Yeast pol4 promotes tel1-regulated chromosomal translocations.

abstract：:Genetic models of ribosome dysfunction show selective organ failure, highlighting a gap in our understanding of cell-type specific responses to translation insufficiency. Translation defects underlie a growing list of inherited and acquired cancer-predisposition syndromes referred to as ribosomopathies. We sought to i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tourlakis ME,Zhang S,Ball HL,Gandhi R,Liu H,Zhong J,Yuan JS,Guidos CJ,Durie PR,Rommens JM

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying regions of positive selection in genomic data remains a challenge in population genetics. Most current approaches rely on comparing values of summary statistics calculated in windows. We present an approach termed SURFDAWave, which translates measures of genetic diversity calculated in genomic windows to f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mughal MR,Koch H,Huang J,Chiaromonte F,DeGiorgio M

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production. There is an urgent need for the development of robust measures that enable crops to withstand the uncertainty of climate change whilst still producing maximum ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Williams B,Njaci I,Moghaddam L,Long H,Dickman MB,Zhang X,Mundree S

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:White blood cell (WBC) count is a common clinical measure from complete blood count assays, and it varies widely among healthy individuals. Total WBC count and its constituent subtypes have been shown to be moderately heritable, with the heritability estimates varying across cell types. We studied 19,509 subjects from...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nalls MA,Couper DJ,Tanaka T,van Rooij FJ,Chen MH,Smith AV,Toniolo D,Zakai NA,Yang Q,Greinacher A,Wood AR,Garcia M,Gasparini P,Liu Y,Lumley T,Folsom AR,Reiner AP,Gieger C,Lagou V,Felix JF,Völzke H,Gouskova NA,B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, a common form of inherited mental retardation, is caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). We have previously demonstrated that dFmr1, the Drosophila ortholog of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene, plays a role in the proper maintenance of germline stem cells in Droso...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang Y,Xu S,Xia L,Wang J,Wen S,Jin P,Chen D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin is a major developmental regulator in plants and the acquisition of a transcriptional response to auxin likely contributed to developmental innovations at the time of water-to-land transition. Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) Transcription Factors (TFs) that mediate auxin-dependent transcriptional changes are divid...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Martin-Arevalillo R,Thévenon E,Jégu F,Vinos-Poyo T,Vernoux T,Parcy F,Dumas R

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult skeletal muscles are maintained during homeostasis and regenerated upon injury by muscle stem cells (MuSCs). A heterogeneity in self-renewal, differentiation and regeneration properties has been reported for MuSCs based on their anatomical location. Although MuSCs derived from extraocular muscles (EOM) have a hi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Evano B,Gill D,Hernando-Herraez I,Comai G,Stubbs TM,Commere PH,Reik W,Tajbakhsh S

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the absence or irreversible loss of hair cells, the sensory mechanoreceptors in the cochlea, accounts for a large majority of acquired and congenital hearing disorders. In the auditory and vestibular neuroepithelia of the inner ear, hair cells are accompanied by another cell type called supporting cells. Th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Behra M,Bradsher J,Sougrat R,Gallardo V,Allende ML,Burgess SM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding buffering mechanisms for various perturbations is essential for understanding robustness in cellular systems. Protein-level dosage compensation, which arises when changes in gene copy number do not translate linearly into protein level, is one mechanism for buffering against genetic perturbations. Here, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ishikawa K,Makanae K,Iwasaki S,Ingolia NT,Moriya H

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc6p is an essential component of the pre-replicative complex (pre-RC), which binds to DNA replication origins to promote initiation of DNA replication. Only once per cell cycle does DNA replication take place. After initiation, the pre-RC components are disassembled in order to prevent re-replication. It has been sh...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ikui AE,Rossio V,Schroeder L,Yoshida S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway regulates organ size, stem cell proliferation and tumorigenesis in adult organs. Whether the Hippo pathway influences establishment of stem cell niche size to accommodate changes in organ size, however, has received little attention. Here, we ask whether Hippo signaling influences the number of stem ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sarikaya DP,Extavour CG

更新日期：2015-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic origin of human skin pigmentation remains an open question in biology. Several skin disorders and diseases originate from mutations in conserved pigmentation genes, including albinism, vitiligo, and melanoma. Teleosts possess the capacity to modify their pigmentation to adapt to their environmental backgro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madelaine R,Ngo KJ,Skariah G,Mourrain P

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest (NC) is a vertebrate-specific cell type that contributes to a wide range of different tissues across all three germ layers. The gene regulatory network (GRN) responsible for the formation of neural crest is conserved across vertebrates. Central to the induction of the NC GRN are AP-2 and SoxE transcri...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dooley CM,Wali N,Sealy IM,White RJ,Stemple DL,Collins JE,Busch-Nentwich EM

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that hypomorphic Mre11 complex mouse mutants exhibit defects in the repair of meiotic double strand breaks (DSBs). This is associated with perturbation of synaptonemal complex morphogenesis, repair and regulation of crossover formation. To further assess the Mre11 complex's role in meiotic progr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Adelman CA,Petrini JH

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomes of eukaryotes are organized into structurally and functionally discrete domains. This implies the presence of insulator elements that separate adjacent domains, allowing them to maintain different chromatin structures. We show that the Fun30 chromatin remodeler, Fft3, is essential for maintaining a pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Strålfors A,Walfridsson J,Bhuiyan H,Ekwall K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abeta peptide accumulation is thought to be the primary event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with downstream neurotoxic effects including the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is increasingly implicated as playing a pivotal role in this amyloid cascade. We have d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sofola O,Kerr F,Rogers I,Killick R,Augustin H,Gandy C,Allen MJ,Hardy J,Lovestone S,Partridge L

