Despite the evident importance of proper definition of the mental element, criminal statutes are frequently silent on what sort of mens rea, if any, must be shown.
Although in the recent years a new interest is growing about the pathogenic role of homoplasmic mutations (that can be responsible for heterogeneous disorders with extremely variable penetrance), they are frequently silent polymorphisms.
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is frequently a silent infection in hemodialysis (HD) patients with a prevalence of 8 10%.
Another tumor suppressor is APBA2 (amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein-binding, family A, member 2; also known as MINT2), which is frequently methylated and silent in colorectal carcinoma and gastric carcinoma [ 33].
In most instances, gallbladder cancer develops over 5 to 15 years, when metaplasia progresses to dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and then, invasive cancer. 1 Progression is frequently rapid and silent, portending a dismal prognosis.
It is frequently referred to as the "silent epidemic" because the complications from TBI, such as changes affecting thinking, sensation, language, or emotions, may not be readily apparent.
Silent myocardial ischaemia is frequently presented in diabetic patients and this is reviewed in [ 66].
The number of brain lesions present at the time of the first clinical manifestation of MS is prognostic of early relapses and disability [3], although these lesions are frequently clinically silent.
As indicated by the DNA repair genes shown in red, many of the genes in these repair pathways are regulated by epigenetic mechanisms, and these are frequently reduced or silent in various cancers (marked by an asterisk).
