Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Taro Higuchi, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Wing-Le Chan
Summary: Climate model simulations suggest that mean precipitation in East Asia increases with global warming, leading to more humid conditions; however, proxy data from the Cretaceous period show aridification in low latitudes of East Asia when CO2 levels were higher and the climate was warmer.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Ophthalmology
Patrice M. Hicks, Maria A. Woodward, Leslie M. Niziol, Ming-Chen Lu, Linda Kang, Brian C. Stagg, Otana Jakpor, Angela R. Elam, Paula Anne Newman-Casey
Summary: Redlining was a discriminatory housing policy in the US that led to decreased home ownership and wealth accumulation among Black individuals and neighborhoods. This study found that neighborhoods historically graded for redlining had higher rates of visual impairment and blindness.
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Gayan Pathirana, Na-Yeon Shin, Yi-Kai Wu, Minho Kwon, Jong-Seong Kug
Summary: Tropical convection plays a crucial role in climate variability, and the study found that changes in projected tropical precipitation vary among CMIP6 models but are closely related to the model's warm pool intensity. Models with stronger warm pools tend to simulate increased precipitation in the central Pacific and decreased precipitation in the Maritime Continent under greenhouse warming. The precipitation differences between these regions induce westerly wind anomalies, leading to sea surface temperature warming in the central Pacific.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
E. J. Speyerer, M. S. Robinson, A. J. Sonke
Summary: This study investigates the temporal changes on Mercury’s surface and identifies 20 reflectance changes, one of which exhibits bright rays consistent with the aftermath of an impact event. If all changes result from impact events, the present flux rate is 1,000 times higher than predicted by models. Additionally, changes on slopes in areas with concentrations of tectonic landforms and a subset of changes on or adjacent to hollows suggest present-day endogenic activities.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
In-Hong Park, Sang-Wook Yeh, Seung-Ki Min, Yoo-Geun Ham, Ben P. Kirtman
Summary: A strong positive relationship is found between the size of the present-day Indo-Pacific warm pool and projected precipitation changes in the central-to-eastern tropical Pacific. Models with larger warm pool size project excessive future warming in the eastern tropical Pacific, resulting in the weakening of Walker circulation and increases in precipitation in the central-to-eastern tropical Pacific.
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
S. Vijayan, Harish, K. B. Kimi, S. Tuhi, K. Vigneshwaran, R. K. Sinha, S. J. Conway, B. Sivaraman, Anil Bhardwaj
Summary: Boulder falls on Mars are a record of recent surface activity. Analysis of boulder fall ejecta (BFE) suggests that these tracks likely formed in the last few decades, providing additional evidence for a dry origin theory. The longevity of BFE varies, with the Cerberus Fossae region being one of the most seismically active areas.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Letter
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Annette L. Hirsch, Nina N. Ridder, Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Anna Ukkola
Summary: Heatwave frequency, duration and intensity have increased since the 1950s, with climate models showing potential bias in reproducing historical statistics of these events. Comparisons between CMIP5 and CMIP6 models indicate marginal improvements in simulating heatwave metrics, suggesting significant advances in climate modeling capabilities are needed for future improvements in projecting heatwaves.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Renier Viltres, Sigurjon Jonsson, Abdulaziz O. Alothman, Shaozhuo Liu, Sylvie Leroy, Frederic Masson, Cecile Doubre, Robert Reilinger
Summary: The study of the present-day motion and internal deformation of the Arabian plate reveals its overall rigidity and minimal internal deformation, with localized strain likely due to anthropogenic activities and possible subsurface magmatic processes near its western margin.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Abdisa Kawo Koji, Roeland Van Malderen, Eric Pottiaux, Bert Van Schaeybroeck
Summary: Atmospheric water vapor plays a crucial role in the climate and hydrological processes in Ethiopia, but the analysis of its spatiotemporal variability is challenging due to the lack of long-term observational data. In this study, the researchers compared GPS data with ERA5 reanalysis data and found a good agreement between the two datasets at most sites, albeit with a slight wet bias in the GPS data compared to ERA5.
