Publications by authors named "A Schachner"
Article Synopsis
- Current standard genetic testing methods struggle to provide detailed information on duplications and balanced structural variants (SV), which can be crucial for clinical assessment.
- A retrospective study from 2023 examined cases where SVs detected by standard methods were further analyzed using optical genome mapping (OGM), revealing that OGM successfully resolved six out of seven cases.
- The study concludes that OGM is a valuable tool for characterizing SVs, providing essential information in certain clinical situations, particularly in prenatal cases or when family analysis is not feasible.
Aesthetic Motivation Impacts Judgments of Others' Prosociality and Mental Life.
Open Mind (Camb)
December 2023
The ability to infer others' prosocial vs. antisocial behavioral tendencies from minimal information is core to social reasoning. Aesthetic motivation (the value or appreciation of aesthetic beauty) is linked with prosocial tendencies, raising the question of whether this factor is used in interpersonal reasoning and in the attribution of mental capacities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInclusion body hepatitis (IBH) is a metabolic disease affecting chickens, associated with different serotypes of fowl adenovirus (FAdV). Experimentally tested vaccines against IBH include several capsid-based subunit vaccines, but not the penton base protein. In the present study, specific pathogen-free chickens were vaccinated with recombinant penton base expressed from each of two different FAdV serotypes (FAdV-7 and FAdV-8b), followed by challenge with a virulent IBH-causing strain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpectancy Effects Threaten the Inferential Validity of Synchrony-Prosociality Research.
Open Mind (Camb)
December 2022
Many studies argue that synchronized movement increases prosocial attitudes and behavior. We reviewed meta-analytic evidence that reported effects of synchrony may be driven by experimenter expectancy, leading to experimenter bias; and participant expectancy, otherwise known as placebo effects. We found that a majority of published studies do not adequately control for experimenter bias and that multiple independent replication attempts with added controls have failed to find the original effects.
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- - The study maps human genetic diversity across regions like Anatolia, Iran, and the Aegean, highlighting changes from the early Neolithic period to more complex societal structures using a combination of ancient and modern genomes.
- - Findings reveal that genetic diversity increased over time, with early Holocene populations in Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean becoming more similar, followed by a divergence starting in the Bronze Age due to external gene flow, described as "the expanding mobility model."
- - The research also uncovers a trend of increasing male bias in admixture events throughout the Holocene, which is measured using specific genetic distance methods that are more effective than traditional F statistics.