• A novel human pain insensitivity disorder caused by a point mutation in ZFHX2 

      Habib A.M.; Matsuyama A.; Okorokov A.L.; Santana-Varela S.; Bras J.T.; ... more authors ( Oxford University Press , 2018 , Article)
      Chronic pain is a major global public health issue causing a severe impact on both the quality of life for sufferers and the wider economy. Despite the significant clinical burden, little progress has been made in terms ...
    • Amount of Secrecy Loss: A Novel Metric for Physical Layer Security Analysis 

      Li S.; Yang L.; Hasna , Mazen; Alouini M.-S.; Zhang J. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      In this letter, we present a novel and important performance metric for analyzing and evaluating the physical layer security of wireless communication systems in the presence of eavesdropping users. Specifically, we introduce ...
    • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Dicker D.; Nguyen G.; Abate D.; Abate K.H.; Abay S.M.; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of ...
    • Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity 

      Habib A.M.; Okorokov A.L.; Hill M.N.; Bras J.T.; Lee M.-C.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      The study of rare families with inherited pain insensitivity can identify new human-validated analgesic drug targets. Here, a 66-yr-old female presented with nil requirement for postoperative analgesia after a normally ...