Their prevalence increases with age and there is a female preponderance only in younger patients.
Obviously, genetic make-up is not changing, and the preponderance of increased risk is probably due to external factors [ 11].
This topic is supported also by familial occurrence, genetic predisposition, female preponderance, and increased likelihood of other autoimmune diseases, like systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and endocrine disorders [ 8, 39].
Men with autoimmune thyroiditis or primary biliary cirrhosis (diseases characterized by female preponderance) display an increased incidence of Y chromosome loss in peripheral blood cells, and women with primary biliary cirrhosis display increased rates of X monosomy [ 45, 55].
One might expect, therefore, that standard short read assemblers developed for microbial/animal genomes may encounter analogous difficulties to the ones discussed here, albeit on a smaller scale, simply because of this increased preponderance of highly similar sequences in plants.
The challenges posed by the rapidly ageing population, and the increased preponderance of disabled people in this group, coupled with the rising level of public expenditure required to service the complex organization of long term care (LTC) delivery are causing increased pressure on LTC systems in Europe.
Our results add to those reported in a recent meta-analysis of HPV types among HIV-infected women (Clifford et al, 2006) and the recent international data which indicate the increased preponderance of HPV types other than 16 or 18 among HIV-infected women (Levi et al, 2002; Bollen et al, 2006; Didelot-Rousseau et al, 2006; Luque et al, 2006).
I was suspicious of the scratchier end of punk and new wave (we didn't call it "post-punk" then) and particularly apprehensive of the increasing preponderance of synthesisers.
AMID the increasing preponderance of starry nights at the theater this spring, one of the most intriguing is the arrival of Robin Williams in an exciting new play by an up-and-coming young writer, as opposed to a commercially driven revival.
It is postulated that the decrease in the specific rate constant with decreasing platinum crystallite size is caused by an increasing preponderance of surface platinum atoms as a fraction of the total atom content in the crystallites.
