Functional Categorization of Variants of Uncertain Clinical Significance in Homologous Recombination Repair Complementation Assays.

Purpose: Because is a high-risk breast/ovarian cancer susceptibility gene, sequence variants of uncertain clinical significance (VUS) complicate genetic counseling. As most VUS are rare, reliable classification based on clinical and genetic data is often impossible. However, all pathogenic variants analyzed result in defective homologous recombination DNA repair (HRR).

Dissociating spatial and spatiotemporal aspects of navigation ability in chronic stroke patients.

Objective: The notion of distinguishable processing mechanisms for spatial and spatiotemporal information has largely been neglected in the context of navigation. Only a recent neuropsychological case study has provided initial evidence for the idea that these elements can be differentiated at a functional level. The aim of the current study was therefore to critically verify this double dissociation by adopting a systematic, large-scale approach.

Distance comparisons in virtual reality: effects of path, context, and age.

In this large scale, individual differences study (N = 521), the effects of cardinal axes of an environment and the path taken between locations on distance comparisons were assessed. The main goal was to identify if and to what extent previous findings in simple 2D tasks can be generalized to a more dynamic, three-dimensional virtual reality environment. Moreover, effects of age and gender were assessed.