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Short- and long-term effects of 56Fe irradiation on cognition and hippocampal DNA methylation and gene expression.
BackgroundAstronauts are exposed to 56Fe ions that may pose a significant health hazard during and following prolonged missions in deep space. We showed previously that object recognition requiring the hippocampus, a structure critical for cognitive function, is affected in 2-month-old mice irradiated with 56Fe ions. Here we examined object recognition in 6-month-old mice irradiated with 56Fe ions, a biological age more relevant to the typical ages of astronauts. Moreover, because the mechanisms mediating the detrimental effects of 56Fe ions on hippocampal function are unclear, we examined changes in hippocampal networks involved in synaptic plasticity and memory, gene expression, and epigenetic changes in cytosine methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) that could accompany changes in gene expression. We assessed the effects of whole body 56Fe ion irradiation at early (2 weeks) and late (20 weeks) time points on hippocampus-dependent memory and hippocampal network stability, and whether these effects are associated with epigenetic changes in hippocampal DNA methylation (both 5mC and 5hmC) and gene expression.ResultsAt the two-week time point, object recognition and network stability were impaired following irradiation at the 0.1 and 0.4 Gy dose, but not following irradiation at the 0.2 Gy dose. No impairments in object recognition or network stability were seen at the 20-week time point at any irradiation dose used. Consistent with this pattern, the significance of pathways for gene categories for 5hmC was lower, though not eliminated, at the 20-week time point compared to the 2-week time point. Similarly, significant changes were observed for 5mC gene pathways at the 2-week time point, but no significant gene categories were observed at the 20-week time point. Only the 5hmC changes tracked with gene expression changes.ConclusionsDose- and time-dependent epigenomic remodeling in the hippocampus following 56Fe ion exposure correlates with behavioral changes
Residual analysis methods for space--time point processes with applications to earthquake forecast models in California
Modern, powerful techniques for the residual analysis of spatial-temporal
point process models are reviewed and compared. These methods are applied to
California earthquake forecast models used in the Collaboratory for the Study
of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP). Assessments of these earthquake
forecasting models have previously been performed using simple, low-power means
such as the L-test and N-test. We instead propose residual methods based on
rescaling, thinning, superposition, weighted K-functions and deviance
residuals. Rescaled residuals can be useful for assessing the overall fit of a
model, but as with thinning and superposition, rescaling is generally
impractical when the conditional intensity is volatile. While
residual thinning and superposition may be useful for identifying spatial
locations where a model fits poorly, these methods have limited power when the
modeled conditional intensity assumes extremely low or high values somewhere in
the observation region, and this is commonly the case for earthquake
forecasting models. A recently proposed hybrid method of thinning and
superposition, called super-thinning, is a more powerful alternative.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS487 the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
A recursive online algorithm for the estimation of time-varying ARCH parameters
In this paper we propose a recursive online algorithm for estimating the
parameters of a time-varying ARCH process. The estimation is done by updating
the estimator at time point with observations about the time point to
yield an estimator of the parameter at time point . The sampling properties
of this estimator are studied in a non-stationary context -- in particular,
asymptotic normality and an expression for the bias due to non-stationarity are
established. By running two recursive online algorithms in parallel with
different step sizes and taking a linear combination of the estimators, the
rate of convergence can be improved for parameter curves from H\"{o}lder
classes of order between 1 and 2.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/07-BEJ5009 in the Bernoulli
(http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm
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