Development of Cymbidium ensifolium genic-SSR markers and their utility in genetic diversity and population structure analysis in cymbidiums.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Mitotic Exit Network (MEN) proteins - including the protein kinase Cdc15 and the protein phosphatase Cdc14 - are essential for exit from mitosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To identify downstream targets of the MEN, we sought telophase arrest bypassed (tab) mutations that bypassed the essential requirem...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Shou W,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：2002-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-synonymous polymorphisms within the prion protein gene (PRNP) influence the susceptibility and incubation time for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in some species such as sheep and humans. In cattle, none of the known polymorphisms within the PRNP coding region has a major influence on su...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Haase B,Doherr MG,Seuberlich T,Drögemüller C,Dolf G,Nicken P,Schiebel K,Ziegler U,Groschup MH,Zurbriggen A,Leeb T

更新日期：2007-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selection for grain yield under drought is an efficient criterion for improving the drought tolerance of rice. Recently, some drought-tolerant rice varieties have been developed using this selection criterion and successfully released for cultivation in drought-prone target environments. The process can be m...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Mishra KK,Vikram P,Yadaw RB,Swamy BP,Dixit S,Cruz MT,Maturan P,Marker S,Kumar A

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transgenic poplar (Populus × euramericana 'Guariento') plants harboring five exogenous, stress-related genes exhibit increased tolerance to multiple stresses including drought, salt, waterlogging, and insect feeding, but the complex mechanisms underlying stress tolerance in these plants have not been elucida...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Zhang W,Chu Y,Ding C,Zhang B,Huang Q,Hu Z,Huang R,Tian Y,Su X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Koala (Koa) is a dominant mutation in mice causing bushy muzzle and pinna, and is associated with a chromosomal inversion on the distal half of chromosome 15. To identify the gene responsible for the Koa phenotypes, we investigated phenotypes of Koa homozygous mice and determined the breakpoints of the inver...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Katayama K,Miyamoto S,Furuno A,Akiyama K,Takahashi S,Suzuki H,Tsuji T,Kunieda T

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sitosterolemia is a recessively inherited disorder in humans that is associated with premature atherosclerotic disease. Mutations in ABCG5 or ABCG8, comprising the sitosterolemia locus, STSL, are now known to cause this disease. Three in-bred strains of rats, WKY, SHR and SHRSP, are known to be sitosterolemi...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen J,Batta A,Zheng S,Fitzgibbon WR,Ullian ME,Yu H,Tso P,Salen G,Patel SB

更新日期：2005-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex diseases are believed to be the results of many genes and environmental factors. Hence, multi-marker methods that can use the information of markers from different genes are appropriate for mapping complex disease genes. There already have been several multi-marker methods proposed for case-control s...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Zhang Z,Zhang S,Sha Q

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Framingham Heart Study provides a unique source of longitudinal family data related to CVD risk factors. Age-stratified heritability estimates were obtained over three age groups (31-49 years, 50-60 years, and 61-79 years), reflecting the longitudinal nature of the data, for four quantitative traits. Age-adjusted ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Brown WM,Beck SR,Lange EM,Davis CC,Kay CM,Langefeld CD,Rich SS,Framingham Heart Study.

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The establishment of the bisexual fertile fish hybrid lineage including the allodiploid and allotetraploid hybrids, from interspecific hybridization of red crucian carp (Carassius auratus red var. 2n = 100, 2n = AA) (♀) × common carp (Cyprinus carpio L. 2n = 100, 2n = BB) (♂), provided a good platform to inv...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Zhang C,Ye L,Chen Y,Xiao J,Wu Y,Tao M,Xiao Y,Liu S

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pest eradication using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) involves high-density releases of sterilized males that mate with wild females and ultimately suppress the population. Sterilized females are not required for SIT and their removal or separation from males prior to release remains challenging. In orde...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Choo A,Fung E,Chen IY,Saint R,Crisp P,Baxter SW

