Cystic fibrosis gene mutations and linked RFLPs in the Slovenian population.

The authors used polymerase chain reaction to analyse 56 Slovenian cystic fibrosis (CF) chromosomes for the presence of delta F508 and eight other most frequent mutations located in exons 7,11 and 20 (R347P, R334W, G551D, R553X, S549RA, S549RT, S549I and S1255X) of the CF gene. We also determined the frequency of haplotypes associated with CF for six linked RFLP markers (MetD/TaqI, MetH/TaqI, XV-2c/TaqI, KM-19/PstI, MP6d9/MspI and J3.11/MspI) in 27 Slovenian CF families. delta F508 mutation was present in 55.4 percent of the CF chromosomes. No case of the other mutations were detected in the sample of tested CF chromosomes. A very high degree of association (0.88) has been found between DNA marker MetH and CF (as measured by the Yule's association coefficient) in our population. Using the RFLP markers XV-2c and KM-19, we found that 85% of delta F508 mutated chromosomes have a single 1 2 (B) haplotype, and that this haplotype is present on only 15.4 percent of CF chromosomes without this deletion.     

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The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal

The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal. Samba Diop. Lewiston, Canada; Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. 389 pp.     

Analysis of individual-site binding data.

Individual-site isotherms add experimental data which may allow for a more detailed definition of the parameters in a system with interacting binding sites. Individual-site isotherms accomplish the following: (A) In general, they define little more than the total or combined isotherm except to reveal the existence of different sites. (B) Under the limiting conditions of symmetrical interactions in two site systems they define: (1) the ratio of the unperturbed or intrinsic binding constants rather than their actual values, (2) the unperturbed shape of the total isotherm, that is, the shape of the total isotherm if there were no ligand dependent interactions between the sites, and (3) the perturbation of the shape of the total isotherm derived from interactions between the sites. (C) They do not define the nature of the interactions; that is, they do not resolve the free energies of the interactions between the sites. (D) When some assumptions about the nature of the interactions are made they may aid in defining some free energies of interaction between the sites.