New Diagnostic Tool Uncovered Gene Expression Patterns in Recessive Genetic Disorders
...covered by two scientists Vivian Cheung and Warren ewens from the University of Pennsylvania to study //med...rofiles. As a model for their work, Cheung and ewens used a rare recessive disease known as Nijmegen br...ression patterns of thousands of genes, Cheung and ewens discovered that heterozygous carriers of NBS exhib...University of Pennsylvania researchers develop formula to gauge risk of disease clusters
...rmula depends on generating function technology developed by Herbert Wilf, professor of mathematics in the School of Arts and Science at Penn. Warren ewens of Penns Department of Biology joined Wilf in developing the formula. Until now, only potentially unreliable, approximate formulae have been availabl...Neutral theory of molecular evolution
...into the extent to which molecular evolution is neutral. See also Molecular evolution Unified neutral theory of biodiversity Warren ewens Ewens's sampling formula References Motoo Kimura Neutral theory of molecular evolution Cambridge University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-521-...