• 의학교육논단
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.50-54
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• 2014

It is becoming increasingly important for medical doctors to have a thorough understanding of human genetics and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic testing, counseling, and treatment. As genetic engineering and technology evolves, medical doctors will find themselves called in to counsel patients about a rapidly increasing number of diseases for which genetic testing and treatments are available. Medical doctors will need to master a new set of principles and clinical skills. A lack of knowledge about these issues and problems may lead to serious, lifelong or even fatal negative effects on patients. Medical genetics has moved from the study of rare conditions to the illumination of disorders that impact the entire spectrum of medical practice. This study demonstrates several areas in which medical genetics is clearly an important tool in medical practice and the necessity of establishing new curriculum for clinical genetic education in Korea. Medical students nearing graduation may lack genetic knowledge that is essential for daily practice because genetics has little or no place in clinical teaching. Medical schools should make extensive curriculum changes to increase students' awareness of clinical genetics and its ethical implications. The medical school curriculum will need creative new approaches to keeping up with the rapid pace of evolution of clinical genetics.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.20-31
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• 2004

The 21/sup st/ century is a society based on knowledge, so in economic activities, it has emphasized the importance of information such as intellectual property or intangible asserts. Especially, according to the agreement on trade related as parts of intellectual property rights in WTO, it is used as the method of commercial entente and monopoly for intellectual property in an advanced nation. For this reason, WIPO and UNESCO discussed a complement for intellectual property on the foundation of traditional knowledge such as traditional knowledge (TK), genetic resources (GR) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE, folklore). Korea has a lot of knowledge falling under TK, GR, and TCE because of the long history of the country. In the case of traditional medical care, it has been used in the public health system. It is hard to apply these rights to traditional medical care of Korea because the laws of intellectual property have been established under the ideas of western culture. It is necessary to improve the classification system of traditional knowledge and patents. In the patent classified system of IPC, it needs to be related to the research between the classified system for massive technology and the classified system for traditional clinic technology.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.815-828
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• 2008

Purpose: This study was to develop and evaluate the clinical utility of the breast and ovarian cancer genetic counselling program specific for 20 Korean women(KBOCGP). Methods: The KBOCGP was developed using three types of approaches: an ethnography among Korean women who underwent BRCA1/2 test, designing and implementing one week clinical genetic educational course for clinical cancer nurses, educational observation visits to three American cancer genetic counselling programs. And then pre-experimental design was implicated to evaluate the change of the women's knowledge about the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and the level of the satisfaction with genetic counselling. Results: The mean score of the knowledge has significantly increased from $7.45{\pm}3.86$ to $11.55{\pm}2.21$ (t = 5.63, p < .001). The level of the satisfaction with the counselling was very high ($27.47{\pm}1.35$). Because most of the subjects have young kids, they showed strong concerns about their kids' getting cancer. Conclusion: This new KBOCGP is the satisfactory program for the education and communication of the genetic information to the Korean women with HBOC. But it is needed more to strengthen the cultural sensitivity especially to Korean family relationships. Authors recommend that this program be provided by other nurses who are counselling women at high risk of breast cancer.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.463-477
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• 2018

Purpose: This study identifies correlations among information needs and knowledge about prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis (I-PGSD & K-PGSD), and attitude toward terminating pregnancy (ATP) among pregnant women in South Korea. Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted from January 2013 to April 2014 in South Korea. 222 pregnant women responded to three questionnaires developed by the authors. The questionnaire for I-PGSD consisted of 19 questions; 18 questions for K-PGSD; and 10 questions for ATP. Results: Mean scores were $80.46{\pm}11.73$ for I-PGSD; $14.86{\pm}3.74$ for K-PGSD; and $33.71{\pm}6.13$ for ATP. The ATP score was positively correlated with the I-PGSD and K-PGSD scores, but statistically significant with only I-PGSD (p=.006). I-PGSD scores were higher than average on three genetic syndromes (Down, Patau, and Edwards syndrome), on management after the diagnosis of positive fetal aneuploidy, and on test result interpretation after the amniocentesis and level II fetal ultrasonogram. Conclusions: In light of current legal and moral controversy regarding terminating pregnancy and rapidly advancing prenatal genetic testing technology, more prenatal genetic education for nurses and nursing students who teach pregnant women is needed. In addition, more professional counseling services provided by trained nurses are also required.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2012

