Meta-analysis of genome-wide scans for total body BMD in children and adults reveals allelic heterogeneity and age-specific effects at the WNT16 locus.

abstract：:Filamentous fungi produce diverse secondary metabolites (SMs) essential to their ecology and adaptation. Although each SM is typically produced by only a handful of species, global SM production is governed by widely conserved transcriptional regulators in conjunction with other cellular processes, such as development...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lind AL,Wisecaver JH,Smith TD,Feng X,Calvo AM,Rokas A

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant resistance (R) proteins provide a robust surveillance system to defend against potential pathogens. Despite their importance in plant innate immunity, relatively few of the approximately 170 R proteins in Arabidopsis have well-characterized resistance specificity. In order to identify the R protein responsible f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lewis JD,Wu R,Guttman DS,Desveaux D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying immune system recognition of different types of pathogens has been extensively studied over the past few decades; however, the mechanism by which healthy self-tissue evades an attack by its own immune system is less well-understood. Here, we established an autoimmune model of melanotic mass fo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Choe KM

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele age has long been a focus of population genetic research, primarily because it can be an important clue to the fitness effects of an allele. By virtue of their effects on fitness, alleles under directional selection are expected to be younger than neutral alleles of the same frequency. We developed a new coales...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Platt A,Pivirotto A,Knoblauch J,Hey J

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005131.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of synthetic, well-defined biomolecular systems can elucidate inherent capabilities that may be difficult to uncover in a native biological context. Here, we used a minimal, reconstituted translation system from Escherichia coli to identify efficient ribosome binding sites (RBSs) in an unbiased, high-throughpu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barendt PA,Shah NA,Barendt GA,Sarkar CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histiocytoses are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by an excessive number of histiocytes. In most cases the pathophysiology is unclear and treatment is nonspecific. Faisalabad histiocytosis (FHC) (MIM 602782) has been classed as an autosomal recessively inherited form of histiocytosis with similari...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Morgan NV,Morris MR,Cangul H,Gleeson D,Straatman-Iwanowska A,Davies N,Keenan S,Pasha S,Rahman F,Gentle D,Vreeswijk MP,Devilee P,Knowles MA,Ceylaner S,Trembath RC,Dalence C,Kismet E,Köseoğlu V,Rossbach HC,Gissen P,

更新日期：2010-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ng MC,Shriner D,Chen BH,Li J,Chen WM,Guo X,Liu J,Bielinski SJ,Yanek LR,Nalls MA,Comeau ME,Rasmussen-Torvik LJ,Jensen RA,Evans DS,Sun YV,An P,Patel SR,Lu Y,Long J,Armstrong LL,Wagenknecht L,Yang L,Snively BM,

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a broader collaborative network of exome sequencing studies, we developed a jointly called data set of 5,685 Ashkenazi Jewish exomes. We make publicly available a resource of site and allele frequencies, which should serve as a reference for medical genetics in the Ashkenazim (hosted in part at https://ibd....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rivas MA,Avila BE,Koskela J,Huang H,Stevens C,Pirinen M,Haritunians T,Neale BM,Kurki M,Ganna A,Graham D,Glaser B,Peter I,Atzmon G,Barzilai N,Levine AP,Schiff E,Pontikos N,Weisburd B,Lek M,Karczewski KJ,Bloom J,

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic outcome of a mutation cannot be simply mapped onto the underlying DNA variant. Instead, the phenotype is a function of the allele, the genetic background in which it occurs and the environment where the mutational effects are expressed. While the influence of genetic background on the expressivity of in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chari S,Dworkin I

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation promotes oncogenic transformation and tumor progression. Many inflammatory agents also generate a toxic microenvironment, implying that adaptive mechanisms must be deployed for cells to survive and undergo transformation in such unfavorable contexts. A paradigmatic case is represented by cancers o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Collino A,Termanini A,Nicoli P,Diaferia G,Polletti S,Recordati C,Castiglioni V,Caruso D,Mitro N,Natoli G,Ghisletti S

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter sp. 638 is an endophytic plant growth promoting gamma-proteobacterium that was isolated from the stem of poplar (Populus trichocarpaxdeltoides cv. H11-11), a potentially important biofuel feed stock plant. The Enterobacter sp. 638 genome sequence reveals the presence of a 4,518,712 bp chromosome and a 157...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Taghavi S,van der Lelie D,Hoffman A,Zhang YB,Walla MD,Vangronsveld J,Newman L,Monchy S

更新日期：2010-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that play essential roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. We conducted a genome-wide survey of maize miRNA genes, characterizing their structure, expression, and evolution. Computational approaches based on homology and secondary structure modeling ident...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang L,Chia JM,Kumari S,Stein JC,Liu Z,Narechania A,Maher CA,Guill K,McMullen MD,Ware D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasmas are commonly described as the simplest self-replicating organisms, whose evolution was mainly characterized by genome downsizing with a proposed evolutionary scenario similar to that of obligate intracellular bacteria such as insect endosymbionts. Thus far, analysis of mycoplasma genomes indicates a low le...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sirand-Pugnet P,Lartigue C,Marenda M,Jacob D,Barré A,Barbe V,Schenowitz C,Mangenot S,Couloux A,Segurens B,de Daruvar A,Blanchard A,Citti C

