A genetic model for control of hypertriglyceridemia and apolipoprotein B levels in the Johns Hopkins colony of St. Thomas Hospital rabbits.

abstract：:Analysis of raw pooled data from distinct studies of a single question generates a single statistical conclusion with greater power and precision than conventional metaanalysis based on within-study estimates. However, conducting analyses with pooled genetic data, in particular, is a daunting task that raises importan...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Heo M,Leibel RL,Boyer BB,Chung WK,Koulu M,Karvonen MK,Pesonen U,Rissanen A,Laakso M,Uusitupa MI,Chagnon Y,Bouchard C,Donohoue PA,Burns TL,Shuldiner AR,Silver K,Andersen RE,Pedersen O,Echwald S,Sørensen TI,Behn P,

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of RNA was measured in adult males of two genotypes: car bb/Ybb- and car bb/YbbSuVar-5. The two genotypes have similar amounts of rDNA, which is reduced in comparison to wild type (CLARK, STRAUSBAUGH and KIEFER 1977). Although genotypically bobbed, car bb/YbbSuVar-5 flies have a wild-type phenotype; car b...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Strausbaugh LD,Clark SH,Grainger RM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, many major regulatory genes that control plant growth and development have been identified and characterized. Despite a detailed knowledge of the function of these genes little is known about how they contribute to the natural variation for complex traits. To determine whether major regulatory genes of maiz...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Weber A,Clark RM,Vaughn L,Sánchez-Gonzalez Jde J,Yu J,Yandell BS,Bradbury P,Doebley J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in maternally transmitted symbionts can affect host fitness. In this study we investigate a mutation in an obligate bacterial symbiont (Buchnera), which has dramatic effects on the heat tolerance of pea aphid hosts (Acyrthosiphon pisum). The heat-sensitive allele arises through a single base deletion in a ho...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Burke GR,McLaughlin HJ,Simon JC,Moran NA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase (SAGA) complex of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a multifunctional coactivator complex that has been shown to regulate transcription by distinct mechanisms. Previous results have shown that the Spt3 and Spt8 components of SAGA regulate initiation of transcription of particular genes by ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Laprade L,Rose D,Winston F

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are dynamic structures that must elongate, disassemble, and be cleaved into smaller pieces for proper neuronal development and function. The AAA ATPase Spastin severs microtubules along their lengths and is thought to regulate the balance between long, stable filaments and shorter fragments that seed exte...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ozdowski EF,Gayle S,Bao H,Zhang B,Sherwood NT

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centric regions of eukaryotic genomes are packaged into heterochromatin, which possesses the ability to spread along the chromosome and silence gene expression. The process of spreading has been challenging to study at the molecular level due to repetitious sequences within centric regions. A heterochromatin protein 1...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hines KA,Cryderman DE,Flannery KM,Yang H,Vitalini MW,Hazelrigg T,Mizzen CA,Wallrath LL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fixation of a beneficial allele in a population leaves a well-characterized signature in patterns of nucleotide variation at linked sites. This signature can be used to estimate the time since fixation from patterns of polymorphism in extant individuals. I introduce a method to assess the support in polymorphism d...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Przeworski M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting milk production and health of dairy cattle were mapped in a very large Holstein granddaughter design. The analysis included 1794 sons of 14 sires and 206 genetic markers distributed across all 29 autosomes and flanking an estimated 2497 autosomal cM using Kosambi's mapping funct...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhang Q,Boichard D,Hoeschele I,Ernst C,Eggen A,Murkve B,Pfister-Genskow M,Witte LA,Grignola FE,Uimari P,Thaller G,Bishop MD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast meiotic recombination, alleles used as genetic markers fall into two classes as regards their fate when incorporated into heteroduplex DNA. Normal alleles are those that form heteroduplexes that are nearly always recognized and corrected by the mismatch repair system operating in meiosis. High PMS (postmeioti...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Manivasakam P,Rosenberg SM,Hastings PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spt3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for the normal transcription of many genes in vivo. Past studies have shown that Spt3 is required for both mating and sporulation, two events that initiate when cells are at G(1)/START. We now show that Spt3 is needed for two other events that begin at G(1)/START, diploid f...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Laprade L,Boyartchuk VL,Dietrich WF,Winston F

