Mutations in CAV3 cause mechanical hyperirritability of skeletal muscle in rippling muscle disease.

abstract：:Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation (LBSL) has recently been defined based on a highly characteristic constellation of abnormalities observed by magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. LBSL is an autosomal recessive disease, most often manifesting in early childho...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Scheper GC,van der Klok T,van Andel RJ,van Berkel CG,Sissler M,Smet J,Muravina TI,Serkov SV,Uziel G,Bugiani M,Schiffmann R,Krägeloh-Mann I,Smeitink JA,Florentz C,Van Coster R,Pronk JC,van der Knaap MS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genes associated with CpG islands undergo de novo methylation in cancer. Studies have suggested that the pattern of this modification may be partially determined by an instructive mechanism that recognizes specifically marked regions of the genome. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis, here we show that g...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Schlesinger Y,Straussman R,Keshet I,Farkash S,Hecht M,Zimmerman J,Eden E,Yakhini Z,Ben-Shushan E,Reubinoff BE,Bergman Y,Simon I,Cedar H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Genome Project and its spin-offs are making it increasingly feasible to determine the genetic basis of complex traits using genome-wide association studies. The statistical challenge of analyzing such studies stems from the severe multiple-comparison problem resulting from the analysis of thousands of SNPs. ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Van Steen K,McQueen MB,Herbert A,Raby B,Lyon H,Demeo DL,Murphy A,Su J,Datta S,Rosenow C,Christman M,Silverman EK,Laird NM,Weiss ST,Lange C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1 retrotransposon has had an immense impact on the size and structure of the human genome through a variety of mechanisms, including insertional mutagenesis. To study retrotransposition in a living organism, we created a mouse model of human L1 retrotransposition. Here we show that L1 elements can retrotranspose ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Ostertag EM,DeBerardinis RJ,Goodier JL,Zhang Y,Yang N,Gerton GL,Kazazian HH Jr

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeodomain protein IPF1 (also known as IDX1, STF1 and PDX1; see Methods) is critical for development of the pancreas in mice and is a key factor for the regulation of the insulin gene in the beta-cells of the endocrine pancreas. Targeted disruption of the Ipf1 gene encoding IPF1 in transgenic mice results in a fa...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Stoffers DA,Zinkin NT,Stanojevic V,Clarke WL,Habener JF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy strategies designed to combat haemophilia B, caused by defects in clotting factor IX, have so far concentrated on ex vivo approaches. We have now evaluated adenoviral vector-mediated expression of human factor IX in vivo. Injection of the vector Av1H9B, which encodes human factor IX cDNA, into the tail ve...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Smith TA,Mehaffey MG,Kayda DB,Saunders JM,Yei S,Trapnell BC,McClelland A,Kaleko M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions of the PAFAH1B1 gene (encoding LIS1) in 17p13.3 result in isolated lissencephaly sequence, and extended deletions including the YWHAE gene (encoding 14-3-3epsilon) cause Miller-Dieker syndrome. We identified seven unrelated individuals with submicroscopic duplication in 17p13.3 involving the PAFAH1B1 and/or ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Bi W,Sapir T,Shchelochkov OA,Zhang F,Withers MA,Hunter JV,Levy T,Shinder V,Peiffer DA,Gunderson KL,Nezarati MM,Shotts VA,Amato SS,Savage SK,Harris DJ,Day-Salvatore DL,Horner M,Lu XY,Sahoo T,Yanagawa Y,Beaudet AL,

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize production is threatened by drought stress worldwide. Identification of the genetic components underlying drought tolerance in maize is of great importance. Here we report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of maize drought tolerance at the seedling stage that identified 83 genetic variants, which were resol...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Wang X,Wang H,Liu S,Ferjani A,Li J,Yan J,Yang X,Qin F

