Genetic and genomic analysis of a fat mass trait with complex inheritance reveals marked sex specificity.

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journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wen D,Rivera-Perez C,Abdou M,Jia Q,He Q,Liu X,Zyaan O,Xu J,Bendena WG,Tobe SS,Noriega FG,Palli SR,Wang J,Li S

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bHLH transcription factor, Phytochrome Interacting Factor 3 (PIF3), interacts specifically with the photoactivated, Pfr, form of Arabidopsis phytochrome B (phyB). This interaction induces PIF3 phosphorylation and degradation in vivo and modulates phyB-mediated seedling deetiolation in response to red light. To ide...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kikis EA,Oka Y,Hudson ME,Nagatani A,Quail PH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male breast cancer accounts for approximately 1% of all breast cancer. To date, risk factors for male breast cancer are poorly defined, but certain risk factors and genetic features appear common to both male and female breast cancer. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have recently identified common single nucleo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Orr N,Cooke R,Jones M,Fletcher O,Dudbridge F,Chilcott-Burns S,Tomczyk K,Broderick P,Houlston R,Ashworth A,Swerdlow A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced bacterial genomes and most genomes of cell organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) do not encode the full set of 32 tRNA species required to read all triplets of the genetic code according to the conventional wobble rules. Superwobbling, in which a single tRNA species that contains a uridine in the wobble p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alkatib S,Scharff LB,Rogalski M,Fleischmann TT,Matthes A,Seeger S,Schöttler MA,Ruf S,Bock R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some imprinted genes exhibit parental origin specific expression bias rather than being transcribed exclusively from one copy. The physiological relevance of this remains poorly understood. In an analysis of brain-specific allele-biased expression, we identified that Trappc9, a cellular trafficking factor, was express...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liang ZS,Cimino I,Yalcin B,Raghupathy N,Vancollie VE,Ibarra-Soria X,Firth HV,Rimmington D,Farooqi IS,Lelliott CJ,Munger SC,O'Rahilly S,Ferguson-Smith AC,Coll AP,Logan DW

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt represents a nodal point between the Insulin receptor and TOR signaling, and its activation by phosphorylation controls cell proliferation, cell size, and metabolism. The activity of Akt must be carefully balanced, as increased Akt signaling is frequently associated with cancer and as insufficient Akt signaling is...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kockel L,Kerr KS,Melnick M,Brückner K,Hebrok M,Perrimon N

更新日期：2010-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaining insights into genetic predisposition to age-related diseases and lifespan is a challenging task complicated by the elusive role of evolution in these phenotypes. To gain more insights, we combined methods of genome-wide and candidate-gene studies. Genome-wide scan in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (AR...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kulminski AM,He L,Culminskaya I,Loika Y,Kernogitski Y,Arbeev KG,Loiko E,Arbeeva L,Bagley O,Duan M,Yashkin A,Fang F,Kovtun M,Ukraintseva SV,Wu D,Yashin AI

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The length of cilia is controlled by a poorly understood mechanism that involves members of the conserved RCK kinase group, and among them, the LF4/MOK kinases. The multiciliated protist model, Tetrahymena, carries two types of cilia (oral and locomotory) and the length of the locomotory cilia is dependent on their po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jiang YY,Maier W,Baumeister R,Minevich G,Joachimiak E,Wloga D,Ruan Z,Kannan N,Bocarro S,Bahraini A,Vasudevan KK,Lechtreck K,Orias E,Gaertig J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput genetic screens are powerful methods to identify genes linked to a given phenotype. The catalytic null mutant of the Cas9 RNA-guided nuclease (dCas9) can be conveniently used to silence genes of interest in a method also known as CRISPRi. Here, we report a genome-wide CRISPR-dCas9 screen using a starti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rousset F,Cui L,Siouve E,Becavin C,Depardieu F,Bikard D

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes are the highly complex macromolecular assemblies dedicated to the synthesis of all cellular proteins from mRNA templates. The main principles underlying the making of ribosomes are conserved across eukaryotic organisms and this process has been studied in most detail in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ye...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pillet B,García-Gómez JJ,Pausch P,Falquet L,Bange G,de la Cruz J,Kressler D

