Resistance to malaria through structural variation of red blood cell invasion receptors

EM Leffler, G Band, GBJ Busby, K Kivinen, QS Le… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Malaria parasites cause human disease by invading and replicating inside
red blood cells. In the case of Plasmodium falciparum, this can lead to severe forms of …

[HTML][HTML] Imputation-based meta-analysis of severe malaria in three African populations

G Band, QS Le, L Jostins, M Pirinen, K Kivinen… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Combining data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted at different
locations, using genotype imputation and fixed-effects meta-analysis, has been a powerful …

[HTML][HTML] FLU, an amino acid substitution model for influenza proteins

CC Dang, QS Le, O Gascuel, VS Le - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
… We used the maximum likelihood approach introduced by Le and Gascuel [6] to estimate
an influenza-specific amino acid substitution model (called FLU) from data set D comprising …

[HTML][HTML] Improved mitochondrial amino acid substitution models for metazoan evolutionary studies

VS Le, CC Dang, QS Le - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Amino acid substitution models play an essential role in inferring phylogenies
from mitochondrial protein data. However, only few empirical models have been estimated …

ReplacementMatrix: a web server for maximum-likelihood estimation of amino acid replacement rate matrices

CC Dang, V Lefort, VS Le, QS Le, O Gascuel - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Amino acid replacement rate matrices are an essential basis of protein studies (eg in
phylogenetics and alignment). A number of general purpose matrices have been proposed (eg JTT…

[HTML][HTML] FastMG: a simple, fast, and accurate maximum likelihood procedure to estimate amino acid replacement rate matrices from large data sets

CC Dang, VS Le, O Gascuel, B Hazes, QS Le - BMC bioinformatics, 2014 - Springer
Background Amino acid replacement rate matrices are a crucial component of many protein
analysis systems such as sequence similarity search, sequence alignment, and …

Inferring adaptive gene-flow in recent African history

G Busby, R Christ, G Band, E Leffler, QS Le, K Rockett… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Gene-flow from an ancestrally differentiated group has been shown to be a powerful source
of selectively advantageous variants. To understand whether recent gene-flow may have …

Overlay upper clothing textures to still images based on human pose estimation

QS Le, MT Tran - Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 2014 - journals.riverpublishers.com
The authors propose a system to enhance user’s experience in virtual shopping with image
processing techniques. Our proposed system allows a user to submit his or her upright photo …

Report on work in progress of small insect tracking system using autonomous uav

QS Le, J Kim, J Kim, HI Son - 2017 14th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we will introduce an appropriate solution for tracking a small flying insect such
as wasps. The existing approaches face difficulties such as weight of transmitter, accuracy, …

Vision Based State Recognition of 220kv Disconnect Switches in Power Substations

QS Le, VC Pham, BL Phung - 2022 6th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remotely monitoring and controlling power substations are popular nowadays. For such
systems, it is essential to continuously keep track of devices' conditions. This paper presents a …