INCORPORATING MULTI-STAGE DIAGNOSIS STATUS TO MINE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN GENETIC RISK VARIANTS AND THE MULTI-MODALITY PHENOTYPE NETWORK IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

Incorporating multi-stage diagnosis status to mine associations between genetic risk variants and the multi-modality phenotype network in major depressive disorder

Depression (major depressive disorder, MDD) is a common and serious medical illness.Globally, it is estimated that 5% of adults suffer from depression.Recently, imaging genetics receives growing attention and become a powerful strategy for discoverying the associations between genetic variants (e.g., single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) and multi

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FIRES IN BRAZILIAN AMAZON: WHY DOES POLICY HAVE A LIMITED IMPACT?

Abstract The paper identifies the key LIVER SUPPORT factors limiting the effectiveness of current public policies to reduce Brazilian Amazon fires.Among them, (i) the dominant allocation of budget to fire suppression in detriment of prevention, (ii) the geographical limitation of the federal action and the reduced policy making capacity of states a

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