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Another candidate for a factor that may be changing with age is susceptibility to viral infections, especially influenza, which may predispose to pneumococcal colonization [25] or disease [26,27].
The MATs are predicated upon the coordinated activities of the spindle checkpoint [ 16 17 ] , the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) or cyclosome [ 18 19 ] , the proteasome [ 20 21 ] , and the cohesion-complex proteins involved with chromosome cohesion and separation [ 22 23 24 ] . Alterations in the temporal sequence of these coordinated activities may potentially predispose cells to faulty chromosome segregation.
More importantly, the use of a sliding scale treatment might predispose to DKA in insulin-deficient patients before the development of hyperglycemic levels.
They may also be of use in testing for allelic association of candidate genes and regions by SNPs, because alleles that predispose to disease should have a higher allele frequency in siblings who share chromosomal regions than in siblings who do not.
We propose that the loss or reduction of BRCA1 may predispose a cell population to neoplastic transformation by altering the balance between cell death and proliferation/survival, rendering it more sensitive to secondary genetic changes.