Background Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are used to treat osteoarthritis. The
multicenter, double-blind, placebo- and celecoxib-controlled Glucosamine/chondroitin Arthritis …

Objective Recurrent digital ulcers are a manifestation of vascular disease in patients with
systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) and lead to pain, impaired function, and tissue loss. We …

… Molitor has received consulting fees of less than $10,000 from Bristol-Myers Squibb and
Abbott. Dr. Keystone has received consulting fees of less than $10,000 from Centocor. …

Many stochastic simulation approaches for generating observations from a posterior distribution
depend on knowing a likelihood function. However, for many complex probability models…

Background 12 months of oral cyclophosphamide has been shown to alter the progression
of scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease when compared with placebo. However, …

Protest is occurring again. In 2011 the “Arab Spring” rocked the Arab world and overthrew a
number of rulers, who which seemed to be invin cible, at least by to their people. In summer …

There is currently tremendous interest in the possibility of using genome-wide association
mapping to identify genes responsible for natural variation, particularly for human disease …

Motivation: Recently there has been increasing interest in the effects of cell mixture on the
measurement of DNA methylation, specifically the extent to which small perturbations in cell …

Background The question of whether air pollution contributes to asthma onset remains
unresolved. Objectives In this study, we assessed the association between asthma onset in …

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Delaware S. SE, MMC108, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail: [email protected] … Kim K …