Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Mitochondrial Gene Diversity of the Mega-Herbivorous Species of the genus Tapirus (Tapiridae, Perissodactyla) in South America and some Insights on their Genetics Conservation, Systematics and the Pleistocene Influence on their Genetics Characteristics
(Manuel Ruiz-García, Armando Castellanos, Luz Agueda Bernal, Diego Navas, Myreya Pinedo-Castro, Joseph Mark Shostell, Laboratorio de Genética de Poblaciones-Biología Evolutiva. Unidad de Genética. Departamento de Biología. Facultad de Ciencias. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC., Colombia, and others)

Strategies for Gene Prospecting of Plants in Response to Drought and Salinity
(Deyvid Novaes Marques, Nicolle Louise Ferreira Barros, Diehgo Tuloza da Silva, Fabiano Melo de Brito, Claudia Regina Batista de Souza, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil, and others)

Clinical Evidence and the Genetic Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Management of Proteinuria in Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy
(Xiang Tu, XueFeng Ye, Quan Hu, ChunGuang Xie, ChengShi He, Ming Chen, James B. Jordan, Sen Zhong, National Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base for Diabetes Mellitus/Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, and others)

Biochemistry and Genetics of Ansamycin Antibiotics
(Amit Kumar Jha, Jae Kyung Sohng, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, Kalsan-ri, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-si, Chungnam, Republic of Korea)

BRCA Gene Mutations Mediate Particularly High TNBC Risk by Defective Estrogen Signaling
(Zsuzsanna Suba, National Institute of Oncology, Surgical and Molecular Tumor Pathology Centre, Budapest, Hungary)

Genotype-Phenotype Relationships in Language Processes in Rett Syndrome
(Alessandra Falzone, Antonio Gangemi, Rosa Angela Fabio, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Italy)

Marfan Syndrome: A Rare and Sometime Very Disabling Genetic Disorder
(Henry J. Mankin, Keith P. Mankin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Orthopaedic Department, MA, USA)

Marfan Syndrome and Periodontitis
(Jun-ichi Suzuki and Yasunobu Hirata, Department of Advanced Clinical Science and Therapeutics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and others)

Combined Pectus Correction and Aortic Valve Sparing Root Replacement in Marfan Patients
(Jean-Philippe Verhoye, Jacques Tomasi, Department of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Rennes, rue Henri Le-Guilloux, Rennes, France)

Severe Periodontitis in Marfan syndrome
(Naoto Suda, Division of Orthodontics, Department of Human Development and Fostering, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Keyakidai, Sakado-shi, Saitama, Japan)

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Marfan Syndrome
(Anver Kuliev and Svetlana Rechitsky, Reproductive Genetics Innovations, Northbrook, IL, USA)

Index