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Abstract The causes of frailty are complex and must be accepted as multidimensional based
on the interplay of genetic, biological, physical, psychological, social and environmental …

Objectives. Although clinicians recognize hip involvement, which frequently leads to hip
replacement surgery, as an important feature of AS, data on the epidemiology, nature of the …

Cocoa is a food rich in polyphenols, mainly the flavonoid procyanidins and flavan-3-ols. The
improvement of the cardiovascular function in humans upon cocoa consumption has been …

In the past 5 years, there has been a substantial increase in the use of Y‐short tandem repeat
loci (Y‐STRs) in forensic laboratories, especially in cases where typing autosomal STRs …

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common, highly heritable, inflammatory arthritis for which
HLA-B*27 is the major genetic risk factor, although its role in the aetiology of AS remains …

Objective. The national registry of spondyloarthropathies (REGISPONSER) is launched to
classify patients with this group of diseases treated in Spanish rheumatology clinics. This …

Polyphenol content, free radical scavenging capacity, and changes during storage over 7
months in the dark were studied in ecological and conventional red and white wines. In red …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the analysis and manipulation of yeast
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DNA typing of degraded DNA samples can be a challenging task when using the current
commercially available multiplex short tandem repeat (STR) analysis kits. However, the ability …