Disease relevance of STAM2

• A phylogenetic study of South African Newcastle disease virus strains isolated between 1990 and 2002 suggests epidemiological origins in the Far East [1].
• We compared food consumption and food handling practices, opportunities for cross contamination and refrigerator temperature control, in 99 households in South East Wales in 1997/8 with a case of salmonella food poisoning, and control households matched for electoral ward [2].
• Low environmental selenium availability as an additional determinant for goiter in East Java, Indonesia [3]?
• The current outbreak of avian influenza in South East Asia has resulted in a small number of human deaths [4].
• This case is of interest since it demonstrates the emergence of the serovar outside South East Asia where it is common, and shows that information on the incidence and duration of reactive arthritis caused by serovars other than S [5].

High impact information on STAM2

• Genotyping data were contributed by the laboratories that have been using the East Lansing and Compton reference populations and from the Animal Breeding and Genetics Group of the Wageningen University using the Wageningen/Euribrid population [6].
• The linkage maps, the two-point lod scores, and additional information about the loci are available at web sites in Wageningen (http://www.zod.wau.nl/vf/ research/chicken/frame_chicken.html) and East Lansing (http://poultry.mph.msu.edu/) [6].
• In the other two populations, located 15 km west and 40 km northeast of Jerusalem, three of the four H-2 haplotypes found in East Talpiot were present at high frequencies [7].
• Two isolates from very distant geographic locations in Russia (Far East and the European part) clustered together with Chinese strains of QXIBV genotype [8].
• The utility of the library was evaluated by partial sequencing of 99 randomly selected insert-containing clones and the analysis of EST-targeted genomic regions for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the East Lansing chicken reference DNA mapping panel [9].

Biological context of STAM2

• Twelve of the microsatellites were mapped in the East Lansing and/or Compton reference families [10].
• Comparative mapping of the chicken genome using the East Lansing reference population [11].
• Linkage analysis of one such SNP in the backcross progeny of the East Lansing reference DNA panel, localized TUS0005, the chicken sequence derived from primers specific for turkey TUT2E EST, to chromosome 4 [12].
• As an approach to integrate the chicken genetic and cytogenetic maps, bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) and P1-derived artificial chromosome (PAC) clones were localized by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) on chromosomes and by genetic mapping on the East Lansing and Compton reference families [13].
• Using the SNPs that were informative in the East Lansing reference panel, 17 ESTs were mapped on the East Lansing chicken genetic map [9].

Anatomical context of STAM2

• The prevalence of antibodies to meningococci in the Nsukka area, East Central Nigeria, was studied by the indirect hemagglutination test employing tanned chicken erythrocytes [14].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of STAM2

• To augment the number of type I genes on the East Lansing (E) map, segregation of the JF-specific allele was followed using preferential amplification of specific alleles (PASA) in polymerase chain reactions (PCR) [15].

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