IMPUTING AMINO ACID POLYMORPHISMS IN HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGENS.

Imputing amino acid polymorphisms in human leukocyte antigens.

DNA sequence variation within human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes mediate susceptibility to a wide range of human diseases.The complex genetic structure of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) makes it difficult, however, to collect Jeans genotyping data in large cohorts.Long-range linkage disequilibrium between HLA loci and SNP markers acros

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Identifying Where REDD+ Financially Out-Competes Oil Palm in Floodplain Landscapes Using a Fine-Scale Approach.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) aims to avoid forest conversion to alternative land-uses Jojoba through financial incentives.Oil-palm has high opportunity costs, which according to current literature questions the financial competitiveness of REDD+ in tropical lowlands.To understand this more, we undertook regio

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An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan

Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Sponges Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).The fish fossils here described were found from Maeshima islet in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan in an outcrop of the Hinoshima Formation of the Lower Subgroup of the Himenoura Group

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