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    Problems with visual statistical learning in developmental dyslexia 
    Sigurdardottir, Heida Maria; Daníelsdóttir, Hilda Björk; Guðmundsdóttir, Margrét; Hjartarson, Kristján Helgi; Þórarinsdóttir, Elín Ástrós; Kristjansson, Arni (Springer Nature, 2017-04-04)
    Previous research shows that dyslexic readers are impaired in their recognition of faces and other complex objects, and show hypoactivation in ventral visual stream regions that support word and object recognition. Responses of these brain regions ...
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    Profile of common prostate cancer risk variants in an unscreened Romanian population 
    Iordache, Paul; Mates, Dana; Gunnarsson, Bjarni; Eggertsson, Hannes; sulem, patrick; Guðmundsson, Júlíus; Benonisdottir, Stefania; Csiki, Irma Eva; Rascu, Stefan; Radavoi, Daniel; Ursu, Radu; Staicu, Catalin; Calota, Violeta; Voinoiu, Angelica; Jinga, Mariana; Rosoga, Gabriel; Danau, Razvan; Sima, Sorin Cristian; Badescu, Daniel; Suciu, Nicoleta; Radoi, Viorica; Manolescu, Andrei; Rafnar, Thorunn; Halldórsson, Bjarni; Jinga, Viorel; Stefansson, Kari (Wiley, 2017-12-20)
    To find sequence variants affecting prostate cancer (PCA) susceptibility in an unscreened Romanian population we use a genome‐wide association study (GWAS). The study population included 990 unrelated pathologically confirmed PCA cases and 1034 male ...
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    Profiling DNA damage response following mitotic perturbations 
    Pedersen, Ronni S.; Karemore, Gopal; Guðjónsson, Þorkell; Rask, Maj-Britt; Neumann, Beate; Hériché, Jean-Karim; Pepperkok, Rainer; Ellenberg, Jan; Gerlich, Daniel W.; Lukas, Jiri; Lukas, Claudia (Springer Nature, 2016-12-15)
    Genome integrity relies on precise coordination between DNA replication and chromosome segregation. Whereas replication stress attracted much attention, the consequences of mitotic perturbations for genome integrity are less understood. Here, we knockdown ...
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    Promiscuous scaffolds in proteins - non-native, non-additive and non-trivial 
    Chakraborty, Sandeep; Ásgeirsson, Bjarni; Dutta, Mouparna; Ghosh, Anindya S.; Oda, Masataka; Rendón, Adela; Goñi, Felix; Frere, Jean-Marie; Venkatramani, Ravindra; Dandekar, Abhaya M.; Rao, Basuthkar J. (F1000Research, 2014-01-20)
    Promiscuity, the ability of an enzyme to catalyze diverse activities using the same active site, sets up the stage for the evolution of complex organisms through gene duplication and specialization. The detection of promiscuous motifs is crucial to ...
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    A proposed unified framework to describe the management of biological invasions 
    Robertson, Peter A.; Mill, Aileen; Novoa, Ana; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Essl, Franz; Gallardo, Belinda; Geist, Juergen; Jarić, Ivan; Lambin, Xavier; Musseau, Camille; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; von Schmalensee, Menja; Shirley, Mark; Strayer, David L.; Stefánsson, Róbert A.; Smith, Kevin; Booy, Olaf (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-06-30)
    Managing the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is a great societal challenge. A wide variety of terms have been used to describe the management of invasive alien species and the sequence in which they might be applied. This variety and lack of ...
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    A prospective study on insect bite hypersensitivity in horses exported from Iceland into Switzerland 
    Torsteinsdóttir, Sigurbjörg; Scheidegger, Stephan; Baselgia, Silvia; Jónsdóttir, Sigríður; Svansson, Vilhjálmur; Björnsdóttir, Sigríður; Marti, Eliane (Springer Nature, 2018-11-03)
    Background: Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is an IgE-mediated dermatitis caused by bites of Culicoides spp., which occurs frequently in horses imported from Iceland to continental Europe. IBH does not occur in Iceland because Culicoides species ...
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    Prosper or perish? The development of Icelandic fishing villages after the privatisation of fishing rights 
    Kokorsch, Matthias; Benediktsson, Karl (Springer Nature, 2018-04)
    Icelandic fish stocks underwent privatisation in 1990, when existing fishing quotas were made fully transferable. The country’s system of individual transferable quotas has since been held up as a paragon of virtue for sustainable fisheries. This might ...
