The presence of BRCA1 mutations was ascertained as previously reported [16], whereas sporadic cases were selected based on negative family history of cancer and age of onset >40 years.
In order to ascertain whether the previously reported methylation disruption associated with HPS may be due to genetic variability in DNMTs, we screened a total of 92 DNMT exons for novel mutations by HRM analysis in LCL genomic DNA from HPS subjects.
Basonuclin was likely an rRNA transcription regulator, but its relation to Pol I had not been ascertained previously.
Patients and tumors were ascertained through the Neurofibromatosis Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital as previously reported [ 13, 16].
After excluding all loci previously reported to be associated with human height, we ascertained 12 genetic variants with P < 5 × 10−6 (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Material, Table S2) for further analysis.
To ascertain whether Wip1 dephosphorylates BAX, recombinant Wip1 was incubated with previously reported BAX-derived phosphopeptides containing Ser87, Ser163, Thr167, and Ser184 in an in vitro phosphatase assay.
To ascertain whether these enzymes have different substrate specificities, we searched the CAZy database for previously reported activities for the synthesized GH1s that cluster to this area of the tree.
An additional 238 TOF probands and available parents (35 Trios, 17 duos, 186 single probands), ascertained using the same criteria from centres in Nottingham and Oxford were genotyped at the three previously reported SNPs and rs1547651.
In this initial descriptive study, we examined factors previously reported to be associated with each of these lipids to replicate previous findings and to ascertain longitudinal associations over an age-range when chronic diseases start to emerge.
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