Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which predominantly strikes boys, is caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called dystrophin that is essential for proper muscle function.
(The sulfur predominantly strikes the trailing hemisphere of Europa because Jupiter [upper right] and its magnetic field rotate more quickly than Europa orbits the planet).
Fifteen years of genetic sleuthing has finally paid off: Researchers have nailed the gene that appears to cause an inherited form of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that predominantly strikes children.
The disease predominantly struck down females and children; in fact, some villages became almost entirely devoid of women.
While the American coalition has bombed sites in Syria and Iraq with far less intensity than the Russians in Syria — where the West accuses Moscow of predominantly striking moderate rebels — activists say hundreds of innocent Syrians and Iraqis have also been hit by the coalition's air raids in the country in the past year and a half.
Focal mechanisms of major earthquakes are predominantly strike-slip having the P axis in the NNW-SSE direction.
The types of obtained focal mechanism solutions are predominantly strike-slip, however, some earthquakes exhibit reverse- and normal-fault type focal mechanisms.
A detailed structure contour map of the top of the A-sand, combined with the measured Shmin and Sv, show that the stress state in the Tiechanshan field is predominantly strike-slip stress regime (SHmax>SV>Shmin).
The contradiction between the predominantly strike-slip focal mechanisms and a stress regime at depth most conducive to reverse faulting is probably due to the existence of vertical geological faults.
Earthquakes in the northernmost section show predominantly strike-slip mechanisms with a depth up to 18 km, except for event 17, which is a shallow thrust event (depth 2 km).
In the Indochina region, since the late Paleogene, the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates has resulted in predominantly strike-slip faults that strike NW-SE and NE-SW, and dip-slip faults that strike N-S (Tapponnier et al., 1986; Peltzer and Tapponnier, 1988).
