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In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging To Evaluate Systemic And Topical Antibiotics Against Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus-Infected Skin Wounds In Mice, Yi Guo, Romela Irene Ramos, John S. Cho, Niles P. Donegan, Ambrose L. Cheung, Lloyd S. Miller Dec 2013

In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging To Evaluate Systemic And Topical Antibiotics Against Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus-Infected Skin Wounds In Mice, Yi Guo, Romela Irene Ramos, John S. Cho, Niles P. Donegan, Ambrose L. Cheung, Lloyd S. Miller

Dartmouth Scholarship

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) frequently causes skin and soft tissue infections, including impetigo, cellulitis, folliculitis, and infected wounds and ulcers. Uncomplicated CA-MRSA skin infections are typically managed in an outpatient setting with oral and topical antibiotics and/or incision and drainage, whereas complicated skin infections often require hospitalization, intravenous antibiotics, and sometimes surgery. The aim of this study was to devel


A Simple And Computationally Efficient Approach To Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Analysis Of Gene-Gene Interactions For Quantitative Traits, Jiang Gui, Jason H. Moore, Scott M. Williams, Peter Andrews, Hillege, Hans L. Hillege, Hans L., Pim Van Der Harst, Gerjan| Navis, Wiek H. Van Gilst, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Diane| Gilbert-Diamond Jun 2013

A Simple And Computationally Efficient Approach To Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Analysis Of Gene-Gene Interactions For Quantitative Traits, Jiang Gui, Jason H. Moore, Scott M. Williams, Peter Andrews, Hillege, Hans L. Hillege, Hans L., Pim Van Der Harst, Gerjan| Navis, Wiek H. Van Gilst, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Diane| Gilbert-Diamond

Dartmouth Scholarship

We present an extension of the two-class multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) algorithm that enables detection and characterization of epistatic SNP-SNP interactions in the context of a quantitative trait. The proposed Quantitative MDR (QMDR) method handles continuous data by modifying MDR’s constructive induction algorithm to use a T-test. QMDR replaces the balanced accuracy metric with a T-test statistic as the score to determine the best interaction model. We used a simulation to identify the empirical distribution of QMDR’s testing score. We then applied QMDR to genetic data from the ongoing prospective Prevention of Renal and Vascular End-Stage Disease (PREVEND) study.


Genetic Approaches To Studying Complex Human Disease, Joseph B. Dube Jun 2013

Genetic Approaches To Studying Complex Human Disease, Joseph B. Dube

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Common, complex diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) represent an intricate interaction between environmental and genetic factors and now account for the leading causes of mortality in western society. By investigating the genetic component of complex disease etiology, we have gained a better understanding of the biological pathways underlying complex disease and the heterogeneity of complex disease risk. However, the development of high throughput genomic technologies and large well-phenotyped multi-ethnic cohorts has opened the door towards more in-depth and trans-disciplinary approaches to studying the genetics of complex disease pathogenesis. Accordingly, we sought to investigate select complex traits and diseases using …