Chromosome 9p21 SNPs Associated with Multiple Disease Phenotypes Correlate with ANRIL Expression.

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008320.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNAs are often processed in complex patterns in tissue-specific manners to produce a variety of protein isoforms from single genes. However, mechanisms orchestrating the processing of the entire transcript are not well understood. Muscle-specific alternative pre-mRNA processing of the unc-60 gene in Caenorhabditi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ohno G,Ono K,Togo M,Watanabe Y,Ono S,Hagiwara M,Kuroyanagi H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary factors, including meat, fruits, vegetables and fiber, are associated with colorectal cancer; however, there is limited information as to whether these dietary factors interact with genetic variants to modify risk of colorectal cancer. We tested interactions between these dietary factors and approximately 2.7 ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Figueiredo JC,Hsu L,Hutter CM,Lin Y,Campbell PT,Baron JA,Berndt SI,Jiao S,Casey G,Fortini B,Chan AT,Cotterchio M,Lemire M,Gallinger S,Harrison TA,Le Marchand L,Newcomb PA,Slattery ML,Caan BJ,Carlson CS,Zanke BW,

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrioles are microtubule-based organelles important for the formation of cilia, flagella and centrosomes. Despite progress in understanding the underlying assembly mechanisms, how centriole integrity is ensured is incompletely understood, including in sperm cells, where such integrity is particularly critical. We id...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： von Tobel L,Mikeladze-Dvali T,Delattre M,Balestra FR,Blanchoud S,Finger S,Knott G,Müller-Reichert T,Gönczy P

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is successful at colonizing land that has recently undergone human-mediated disturbance. To investigate the prehistoric spread of A. thaliana, we applied approximate Bayesian computation and explicit spatial modeling to 76 European accessions sequenced at 876 nuclear loci. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： François O,Blum MG,Jakobsson M,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2008-05-16 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：:Bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment without acquiring heritable antibiotic resistance. We investigated persistence to the fluoroquinolone ciprofloxacin in Escherichia coli. Our data show that a majority of persisters to ciprofloxacin were formed upon exposure to the antibiotic, in a manner dependent on the SOS g...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dörr T,Lewis K,Vulić M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy refers to losses and/or gains of individual chromosomes from the normal chromosome set. The resulting gene dosage imbalance has a noticeable affect on the phenotype, as illustrated by aneuploid syndromes, including Down syndrome in humans, and by human solid tumor cells, which are highly aneuploid. Although...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huettel B,Kreil DP,Matzke M,Matzke AJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of the Sgs1, Mph1, and Srs2 DNA helicases during mitotic double-strand break (DSB) repair in yeast were investigated using a gap-repair assay. A diverged chromosomal substrate was used as a repair template for the gapped plasmid, allowing mismatch-containing heteroduplex DNA (hDNA) formed during reco...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mitchel K,Lehner K,Jinks-Robertson S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sideroblastic anemias are acquired or inherited anemias that result in a decreased ability to synthesize hemoglobin in red blood cells and result in the presence of iron deposits in the mitochondria of red blood cell precursors. A common subtype of congenital sideroblastic anemia is due to autosomal recessive mutation...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernández-Murray JP,Prykhozhij SV,Dufay JN,Steele SL,Gaston D,Nasrallah GK,Coombs AJ,Liwski RS,Fernandez CV,Berman JN,McMaster CR

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Third-generation cephalosporins are a class of β-lactam antibiotics that are often used for the treatment of human infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, especially Escherichia coli. Worryingly, the incidence of human infections caused by third-generation cephalosporin-resistant E. coli is increasing worldwide. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： de Been M,Lanza VF,de Toro M,Scharringa J,Dohmen W,Du Y,Hu J,Lei Y,Li N,Tooming-Klunderud A,Heederik DJ,Fluit AC,Bonten MJ,Willems RJ,de la Cruz F,van Schaik W

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Orienting the causal relationship between pairs of traits is a fundamental task in scientific research with significant implications in practice, such as in prioritizing molecular targets and modifiable risk factors for developing therapeutic and interventional strategies for complex diseases. A recent method, called ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xue H,Pan W

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Under nitrogen deprivation, filaments of the cyanobacterium Anabaena undergo a process of development, resulting in a one-dimensional pattern of nitrogen-fixing heterocysts separated by about ten photosynthetic vegetative cells. Many aspects of gene expression before nitrogen deprivation and during the developmental p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Corrales-Guerrero L,Tal A,Arbel-Goren R,Mariscal V,Flores E,Herrero A,Stavans J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between neoplastic cells and cells of their microenvironment is critical to cancer progression. To investigate the role of cytoneme-mediated signaling as a mechanism for distributing growth factor signaling proteins between tumor and tumor-associated cells, we analyzed EGFR and RET Drosophila tumor model...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fereres S,Hatori R,Hatori M,Kornberg TB

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ribosomal RNA by RNA polymerase I (RNA pol I) is an elemental biological process and is key for cellular homeostasis. In a forward genetic screen in C. elegans designed to identify DNA damage-response factors, we isolated a point mutation of RNA pol I, rpoa-2(op259), that leads to altered rRNA synthesis a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberhard R,Stergiou L,Hofmann ER,Hofmann J,Haenni S,Teo Y,Furger A,Hengartner MO

