Dr. Steven J Mack DDS MS
Orthodontist
1906 Middle Road Bettendorf IA, 52722About
Dr. Steven Mack practices Orthodontics in Bettendorf, IA. Comprehensive orthodontic treatment includes metal wires that are inserted into orthodontic brackets, which can be made from stainless steel or a more aesthetic ceramic material. The wires interact with the brackets to move teeth into desired positions. Being advanced in the field, Dr. Mack may also use Invisalign or other aligner trays that have been designed to align a patients? smile. As an orthodontist, Dr. Mack must recognize various characteristics of a malocclusion or dentofacial deformity, define the nature of the problem, including the etiology if possible, and design a treatment strategy based on the specific needs and desires of the patient.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Signatures of demographic history and natural selection in the human major histocompatibility complex Loci.
- Common and well-documented HLA alleles: report of the Ad-Hoc committee of the american society for histocompatiblity and immunogenetics.
- Genetic origin of the Swedish Sami inferred from HLA class I and class II allele frequencies.
- Balancing selection and heterogeneity across the classical human leukocyte antigen loci: a meta-analytic review of 497 population studies.
- Human leukocyte antigen-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 allele and haplotype frequencies in Americans originating from southern Europe: contrasting patterns of population differentiation between Italian and Spanish Americans.
- Immunogenetics as a tool in anthropological studies.
- The CWD allele catalog in China.
- Standard methods for the management of immunogenetic data.
- Analytical methods for immunogenetic population data.
- Analytical methods for disease association studies with immunogenetic data.
- A sequence-based approach demonstrates that balancing selection in classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci is asymmetric.
- Human immunology in the era of big data.
- HLA-DPB1 and HLA class I confer risk of and protection from narcolepsy.
- Introducing a new manuscript format: Enabling access to immunogenomic population data with short population reports.
- Histoimmunogenetics Markup Language 1.0: Reporting next generation sequencing-based HLA and KIR genotyping.
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