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Demographic Challenges and the Implications for Children in CEE/CIS

“…70 In some South-Eastern European countries Roma infants are at particular risk: for example in the Sliven and Montana regions of Bulgaria, two regions with high shares of Roma in their populations, have official infant mortality rates of respectively circa 28 and 23 per thousand, compared with the national average of circa 12 per thousand. 71 Similarly, in 2005 the IMR for Roma children in Roma settlement in Serbia was 25 per thousand 72 compared with a national average circa 8 per thousand. 73 Improved access to good quality antenatal, delivery and neonatal care, and also paediatric services, especially for rural residents and Roma, need to be prominent in national strategies to improve child survival.…”

Zinc Finger Protein CG9890 - New Component of ENY2-Containing Complexes of Drosophila

“…The local chromatin structure, position of the gene relative to functional nuclear compartments and longrange interactions of regulatory elements represent an additional level of regulation of genetic processes in the context of the complex organization of the eukaryotic genome in the three-dimensional space of the nucleus [2][3][4]. The ENY2 protein is a multifunctional factor that is involved in various stages of gene expression [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Various cellular functions of ENY2 are defined by the activities of the protein complexes in which it is included.…”