistani origin. 30 Oct 2009
• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• The poppies of Afghanistan. 30 Oct 2009
• A novel androgen-dependent prostate cancer xenograft model derived from skin metastasis of a Japanese patient. 30 Oct 2009
• Peginterferon alfa-2b or alfa-2a with ribavirin for hepatitis C. 27 Oct 2009
• Diabetes in Asian immigrant populations. 19 Oct 2009
• Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK. 18 Oct 2009
• Late cardiovascular complications after surgical or balloon angioplasty of coarctation of aorta in an Asian cohort. 13 Oct 2009
• The association between -1304T>G polymorphism in the promoter of MKK4 gene and the risk of sporadic colorectal cancer in southern Chinese population. 13 Oct 2009
• Variants of CTGF are associated with hepatic fibrosis in Chinese, Sudanese, and Brazilians infected with schistosomes. 10 Oct 2009
• LINGO1 variant increases risk of familial essential tremor. 4 Oct 2009
• A RYR1 mutation associated with recessive congenital myopathy and dominant malignant hyperthermia in Asian families. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Asian Continental Ancestry Group'

Definition: Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the continent of Asia.

Descriptor UI: D044466

Alternative terms: Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Mongoloid Race; Mongoloid Races; Race, Mongoloid; Races, Mongoloid; Asiatic Race; Asiatic Races; Race, Asiatic; Races, Asiatic; Japanese; Koreans; Asians; Asian; Chinese;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.508.200;

History Note: 2004(1966)