A genome-wide association study identifies 5 loci associated with frozen shoulder and implicates diabetes as a causal risk factor. by Harry D Green, Alistair Jones, Jonathan P Evans, Andrew R Wood, Robin N Beaumont, Jessica Tyrrell, Timothy M Frayling, Christopher Smith, Michael N Weedon

“…We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of frozen shoulder in the UK Biobank using data from 10,104 cases identified from inpatient, surgical and primary care codes. We used data from FinnGen for replication and meta-analysis. …”
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An observational study of patient characteristics associated with the mode of admission to acute stroke services in North East, England. by Christopher I Price, Victoria Rae, Jay Duckett, Ruth Wood, Joanne Gray, Peter McMeekin, Helen Rodgers, Karen Portas, Gary A Ford

“…Emergency ambulance patients were older (76 vs 69 years), more likely to be from institutional care (10% vs 1%) and experiencing total anterior circulation symptoms (27% vs 6%). …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Patients With Agitation in Alzheimer Dementia by Christie Teigland, Zulkarnain Pulungan, David Bruhn, Steve Hwang

“…Patients with agitation in Alzheimer dementia were identified by 2 or more claims 14 or more days apart using _International Classification of Diseases-9-CM/-10-CM_ codes based on the provisional International Psychogeriatric Association agitation definition. …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of DNA enhancers with a stacked multivariate fusion framework. by Yansong Wang, Zilong Hou, Yuning Yang, Ka-Chun Wong, Xiangtao Li

“…Enhancers are short non-coding DNA sequences outside of the target promoter regions that can be bound by specific proteins to increase a gene's transcriptional activity, which has a crucial role in the spatiotemporal and quantitative regulation of gene expression. …”
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Shrinking Cities of the Russian Arctic: Public Discourse of Vorkuta Residents on the Place Identity and the Reasons for Population Outflow by Elena V. Nedoseka, Ekaterina N. Sharova, Veronika A. Lisova

“…Using open and axial coding techniques, the dominant subdiscourses in the perception of place identity and a group of urban development problems that cause the outflow of population from the city were meaningfully identified. …”
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Analysis of the human monocyte-derived macrophage transcriptome and response to lipopolysaccharide provides new insights into genetic aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease. by J Kenneth Baillie, Erik Arner, Carsten Daub, Michiel De Hoon, Masayoshi Itoh, Hideya Kawaji, Timo Lassmann, Piero Carninci, Alistair R R Forrest, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, FANTOM Consortium, Geoffrey J Faulkner, Christine A Wells, Michael Rehli, Paul Pavli, Kim M Summers, David A Hume

“…LPS-inducible long non-coding RNAs were commonly associated with clusters of inducible enhancers. …”
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Epigenome-wide methylation analysis shows phosphonoethylamine alleviates aberrant DNA methylation in NASH caused by Pcyt2 deficiency. by Sophie Grapentine, Prasoon Agarwal, Vernon W Dolinsky, Marica Bakovic

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The Pcyt2 + /- liver methylome and transcriptome is altered and likely underlies much of the pathology in Pcyt2 + /- NASH phenotype. …”
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PrEP your step: Implementing an online crowdsourcing contest to engage young people in HIV prevention in Washington DC, USA. by Tamara Taggart, Allison Mathews, Toni Junious, Joseph A Lindsey, Andrea Augustine, Charles Debnam, Yavonne Boyd, Seraiya Wright, Joseph D Tucker, Manya Magnus

“…We analyzed cross-sectional surveys using descriptive statistics, and semi-structured interviews with contest participants using thematic coding to explore barriers and facilitators to contest engagement. …”
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Evolving Trends in Teacher Self-Efficacy Research: A BibliometricReview (2020–2025) by Ana-Maria MADINA, Daniel MARA

