The rapid rate at which severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants emerge poses a threat to attaining herd immunity against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Multiple ...

Prediction models that incorporate certain personal and family medical history characteristics can help identify high-risk patients who are likely to have a gene mutation associated with a type of ...

A study of 11,000 cancer patients reveals 42 hereditary genes which predispose individuals to a higher number of mutations that correlate with a greater probability of developing cancer. The research ...

Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability have for four decades provided a forum for original research and reviews in applied probability, mapping the development of ...

Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in patients fulfilling HBOC criteria in South Brazil. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Younger breast cancer patients who have a mutation in the well-known BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are four times as likely to get cancer in the other breast as most patients, ...

In the lab, the authors of the study found that a single mutation in the primary protein, hemagglutinin (which is what the H in H5N1 stands for) could give it the ability to cling onto receptors found ...

A mutating strain of bird flu that has emerged in Russia has “a fairly high degree of probability” of human-to-human transmission, the head of the country’s health watchdog warned in a report. Anna ...

We derive some limit theorems associated with the Ewens sampling formula when its parameter is increasing together with a sample size. Moreover, the limit results are applied in order to investigate ...