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    Prostate-specific antigen velocity in a prospective prostate cancer screening study of men with genetic predisposition 
    Mikropoulos, Christos; Selkirk, Christina G Hutten; Saya, Sibel; Bancroft, Elizabeth; Vertosick, Emily; Dadaev, Tokhir; Brendler, Charles; Page, Elizabeth; Dias, Alexander; Evans, D Gareth; Rothwell, Jeanette; Maehle, Lovise; Axcrona, Karol; Richardson, Kate; Eccles, Diana; Jensen, Thomas; Osther, Palle J; van Asperen, Christi J; Vasen, Hans; Kiemeney, Lambertus A; Ringelberg, Janneke; Cybulski, Cezary; Wokolorczyk, Dominika; Hart, Rachel; Glover, Wayne; Lam, Jimmy; Taylor, Louise; Salinas, Monica; Feliubadaló, Lidia; Oldenburg, Rogier; Cremers, Ruben; Verhaegh, Gerald; van Zelst-Stams, Wendy A; Oosterwijk, Jan C; Cook, Jackie; Rosario, Derek J; Buys, Saundra S; Conner, Tom; Domchek, Susan; Powers, Jacquelyn; Ausems, Margreet GEM; Teixeira, Manuel R; Maia, Sofia; Izatt, Louise; Schmutzler, Rita; Rhiem, Kerstin; Foulkes, William D; Boshari, Talia; Davidson, Rosemarie; Ruijs, Marielle; Helderman-van den Enden, Apollonia TJM; Andrews, Lesley; Walker, Lisa; Snape, Katie; Henderson, Alex; Jobson, Irene; Lindeman, Geoffrey J; Liljegren, Annelie; Harris, Marion; Adank, Muriel A; Kirk, Judy; Taylor, Amy; Susman, Rachel; Chen-Shtoyerman, Rakefet; Pachter, Nicholas; Spigelman, Allan; Side, Lucy; Zgajnar, Janez; Mora, Josefina; Brewer, Carole; Gadea, Neus; Brady, Angela F; Gallagher, David; van Os, Theo; Donaldson, Alan; Stefansdottir, Vigdis; Barwell, Julian; James, Paul A; Murphy, Declan; Friedman, Eitan; Nicolai, Nicola; Greenhalgh, Lynn; Obeid, Elias; Murthy, Vedang; Copakova, Lucia; McGrath, John; Teo, Soo-Hwang; Strom, Sara; Kast, Karin; Leongamornlert, Daniel A; Chamberlain, Anthony; Pope, Jenny; Newlin, Anna C; Aaronson, Neil; Ardern-Jones, Audrey; Bangma, Chris; Castro, Elena; Dearnaley, David; Eyfjörð, Jórunn Erla; Falconer, Alison; Foster, Christopher S; Gronberg, Henrik; Hamdy, Freddie C; Johannsson, Oskar; Khoo, Vincent; Lubinski, Jan; Grindedal, Eli Marie; McKinley, Joanne; Shackleton, Kylie; Mitra, Anita V; Moynihan, Clare; Rennert, Gad; Suri, Mohnish; Tricker, Karen; Moss, Sue; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia; Vickers, Andrew; Lilja, Hans; Helfand, Brian T; Eeles, Rosalind A (Springer Nature, 2018-01)
    Background: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and PSA-velocity (PSAV) have been used to identify men at risk of prostate cancer (PrCa). The IMPACT study is evaluating PSA screening in men with a known genetic predisposition to PrCa due to BRCA1/2 ...
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    Protect Me from What I Want: Understanding Excessive Polluting Behavior and the Willingness to Act 
    Gardarsdottir, Ragna B; Andradóttir, Hrund; Thorsteinsson, Throstur (MDPI AG, 2020-07-21)
    Many environmental problems stem from unsustainable human consumption. Accordingly, many studies have focused on the barriers to pro-environmental behavior. The inability or unwillingness to act is partially related to personal values as well as the ...
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    Proton Shuttling and Reaction Paths in Dissociative Electron Attachment to o- and p-Tetrafluorohydroquinone, an Experimental and Theoretical Study 
    Ómarsson, Benedikt; Bjornsson, Ragnar; Ingólfsson, Oddur (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017-07-21)
    Here we present a combined experimental and theoretical study on the fragmentation of o- and p-tetrafluorohydroquinone upon low energy electron attachment. Despite an identical ring-skeleton and identical functional groups in these constitutional ...
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    A proximity-labeling proteomic approach to investigate invadopodia molecular landscape in breast cancer cells 
    Thuault, Sylvie; Mamelonet, Claire; Salameh, Joëlle; Ostacolo, Kevin; Chanez, Brice; Salaün, Danièle; Baudelet, Emilie; Audebert, Stéphane; Camoin, Luc; Badache, Ali (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04-22)
    Metastatic progression is the leading cause of mortality in breast cancer. Invasive tumor cells develop invadopodia to travel through basement membranes and the interstitial matrix. Substantial efforts have been made to characterize invadopodia molecular ...