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal hyperpigmentation or Fibromelanosis (FM) is one of the few examples of skin pigmentation phenotypes in the chicken, where most other pigmentation variants influence feather color and patterning. The Silkie chicken is the most widespread and well-studied breed displaying this phenotype. The presence of the domin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dorshorst B,Molin AM,Rubin CJ,Johansson AM,Strömstedt L,Pham MH,Chen CF,Hallböök F,Ashwell C,Andersson L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mollicutes is a class of parasitic bacteria that have evolved from a common Firmicutes ancestor mostly by massive genome reduction. With genomes under 1 Mbp in size, most Mollicutes species retain the capacity to replicate and grow autonomously. The major goal of this work was to identify the minimal set of proteins t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grosjean H,Breton M,Sirand-Pugnet P,Tardy F,Thiaucourt F,Citti C,Barré A,Yoshizawa S,Fourmy D,de Crécy-Lagard V,Blanchard A

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory infectious diseases are the third cause of worldwide death. The nasopharynx is the portal of entry and the ecological niche of many microorganisms, of which some are pathogenic to humans, such as Neisseria meningitidis and Moraxella catarrhalis. These microbes possess several surface structures that intera...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrier FJ,Biais N,Morales P,Belkacem N,Guilhen C,Ranjeva S,Sismeiro O,Péhau-Arnaudet G,Rocha EP,Werts C,Taha MK,Boneca IG

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an evolutionarily conserved master regulator of metabolism and a therapeutic target in type 2 diabetes. As an energy sensor, AMPK activity is responsive to both metabolic inputs, for instance the ratio of AMP to ATP, and numerous hormonal cues. As in mammals, each of two genes, a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cunningham KA,Bouagnon AD,Barros AG,Lin L,Malard L,Romano-Silva MA,Ashrafi K

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic fungi have evolved a complex regulatory network to maintain the precise balance of nutrients required for growth and hydrolytic enzyme production. When fungi are exposed to cellulose, the transcript levels of cellulase genes rapidly increase and then decline. However, the mechanisms underlying this bell-s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lin L,Wang S,Li X,He Q,Benz JP,Tian C

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of the small and isolated Greenlandic population is advantageous for identification of novel genetic variants associated with cardio-metabolic traits. We aimed to identify genetic loci associated with body mass index (BMI), to expand the knowledge of the genetic and biological mechanisms under...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Andersen MK,Jørsboe E,Skotte L,Hanghøj K,Sandholt CH,Moltke I,Grarup N,Kern T,Mahendran Y,Søborg B,Bjerregaard P,Larsen CVL,Dahl-Petersen IK,Tiwari HK,Feenstra B,Koch A,Wiener HW,Hopkins SE,Pedersen O,Melbye M,Boy

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient approach to characterizing the disease burden of rare genetic variants is to impute them into large well-phenotyped cohorts with existing genome-wide genotype data using large sequenced referenced panels. The success of this approach hinges on the accuracy of rare variant imputation, which remains controv...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hoffmann TJ,Sakoda LC,Shen L,Jorgenson E,Habel LA,Liu J,Kvale MN,Asgari MM,Banda Y,Corley D,Kushi LH,Quesenberry CP Jr,Schaefer C,Van Den Eeden SK,Risch N,Witte JS

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, microbes often need to "decide" which of several available nutrients to utilize, a choice that depends on a cell's inherent preference and external nutrient levels. While natural environments can have mixtures of different nutrients, phenotypic variation in microbes' decisions of which nutrient to utilize i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee KB,Wang J,Palme J,Escalante-Chong R,Hua B,Springer M

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Deedu (DU) Mongolians, who migrated from the Mongolian steppes to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau approximately 500 years ago, are challenged by environmental conditions similar to native Tibetan highlanders. Identification of adaptive genetic factors in this population could provide insight into coordinated physiological...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xing J,Wuren T,Simonson TS,Watkins WS,Witherspoon DJ,Wu W,Qin G,Huff CD,Jorde LB,Ge RL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospermic fertilization is mediated by the extracellular zona pellucida composed of ZP1, ZP2 and ZP3. Sperm bind to the N-terminus of ZP2 which is cleaved after fertilization by ovastacin (encoded by Astl) exocytosed from egg cortical granules to prevent sperm binding. AstlNull mice lack the post-fertilization block...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xiong B,Zhao Y,Beall S,Sadusky AB,Dean J

