The risk of eating disorders following the August 4th, 2020 explosion in Beirut and its relationship with trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms.

Introduction: To date, no study has demonstrated the link between the diagnosis of provisional PTSD and ED in people exposed to the explosion of August 4th, 2020.

Methods: Online participants were classified into 4 categories according to the degree of exposure to the explosion (unexposed, slightly exposed, moderately exposed, and severely exposed). The screening for ED was done using the standardized SCOFF questionnaire and the screening for provisional PTSD using the standardized IES-R questionnaire.

Polygenic and Network-based studies in risk identification and demystification of cancer.

Introduction: Diseases were initially thought to be the consequence of a single gene mutation. Advances in DNA sequencing tools and our understanding of gene behavior have revealed that complex diseases, such as cancer, are the product of genes cooperating with each other and with their environment in orchestrated communication networks. Seeing that the function of individual genes is still used to analyze cancer, the shift to using functionally interacting groups of genes as a new unit of study holds promise for demystifying cancer.