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List of works by Donald R Forsdyke

"Altered-self" or "near-self" in the positive selection of lymphocyte repertoires?

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A "stealth" approach to inhibition of lymphocyte activation by oligonucleotide complementary to the putative G0/G1 switch regulatory gene G0S30/EGR1/NGFI-A.

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A comparison of the activation of thymus and lymph-node cells by concanavalin-A and phytohaemagglutinin. Effects of complement

scientific article published on April 1, 1973

A human putative lymphocyte G0/G1 switch gene containing a CpG-rich island encodes a small basic protein with the potential to be phosphorylated.

scientific article published on October 1991

A human putative lymphocyte G0/G1 switch gene homologous to a rodent gene encoding a zinc-binding potential transcription factor

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A theory of immunity

scientific article published on 01 October 1969

Adaptive value of polymorphism in intracellular self/not-self discrimination?

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Almroth Wright, opsonins, innate immunity and the lectin pathway of complement activation: a historical perspective.

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

An alternative way of thinking about stem-loops in DNA. A case study of the human G0S2 gene.

scientific article published in June 1998

An ethical dilemma.

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Are introns in-series error-detecting sequences?

scientific article published on December 21, 1981

Authorship and misconduct

scientific article published in Nature

Calculation of folding energies of single-stranded nucleic acid sequences: conceptual issues.

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

Canadian MRC's partnership with the drug industry

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Canadian medical research strategy for the eighties. II. Promise or performance as the basis for the distribution of research funds?

scientific article published on June 1983

Chargaff's legacy.

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Comparison of enhancement by heated serum and 2-mercaptoethanol of lymphocyte transformation induced by high concentrations of concanavalin A

scientific article published on 01 March 1978

Comparison of mRNA expression of two regulators of G-protein signaling, RGS1/BL34/1R20 and RGS2/G0S8, in cultured human blood mononuclear cells.

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Correlation of chi orientation with transcription indicates a fundamental relationship between recombination and transcription.

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Crossover hot-spot instigator (Chi) sequences in Escherichia coli occupy distinct recombination/transcription islands.

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Cyclosporin A inhibits early mRNA expression of G0/G1 switch gene 2 (G0S2) in cultured human blood mononuclear cells

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Did Celera invent the Internet?

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Different biological species "broadcast" their DNAs at different (G+C)% "wavelengths"

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Doctor-scientist-patients who barketh not: the quantified self-movement and crowd-sourcing research.

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Early evolution of MHC polymorphism

scientific article published on 01 June 1991

Early onset inhibition of lymphocytes in heterologous serum by high concentrations of concanavalin-A: further studies of the role of complement with suramin and heated serum

scientific article published on January 1, 1979

Expression and processing of G0/G1 switch gene 24 (G0S24/TIS11/TTP/NUP475) RNA in cultured human blood mononuclear cells

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Fine tuning of intracellular protein concentrations, a collective protein function involved in aneuploid lethality, sex-determination and speciation?

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Further implications of a theory of immunity

scientific article published on July 1, 1975

Immunity as a function of the unicellular state: implications of emerging genomic data.

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Immunology (1955–1975): The Natural Selection Theory, the Two Signal Hypothesis and Positive Repertoire Selection

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Inhibition of lymphocyte activation at high ratios of concanavalin A to serum depends on complement

scientific article published on 01 September 1970

Introns resolve the conflict between base order-dependent stem-loop potential and the encoding of RNA or protein: further evidence from overlapping genes

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Jerne and positive selection

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Low-complexity segments in Plasmodium falciparum proteins are primarily nucleic acid level adaptations.

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Metabolic optimization of adoptive T-cell transfer cancer immunotherapy: a historical overview

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Microsatellites that violate Chargaff's second parity rule have base order-dependent asymmetries in the folding energies of complementary DNA strands and may not drive speciation.

scholarly article

Molecular sex: the importance of base composition rather than homology when nucleic acids hybridize

scientific article published on 08 August 2007

Ohno's hypothesis and Muller's paradox: sex chromosome dosage compensation may serve collective gene functions.

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

On certain two-signal perspectives of lymphocyte activation and inactivation, thymic G-quadruplexes, and the role of aggregation in self/not-self discrimination

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Optimum growth temperature and the base composition of open reading frames in prokaryotes.

scientific article published on 28 August 2003

Prokaryotes that grow optimally in acid have purine-poor codons in long open reading frames.

scientific article published on 7 September 2006

Purification of oligo dG-tailed Okayama-Berg linker DNA fragments by oligo dC-cellulose chromatography

scientific article published on 01 February 1984

Role of receptor aggregation in complement-dependent inhibition of lymphocytes by high concentrations of concanavalin A

scientific article published on May 26, 1977

Rouleaux formation as a measure of the phase separating ability of plasma

scientific article published on 01 August 1983

Scherrer and Jost's symposium: the gene concept in 2008.

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Selective pressures that decrease synonymous mutations in Plasmodium falciparum.

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Serum and lymphocyte activation by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).

scientific article published in March 1973

Stem-loop potential in MHC genes: a new way of evaluating positive Darwinian selection?

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

The B in 'BDM.' William Bateson did not advocate a genic speciation theory.

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

The heat-shock response and the molecular basis of genetic dominance

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

The normal copy of the G0S19-3-associated, CpG island-containing, upstream sequence is downstream of G0S19-2/MIP1alpha in association with a TRE17 oncogene.

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The third human homolog of a murine gene encoding an inhibitor of stem cell proliferation is truncated and linked to a CpG island-containing upstream sequence.

scientific article published on March 1993

Thermophilic bacteria strictly obey Szybalski's transcription direction rule and politely purine-load RNAs with both adenine and guanine

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Two levels of information in DNA: relationship of Romanes' "intrinsic" variability of the reproductive system, and Bateson's "residue" to the species-dependent component of the base composition, (C+G)%

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Two signal half-century: From negative selection of self-reactivity to positive selection of near-self-reactivity

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Two signal model of self/not-self immune discrimination: an update

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

When few survive to tell the tale: thymus and gonad as auditioning organs: historical overview

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

X chromosome reactivation perturbs intracellular self/not-self discrimination.

scientific article published on 09 June 2009