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abstract：:Gene Set Enrichment (GSE) is a computational technique which determines whether a priori defined set of genes show statistically significant differential expression between two phenotypes. Currently, the gene sets used for GSE are derived from annotation or pathway databases, which often contain computationally based ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Davies MN,Meaburn EL,Schalkwyk LC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signalling pathway plays crucial roles in cardiac development and postnatal cardiac homoeostasis. Gain- and loss-of-function approaches indicate that Notch promotes or inhibits cardiogenesis in a stage-dependent manner. However, the molecular mechanisms are poorly defined because many downstream effectors re...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： MacGrogan D,Luxán G,de la Pompa JL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand several cellular processes, it is helpful to study how various components make up the system. This systems perspective is supported by several modelling tools including network analysis. Networks of protein-protein interactions (PPI networks) offer a way to depict, visualize and quantify ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Jordán F,Nguyen TP,Liu WC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of protein-DNA interactions can be determined directly by sequencing the bound and unbound fractions in a standard binding reaction. The procedure is easy and inexpensive, and the accuracy can be high for thousands of sequences assayed in parallel. From the measurements, simple models of specificity, s...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Stormo GD,Zuo Z,Chang YK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) leads to severe life-threatening liver diseases such as cirrhosis of liver, fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Severity of the disease infects >180 million people worldwide. In recent years, many computational approaches have been proposed to study and analyze the...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Ray S,Maulik U,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current era of epigenetics research, we have observed many examples of epigenetic modifications, like histone modification and DNA methylation, in various fatal diseases. These include solid tumors, hematological malignancies and viral infections with DNA or RNA viruses. The purpose of this review is to summari...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Sen S,Maulik U

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of epigenetic processes in the origin and progression of cancer is now widely appreciated. Consequently, targeting the enzymatic machinery that controls the epigenetic regulation of the genome has emerged as an attractive new strategy for therapeutic intervention. The development of epigenetic drugs re...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Bartke T,Borgel J,DiMaggio PA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plant communicates within itself and with the outside world by deploying an array of agents that include several attractants by virtue of their color and smell. In this category, the contribution of 'carotenoids and apocarotenoids' is very significant. Apocarotenoids, the carotenoid-derived compounds, show wide repr...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Dhar MK,Mishra S,Bhat A,Chib S,Kaul S

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of genetically isolated populations can empower next-generation association studies. In this review, we discuss the advantages of this approach and review study design and analytical considerations of genetic association studies focusing on isolates. We cite successful examples of using population isolates in ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Hatzikotoulas K,Gilly A,Zeggini E

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) are two recently discovered classes of small noncoding RNA that are found in animals and prokaryotes, respectively. Both of these novel RNA species function as components of adaptive immune systems that protect their hosts from foreign nucleic acids-piRNAs repres...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Kumar MS,Chen KC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of microchimeric cells is known for >100 years and well documented since decades. Earlier, microchimeric cells were mainly used for cell-based non-invasive prenatal diagnostics during early pregnancy. Microchimeric cells are also present beyond delivery and are associated to various autoimmune diseases, t...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Ståhlberg A,El-Heliebi A,Sedlmayr P,Kroneis T

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Less than 2% of the human genome DNA is composed of protein-coding genes, although the majority of the human genome is transcribed, indicating the transcripts mostly are noncoding RNAs. Those noncoding RNAs with length between 200 nt and 200 kb are categorized as long noncoding RNA (lncRNA). Around 30 000 lncRNAs have...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Wang G,Liu C,Deng S,Zhao Q,Li T,Qiao S,Shen L,Zhang Y,Lü J,Meng L,Liang C,Yu Z

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome has an almost equal distribution of unique and transposable genetic elements. Although at the transcriptome level, a relatively higher contribution from transposable elements derived RNA has been reported. This is further highlighted with evidence from pervasive transcription. Of the total RNA, noncod...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Chattopadhyay P,Srinivasa Vasudevan J,Pandey R