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome breakage is a major threat to genome integrity. The most accurate way to repair DNA double strand breaks (DSB) is homologous recombination (HR) with an intact copy of the broken locus. Mobility of the broken DNA has been seen to increase during the search for a donor copy. Observing chromosome dynamics duri...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Saad H,Gallardo F,Dalvai M,Tanguy-le-Gac N,Lane D,Bystricky K

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical growth of plants is a dynamic process that is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and has a pronounced effect on overall plant architecture and biomass composition. We have performed six controlled growth trials of an interspecific Setaria italica x Setaria viridis recombinant inbred line populati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feldman MJ,Paul RE,Banan D,Barrett JF,Sebastian J,Yee MC,Jiang H,Lipka AE,Brutnell TP,Dinneny JR,Leakey ADB,Baxter I

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caenorhabditis elegans class A and B synthetic multivulva (synMuv) genes redundantly antagonize an EGF/Ras pathway to prevent ectopic vulval induction. We identify a class A synMuv mutation in the promoter of the lin-3 EGF gene, establishing that lin-3 is the key biological target of the class A synMuv genes in vu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Saffer AM,Kim DH,van Oudenaarden A,Horvitz HR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate methods to assess the pathogenicity of mutations are needed to fully leverage the possibilities of genome sequencing in diagnosis. Current data-driven and bioinformatics approaches are, however, limited by the large number of new variations found in each newly sequenced genome, and often do not provide direct...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nielsen SV,Stein A,Dinitzen AB,Papaleo E,Tatham MH,Poulsen EG,Kassem MM,Rasmussen LJ,Lindorff-Larsen K,Hartmann-Petersen R

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Central questions in regenerative biology include how stem cells are maintained and how they transition from self-renewal to differentiation. Germline stem cells (GSCs) in Caeno-rhabditis elegans provide a tractable in vivo model to address these questions. In this system, Notch signaling and PUF RNA binding proteins,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shin H,Haupt KA,Kershner AM,Kroll-Conner P,Wickens M,Kimble J

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality control (QC) is a critical step in large-scale studies of genetic variation. While, on average, high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping assays are now very accurate, the errors that remain tend to cluster into a small percentage of "problem" SNPs, which exhibit unusually high error rate...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Scheet P,Stephens M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanophthalmos is a rare, potentially devastating eye condition characterized by small eyes with relatively normal anatomy, a high hyperopic refractive error, and frequent association with angle closure glaucoma and vision loss. The condition constitutes the extreme of hyperopia or farsightedness, a common refractive e...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Garnai SJ,Brinkmeier ML,Emery B,Aleman TS,Pyle LC,Veleva-Rotse B,Sisk RA,Rozsa FW,Ozel AB,Li JZ,Moroi SE,Archer SM,Lin CM,Sheskey S,Wiinikka-Buesser L,Eadie J,Urquhart JE,Black GCM,Othman MI,Boehnke M,Sullivan SA

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic homeostasis in metazoans is regulated by endocrine control of insulin/IGF signaling (IIS) activity. Stress and inflammatory signaling pathways--such as Jun-N-terminal Kinase (JNK) signaling--repress IIS, curtailing anabolic processes to promote stress tolerance and extend lifespan. While this interaction con...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hull-Thompson J,Muffat J,Sanchez D,Walker DW,Benzer S,Ganfornina MD,Jasper H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kashin-Beck disease, a syndrome characterized by short stature, skeletal deformities, and arthropathy of multiple joints, is highly prevalent in specific regions of Asia. The disease has been postulated to result from a combination of different environmental factors, including contamination of barley by mold mycotoxin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Downey CM,Horton CR,Carlson BA,Parsons TE,Hatfield DL,Hallgrímsson B,Jirik FR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal intestine is a very complex and dynamic organ that must rapidly adapt and remodel in response to a barrage of environmental stimuli during the first few postnatal weeks. Recent studies demonstrate that the zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1 plays an essential role governing postnatal repro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mould AW,Morgan MA,Nelson AC,Bikoff EK,Robertson EJ

更新日期：2015-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008367.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker RL,Leong WF,Brock MT,Rubin MJ,Markelz RJC,Welch S,Maloof JN,Weinig C

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraflagellar transport (IFT) particles or trains are composed of IFT-A and IFT-B complexes. To assess the working mechanism of the IFT-A complex in IFT and ciliogenesis, we have analyzed ift43 mutants of Chlamydomnonas in conjunction with mutants of the other IFT-A subunits. An ift43 null mutant or a mutant with a p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhu B,Zhu X,Wang L,Liang Y,Feng Q,Pan J

更新日期：2017-02-16 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：:Phenotypes extracted from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are increasingly prevalent in genetic studies. EHRs contain hundreds of distinct clinical laboratory test results, providing a trove of health data beyond diagnoses. Such lab data is complex and lacks a ubiquitous coding scheme, making it more challenging than...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Goldstein JA,Weinstock JS,Bastarache LA,Larach DB,Fritsche LG,Schmidt EM,Brummett CM,Kheterpal S,Abecasis GR,Denny JC,Zawistowski M

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00