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- Beal, Jacob, et al.
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Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density
- 2020
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Ingår i: Communications Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2399-3642. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data.
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- Yang, Yaochun, et al.
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First-principles study of the Sigma 3(112) grain boundary in Fe-rich Fe-Cr alloys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scripta Materialia. - : Elsevier BV. - 1359-6462 .- 1872-8456. ; 181, s. 140-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report a first-principles investigation of the Sigma 3(112) grain boundary (GB) in body-centered cubic Fe-rich Fe1-xCrx alloy as a function of chemical composition and temperature. The equilibrium amount of Cr at the GB undergoes a sharp transition from slight enrichment in low-alloyed Fe-Cr (x <= 0.06-0.08) to complete Cr saturation for 0.08 <= x <= 0.15. The GB chemistry at room-temperature and below is characterized by miscibility gaps, destabilizing a Fe-Cr interfacial solid solution towards decomposition into Fe-rich and Cr-rich clusters. The Cr-rich clusters at the GB may serve as nucleation centers for secondary phases in Fe-Cr alloys.
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- Yang, Yaochun, et al.
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First-principles study of the Σ3(112) grain boundary in Fe-rich Fe-Cr alloys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scripta Materialia. - : Elsevier BV. - 1359-6462 .- 1872-8456. ; 181, s. 140-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report a first-principles investigation of the Sigma 3(112) grain boundary (GB) in body-centered cubic Fe-rich Fe1-xCrx alloy as a function of chemical composition and temperature. The equilibrium amount of Cr at the GB undergoes a sharp transition from slight enrichment in low-alloyed Fe-Cr (x <= 0.06-0.08) to complete Cr saturation for 0.08 <= x <= 0.15. The GB chemistry at room-temperature and below is characterized by miscibility gaps, destabilizing a Fe-Cr interfacial solid solution towards decomposition into Fe-rich and Cr-rich clusters. The Cr-rich clusters at the GB may serve as nucleation centers for secondary phases in Fe-Cr alloys.
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- Zhang, YD, et al.
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Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nature communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2041-1723. ; 11:1, s. 3353-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of hundreds of susceptibility loci across cancers, but the impact of further studies remains uncertain. Here we analyse summary-level data from GWAS of European ancestry across fourteen cancer sites to estimate the number of common susceptibility variants (polygenicity) and underlying effect-size distribution. All cancers show a high degree of polygenicity, involving at a minimum of thousands of loci. We project that sample sizes required to explain 80% of GWAS heritability vary from 60,000 cases for testicular to over 1,000,000 cases for lung cancer. The maximum relative risk achievable for subjects at the 99th risk percentile of underlying polygenic risk scores (PRS), compared to average risk, ranges from 12 for testicular to 2.5 for ovarian cancer. We show that PRS have potential for risk stratification for cancers of breast, colon and prostate, but less so for others because of modest heritability and lower incidence.
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