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a form of inherited mental retardation in humans that results from expansion of a CGG repeat in the Fmr1 gene. Recent studies suggest a role of astrocytes in neuronal development. However, the mechanisms involved in the regulation process of astrocytes from FXS remain unclear. In this study...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang Q,Feng B,Zhang K,Guo YY,Liu SB,Wu YM,Li XQ,Zhao MG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cancer is caused by the interplay of mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes and inherited variations in cancer susceptibility genes. While many of the tumor initiating mutations are well characterized, the effect of genetic background variation on disease onset and progression is less understood. We h...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Schmid T,Snoek LB,Fröhli E,van der Bent ML,Kammenga J,Hajnal A

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:People who begin daily smoking at an early age are at greater risk of long-term nicotine addiction. We tested the hypothesis that associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) genetic variants and nicotine dependence assessed in adulthood will be stronger among smokers who began daily nicotine exposure...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weiss RB,Baker TB,Cannon DS,von Niederhausern A,Dunn DM,Matsunami N,Singh NA,Baird L,Coon H,McMahon WM,Piper ME,Fiore MC,Scholand MB,Connett JE,Kanner RE,Gahring LC,Rogers SW,Hoidal JR,Leppert MF

更新日期：2008-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Variably expressive copy-number variants (CNVs) are characterized by extensive phenotypic heterogeneity of neuropsychiatric phenotypes. Approaches to identify single causative genes for these phenotypes within each CNV have not been successful. Here, we posit using multiple lines of evidence, including pathogenicity m...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jensen M,Girirajan S

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a rare genetic disorder of the skin characterized by abnormal desquamation over the whole body. In this study we report four patients from three consanguineous Tunisian families with skin, eye, heart, and skeletal anomalies, who harbor a homozygous contiguous gene de...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Radner FP,Marrakchi S,Kirchmeier P,Kim GJ,Ribierre F,Kamoun B,Abid L,Leipoldt M,Turki H,Schempp W,Heilig R,Lathrop M,Fischer J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial arrangement of neurite branching is instructed by both attractive and repulsive cues. Here we show that in C. elegans, the Wnt family of secreted glycoproteins specify neurite branching sites in the PLM mechanosensory neurons. Wnts function through MIG-1/Frizzled and the planar cell polarity protein (PCP) VANG...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chen CH,He CW,Liao CP,Pan CL

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel pyrosequencing of hypervariable regions from small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes can sample a microbial community two or three orders of magnitude more deeply per dollar and per hour than capillary sequencing of full-length SSU rRNA. As with full-length rRNA surveys, each sequence read is a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huse SM,Dethlefsen L,Huber JA,Mark Welch D,Relman DA,Sogin ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively unexplored nexus in Drosophila Immune deficiency (IMD) pathway is TGF-beta Activating Kinase 1 (TAK1), which triggers both immunity and apoptosis. In a cell culture screen, we identified that Lysine at position 142 was a K63-linked Ubiquitin acceptor site for TAK1, required for signalling. Moreover, Lysin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernando MD,Kounatidis I,Ligoxygakis P

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies typically target inherited autosomal variants, but less studied genetic mechanisms can play a role in complex disease. Sex-linked variants aside, three genetic phenomena can induce differential risk in maternal versus paternal lineages of affected individuals: 1. maternal effects, refle...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weinberg CR,Shi M,DeRoo LA,Taylor JA,Sandler DP,Umbach DM

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike mammals and birds, teleost fish undergo external embryogenesis, and therefore their embryos are constantly challenged by stresses from their living environment. These stresses, when becoming too harsh, will cause arrest of cell proliferation, abnormal cell death or senescence. Such organisms have to evolve a so...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hu M,Bai Y,Zhang C,Liu F,Cui Z,Chen J,Peng J

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00