Genetic counseling and presymptomatic testing programs for Machado-Joseph Disease: lessons from Brazil and Portugal.

abstract：:Lupinus albescens is a resistant cover plant that establishes symbiotic relationships with bacteria belonging to the Bradyrhizobium genus. This symbiosis helps the development of these plants in adverse environmental conditions, such as the ones found in arenized areas of Southern Brazil. This work studied three Brady...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Granada CE,Vargas LK,Sant'Anna FH,Balsanelli E,Baura VA,Oliveira Pedrosa F,Souza EM,Falcon T,Passaglia LMP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jatropha gossypiifolia L. (Euphorbiaceae), popularly known as cotton-leaf physicnut, is a milky shrub notable for its medicinal properties. The present study aimed to evaluate the toxic, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of the latex of J. gossypiifolia, using Allium cepa L. as test system. Seeds of A. cepa were exposed...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： de Almeida PM,de Sousa Araújo S,Marin-Morales MA,Benko-Iseppon AM,Brasileiro-Vidal AC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D exerts an immuno-modulatory activity on several immune system cells through the vitamin D receptor (VDR). Herein, we verified that age and a therapeutic regimen containing protease inhibitors are associated with failures in antiretroviral therapies (ARVs). In addition, we assessed whether a VDR SNP (rs115688...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva RCD,Alves NMP,Pereira JJS,Coelho AVC,Arraes LC,Brandão LAC,Crovella S,Silva JA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a study of diversity and genetic structuring in Melipona quadrifasciata, 61 colonies were collected in eight locations in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. By means of PCR analysis, 119 ISSR bands were obtained, 80 (68%) being polymorphic. H(e) and H (B) were 0.20 and 0.16, respectively. Two large groups were obt...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Nascimento MA,Batalha-Filho H,Waldschmidt AM,Tavares MG,Campos LA,Salomão TM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PPARγ nuclear receptor regulates the expression of genes involved in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, and it has protective effects in some patients with type 2 diabetes. Nevertheless, the therapeutic value of the PPARγ nuclear receptor protein is limited due to the secondary effects of some PPARγ ligands. Becau...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lizcano F,Vargas D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) is a microsomal enzyme that catalyzes the final step of triglyceride synthesis. The DGAT1 gene is a strong functional candidate for determining milk fat content in cattle. In this work, we used PCR-SSCP (polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism) and D...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Raut AA,Kumar A,Kala SN,Chhokar V,Rana N,Beniwal V,Jaglan S,Samuchiwal SK,Singh JK,Mishra A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse flies are responsible for the transmission of Trypanossoma sp. to vertebrate animals in Africa causing huge health issues and economic loss. The availability of the genome sequence of Glossina morsitans enabled the discovery of several genes related to medically important phenotypes and novel physiological feat...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Freitas L,Mesquita RD,Schrago CG

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetic research relies heavily on the ability to detect polymorphisms in DNA. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most frequent form of DNA variation in the genome. In combination with a PCR assay, the corresponding SNP can be analyzed as a derived cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (dCAPS) m...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Shahinnia F,Sayed-Tabatabaei BE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phylogeographic studies of seabirds have documented low genetic diversity that has been attributed to bottleneck events or individual capacity for dispersal. Few studies have been done in seabirds on the Brazilian coast and all have shown low genetic differentiation on a wide geographic scale. The Kelp Gull is...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： de Mendonça Dantas GP,Meyer D,Godinho R,Ferrand N,Morgante JS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D-genome progenitor of wheat (Triticum aestivum), Aegilops tauschii, possesses numerous genes for resistance to abiotic stresses, including drought. Therefore, information on the genetic architecture of A. tauschii can aid the development of drought-resistant wheat varieties. Here, we evaluated 13 traits in 373 A....

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Qin P,Lin Y,Hu Y,Liu K,Mao S,Li Z,Wang J,Liu Y,Wei Y,Zheng Y

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate the components of variance and genetic parameters for the visual scores which constitute the Morphological Evaluation System (MES), such as body structure (S), precocity (P) and musculature (M) in Nellore beef-cattle at the weaning and yearling stages, by using threshold Bayesian ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： de Faria CU,Koury W Jr,Magnabosco CU,de Albuquerque LG,Bezerra LA,Lôbo RB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allelic frequencies of 12 short tandem repeat loci were obtained from a sample of 307 unrelated individuals living in Macapá, a city in the northern Amazon region, Brazil. These loci are the most commonly used in forensics and paternity testing. Based on the allele frequency obtained for the population of Macapá, ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： da Costa Francez PA,Rodrigues EM,Frazão GF,Dos Reis Borges ND,Dos Santos SE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of all chromosomes of the Andean G19833 bean genotype was carried out by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Eleven single-copy genomic sequences, one for each chromosome, two BACs containing subtelomeric and pericentromeric repeats and the 5S and 45S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were used as probes. Compariso...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Altrock S,Fonsêca A,Pedrosa-Harand A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, water buffalo MHC (Bubu)-DRB cDNA was cloned and characterized. The 1022 base long-amplified cDNA product encompassed a single open reading frame of 801 bases that coded for 266 amino acids. The Bubu-DRB sequence showed maximum homology with the BoLA-DRB3*0101 allele of cattle. A total of seven a...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Naskar S,Deb SM,Niranjan SK,Kumar S,Sharma D,Sakaram D,Sharma A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infection of the central nervous system of mammals and has been known to humans for millennia. The etiological agent, is a neurotropic RNA virus in the order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. There are currently accepted to be two cycles for rabies transmission: the ur...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Oliveira RN,Freire CC,Iamarino A,Zanotto PM,Pessoa R,Sanabani SS,Souza SP,Castilho JG,Batista HBCR,Carnieli P Jr,Macedo CI,Watanabe JT,Brandão PE