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exceptional muscle development commonly referred to as 'double-muscled' (Fig. 1) has been seen in several cattle breeds and has attracted considerable attention from beef producers. Double-muscled animals are characterized by an increase in muscle mass of about 20%, due to general skeletal-muscle hyperplasia-that i...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Grobet L,Martin LJ,Poncelet D,Pirottin D,Brouwers B,Riquet J,Schoeberlein A,Dunner S,Ménissier F,Massabanda J,Fries R,Hanset R,Georges M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical carcinoma is now known to be associated with human papillomaviruses (HPV), but the evidence for a link with specific HLA loci is controversial. The role of genetic variation at the HLA class II loci and among HPV types in cervical carcinoma was investigated by PCR DNA amplification and oligonucleotide probe t...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Apple RJ,Erlich HA,Klitz W,Manos MM,Becker TM,Wheeler CM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3[1 alpha,25(OH)2D3], an active form of vitamin D, has roles in many biological phenomena such as calcium homeostasis and bone formation, which are thought to be mediated by the 1 alpha,25(OH)2D3 receptor (VDR), a member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily. However, the molecular b...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Yoshizawa T,Handa Y,Uematsu Y,Takeda S,Sekine K,Yoshihara Y,Kawakami T,Arioka K,Sato H,Uchiyama Y,Masushige S,Fukamizu A,Matsumoto T,Kato S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the human brain rapidly builds up its lipid content during brain growth and maintains its lipids in adulthood has remained elusive. Two new studies show that inactivating mutations in MFSD2A, known to be expressed specifically at the blood-brain barrier, lead to microcephaly, thereby offering a simple and surprisi...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Betsholtz C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide analyses of human lung adenocarcinoma have identified regions of consistent copy-number gain or loss, but in many cases the oncogenes and tumor suppressors presumed to reside in these loci remain to be determined. Here we identify the downstream of tyrosine kinase (Dok) family members Dok1, Dok2 and Dok3 a...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Berger AH,Niki M,Morotti A,Taylor BS,Socci ND,Viale A,Brennan C,Szoke J,Motoi N,Rothman PB,Teruya-Feldstein J,Gerald WL,Ladanyi M,Pandolfi PP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the pathogenetic mechanism of the mitochondrial tRNA(Lys) gene mutation (position 8344) associated with MERRF encephalomyopathy in several mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-less cell transformants carrying the mutation and in control cells. A decrease of 50-60% in the specific tRNA(Lys) aminoacylation cap...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Enriquez JA,Chomyn A,Attardi G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key challenges for human genetics, precision medicine and evolutionary biology include deciphering the regulatory code of gene expression and understanding the transcriptional effects of genome variation. However, this is extremely difficult because of the enormous scale of the noncoding mutation space. We developed a...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Zhou J,Theesfeld CL,Yao K,Chen KM,Wong AK,Troyanskaya OG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green toads are common in the Palaearctic region, where they have differentiated into several taxa. The toads exist with variable amounts of ploidy, similar to other anuran species or reptiles. In vertebrate biology, the very rare occurrence of triploidy is coupled with infertility or unisexuality, or requires the coe...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Stöck M,Lamatsch DK,Steinlein C,Epplen JT,Grosse WR,Hock R,Klapperstück T,Lampert KP,Scheer U,Schmid M,Schartl M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutator hypothesis of tumorigenesis suggests that loss of chromosomal stability or maintenance functions results in elevated mutation rates, leading to the accumulation of the numerous mutations required for multistep carcinogenesis. The human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes are highly conserved homologues of the ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Cranston A,Bocker T,Reitmair A,Palazzo J,Wilson T,Mak T,Fishel R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a likelihood-based approach for analyzing summary-level statistics and external linkage disequilibrium information to estimate effect-size distributions of common variants, characterized by the proportion of underlying susceptibility SNPs and a flexible normal-mixture model for their effects. Analysis of ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Qi G,Park JH,Chatterjee N

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opisthorchis viverrini-related cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a fatal bile duct cancer, is a major public health concern in areas endemic for this parasite. We report here whole-exome sequencing of eight O. viverrini-related tumors and matched normal tissue. We identified and validated 206 somatic mutations in 187 genes us...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Ong CK,Subimerb C,Pairojkul C,Wongkham S,Cutcutache I,Yu W,McPherson JR,Allen GE,Ng CC,Wong BH,Myint SS,Rajasegaran V,Heng HL,Gan A,Zang ZJ,Wu Y,Wu J,Lee MH,Huang D,Ong P,Chan-on W,Cao Y,Qian CN,Lim KH,Ooi

