Background Patients often use the internet for information on their spinal surgeries. The
goal of this study was to assess and compare the quality of lumbar fusion and arthroplasty …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have
been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ∼9…

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries.
To identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

Introduction Previous studies have demonstrated that common breast cancer susceptibility
alleles are differentially associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 mutation …

Skin rejection remains a major hurdle in reconstructive transplantation. We investigated
molecular markers of skin rejection with particular attention to lymphocyte trafficking. Skin …

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is associated with a mortality rate of >35%. We
previously showed that MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could infect human macrophages and …

Rare decays of B mesons, such as B \to K^*\gamma and B\to K^{(*)}\ell^+\ell^- are loop
suppressed in the Standard Model and sensitive to new physics. The final state meson in heavy-…

Background— A comparative analysis of the efficacy of different cell candidates for the
treatment of heart disease remains to be described. This study is designed to evaluate the …

PURPOSE To provide precise age-specific risk estimates of cancers other than female breast
and ovarian cancers associated with pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 and BRCA2 for …

During persistent viral infections, chronic immune activation, negative immune regulator
expression, an elevated interferon signature, and lymphoid tissue destruction correlate with …