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mendelian loci that control the expression levels of transcripts are called expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). When mapping eQTL, we often deal with thousands of expression traits simultaneously, which complicates the statistical model and data analysis. Two simple approaches may be taken in eQTL analysis: (1)...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jia Z,Xu S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulation of Drosophila melanogaster behavior by biogenic amines, we have exploited the broad requirement of the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) for the vesicular storage and exocytotic release of all monoamine neurotransmitters. We used the Drosophila VMAT (dVMAT) null mutant to globally ab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen A,Ng F,Lebestky T,Grygoruk A,Djapri C,Lawal HO,Zaveri HA,Mehanzel F,Najibi R,Seidman G,Murphy NP,Kelly RL,Ackerson LC,Maidment NT,Jackson FR,Krantz DE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear membrane is part of a complex nuclear envelope environment also containing chromatin, integral and peripheral membrane proteins, and large structures such as nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) and the spindle pole body. To study how properties of the nuclear membrane affect nuclear enve...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Witkin KL,Friederichs JM,Cohen-Fix O,Jaspersen SL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catfish is the major aquaculture species in the United States. The hybrid catfish produced by crossing channel catfish females with blue catfish males exhibit a number of desirable production traits, but their mass production has been difficult. To introduce desirable genes from blue catfish into channel catfish throu...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Liu Z,Karsi A,Li P,Cao D,Dunham R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-1 is a motor protein that moves stepwise along microtubules by employing dimerized kinesin heavy chain (Khc) subunits that alternate cycles of microtubule binding, conformational change, and ATP hydrolysis. Mutations in the Drosophila Khc gene are known to cause distal paralysis and lethality preceded by the o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Djagaeva I,Rose DJ,Lim A,Venter CE,Brendza KM,Moua P,Saxton WM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila adult leg development provides an ideal model system for characterizing the molecular mechanisms of hormone-triggered morphogenesis. A pulse of the steroid hormone ecdysone at the onset of metamorphosis triggers the rapid transformation of a flat leg imaginal disc into an immature adult leg, largely through...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ward RE,Evans J,Thummel CS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic material sequenced from ancient samples is revolutionizing our understanding of the recent evolutionary past. However, ancient DNA is often degraded, resulting in low coverage, error-prone sequencing. Several solutions exist to this problem, ranging from simple approach, such as selecting a read at random for ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schraiber JG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosome function, structure and evolution is poorly understood in many species, including the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes-an emerging model system for studying speciation that also represents the major vectors of malaria. While the Anopheline Y had previously been implicated in male mating behavior, recent data...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bernardini F,Galizi R,Wunderlich M,Taxiarchi C,Kranjc N,Kyrou K,Hammond A,Nolan T,Lawniczak MNK,Papathanos PA,Crisanti A,Windbichler N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure parameters commonly used for diploid species are reexamined for the particular case of tetrasomic inheritance (autotetraploid species). Recurrence equations that describe the evolution of identity probabilities for neutral genes in an "island model" of population structure are derived assuming tet...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ronfort J,Jenczewski E,Bataillon T,Rousset F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is the departure from the expected genotypic frequencies under Mendelian inheritance. This departure can be due to multiple physiological mechanisms during gametogenesis, fertilization, fetal and embryonic development, and early neonatal life. Although a few TRD loci have been repor...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Casellas J,Gularte RJ,Farber CR,Varona L,Mehrabian M,Schadt EE,Lusis AJ,Attie AD,Yandell BS,Medrano JF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of chromosome, or genomic, imprinting indicates the relevance of parental origin in determining functional differences between alleles, homologous chromosomes, or haploid sets. In mealybug males (Homoptera, Coccoidea), the haploid set of paternal origin undergoes heterochromatization at midcleavage and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bongiorni S,Cintio O,Prantera G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 568 new simple sequence repeat (SSR)-based markers for barley have been developed from a combination of database sequences and small insert genomic libraries enriched for a range of short simple sequence repeats. Analysis of the SSRs on 16 barley cultivars revealed variable levels of informativeness but no ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ramsay L,Macaulay M,degli Ivanissevich S,MacLean K,Cardle L,Fuller J,Edwards KJ,Tuvesson S,Morgante M,Massari A,Maestri E,Marmiroli N,Sjakste T,Ganal M,Powell W,Waugh R

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two composite multiple regression-interval mapping analyses were performed to identify candidate quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting components of wing shape in Drosophila melanogaster defined by eight relative warp-based measures. A recombinant inbred line design was used to map QTL for the shape of two intervein...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zimmerman E,Palsson A,Gibson G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions for the rate of inbreeding (DeltaF) in populations with discrete generations undergoing selection on best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) of breeding value were developed. Predictions were based on the concept of long-term genetic contributions using a recently established relationship between expected c...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bijma P,Woolliams JA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fission yeast, the septation initiation network (SIN) is thought to promote cytokinesis by downstream activation of Rho1, a conserved GTPase that controls cell growth and division. Here we show that Etd1 and PP2A-Pab1, antagonistic regulators of SIN, are Rho1 regulators. Our genetic and biochemical studies indicate...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Alcaide-Gavilán M,Lahoz A,Daga RR,Jimenez J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-complex protein 1, TCP1, gene codes for the CCT-alpha subunit of the group II chaperonins. The gene was first described in the house mouse, in which it is closely linked to the T locus at a distance of approximately 11 cM from the Mhc. In the zebrafish, Danio rerio, in which the T homolog is linked to the class ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Takami K,Figueroa F,Mayer WE,Klein J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat-shock proteins have undergone a tremendous diversification in plants; whereas only a single small heat-shock protein is found in fungi and many animals, over 20 different small heat-shock proteins are found in higher plants. The small heat-shock proteins in plants have diversified in both sequence and c...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Waters ER

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rag4 mutant of Kluyveromyces lactis was previously isolated as a fermentation-deficient mutant, in which transcription of the major glucose transporter gene RAG1 was affected. The wild-type RAG4 was cloned by complementation of the rag4 mutation and found to encode a protein homologous to Snf3 and Rgt2 of Saccharo...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Betina S,Goffrini P,Ferrero I,Wésolowski-Louvel M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic information can be altered by base substitutions, frameshift mutations, and addition or deletion of nucleotides. Deletions represent an important class of genetic aberration occurring at DNA sequences where it is often possible to predict the existence of intermediates of mutation. Instability within tracts of...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bichara M,Schumacher S,Fuchs RP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00