Population study of 1311 C/T polymorphism of Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase gene in Pakistan - an analysis of 715 X-chromosomes.

abstract：:A thorough genetic mapping study was performed to identify predisposing genes for alcoholism dependence using the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data. The procedure comprised whole-genome linkage and confirmation analyses, single locus and haplotype fine mapping analyses, and gene x environme...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang HC,Chang CC,Lin CY,Chen CL,Lin CY,Fann CS

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human glycosylase IV is involved in GLUT2 transporter regulation in pancreatic beta cells. A KO of this gene along with a high fat diet in a mice model has been associated with the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aims of this study were to measure and compare the MGAT4A mRNA levels in white blood c...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： López-Orduña E,Cruz M,García-Mena J

更新日期：2007-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selecting chromosome substitution strains (CSSs, also called consomic strains/lines) used in the search for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) consistently requires the identification of the respective phenotypic trait of interest and is simply based on a significant difference between a consomic and host strain...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Labots M,Laarakker MC,Ohl F,van Lith HA

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cymbidium is a genus of 68 species in the orchid family, with extremely high ornamental value. Marker-assisted selection has proven to be an effective strategy in accelerating plant breeding for many plant species. Analysis of cymbidiums genetic background by molecular markers can be of great value in assist...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Li X,Jin F,Jin L,Jackson A,Huang C,Li K,Shu X

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed 143 pedigrees (364 nuclear families) in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data provided to the participants in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW14) with the goal of comparing results obtained from genome linkage analysis using microsatellite and with results obtaine...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen G,Adeyemo A,Zhou J,Yuan A,Chen Y,Rotimi C

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lone atrial flutter (AFL) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are common and sometimes consequential cardiac conduction disorders with a strong heritability, as underlined by recent genome-wide association studies that identified genetic modifiers. Follow-up family-based genetic analysis also identified Mendelian t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Maciąg A,Villa F,Ferrario A,Spinelli CC,Carrizzo A,Malovini A,Torella A,Montenero C,Parisi A,Condorelli G,Vecchione C,Nigro V,Montenero AS,Puca AA

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic maps characterizing the inheritance patterns of traits and markers have been developed for a wide range of species and used to study questions in biomedicine, agriculture, ecology and evolutionary biology. The status of rainbow trout genetic maps has progressed significantly over the last decade due ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Rexroad CE 3rd,Palti Y,Gahr SA,Vallejo RL

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hip dysplasia remains one of the most serious hereditary diseases occurring in dogs despite long-standing evaluation schemes designed to aid selection for healthy joints. Many researchers have recommended the use of estimated breeding values (EBV) to improve the rate of genetic progress from selection agains...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lewis TW,Blott SC,Woolliams JA

更新日期：2013-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cockerham genetic models are commonly used in quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis with a special feature of partitioning genotypic variances into various genetic variance components, while the F(infinity) genetic models are widely used in genetic association studies. Over years, there have been some confu...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang T,Zeng ZB

更新日期：2009-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic improvement of beef quality will benefit both producers and consumers, and can be achieved by selecting animals that carry desired quantitative trait nucleotides (QTN), which result from intensive searches using genetic markers. This paper presents a genome-wide association approach utilizing single ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lu D,Sargolzaei M,Kelly M,Vander Voort G,Wang Z,Mandell I,Moore S,Plastow G,Miller SP

更新日期：2013-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typically, the first phase of a genome wide association study (GWAS) includes genotyping across hundreds of individuals and validation of the most significant SNPs. Allelotyping of pooled genomic DNA is a common approach to reduce the overall cost of the study. Knowledge of haplotype structure can provide ad...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Iliadis A,Anastassiou D,Wang X

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structured association mapping is proving to be a powerful strategy to find genetic polymorphisms associated with disease. However, these algorithms are often distributed as command line implementations that require expertise and effort to customize and put into practice. Because of the difficulty required t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Curtis RE,Goyal A,Xing EP

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genotyping technologies enable us to genotype multiple Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) within selected genes/regions, providing data for haplotype association analysis. While haplotype-based association analysis is powerful for detecting untyped causal alleles in linkage-disequilibrium (LD) with neigh...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang Y,Li SS,Chien JW,Andriesen J,Zhao LP

更新日期：2008-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compared to model-based approaches, nonparametric methods for quantitative trait loci mapping are more robust to deviations in distributional assumptions. In this study, we modify a nonparametric regression method and the "contrast function"- based regression method to analyze total cholesterol level in the ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ghosh S,Bertelsen S,Reich T

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide association studies involve detecting association between millions of genetic variants and a trait, which typically use univariate regression to test association between each single variant and the phenotype. Alternatively, Lasso penalized regression allows one to jointly model the relationship b...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Arbet J,McGue M,Chatterjee S,Basu S