Article
Business
Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
Summary: The study shows that former Communist party membership facilitated business set-up but not business longevity in Central and Eastern European countries. Individuals who joined the former ruling party typically lacked entrepreneurial traits such as unobservable personality traits, ability, motivation, and entrepreneurial aptitude.
SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS
(2021)
Review
Immunology
Wei-Chun Chou, Sushmita Jha, Michael W. Linhoff, Jenny P. -Y. Ting
Summary: This study provides an overview of the NLR gene family, highlighting their roles in inflammation as well as other functions such as embryogenesis and reproduction. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the various functions and disease relevance of NLRs in future research.
NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shuo Jim Huang, Neil Jay Sehgal
Summary: Redlining in the past is associated with a reduction of 4.01 years in community statistical area life expectancy at baseline, and yellow categorization is associated with a reduction of 5.36 years. When controlling for median household income and proportion of African American residents, redlining is associated with a reduction of 5.23 years and yellow categorization with a reduction of 4.93 years. These results support the association between historical redlining and current health impacts.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Abdulwahab Muhammad Bello, Dimitrios Charlaftis, Stuart J. J. Jones, Jon Gluyas, Sanem Acikalin, Matthieu Cartigny, Khalid Al-Ramadan
Summary: This study investigated the impact of chlorite and microquartz grain coatings on the overgrowth of quartz and feldspar. The experimental results showed that the volume of precursor chlorite plays a significant role in the formation of the coatings. The findings provide quantitative data for describing diagenetic changes in mesodiagenetic environments.
FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Gregory Verghese, Jochen K. Lennerz, Danny Ruta, Wen Ng, Selvam Thavaraj, Kalliopi P. Siziopikou, Threnesan Naidoo, Swapnil Rane, Roberto Salgado, Sarah E. Pinder, Anita Grigoriadis
Summary: Computational pathology refers to the use of deep learning techniques and algorithms to analyze and interpret histopathology images. Despite its promising potential, the integration of computational pathology in clinical settings is hindered by various obstacles, including operational, technical, regulatory, ethical, financial, and cultural challenges.
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ignacio Quintero, Michael J. Landis, Walter Jetz, Helene Morlon
Summary: The difference in species abundance between the tropics and the extra tropics is a major pattern in biogeography. Understanding the processes that regulate this diversity gradient is a challenge. By using spatiotemporal phylogenetic and paleontological models, we found that both extinctions in the extra tropics and outflow of tropical species contribute to shaping biodiversity. These dynamics accurately predict present-day levels of species richness across latitudes.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zhenxin Fan, Pedro Silva, Ilan Gronau, Shuoguo Wang, Aitor Serres Armero, Rena M. Schweizer, Oscar Ramirez, John Pollinger, Marco Galaverni, Diego Ortega Del-Vecchyo, Lianming Du, Wenping Zhang, Zhihe Zhang, Jinchuan Xing, Carles Vila, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Raquel Godinho, Bisong Yue, Robert K. Wayne
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Clare D. Marsden, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Dennis P. O'Brien, Jeremy F. Taylor, Oscar Ramirez, Carles Vila, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Robert D. Schnabel, Robert K. Wayne, Kirk E. Lohmueller
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2016)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Clare D. Marsden, Kirk E. Lohmueller
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bridgett vonHoldf, Zhenxin Fan, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Robert K. Wayne
Article
Biology
Pedro Silva, Marco Galaverni, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Zhenxin Fan, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Fabbri, Ettore Randi, Robert Wayne, Raquel Godinho
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Biology
Jeffrey R. Adrion, Christopher B. Cole, Noah Dukler, Jared G. Galloway, Ariella L. Gladstein, Graham Gower, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Georgia Tsambos, Franz Baumdicker, Jedidiah Carlson, Reed A. Cartwright, Arun Durvasula, Ilan Gronau, Bernard Y. Kim, Patrick McKenzie, Philipp W. Messer, Ekaterina Noskova, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Fernando Racimo, Travis J. Struck, Simon Gravel, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Peter L. Ralph, Daniel R. Schrider, Adam Siepel, Jerome Kelleher, Andrew D. Kern
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Mashaal Sohail, Alan Izarraras-Gomez, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo
Summary: The spatial distribution of genetic variants is influenced by geography, demographic processes, natural selection, and environmental variation; causal alleles play a role in affecting complex traits, with their effects potentially being independent of or dependent on the environment; understanding the evolutionary processes that shape causal alleles' spatial structure is crucial for comprehending the spatial distribution of complex traits.
