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Age of heart disease presentation and dysmorphic nuclei in patients with LMNA mutations.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Core Jason Q, Mehrabi Mehrsa, Robinson Zachery R, Ochs Alexander R, McCarthy Linda A, Zaragoza Michael V, Grosberg Anna
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear shape defects are a distinguishing characteristic in laminopathies, cancers, and other pathologies. Correlating these defects to the symptoms, mechanisms, and progression of disease requires unbiased, quantitative, and high-throughput means of quantifying nuclear morphology. To accomplish this, we developed a method of automatically segmenting fluorescently stained nuclei in 2D microscopy images and then...
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