=============================================================== == == == ----------- ALS INTEREST GROUP ----------- == == ALS Digest (#50, 09 JULY 1993) == == == == To subscribe, to unsubscribe, to contribute notes, etc. == == to ALS Digest, please send e-mail to: == == bro@huey.met.fsu.edu (Bob Broedel) == == == == All interested people may "broadcast" messages to == == ALS Digest subscribers by sending to: == == als@huey.met.fsu.edu == == == =============================================================== (1) ===== building the ALS e-mail network ========== (a)------ >From : kathyw@coplex.coplex.com (Kathy Welsh) Subject: hello Date : Tue, 6 Jul 1993 15:19:32 -0500 (EDT) I would like to join the ALS Group. I was diagnosed in August of 92, mainly with brain stem involvement. Will be looking forward to reading messages. Thanks for being there. (b)------ Many thanks to Cory SerVaas, MD for helping with outreach by publishing my letter-to-the-editor about the ALS INTEREST GROUP in the July-August 93 issue of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. (2) ===== this is from the NIH gopher ========== Date : Sat, 29 May 1993 04:12:52 -0400 >From : Gopher Anonymous User Subject: SIDDIQUE, TEEPU This section is from the document '/.INDEX/nih-grant.data'. ------------------------------- SIDDIQUE, TEEPU UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 5841 SOUTH MARYLAND AVE-BOX 42 CHICAGO, IL 60637 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO TITLE Motor neuron disease--A program project SUB TITLE DNA RFLP linkage analysis in familial ALS (human) ABSTRACT: The genomic defect in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) can be localized by analysis of DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) through establish linkage techniques. Two linkage methods are available: the sibpair methods of analysis and the standard likelihood linkage analysis. The sibpair method (of Elston and colleagues) is suitable as a screening technique in order to identify regional chromosomal localization, without assumptions concerning the mode of inheritance. The sibpair method generates no quantitative data for genetic counselling. Standard likelihood linkage can be used to verify linkage suggested by the sibpair method. The chromosomal location of several neurological diseases including Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy has progressed so that major changes have occurred in the approach to patients and their families. Nineteen FALS families have been ascertained over the last three years. Additional families are available through collaboration with the University of Chicago and other institutions. DNA is currently available from 143 individuals banked as permanent lymphoblast cell lines. Continued development of the ascertained families is currently in progress. Preliminary results with seven RFLPs and 16 blood and serum markers have been analyzed. We plan to enlarge the data set for standard likelihood linkage analysis and sibpair analysis and to use highly polymorphic markers covering more than 90% of the human genome in a systematic analysis of this material. Identification of chromosomal localization using sibpair linkage will be confirmed by standard likelihood linkage and will be expanded using adjacent genetic markers. Once the neighborhood of a gene is determined, further studies to obtain tightly linked linkage markers that might be useful to identify the genetic locus will proceed. (3) ===== other lists of possible interest ========== (a)------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Date : Sat, 3 Jul 1993 17:11:17 CDT Sender : NEW-LIST - New List Announcements >From : Len Burns Subject: CHANGE: New Address For the TRaumatic Brain Injury support list -------------------------------------------------------------------- tbi-sprt, a list created for the exchange of information by survivors, supporters, and professionals concerned with traumatic brain injury and other neurological impairments has been moved to St. John's University. The new address for subscriptions is: listserv@sjuvm.bitnet or listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu . The new address to post to the list is: tbi-sprt@sjuvm.bitnet or tbi-sprt@sjuvm.stjohns.edu . For more information contact either lburns@cats.ucsc.edu or labyris@gorn.echo.com. Len Burns Internet: lburns@moria.nfbcal.org --------------------------------------------------------------- (b)------ --------------------------------------------------------------- Date : Fri, 25 Jun 1993 12:28:46 CDT Sender : NEW-LIST - New List Announcements >From : DICK BANKS Subject: NEW: AXSLIB-L - Library Access List ---------------------------------------------------------------- AXSLIB-L on LISTSERV@BITNIC.BITNET Disability Access to Libraries or LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU Project EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, has just started a new electronic discussion list, AXSLIB-L, on disability access to libraries. Dick Banks from U. Wisconsin at Stout will be its moderator. Anyone wanting to join the list or get further information about it should contact Dick rbanks@uwstout.edu (or RBANKS@UWSTOUT.BITNET). EASI is starting the list to: 1. provide a forum to share questions and answers about how to make libraries more accessible. 2. provide a platform from which to reach libraries which are not yet considering seriously the question of access for users with disabilities. 3. provide a platform from which to lobby vendors of electronic library services to create tools that are already highly accessible. 4. encourage electronic networks and network information services to make their facilities as accessible as possible to users with disabilities. 5. create and provide services to assist libraries and information providers with resources to assist them in becoming more disability accessible. EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, is a EUIT (Educational Uses of Information Technology) program and thus part of EDUCOM which, itself, is a consortium of colleges, universities and computer and information vendors. While EASI has a primary focus on the needs of college and university students, and while this focus may shape some of our directions, accessible libraries are accessible libraries whether public, private or educational. The personal and technical solutions will usually be generic. We believe all groups can learn from one another, and the primary function of this discussion list is sharing and learning. Experts in this field are also novices because it is all changing so rapidly. EASI does not come with solutions but rather with resources and an eagerness to serve. The print handicapped have the possibility of making ready use of libraries for the first time. Mobility impaired persons have the possibility of making use of libraries without travel. It is important that these new electronic services be built from the ground up with access awareness rather than having to become modified later. Please join us in this important task. Norman Coombs Chair, Project EASI Professor of History Rochester Institute of Technology. nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Dick Banks AXSLIB-L moderator Adaptive Technologist Library Learning Center University of Wisconsin-Stout rbanks@uwstout.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- == end of ALS 50 ==