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    A PRPH splice-donor variant associates with reduced sural nerve amplitude and risk of peripheral neuropathy 
    Bjornsdottir, Gyda; Ívarsdóttir, Erna V.; Bjarnadóttir, Kristbjörg; Benonisdottir, Stefania; Gylfadottir, Sandra Sif; Arnadottir, Gudny; Benediktsson, Rafn; Halldorsson, Gisli; Helgadottir, Anna; Jónasdóttir, Aðalbjörg; Jónasdóttir, Áslaug; Jonsdottir, Ingileif; Kristinsdóttir, Anna Margrét; Magnússon, Ólafur T.; Másson, Gísli; Melsted, Páll; Rafnar, Thorunn; Sigurðsson, Ásgeir; Sigurdsson, Gunnar; Skúladóttir, Ástrós; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Vikingsson, Arnor; Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Holm, Hilma; Stefansson, Hreinn; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Norðdahl, Guðmundur L.; sulem, patrick; Thorgeirsson, Thorgeir; Stefansson, Kari (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-04-16)
    Nerve conduction (NC) studies generate measures of peripheral nerve function that can reveal underlying pathology due to axonal loss, demyelination or both. We perform a genome-wide association study of sural NC amplitude and velocity in 7045 Icelanders ...
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    Psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases during the diagnostic workup of potential breast cancer: a population-based cohort study in Skåne, Sweden 
    Shen, Qing; Jöud, Anna; Schelin, Maria E. C.; Sjölander, Arvid; Cao, Yang; Sparén, Pär; Fall, Katja; Czene, Kamila; Valdimarsdottir, Unnur; Fang, Fang (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-12-10)
    Background: An increasing number of women are evaluated for potential breast cancer and may experience mental distress during evaluation. We aim to assess the risks of psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases during the diagnostic workup of ...
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    Psychological Well-Being of Sexual Minority Young Adults in Iceland: Assessing Differences by Sexual Attraction and Gender 
    Gísladóttir, Berglind; Gronfeldt, Bjarki; Kristjansson, Alfgeir; Sigfúsdóttir, Inga Dóra (Springer Nature, 2017-10-14)
    The literature on sexual minority adolescents and young adults has highlighted a poor mental status among those groups compared to their heterosexual peers. Sexual minorities are also more likely to experience stress factors such as bullying and physical ...
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    Public committees and corporatism: How does Iceland compare to Scandinavia? 
    Óskarsdóttir, Stefanía (Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands, 2018-05-30)
    This paper compares the number of corporatist public committees, appointed by central government, in Iceland and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Its main aim is to shed light on where Iceland stands compared to these countries in term of corporatist ...
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    Public health insurance and cancer‐specific mortality risk among patients with breast cancer: A prospective cohort study in China 
    Xie, Yuxin; Valdimarsdottir, Unnur; Wang, Chengshi; Zhong, XiaoRong; Gou, Qiheng; Zheng, Hong; Deng, Ling; He, Ping; Hu, Kejia; Fall, Katja; Fang, Fang; Tamimi, Rulla M.; Luo, Ting; Lu, Donghao (Wiley, 2020-07-14)
    Little is known about how health insurance policies, particularly in developing countries, influence breast cancer prognosis. Here, we examined the association between individual health insurance and breast cancer-specific mortality in China. We included ...
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    Public Perception of Wilderness in Iceland 
    Olafsdottir, Rannveig; Sæþórsdóttir, Anna (MDPI AG, 2020-03-27)
    In recent years, there has been a gradually growing emphasis on the protection of wilderness in Iceland. This is highlighted in the current preparation of a new national park in the Icelandic central highlands, which will become Europe's largest national ...
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    Pulsed EPR dipolar spectroscopy at Q- and G-band on a trityl biradical 
    Akhmetzyanov, D.; Schöps, P.; Marko, A.; Kunjir, N. C.; Sigurdsson, Snorri; Prisner, Thomas F. (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2015)
    Pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is a valuable technique for the precise determination of distances between paramagnetic spin labels that are covalently attached to macromolecules. Nitroxides have commonly been utilised as ...
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    QM/MM calculations reveal a bridging hydroxo group in a vanadium nitrogenase crystal structure 
    Benediktsson, Bardi; Þórhallsson, Albert Þ.; Bjornsson, Ragnar (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018)
    A new 1.2 Å crystal structure of vanadium nitrogenase, isolated under turnover conditions, recently revealed a light atom ligand (OH or NH) replacing the bridging S2B sulfide of the FeV cofactor. QM/MM calculations on the new structure now reveal the ...
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    QM/MM Study of the Nitrogenase MoFe Protein Resting State: Broken-Symmetry States, Protonation States, and QM Region Convergence in the FeMoco Active Site 
    Benediktsson, Bardi; Bjornsson, Ragnar (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017-10-20)
    Nitrogenase is one of the most fascinating enzymes in nature, being responsible for all biological nitrogen reduction. Despite decades of research, it is among the enzymes in bioinorganic chemistry whose mechanism is the most poorly understood. The ...