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For the second cohort, the confidence intervals indicated that Caucasians had a significantly longer survival time than Filipinos; and in the third cohort, Hawaiians had significantly shorter survival time than all other ethnic groups.
Amino acid mutations were introduced at the oligonucleotide level under controlled conditions [ 7 ] . This oligonucleotide was used as the template in a PCR reaction with two shorter 5' biotinylated oligonucleotide primers contributing the restriction sites.
''Not only is the money short, but time is even shorter,'' said Ron Wilson, ombudsman for the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which will make the money available only if the health-study proposal from Legal Aid Service of Broward County is strong enough.
Specifically, for each protein phylogeny, the length of the longest branch was compared to the sum of the two shorter branches (Figure 1).
Examination of these structures shows that they are principally composed of large α-helical hairpins that form coiled coil structures or stretches with successive shorter α-helices.