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forward genetics screens with N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) provide a powerful way to illuminate gene function and generate mouse models of human disease; however, the identification of causative mutations remains a limiting step. Current strategies depend on conventional mapping, so the propagation of affected mice req...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bull KR,Rimmer AJ,Siggs OM,Miosge LA,Roots CM,Enders A,Bertram EM,Crockford TL,Whittle B,Potter PK,Simon MM,Mallon AM,Brown SD,Beutler B,Goodnow CC,Lunter G,Cornall RJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylated Spo0A is a master regulator of stationary phase development in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis, controlling the formation of spores, biofilms, and cells competent for transformation. We have monitored the rate of transcription of the spo0A gene during growth in sporulation medium using promoter fu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mirouze N,Prepiak P,Dubnau D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over half of all proteins are glycosylated, and alterations in glycosylation have been observed in numerous physiological and pathological processes. Attached glycans significantly affect protein function; but, contrary to polypeptides, they are not directly encoded by genes, and the complex processes that regulate th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lauc G,Essafi A,Huffman JE,Hayward C,Knežević A,Kattla JJ,Polašek O,Gornik O,Vitart V,Abrahams JL,Pučić M,Novokmet M,Redžić I,Campbell S,Wild SH,Borovečki F,Wang W,Kolčić I,Zgaga L,Gyllensten U,Wilson JF,Wright

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare individuals with inactivating mutations in the Huntington's disease gene (HTT) exhibit variable abnormalities that imply essential HTT roles during organ development. Here we report phenotypes produced when increasingly severe hypomorphic mutations in the murine HTT orthologue Htt, (HdhneoQ20, HdhneoQ50, HdhneoQ1...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Murthy V,Tebaldi T,Yoshida T,Erdin S,Calzonetti T,Vijayvargia R,Tripathi T,Kerschbamer E,Seong IS,Quattrone A,Talkowski ME,Gusella JF,Georgopoulos K,MacDonald ME,Biagioli M

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of domestication has been extensively studied ever since the rediscovery of Mendel's law of inheritance and much has been learned about the genetic control of trait differences between crops and their ancestors. Here, we ask how domestication has altered genetic architecture by comparing the genetic archi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chen Q,Samayoa LF,Yang CJ,Bradbury PJ,Olukolu BA,Neumeyer MA,Romay MC,Sun Q,Lorant A,Buckler ES,Ross-Ibarra J,Holland JB,Doebley JF

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent and classical work has revealed biologically and medically significant subtypes in complex diseases and traits. However, relevant subtypes are often unknown, unmeasured, or actively debated, making automated statistical approaches to subtype definition valuable. We propose reverse GWAS (RGWAS) to identify and v...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dahl A,Cai N,Ko A,Laakso M,Pajukanta P,Flint J,Zaitlen N

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:HSPB7 is a member of the small heat-shock protein (HSPB) family and is expressed in the cardiomyocytes from cardiogenesis onwards. A dramatic increase in HSPB7 is detected in the heart and blood plasma immediately after myocardial infarction. Additionally, several single-nucleotide polymorphisms of HSPB7 have been ide...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liao WC,Juo LY,Shih YL,Chen YH,Yan YT

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of forced expiratory volume in one second to forced vital capacity (FEV(1)/FVC) is a measure used to diagnose airflow obstruction and is highly heritable. We performed a genome-wide association study in 7,691 Framingham Heart Study participants to identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated wi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wilk JB,Chen TH,Gottlieb DJ,Walter RE,Nagle MW,Brandler BJ,Myers RH,Borecki IB,Silverman EK,Weiss ST,O'Connor GT

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular clock of neutral mutations, which represents linear mutation fixation over generations, is theoretically explained by genetic drift in fitness-steady evolution or hitchhiking in adaptive evolution. The present study is the first experimental demonstration for the molecular clock of neutral mutations in a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kishimoto T,Ying BW,Tsuru S,Iijima L,Suzuki S,Hashimoto T,Oyake A,Kobayashi H,Someya Y,Narisawa D,Yomo T

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus and Megavirus are the best characterized representatives of an expanding new family of giant viruses infecting Acanthamoeba. Their most distinctive features, megabase-sized genomes carried in particles of size comparable to that of small bacteria, fill the gap between the viral and cellular worlds. These gia...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jeudy S,Abergel C,Claverie JM,Legendre M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine (G)-rich DNA readily forms four-stranded quadruplexes in vitro, but evidence for their participation in genome regulation is limited. We have identified a quadruplex-binding protein, Lia3, that controls the boundaries of germline-limited, internal eliminated sequences (IESs) of Tetrahymena thermophila. Differe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Carle CM,Zaher HS,Chalker DL

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of cells into distinct cell types, each of which is heritable for many generations, underlies many biological phenomena. White and opaque cells of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans are two such heritable cell types, each thought to be adapted to unique niches within their human host. To systemat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tuch BB,Mitrovich QM,Homann OR,Hernday AD,Monighetti CK,De La Vega FM,Johnson AD

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005854.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Allotetraploid cotton species are a vital source of spinnable fiber for textiles. The polyploid nature of the cotton genome raises many evolutionary questions as to the relationships between duplicated genomes. We describe the evolution of the cotton genome (SNPs and structural variants) with the greatly improved reso...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Page JT,Liechty ZS,Alexander RH,Clemons K,Hulse-Kemp AM,Ashrafi H,Van Deynze A,Stelly DM,Udall JA

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a functional musculoskeletal system requires coordinated generation of muscles, bones, and tendons. However, how axial tendon cells (tenocytes) are generated during embryo development is still poorly understood. Here, we show that axial tenocytes arise from the sclerotome in zebrafish. In contrast to mo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ma RC,Jacobs CT,Sharma P,Kocha KM,Huang P

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00