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The order Anguilliformes comprises 15 families, 141 genera and 791 fish species. Eight families had at least one karyotyped species, with a prevalence of 2n = 38 chromosomes and high fundamental numbers (FN). The only exception to this pattern is the family Muraenidae, in which the eight species analyzed presented 2n ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Vasconcelos AJ,Molina WF

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common everyday use of medicinal plants is an ancient, and still very widespread practice, whereby the need for studies on their possible toxicity and mutagenic properties. The species Coccoloba mollis has been much used in phytotherapy, mainly in cases involving loss of memory and stress. In order to investigate ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Tsuboy MS,Marcarini JC,Ferreira DT,Ferraz ER,Chequer FM,de Oliveira DP,Ribeiro LR,Mantovani MS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPLs are plant-specific transcription factors that play important regulatory roles in plant growth and development. Systematic analysis of the SPL family has been performed in numerous plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice, and Populus. However, no comparative analysis has been performed across different species to examin...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Peng X,Wang Q,Zhao Y,Li X,Ma Q

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now a days, an important and interesting alternative in the control of tick-infestation in cattle is to select resistant animals, and identify the respective quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and DNA markers, for posterior use in breeding programs. The number of ticks/animal is characterized as a discrete-counting trait,...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva FF,Tunin KP,Rosa GJ,da Silva MV,Azevedo AL,da Silva Verneque R,Machado MA,Packer IU

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity is a hallmark of the caste systems of social insects, expressed in their life history and morphological traits. These are best studied in bees. In their co-evolution with angiosperm plants, the females of corbiculate bees have acquired a specialized structure on their hind legs for collecting pol...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Santos CG,Hartfelder K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumorigenic potential of two palladium(II) complexes, [Pd(ca(2)-o-phen)Cl(2)] - C1 and [Pd(dmba)(dppp)Cl] - C2, was evaluated, using MDA-MB-435 cells, a human breast adenocarcinoma cell-line that does not express the estrogen receptor α (ER-). Growth inhibition and induced alterations in cell-morphology were a...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Campanella NC,da Silva Demartini M,Torres C,de Almeida ET,Gouvêa CM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is one of the biological systems of major polymorphisms. The study of HLA class II variability has allowed the identification of several alleles that are characteristic to Amerindian populations, and it is an excellent tool to define the relations and biological affinities am...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Parolín ML,Carnese FR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary cancer risk assessment is a multidisciplinary and dynamic process, with the purpose of estimating probabilities of germline mutations in cancer susceptibility genes and assessing empiric risks of cancer based on personal and family histories, in order to offer clinical and molecular diagnoses and clinical m...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Gomy I,Diz Mdel P

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Coumaric acid: coenzyme A ligase (4CL) is a key enzyme in the phenylpropanoid metabolic pathway that regulates the biosynthesis of lignin and flavonoids. Therefore, the study of 4CL is important to explore the accumulation and regulation of metabolites. This study investigated the role that the 4CL2 gene from Dryopt...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Li SS,Chang Y,Li B,Shao SL,Zhen-Zhu- Z

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the chromosomal changes detected by molecular cytogenetic approaches in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the ninth most common malignancy in the world. Whole genome analyses of ESCC cell lines and tumors indicated that the most frequent genomic gains occurred at 1, 2q, 3q, 5p, 6p, 7, 8...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Bellini MF,Silva AE,Varella-Garcia M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splicing, the process that catalyzes intron removal and flanking exon ligation, can occur in different ways (alternative splicing) in immature RNAs transcribed from a single gene. In order to adapt to a particular context, cells modulate not only the quantity but also the quality (alternative isoforms) of their transc...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Botto AEC,Muñoz JC,Giono LE,Nieto-Moreno N,Cuenca C,Kornblihtt AR,Muñoz MJ

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tabebuia sp. is native to tropical rain forests throughout Central and South America. Although the biological and pharmacological effects of bark extracts have been intensely studied, little is known on the extract obtained from the flower. Herein, the genotoxic potential of a flower extract from T. impetiginosa ("ipê...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lemos OA,Sanches JC,Silva IE,Silva ML,Vinhólis AH,Felix MA,Santos RA,Cecchi AO

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of mutations that cause β-thalassaemia in the Bangladeshi population led to the identification of a patient with a combination of two rare mutations, Hb Monroe and HBB: -92 C > G. The β-thalassaemia major male individual was transfusion-dependent and had an atypical β-globin gene cluster haplotype. Of the tw...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Moosa MM,Ayub MI,Bashar AE,Sarwardi G,Khan W,Khan H,Yeasmin S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modification of proteins by ADP-ribosylation, catalysed by poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) using NAD+ as a substrate, plays central roles in DNA damage signalling and repair, modulates a range of cellular signalling cascades and initiates programmed cell death by parthanatos. Here, we present ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Hoch NC,Polo LM

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of glutathione (GSH) in alternative cellular roles to the canonically proposed, were analyzed in a model unable to synthesize GSH. Gene expression analysis shows that the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton pathway is strongly impacted by the absence of GSH. To test this hypothesis, we evaluate the eff...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Zepeta-Flores N,Valverde M,Lopez-Saavedra A,Rojas E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00