更新日期：2007-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that non-coding macroRNAs are major elements for silencing imprinted genes, but their mechanism of action is poorly understood. Within the imprinted Gnas cluster on mouse chromosome 2, Nespas is a paternally expressed macroRNA that arises from an imprinting control region and runs antisens...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Williamson CM,Ball ST,Dawson C,Mehta S,Beechey CV,Fray M,Teboul L,Dear TN,Kelsey G,Peters J

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Recent studies of the HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines have identified large numbers of quantitative trait loci for gene expression (eQTLs). Reanalyzing these data using a novel Bayesian hierarchical model, we were able to create a surprisingly high-resolution map of the typical locations of sites that affect mRNA lev...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrieras JB,Kudaravalli S,Kim SY,Dermitzakis ET,Gilad Y,Stephens M,Pritchard JK

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Meiotic cytokinesis influences the fertility and ploidy of gametes. However, limited information is available on the genetic control of meiotic cytokinesis in plants. Here, we identified a rice mutant with low male fertility, defective callose in meiosis 1 (dcm1). The pollen grains of dcm1 are proved to be defective i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang C,Shen Y,Tang D,Shi W,Zhang D,Du G,Zhou Y,Liang G,Li Y,Cheng Z

更新日期：2018-11-12 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：:Numerous lines of evidence point to a genetic basis for facial morphology in humans, yet little is known about how specific genetic variants relate to the phenotypic expression of many common facial features. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of 20 quantitative facial measurements derived from the 3D ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shaffer JR,Orlova E,Lee MK,Leslie EJ,Raffensperger ZD,Heike CL,Cunningham ML,Hecht JT,Kau CH,Nidey NL,Moreno LM,Wehby GL,Murray JC,Laurie CA,Laurie CC,Cole J,Ferrara T,Santorico S,Klein O,Mio W,Feingold E,Hallgr

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic crossovers (COs) are important for reshuffling genetic information between homologous chromosomes and they are essential for their correct segregation. COs are unevenly distributed along chromosomes and the underlying mechanisms controlling CO localization are not well understood. We previously showed that mei...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Christophorou N,She W,Long J,Hurel A,Beaubiat S,Idir Y,Tagliaro-Jahns M,Chambon A,Solier V,Vezon D,Grelon M,Feng X,Bouché N,Mézard C

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxic agents that cause double-strand breaks (DSBs) often generate damage at the break termini. Processing enzymes, including nucleases and polymerases, must remove damaged bases and/or add new bases before completion of repair. Artemis is a nuclease involved in mammalian nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), but in S...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tseng SF,Gabriel A,Teng SC

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CTP synthase is an essential enzyme that plays a key role in energy metabolism. Several independent studies have demonstrated that CTP synthase can form an evolutionarily conserved subcellular structure termed cytoophidium. In budding yeast, there are two isoforms of CTP synthase and both isoforms localize in cytoophi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Azzam G,Liu JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful replication and repair of DNA lesions ensure genome maintenance. During replication in eukaryotic cells, DNA is unwound by the CMG helicase complex, which is composed of three major components: the Cdc45 protein, Mcm2-7, and the GINS complex. The CMG in complex with DNA polymerase epsilon (CMG-E) participates...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jedrychowska M,Denkiewicz-Kruk M,Alabrudzinska M,Skoneczna A,Jonczyk P,Dmowski M,Fijalkowska IJ

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoters are structurally and functionally diverse gene regulatory regions. The presence or absence of sequence motifs and the spacing between the motifs defines the properties of promoters. Recent alternative promoter usage analyses in Drosophila melanogaster revealed that transposable elements significantly contrib...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Merenciano M,Ullastres A,de Cara MA,Barrón MG,González J

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:XRN2 is a conserved 5'→3' exoribonuclease that complexes with proteins that contain XRN2-binding domains (XTBDs). In Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), the XTBD-protein PAXT-1 stabilizes XRN2 to retain its activity. XRN2 activity is also promoted by 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase 1 (BPNT1) through hydrolysis of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Miki TS,Carl SH,Stadler MB,Großhans H

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a high prevalence and substantial socioeconomic burden. Despite intense research efforts, its aetiology and pathogenesis remain poorly understood. To identify novel genes and/or cellular pathways involved in the pathogenesis of the disease, we utilized a well...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Aidinis V,Carninci P,Armaka M,Witke W,Harokopos V,Pavelka N,Koczan D,Argyropoulos C,Thwin MM,Möller S,Waki K,Gopalakrishnakone P,Ricciardi-Castagnoli P,Thiesen HJ,Hayashizaki Y,Kollias G

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bases within DNA are frequently damaged, producing obstacles to efficient and accurate DNA replication by replicative polymerases. Translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases, via their ability to catalyze nucleotide additions to growing DNA chains across DNA lesions, promote replication of damaged DNA, thus preventing ch...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Bostelen I,van Schendel R,Romeijn R,Tijsterman M

更新日期：2020-04-24 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