To investigate the association of five SNPs(rs823083,rs708723,rs4951261,rs823076 and rs16856110) at the PARK16 locus with Parkinson's disease(PD),and to potentiate its forensic application.The genomic DNAs of 215 ...To investigate the association of five SNPs(rs823083,rs708723,rs4951261,rs823076 and rs16856110) at the PARK16 locus with Parkinson's disease(PD),and to potentiate its forensic application.The genomic DNAs of 215 PD patients and 212 matched controls from the northern Han Chinese population were amplified in two independent PCR systems and subsequently genotyped by digestion with the three endonucleases(Hinf Ⅰ,Nco Ⅰ and Msp Ⅰ).The genetic parameters and association studies were carried out with SPSS 13.0,Haploview version 4.2 and PLINK 1.07 softwares.We detected accurately all genotypes in the five SNPs with multiplex PCR-RFLP and mismatched multiplex PCR-RFLP techniques.The genotypes of four SNPs,except for rs823083,were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.The four SNPs,rs16856110,rs4951261,rs708723 and rs823076,which were in linkage equilibrium,should not be associated with PD(P-values ranging from 0.077 to 0.544).The SNPs investigated at the PARK16 locus were not found to be involved in PD-associated blocks in the northern Han Chinese population.The allele distributions of rs708723,rs4951261,rs823076 and rs16856110 in the northern Han Chinese population can be highly polymorphic,which can be applied to genetic analysis and forensic practices.展开更多
We perform first-principles calculations of the structural and electronic properties of hypothetical bc6-BC_(4)N and N-substituted bc6-BC4N,which are derived from a body-center-cubic carbon structure.Our calculations ...We perform first-principles calculations of the structural and electronic properties of hypothetical bc6-BC_(4)N and N-substituted bc6-BC4N,which are derived from a body-center-cubic carbon structure.Our calculations show that the former is a semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 0.91 eV and the latter is metallic.The calculated bond length,bond population,and charge density of N-substituted bc6-BC4N indicate that one C-N bond has been broken after N-substitution,which means that the structure contains a mixed hybridization of sp^(2)-like and sp^(3)-1ike bonds.At the pressure above 100 GPa,the structure changes to a pure sp^(3)-like hybridization.展开更多
基金funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81172713)
文摘To investigate the association of five SNPs(rs823083,rs708723,rs4951261,rs823076 and rs16856110) at the PARK16 locus with Parkinson's disease(PD),and to potentiate its forensic application.The genomic DNAs of 215 PD patients and 212 matched controls from the northern Han Chinese population were amplified in two independent PCR systems and subsequently genotyped by digestion with the three endonucleases(Hinf Ⅰ,Nco Ⅰ and Msp Ⅰ).The genetic parameters and association studies were carried out with SPSS 13.0,Haploview version 4.2 and PLINK 1.07 softwares.We detected accurately all genotypes in the five SNPs with multiplex PCR-RFLP and mismatched multiplex PCR-RFLP techniques.The genotypes of four SNPs,except for rs823083,were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.The four SNPs,rs16856110,rs4951261,rs708723 and rs823076,which were in linkage equilibrium,should not be associated with PD(P-values ranging from 0.077 to 0.544).The SNPs investigated at the PARK16 locus were not found to be involved in PD-associated blocks in the northern Han Chinese population.The allele distributions of rs708723,rs4951261,rs823076 and rs16856110 in the northern Han Chinese population can be highly polymorphic,which can be applied to genetic analysis and forensic practices.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 50902072 and 50821001the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2011CB808205the Young Teachers Foundation Project from Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No 200800551021.
文摘We perform first-principles calculations of the structural and electronic properties of hypothetical bc6-BC_(4)N and N-substituted bc6-BC4N,which are derived from a body-center-cubic carbon structure.Our calculations show that the former is a semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 0.91 eV and the latter is metallic.The calculated bond length,bond population,and charge density of N-substituted bc6-BC4N indicate that one C-N bond has been broken after N-substitution,which means that the structure contains a mixed hybridization of sp^(2)-like and sp^(3)-1ike bonds.At the pressure above 100 GPa,the structure changes to a pure sp^(3)-like hybridization.
