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ANALYSIS OF GENETIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCES USING Y CHROMOSOME STR MARKERS BETWEEN ETHNO-LINGUISTIC GROUPS OF LITHUANIA 3 Ingrida Uktverytė, Alma Molytė, Vaidutis Kučinskas

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IN LITHUANIAN POPULATION 9 Valentina Ginevičienė, Audronė Jakaitienė, Linas Tūbelis, Vaidutis Kučinskas

THE INDIVIDUAL PERCENTILE SHIFTS IN HEIGHT AND WEIGHT FROM BIRTH TO THE END OF GROWTH OF CHILDREN BORN IN 1990 (THE RESULTS OF THE LONGITUDINAL AUXOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHILDREN FROM VILNIUS CITY AND REGION) 16 Andrej Suchomlinov, Sandra Strainienė, Tomas Strainys, Janina Tutkuvienė

FACTORS OF TEETH LOSS AMONG VILNIUS CITY INHABITANTS OVER 45 YEARS OF AGE 22 Kęstutis Sveikata, Irena Balčiūnienė, Arūnas Barkus, Janina Tutkuvienė

TRADITIONAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS MARKERS IN NATIVE LITHUANIANS 29 Andrejus Coj, Zita Aušrelė Kučinskienė, Vytautas Kasiulevičius, Vaidutis Kučinskas

ARTHROSCOPY OF THE ELBOW: THE FIRST EXPERIENCE IN LITHUANIA 40 Vytautas Tutkus, Mantas Ambraska, Jonas Tutkus

SERUM TRYPTASE - THE MARKER OF ANAPHYLAXIS AND MASTOCYTOSIS (PILOT STUDY) 45 Gediminas Vaitėnas, Loreta Bagdonaitė, Violeta Kvedarienė

Cortisol, CRH and 11pHSD interrelation mechanisms in the presence of stress: effects on fertilization and fetal development, and review of molecular assessment methods 50 Ieva Masliukaitė