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Kirk E. Lohmueller, John Novembre
Summary: Recent genome sequencing studies have discovered a large number of low-frequency variants in humans, which provide important information for analyzing the role of selection in human genetic variation. Researchers have developed a likelihood-based method that utilizes pairwise identity-by-state lengths between haplotypes carrying low-frequency variants to estimate the strength of natural selection acting on these variants. They demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish between positive and negative selection on a set of variants in certain non-equilibrium populations. The new framework allows for the inference of a fixed selection intensity on a set of variants at a specific frequency or a distribution of selection coefficients for standing variants and new mutations. An application of this method to the UK10K phased haplotype dataset is presented.
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Andres Jimenez-Kaufmann, Amanda Y. Chong, Adrian Cortes, Consuelo D. Quinto-Cortes, Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Santiago G. Medina-Munoz, Mashaal Sohail, Maria J. Palma-Martinez, Gudalupe Delgado-Sanchez, Norma Mongua-Rodriguez, Alexander J. Mentzer, Adrian V. S. Hill, Hortensia Moreno-Macias, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Michael Torres, Hie Lim Kim, Namrata Kalsi, Stephan C. Schuster, Teresa Tusie-Luna, Diego Ortega Del-Vecchyo, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Andres Moreno-Estrada
Summary: This study aims to improve imputation performance and statistical power in Latin American individuals of mixed ancestry by adding Native American genomes to the existing reference panel. Through experimentation, it was demonstrated that this approach can increase the number of SNPs and improve imputation accuracy for low-frequency variants in Native American ancestry tracts. Our research highlights the issue of imbalance in diversity within current reference genomes and contributes to reducing this imbalance.
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Genetics & Heredity
Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Jeremy Berg, Mashaal Sohail
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Ryan Buck, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Catherine Gehring, Rhett Michelson, Dulce Flores-Renteria, Barbara Klein, Amy V. Whipple, Lluvia Flores-Renteria
Summary: This study evaluates the formation, structure, and maintenance of a multispecies interbreeding network, and finds that gene flow in syngameons can increase genetic diversity, facilitate colonization of new environments, and contribute to hybrid speciation. The study also demonstrates that participation in syngameons can maintain morphological and genetic distinctiveness at species boundaries, while allowing for extensive gene flow in sympatric areas.
Article
Ecology
Laura Figueroa-Corona, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Pablo Pelaez, David S. Gernandt, Luis E. Eguiarte, Jill Wegrzyn, Daniel Pinero
Summary: Climate changes and geographical barriers have influenced genetic diversity and distribution patterns of species in northern Mexico. The study on the genetic diversity of Pinus pinceana reveals that it diverged into two lineages and colonized the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Chihuahuan Desert.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Santiago G. Medina-Munoz, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Aaron P. Ragsdale
Summary: This study used high-coverage whole-genome data and existing genomes from Latin America to infer the complex evolutionary history of Latin American populations. The models developed in this study provide a more accurate prediction of genetic variation in admixed populations and can be a valuable resource for future studies.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
(2023)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Daniel Pinero, Lev Jardon-Barbolla, Joost van Heerwaarden
BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2017)