Genomic and epigenomic instability, fragile sites, schizophrenia and autism.

abstract：:Protein folding and clearance networks sense and respond to misfolded and aggregation-prone proteins by activating cytoprotective cell stress responses that safeguard the proteome against damage, maintain the health of the cell, and enhance lifespan. Surprisingly, cellular proteostasis undergoes a sudden and widesprea...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Shai N,Shemesh N,Ben-Zvi A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks are intrinsic, time-tracking systems that bestow upon organisms a survival advantage. Under natural conditions, organisms are trained to follow a 24-h cycle under environmental time cues such as light to maximize their physiological efficiency. The exact timing of this rhythm is established via cell-a...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Okamoto-Uchida Y,Izawa J,Nishimura A,Hattori A,Suzuki N,Hirayama J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The postgenomic era is featured by massive data collection and analyses from various large scale-omics studies. Despite the promising capability of systems biology and bioinformatics to handle large data sets, data interpretation, especially the translation of -omics data into clinical implications, has been...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Heng HH,Horne SD,Chaudhry S,Regan SM,Liu G,Abdallah BY,Ye CJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Cancer is a complex disease with a lucid etiology and in understanding the causation, we need to appreciate this complexity. Objective:Here we are aiming to gain insights into the genetic associations of prostate cancer through a network-based systems approach using the BC3Net algorithm. Methods:Specifical...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Moore D,Simoes RM,Dehmer M,Emmert-Streib F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling for the multiplicity effect is an essential part of determining statistical significance in large-scale single-locus association genome scans on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). Bonferroni adjustment is a commonly used approach due to its simplicity, but is conservative and has low power for large-s...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Saunders G,Fu G,Stevens JR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases (p-diphenol oxidase, EC 1.10.3.2) are blue multicopper oxidases that catalyze the reduction of dioxygen to water, with a concomitant oxidation of small organic substrates. Since the description at the end of the nineteenth century of a factor catalyzing the rapid hardening of the latex of the Japanese lacquer...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Robert V,Mekmouche Y,Pailley PR,Tron T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis involves the inactivation or inhibition of genes that function as tumor suppressors. Deletions, mutations, or epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes can lead to altered growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. DNA methylation and histone modifications are important epigenetic mechanisms of gene r...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Takai N,Narahara H

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triatoma infestans (Klug) is the main vector of Chagas' disease in the Southern Cone of Latin America between the latitudes 10° S and 46° S. The long-term effectiveness of the control campaigns is greatly dependent upon the vector population structure. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes have been used in a number of T. i...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： García BA,de Rosas AR,Blariza MJ,Grosso CG,Fernández CJ,Stroppa MM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Trichoderma reesei is used for the production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in industrial scale. The interplay of the transactivator Xyr1 and the repressor Cre1 mainly regulates the expression of these enzymes. During induc-ing conditions, such as in the presence of sophorose, the transcription o...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mello-de-Sousa TM,Rassinger A,Derntl C,Poças-Fonseca MJ,Mach RL,Mach-Aigner AR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, understanding the regulatory behavior of cells has been pursued through independent analysis of the transcriptome or the proteome. Based on the central dogma, it was generally assumed that there exist a direct correspondence between mRNA transcripts and generated protein expressions. However, recent st...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Haider S,Pal R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome studies involving a phenotype of interest are increasingly prevalent, in part due to a dramatic increase in speed at which many high throughput technologies can be performed coupled to simultaneous decreases in cost. This type of genome-scale methodology has been applied to the phenotype of lifespan, as w...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： McCormick MA,Kennedy BK

