CANCER, EMOTIONAL WORDS & CONTEXTS, & THYROID RESEARCH

该计划旨在激励少数民族教师， 从事生物医学研究，加强机构的能力 培养学生的研究生和卫生专业学习，提供 少数民族学生获得生物医学研究的机会 经验，并感兴趣的学生在追求博士学位。学位和研究 在生物医学科学的职业生涯。 为此，次级项目是： 1)情感词汇和语境相似性的表征。 的 所有词汇和语境相似性的认知表征 情感对立的句法形式（名词、动词、形容词、副词） 和相似性（同义）的概念进行评估，采用新的方法 数据收集。这些数据为各种方法的有效性提供了测试。 关于意义的表征和获得的心理学理论 尤其是情感上的。 上的新排序数据 词汇的语境区分度和区间量表评分 情感概念的相关性也被介绍。 2)Graves病患者TAP基因多态性研究 基本和 分子生物学中复杂的分子遗传学技术 用于检测非裔美国人DNA水平的遗传多态性， 无关的志愿者对照，以及Graves病患者及其 家庭成员 已有报道HLA与Graves病相关 对于I类和II类抗原。 这项研究将增加到池 关于它是否是I类的知识，并定义了 主要组织相容性复合体中的一个区域， 对格雷夫斯病的易感性。 有新的等位基因有待检测。

The proposed program is designed to motivate minority faculty members to engage in biomedical research, strengthen the institution's capabilities to train students for graduate and health professional study, provide opportunities for minority students to gain biomedical research experience, and interest students in pursuing Ph.D. degrees and research careers in the biomedical sciences. To this end the subprojects are: 1) REPRESENTATIONS OF EMOTIONAL LEXICAL AND CONTEXTUAL SIMILARITIES. The cognitive representations of lexical and contextual similarities of all syntactic forms (noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) of emotional opposition and similarity (synonymous) concepts are assessed employing newer methods of data collection. The data serve a tests for the validity of various psychological theories of the representations and acquisitions of meaning in general, and of emotionality, in particular. New sorting data on contextual discriminability and interval scale ratings of lexical relatedness of emotional concepts are also introduced. 2) POLYMORPHISM OF TAP GENES IN GRAVES' DISEASE PATIENTS. Basic and sophisticated molecular genetic techniques of molecular biology will be used to detect genetic polymorphisms at the DNA level in African-American unrelated volunteer controls, and in Graves' Disease patients and their family members. HLA associations with Graves' disease have been reported for both Class I and Class II antigens. This study will add to the pool of knowledge on whether it is Class I and define the boundaries of the region within the major histocompatibility complex that determines susceptibility to Graves' Disease. There re new alleles to be detected.