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Sapsaree is a breed of dog (Canis familiaris) native to Korea, which became perilously close to extinction in the mid-1980s. However, with systematic genetic conservation and restoration efforts, this breed was rescued from extinction and population sizes have been gradually increasing over the past few ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gajaweera C,Kang JM,Lee DH,Lee SH,Kim YK,Wijayananda HI,Kim JJ,Ha JH,Choi BH,Lee SH

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myanmar cattle populations predominantly consist of native cattle breeds (Pyer Sein and Shwe), characterized by their geographical location and coat color, and the Holstein-Friesian crossbreed, which is highly adapted to the harsh tropical climates of this region. Here, we analyzed the diversity and genetic ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Giovambattista G,Moe KK,Polat M,Borjigin L,Hein ST,Moe HH,Takeshima SN,Aida Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) proteins play important roles in hormone signal transduction, developmental regulation, and environmental stress tolerance. However, in wheat, the CAMTA gene family has not been systematically characterized. RESULTS:In this work, 15 wheat CAMTA genes ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang F,Dong FS,Hu FH,Liu YW,Chai JF,Zhao H,Lv MY,Zhou S

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype data from the Illumina Linkage III SNP panel (n = 4,720 SNPs) and the Affymetrix 10 k mapping array (n = 11,120 SNPs) were used to test the effects of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between SNPs in a linkage analysis in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism pedigree collection (143 pedigrees; 1,6...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Murray SS

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat leaf rust is an important disease worldwide. Understanding the pathogenic molecular mechanism of Puccinia triticina Eriks. (Pt) and the inconstant toxic region is critical for managing the disease. The present study aimed to analyze the pathogenic divergence between Pt isolates. RESULTS:Total RNA was ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wei J,Cui L,Zhang N,Du D,Meng Q,Yan H,Liu D,Yang W

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide investigation of molecular mechanisms for high-altitude adaptation has attracted great attention in the last few years. In order to understand the contribution of gene expression level variations to high-altitude adaptation in Asiatic toads (Bufo gargarizans), we implemented a reciprocal transpla...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang W,Qi Y,Lu B,Qiao L,Wu Y,Fu J

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transgenic poplar (Populus × euramericana 'Guariento') plants harboring five exogenous, stress-related genes exhibit increased tolerance to multiple stresses including drought, salt, waterlogging, and insect feeding, but the complex mechanisms underlying stress tolerance in these plants have not been elucida...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Zhang W,Chu Y,Ding C,Zhang B,Huang Q,Hu Z,Huang R,Tian Y,Su X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic selection exploits dense genome-wide marker data to predict breeding values. In this study we used a large sugar beet population of 924 lines representing different germplasm types present in breeding populations: unselected segregating families and diverse lines from more advanced stages of selectio...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Würschum T,Reif JC,Kraft T,Janssen G,Zhao Y

更新日期：2013-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have crucial roles in various biological regulatory processes. However, the study of lncRNAs is limited in woody plants. Catalpa bungei is a valuable ornamental tree with a long cultivation history in China, and a deeper understanding of the floral transition mechanism in C. bu...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang Z,Zhu T,Ma W,Wang N,Qu G,Zhang S,Wang J

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Participants in the family-based analysis group at Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 addressed diverse topics, all of which used the family data. Topics addressed included questions of study design and data quality control (QC), genotype imputation to augment available sequence data, and linkage and/or association analyses...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wijsman EM

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For anurans, knowledge of 5S rDNA is scarce. For Engystomops species, chromosomal homeologies are difficult to recognize due to the high level of inter- and intraspecific cytogenetic variation. In an attempt to better compare the karyotypes of the Amazonian species Engystomops freibergi and Engystomops peter...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Rodrigues DS,Rivera M,Lourenço LB

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grain zinc and iron concentration is a complex trait that is controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTL) and is important for maintaining body health. Despite the substantial effort that has been put into identifying QTL for grain zinc and iron concentration, the integration of independent QTL is useful for ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Jin T,Chen J,Zhu L,Zhao Y,Guo J,Huang Y

更新日期：2015-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is involved in the recruitment of lymphocytes and monocytes and their migration to sites of injury and cellular immune reactions. In a Ghanaian tuberculosis (TB) case-control study group, associations of the MCP1 -362C and the MCP1 -2581G alleles with resistance...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Intemann CD,Thye T,Förster B,Owusu-Dabo E,Gyapong J,Horstmann RD,Meyer CG

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hu sheep, a unique Chinese breed with high reproductive performance, are also well known for their rare white lambskin in China. The quality of lambskin is affected by hair follicles, and dermal papilla cells are an important component of hair follicles that plays a key role in hair follicle growth and devel...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lv X,Gao W,Jin C,Wang L,Wang Y,Chen W,Zou S,Huang S,Li Z,Wang J,Sun W

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is among the prominent crops in the world as food and feed. There are relatively few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers developed from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in P. sativum. RESULTS:In the present study, 15 new EST-SSR markers were developed from publicly available ESTs...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Teshome A,Bryngelsson T,Dagne K,Geleta M

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00