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Copy Number Variants (CNVs) represent a prevailing type of structural variation (deletions or duplications) in the human genome. In the last few years, several studies have demonstrated that CNVs represent significant mutations in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) hereditability. Currently, innovative high-throughput...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Cuccaro D,Guarnaccia M,Iemmolo R,D'Agata V,Cavallaro S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm Birth (PTB) accounts for approximately 11% of all births worldwide each year and is a profound physiological stressor in early life. The burden of neuropsychiatric and developmental impairment is high, with severity and prevalence correlated with gestational age at delivery. PTB is a major risk factor for the ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Fitzgerald E,Boardman JP,Drake AJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid (mPTC) is defined by the WHO as a papillary thy-roid cancer measuring 10mm or less in diameter and it is nowadays a topic of intense debate among the members of the medical community due to its apparent "epidemic" rise. Although these tumors follow almost always an indolent clin...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Rodrigues AC,Penna G,Rodrigues E,Castro P,Sobrinho-Simões M,Soares P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is currently a major public health problem and, as such, emerging research is making significant progress in identifying major players in its biology. One recent topic of interest involves microRNAs (miRNAs) which are small, non-coding RNA molecules that inhibit gene expression post-transcriptionally. They acco...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Vandenboom Ii TG,Li Y,Philip PA,Sarkar FH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term retinitis pigmentosa (RP) indicates a heterogeneous group of genetic rare ocular diseases in which either rods or cones are prevalently damaged. RP represents the most common hereditary cause of blindness in people from 20 to 60 years old. In general, the different RP forms consist of progressive photo-recept...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Parmeggiani F,Sato G,De Nadai K,Romano MR,Binotto A,Costagliola C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the sequencing of the nuclear genome of Arabidopsis thaliana ten years ago, various large-scale analyses of gene function have been performed in this model species. In particular, the availability of collections of lines harbouring random T-DNA or transposon insertions, which include mutants for almost all of th...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Bolle C,Schneider A,Leister D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After human genome sequencing and rapid changes in genome sequencing methods, we have entered into the era of rapidly accumulating genome-sequencing data. This has derived the development of several types of methods for representing results of genome sequencing data. Circular genome visual-ization tools are also criti...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Parveen A,Khurana S,Kumar A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells are characterized by the expression of an extensive and interconnected network of pluripotency factors which are downregulated in specialized cells. Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, are also important in maintaining this pluripotency program in ES ce...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Sui X,Price C,Li Z,Chen J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-Seq is a recently developed sequencing technology, that through the analysis of cDNA allows for unique insights into the transcriptome of a cell. The data generated by RNA-Seq provides information on gene expression, alternative splicing events and the presence of non-coding RNAs. It has been realised non-coding R...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mills JD,Kawahara Y,Janitz M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 proteins are critical regulators of mitochondrial membrane permeability and the proapoptotic mitochondrial pathway. The family encloses pro- and antiapoptotic factors encoded by over 15 genes, which frequently give rise to alternative splice products. Antiapoptotic, proapoptotic multidomain, and proapoptotic BH3...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Eberle J,Hossini AM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, microbes do not exist in isolation but co-exist in a variety of ecological and biological environments and on various host organisms. Due to their close proximity, these microbes interact among themselves, and also with the hosts in both positive and negative manners. Moreover, these interactions may modula...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Ang KS,Lakshmanan M,Lee NR,Lee DY

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After completion of the human genome, genome-wide association studies were conducted to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer initiation and progression. Most of the studies identified SNPs that were located outside the coding region, and the odds ratios were too low to implement in cl...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Verma M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of complete human and other metazoan genome sequences has greatly facilitated positioning and analysis of various genomic functional elements, with initial emphasis on coding sequences. However, complete functional maps of sequenced eukaryotic genomes should include also positions of all non-coding re...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Nikolaev LG,Akopov SB,Chernov IP,Sverdlov ED

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a membrane-bound, 170 kDa, protein tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in tumorigenesis. The EGFR gene, which is composed of over 168 kb of sequence, including a 123-kb first intron, is frequently amplified and rearranged in malignant gliomas leading to the expre...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Fenstermaker RA,Ciesielski MJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, genomic, animal and cell biology studies have implicated deficiencies in retromer-mediated trafficking of proteins in an increasing number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Frontotemporal Lobar Degener-ation (FTLD). The retromer complex, whi...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Reitz C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Developmental Origin of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept, maternal obesity and the resulting accelerated growth in neonates predispose offspring to obesity and associated metabolic diseases that may persist across generations. In this context, the adipose tissue has emerged as an important player du...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Lecoutre S,Kwok KHM,Petrus P,Lambert M,Breton C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty about linkage phases of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in heterozygous diploids challenges the identification of specific DNA sequence variants that encode a complex trait. A statistical technique implemented with the EM algorithm has been developed to infer the effects of SNP haplotypes f...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Wu S,Yang J,Wang C,Wu R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is the major form of P taken up from the soil by plant roots. It is well established that under Pi deficiency condition, plant roots undergo striking morphological changes; mainly a reduction in primary root length ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Bouain N,Doumas P,Rouached H

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs(miRNAs) have become the center of interest in oncology. In recent years, various studies have demonstrated that miRNAs regulate gene expression by influencing important regulatory genes and thus are responsible for causing cervical cancer. Cervical cancer being the third most diagnosed cancer among the femal...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Sharma G,Dua P,Agarwal SM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00