감염된 미생물에서 유래한 단백질 펩타이드가 HLA에 결합하여 숙주의 세포표면에 제시되면, T 세포가 이를 인식하여 면역반응을 유발함으로써 감염원을 제거하게 된다. HLA와 펩타이드간의 결합이 안정적일수록 T 세포반응이 강하게 일어나 효율적으로 감염원을 제거할 수 있다고 알려져 있다. 따라서 특정 HLA에 안정적으로 결합할 수 있는 펩타이드(HLA binder)를 찾아낼 수 있다면 감염질환이나 암의 예방을 위한 펩타이드 백신의 개발에 활용될 수 있다. 그런데 HLA는 매우 다형하기 때문에 하나의 집단 내에서도 어느 정도의 빈도를 가지는 대립유전자의 수가 매우 많다. 따라서 이들 모든 대립유전자들에 대해 가능한 펩타이드조합을 제작한 후 직접 실험을 통해 안정적으로 결합하는 펩타이드를 찾아내는 것은 매우 비효율적이다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 특정 HLA에 안정적으로 결합하는 펩타이드를 예측하는 정보전산적인 방법이 최근 개발되어 왔다. 이들 방법을 통해 제시된 펩타이드에 대해서만 직접 생물학적 실험을 시행함으로써 연구자는 검증해야 할 후보 펩타이드의 수를 현격히 감소시킬 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 HLA 결합 펩타이드 예측을 위해 기계학습을 이용한 방법을 소개할 뿐만 아니라, 지금까지 HLA 결합 펩타이드 예측에 시도된 적이 없는 '지식기반 유전자 알고리즘(knowledge-based genetic algorithm)'이라는 새로운 모델을 제시하고자 한다. 이것은 유전자알고리즘(GA)에 기반한 것이었지만 전문가 지식을 접목함으로써 GA보다 더 향상된 성능으로 한국인에 흔한 HLA에 결합하는 펩타이드를 예측하였다. 뿐만 아니라 이것은 결합하는 펩타이드의 규칙을 한국인에 흔한 HLA 대립유전자에 대하여 추출해 줄 수 있는 새로운 방법이었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.303-308
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• 2002

Genetic markers engendered by genome projects drew enormous interest in quantitative genetics, but knowledge on genetic architecture of complex traits is limited. Complexities in genetics will not allow us to easily clarify relationship between genotypes and phenotypes for quantitative traits. Quantitative genetics guides an important way in facing such challenges. It is our exciting task to find genes that affect complex traits. In this paper, landmark research and future prospects are discussed on genetic parameter estimation and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping as major subjects of interest.

• 인지과학
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.351-368
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• 2005

지능형 시스템에서 기존의 수작업 기반의 지식구조 구축은 많은 시간과 노력이 들어가며 환경의 변화에 적절히 적응하기가 어려운 한계가 있다 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위하여 최근 학습을 통한 동적 지식구조 구축방법이 연구되고 있다. 자율 자아 성장(AMD: Autonomous Mental Development)은 자율적 기계 학습의 새로운 패러다임으로 지능형 시스템이 변화하는 환경에 스스로 적응하도록 시도한다 대화형 에이전트에서의 대화 학습은 AMD와 동일한 맥락에서 해석할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 화행별 템플릿과 유전자 프로그래밍을 이용한 대화형 에이전트의 대화 학습기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 에이전트는 화행별 템플릿을 기반으로 대화 지식을 획득하고 유전자 프로그래밍의 진화 방법을 통해 적절한 표현을 갖는 문장을 생성한다. 적용 사례와 사용자 평가를 통해서 제안하는 방법의 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2007

Recently, controversy over intellectual property rights for protecting genetic resources and traditional knowledge has been emerging. Very active debates and global discussions are being carried out in various international organizations for possible approaches to be taken for these properties, and for the fair and equal sharing of the benefits from these intellectual properties. There is a need to evaluate adopting a sui generis system which is being pushed by developing nations, or adopting a policy which will guaranteee benefit sharing such as sharing royalties from marketing final products, technical transfers, capacity building, and participating in research activities. Also, it is very important to examine the legal issues concerning genetic resources based on Convention on Biological Diversity for the fair and equal sharing of the benefits with developing nations, at the same time assuring developed nations of access to genetic resources.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제26권5_6호
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• pp.389-400
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• 2013

The article makes a discussion to conceptualize a histo-genetic principle in the real historical view point. The classical histo-genetic principle appeared in 19th century was founded by the recapitulation law suggested by biologist Haeckel, but recently it was shown that the theory on it is no longer true. To establish the alternative rationale, several metaphoric characterizations from the history of mathematics are suggested: among them, problem solving, transition of conceptual knowledge to procedural knowledge, generalization, abstraction, circulation from phenomenon to substance, encapsulation to algebraic representation, change of epistemological view, formation of algorithm, conjecture-proof-refutation, swing between theory and application, and so on.

• 한국육종학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.103-114
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• 2011

In recent years, genomic resources and information have accumulated at an ever increasing pace, in many plant species, through whole genome sequencing, large scale analysis of transcriptomes, DNA markers and functional studies of individual genes. Well-characterized species within key plant taxa, co-called "model systems", have played a pivotal role in nucleating the accumulation of genomic information and databases, thereby providing the basis for comparative genomic studies. In addition, recent advances to "Next Generation" sequencing technologies have propelled a new wave of genomics, enabling rapid, low cost analysis of numerous genomes, and the accumulation of genetic diversity data for large numbers of accessions within individual species. The resulting wealth of genomic information provides an opportunity to discern evolutionary processes that have impacted genome structure and the function of genes, using the tools of comparative analysis. Comparative genomics provides a platform to translate information from model species to crops, and to relate knowledge of genome function among crop species. Ultimately, the resulting knowledge will accelerate the development of more efficient breeding strategies through the identification of trait-associated orthologous genes and next generation functional gene-based markers.