更新日期：2012-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) is a heterogeneous autosomal recessively inherited blistering skin disorder associated with fragility at the dermal-epidermal junction. Characteristic ultrastructural findings in JEB are abnormalities in the hemidesmosome-anchoring filament complexes. These focal attachment struc...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： McGrath JA,Gatalica B,Christiano AM,Li K,Owaribe K,McMillan JR,Eady RA,Uitto J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overgrowth disorders are a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by increased growth parameters and other variable clinical features such as intellectual disability and facial dysmorphism. To identify new causes of human overgrowth, we performed exome sequencing in ten proband-parent trios and detected two d...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Tatton-Brown K,Seal S,Ruark E,Harmer J,Ramsay E,Del Vecchio Duarte S,Zachariou A,Hanks S,O'Brien E,Aksglaede L,Baralle D,Dabir T,Gener B,Goudie D,Homfray T,Kumar A,Pilz DT,Selicorni A,Temple IK,Van Maldergem L,Yac

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified homozygous truncating mutations in HOXA1 in three genetically isolated human populations. The resulting phenotype includes horizontal gaze abnormalities, deafness, facial weakness, hypoventilation, vascular malformations of the internal carotid arteries and cardiac outflow tract, mental retardation and a...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Tischfield MA,Bosley TM,Salih MA,Alorainy IA,Sener EC,Nester MJ,Oystreck DT,Chan WM,Andrews C,Erickson RP,Engle EC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is a slow and expensive process: in eukaryotes, approximately 20 nucleotides can be transcribed per second at the expense of at least two ATP molecules per nucleotide. Thus, at least for highly expressed genes, transcription of long introns, which are particularly common in mammals, is costly. Using data...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Castillo-Davis CI,Mekhedov SL,Hartl DL,Koonin EV,Kondrashov FA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first identified mutation in the gene encoding human cytochrome c (CYCS). Glycine 41, invariant throughout eukaryotes, is substituted by serine in a family with autosomal dominant thrombocytopenia caused by dysregulated platelet formation. The mutation yields a cytochrome c variant with enhanced apoptoti...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Morison IM,Cramer Bordé EM,Cheesman EJ,Cheong PL,Holyoake AJ,Fichelson S,Weeks RJ,Lo A,Davies SM,Wilbanks SM,Fagerlund RD,Ludgate MW,da Silva Tatley FM,Coker MS,Bockett NA,Hughes G,Pippig DA,Smith MP,Capron C,Ledger

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulations of iron are often detected in the brains of people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. But it is often not known whether such accumulations contribute directly to disease progression. The identification of the genes mutated in two such disorders suggests that errors in iron metabolism do indeed ha...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Rouault TA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrity of the blood vessel wall is essential for vascular homeostasis and organ function. A dynamic balance between endothelial cell survival and apoptosis contributes to this integrity during vascular development and pathological angiogenesis. The genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating these processes in vivo...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Santoro MM,Samuel T,Mitchell T,Reed JC,Stainier DY

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins are heterodimeric transmembrane glycoproteins which are engaged in a variety of cellular functions, such as adhesion, migration and differentiation1. The integrin alpha 6 beta 4 is expressed on squamous epithelia, on subsets of endothelial cells, immature thymocytes and on Schwann cells and fibroblasts in th...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： van der Neut R,Krimpenfort P,Calafat J,Niessen CM,Sonnenberg A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer is effective only for mismatch repair-deficient tumors with high microsatellite instability that demonstrate immune infiltration, suggesting that tumor cells can determine their immune microenvironment. To understand this cross-talk, we analyzed the transcriptome of 91,10...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Lee HO,Hong Y,Etlioglu HE,Cho YB,Pomella V,Van den Bosch B,Vanhecke J,Verbandt S,Hong H,Min JW,Kim N,Eum HH,Qian J,Boeckx B,Lambrechts D,Tsantoulis P,De Hertogh G,Chung W,Lee T,An M,Shin HT,Joung JG,Jung MH,

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain yield is controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs) derived from natural variations in many crop plants. Here we report the molecular characterization of a major rice grain yield QTL that acts through the determination of panicle architecture. The dominant allele at the DEP1 locus is a gain-of-function mutatio...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Huang X,Qian Q,Liu Z,Sun H,He S,Luo D,Xia G,Chu C,Li J,Fu X

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1) is the most common form of inherited peripheral neuropathy. Although the disease is genetically heterogeneous, it has been demonstrated that the gene defect is the most frequent type (CMT1A) is the result of a partial duplication of band 17p11.2. Recent studies suggested that the per...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Timmerman V,Nelis E,Van Hul W,Nieuwenhuijsen BW,Chen KL,Wang S,Ben Othman K,Cullen B,Leach RJ,Hanemann CO

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00