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of RNA splicing in 1977 the knowledge of this important biological process has increased steadily following the identification of many of the mechanistic features of splicing: from the basic cis-acting splicing signals, through the detail composition and dynamics of the spliceosome, to the role pla...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Buratti E,Baralle M,Baralle FE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a strictly human pathogen and is one of the major causes of septicemia and meningitis worldwide. Functional genomics approaches have been extensively applied to study how N. meningitidis adapts to grow and survive in different human niches encountered during the infection. DNA microarrays per...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Del Tordello E,Serruto D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing allows for the versatile genetic modification of somatic cells, germ cells and embryos. In particular, CRISPR/Cas9 is worldwide used in biomedical research. Although the first report on Cas9-mediated gene modification in human embryos focused on the prevention of a genetic disease in offspring, it raise...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Ishii T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells are specialized cells with a dynamic chromatin structure, which is intimately connected with their pluripotency and physiology. In recent years somatic cells have been reprogrammed to a pluripotent state through over-expression of a defined set of transcription factors. These cell...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Delgado-Olguín P,Recillas-Targa F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitome of any genome research is to identify all the existing genes in a genome and investigate their roles. Various techniques have been applied to unveil the functions either by silencing or over-expressing the genes by targeted expression or random mutagenesis. Rice is the most appropriate model crop for gener...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Moin M,Bakshi A,Saha A,Dutta M,Kirti PB

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine N-ε-acetylation is a post-translational modification that regulates the function of histone and non-histone proteins. In several malignancies, histone acetyltransferase (HAT) activities are disturbed as a consequence of various genetic or epigenetic alterations. In particular, HATs can function as tumor suppres...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Di Cerbo V,Schneider R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification of cytosines that undergoes dynamic changes in a temporal, spatial and cell-type-specific manner. Recent advances in technology have permitted the profiling of high-throughput methylomes in large numbers of biological samples. Various computational tools have been develope...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Liu H,Li S,Wang X,Zhu J,Wei Y,Wang Y,Wen Y,Wang L,Huang Y,Zhang B,Shang S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a complex disease, driven by aberrant activity in numerous signaling pathways in even individual malignant cells. Epigenetic changes are critical mediators of these functional changes that drive and maintain the malignant phenotype. Changes in DNA methylation, histone acetylation and methylation, noncoding R...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Kagohara LT,Stein-O'Brien GL,Kelley D,Flam E,Wick HC,Danilova LV,Easwaran H,Favorov AV,Qian J,Gaykalova DA,Fertig EJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Because of the poor prognosis of late-stage gastric cancer patients, it is imperative to develop new strategies to improve the survival rate of this disease. Currently, immunotherapy is considered as an innovative approach for cance...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Zhao Q,Cao L,Guan L,Bie L,Wang S,Xie B,Chen X,Shen X,Cao F

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-seq is a methodology for RNA profiling based on next-generation sequencing that enables to measure and compare gene expression patterns at unprecedented resolution. Although the appealing features of this technique have promoted its application to a wide panel of transcriptomics studies, the fast-evolving nature o...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Finotello F,Di Camillo B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in the initial establishment of cardiogenic cell fate are likely to contribute to pervasive human congenital cardiac abnormalities. However, the molecular underpinnings of nascent cardiac fate induction have proven difficult to decipher. In this review we explore the participation of extracellular, cellular an...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Cota CD,Segade F,Davidson B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic memory represents a natural mechanism whereby the identity of a cell is maintained through successive cell cycles, allowing the specification and maintenance of differentiation during development and in adult cells. Cancer is a loss or reversal of the stable differentiated state of adult cells and may be me...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Halley-Stott RP,Gurdon JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature termination of transcription, or attenuation, is an efficient RNA-based regulatory strategy that is commonly used in bacterial organisms. Attenuators are generally located in the 50 untranslated regions of genes or operons and combine a Rho-independent terminator, controlling transcription, with an RNA eleme...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Naville M,Gautheret D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central environment and interface for microRNA (miRNA) registry and repository and a general standardized framework for their systematic annotation was established over a decade ago. However, the numbers of experimentally and computationally identified miRNAs are swiftly accumulating, and new aspects of miRNA-mediat...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Budak H,Bulut R,Kantar M,Alptekin B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of next-generation sequencing technologies has facilitated the detection of causal genetic variants in diseases previously undiagnosed at a molecular level. However, in genome sequencing studies, the identification of disease genes among a candidate gene list is often difficult because of the large numbe...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Alyousfi D,Baralle D,Collins A

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of high-throughput genomics techniques, along with the completion of genome sequencing projects, identification of protein-protein interactions and reconstruction of genome-scale pathways, has accelerated the development of systems biology research in the yeast organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae In particula...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Hou J,Acharya L,Zhu D,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is crucial for successful barley improvement. Genomic technologies are improving dramatically and are providing access to the genetic diversity within this important crop species. Diverse collections of barley germplasm are being assembled and mined via genome-wide association studies and the identif...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Muñoz-Amatriaín M,Cuesta-Marcos A,Hayes PM,Muehlbauer GJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00