In modern society, more and more people work during 'non‐standard'working hours,
including shift and night work, which are recognized risk factors for health, safety and social …

Background Few studies have compared socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of
both fatal and non-fatal diseases. This paper aims to give the first international overview for …

Based on the idea that electric light at night might account for a portion of the high and rising
risk of breast cancer worldwide, it was predicted long ago that women working a non-day …

Naive T helper cells differentiate into two subsets, Th1 and Th2, each with distinct functions
and cytokine profiles. Here, we report the isolation of T-bet, a Th1-specific T box transcription …

Background In 2011, WHO member states signed up to the 25× 25 initiative, a plan to cut
mortality due to non-communicable diseases by 25% by 2025. However, socioeconomic …

Background—The Dionysos Study is a cohort study of the prevalence of chronic liver
disease in the general population of two northern Italian communities. It included 6917 …

Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their
distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which …

Cancer is driven by mutation. Worldwide, tobacco smoking is the principal lifestyle exposure
that causes cancer, exerting carcinogenicity through> 60 chemicals that bind and mutate …

High-throughput sequencing technology enables population-level surveys of human
genomic variation. Here, we examine the joint allele frequency distributions across …

We describe the genome sequencing of an anonymous individual of African origin using a
novel ligation-based sequencing assay that enables a unique form of error correction that …