“…Significant database specialisation patterns emerged, with Springer publications substantially more likely to address teacher self-efficacy than ScienceDirect (47.7% versus 1.8%). …”
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Through the fog of disease: the challenges faced by and vision of medical staff and patients with regard to intermittent symptom management during colorectal cancer chemotherapy by Xinchu Luo, Xi Zhang, Xi Ke, Xinyuan Yu, Yuxuan Wu, Huimin Du, Danan Lv, Dun Liu

“…In the process of symptom management, patients are more dependent on medical staff, and medical staff are more likely to advocate common decision-making with regard to patients. …”
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Comparison of Rehabilitation Outcomes for Long Term Neurological Conditions: A Cohort Analysis of the Australian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre Dataset for Adults of Working Age. by Lynne Turner-Stokes, Roxana Vanderstay, Tara Stevermuer, Frances Simmonds, Fary Khan, Kathy Eagar

“…All six groups showed significant change (p<0.001) between admission and discharge that was likely to be clinically important across a range of items. …”
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8.2% of the Human genome is constrained: variation in rates of turnover across functional element classes in the human lineage. by Chris M Rands, Stephen Meader, Chris P Ponting, Gerton Lunter

“…By contrast, protein coding sequence has been highly stable, with an estimated half-life of over a billion years (d1/2 = 2.1-5.0). …”
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Association of social vulnerability with access to treatment in ovarian cancer patients by Nikita Bastin, Marc Robinson, Amir Javid, Lauren S. Prescott, Alaina J. Brown

“…Social Vulnerability index quartiles generated by patients’ zip codes were used as measures of social vulnerability. …”
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Cell death and antioxidant responses in Mytilus galloprovincialis under heat stress: Evidence of genetic loci potentially associated with thermal resilience. by Dimitrios K Papadopoulos, Basile Michaelidis, Ioannis A Giantsis

“…Further, the coding sequences of catalase, intracellular Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (Cu-Zn sod), and fas-associated protein with death domain (fadd) from heat-resilient and heat-susceptible mussels were analyzed. …”
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Utilisation of antibiotics in a community pharmacy: A case from north-west, South Africa by Zanele Nsingo, Varsha Bangalee, Deanne Johnston

“…Notably, 82% (n= 8584) of prescriptions were linked to non-specific International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes. Generic medicines constituted 92.6% (n = 9694) of prescriptions. …”
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The Effect of Osteoporosis on Postoperative Outcomes Following Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Ronit Kulkarni BS, Joshua L. Morningstar BS, Richard J. Friedman MD, FRCSC, Christopher E. Gross MD, Daniel J. Scott MBA, MD

“…Patients were divided into two cohorts based on the presence of preoperative osteoporosis (as defined by ICD-10 CM codes M81, M80, M80.07XX), with 943 (3.3%) having this diagnosis. …”
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How, when, and who should ask about pregnancy intentions in primary care? A qualitative study of primary healthcare professionals’ preferences by Jennifer Hall, Helen Carr, Anne Connolly, Geraldine Barrett

“…Framework analysis was conducted in NVivo, adapting a coding frame from complementary interviews with women. …”
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The Effect of Parkinson’s Disease on Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery by Jeremy Steinberger, Jeffrey Gilligan, Branko Skovrlj, Christopher A. Sarkiss, Javier Z. Guzman, Samuel K. Cho, John M. Caridi

“…Patients were included for study based on ICD-9-CM procedural codes for lumbar spine surgery and substratified to degenerative diagnoses. …”
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Benefits of medication charts provided at transitions of care: a narrative systematic review by Fine Michèle Dietrich, Kurt E Hersberger, Isabelle Arnet

“…A medication chart that contains all essential information on current therapy is likely to be a helpful tool for patients and healthcare providers. …”
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Phylogenetic reconstruction of orthology, paralogy, and conserved synteny for dog and human. by Leo Goodstadt, Chris P Ponting

“…Having accounted for 2,954 likely pseudogenes and gene fragments, and after separating 346 erroneously merged genes, we estimated that the human genome encodes a minimum of 19,700 protein-coding genes, similar to the gene count of nematode worms. …”
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