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene is the most significant genetic risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Association analyses were performed on participants (n = 751, aged between 30 and 64) in the ISOR population-based study in the city of Oran. Dietary intakes were estimated using a weekly fo...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ouhaibi-Djellouli H,Mediene-Benchekor S,Lardjam-Hetraf SA,Hamani-Medjaoui I,Meroufel DN,Boulenouar H,Hermant X,Saidi-Mehtar N,Amouyel P,Houti L,Goumidi L,Meirhaeghe A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current genetic structure of Iberian populations has presumably been affected by the complex orography of its territory, the different people and civilizations that settled there, its ancient and complex history, the diverse and persistent sociocultural patterns in its different regions, and also by the ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Calderón R,Lodeiro R,Varela TA,Fariña J,Ambrosio B,Guitard E,González-Martín A,Dugoujon JM

更新日期：2007-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical comparison between three different methods for estimation of pair-wise identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing at marker loci was conducted in order to quantify the resulting differences in power and localization precision in variance components-based linkage analysis. On the examined simulated, error-free data...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Göring HH,Williams JT,Dyer TD,Blangero J

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic improvement of beef quality will benefit both producers and consumers, and can be achieved by selecting animals that carry desired quantitative trait nucleotides (QTN), which result from intensive searches using genetic markers. This paper presents a genome-wide association approach utilizing single ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lu D,Sargolzaei M,Kelly M,Vander Voort G,Wang Z,Mandell I,Moore S,Plastow G,Miller SP

更新日期：2013-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) proteins play important roles in hormone signal transduction, developmental regulation, and environmental stress tolerance. However, in wheat, the CAMTA gene family has not been systematically characterized. RESULTS:In this work, 15 wheat CAMTA genes ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang F,Dong FS,Hu FH,Liu YW,Chai JF,Zhao H,Lv MY,Zhou S

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Egg production is the most economically-important trait in layers as it directly influences benefits of the poultry industry. To better understand the genetic architecture of egg production, we measured traits including age at first egg (AFE), weekly egg number (EN) from onset of laying eggs to 80 weeks whic...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Liu Z,Yang N,Yan Y,Li G,Liu A,Wu G,Sun C

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell motility is an essential feature of the pathogenesis and morbidity of amoebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica. As motility depends on cytoskeletal organisation and regulation, a study of the molecular components involved is key to a better understanding of amoebic pathogenesis. However, little is kno...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Zaki M,King J,Fütterer K,Insall RH

更新日期：2007-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selecting chromosome substitution strains (CSSs, also called consomic strains/lines) used in the search for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) consistently requires the identification of the respective phenotypic trait of interest and is simply based on a significant difference between a consomic and host strain...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Labots M,Laarakker MC,Ohl F,van Lith HA

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South African (SA) Black women have a high prevalence of preeclampsia and HIV, both conditions associated with increased inflammation. miR-146a is an inflammatory-associated miR and a common single nucleotide polymorphism (rs2910164) has been associated with several disease conditions. To date, this SNP has ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Maharaj NR,Ramkaran P,Pillay S,Chuturgoon AA

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that mainly repress expression of genes essential during embryogenesis and development. There are key ATPase-dependent enzymes that read or write DNA methylation to remodel chromatin and regulate gene expression. Structural maintenance of chromosome hinge domain ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Massah S,Jubene J,Lee FJS,Beischlag TV,Prefontaine GG

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-pathological cognitive ageing is a distressing condition affecting an increasing number of people in our 'ageing society'. Oxidative stress is hypothesised to have a major role in cellular ageing, including brain ageing. RESULTS:Associations between cognitive ageing and 325 single nucleotide polymorphis...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Harris SE,Fox H,Wright AF,Hayward C,Starr JM,Whalley LJ,Deary IJ

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide association studies have identified numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk in populations of European descent. However, their utility for predicting risk to CRC in Asians remains unknown. A case-cohort study (random sub-cohort N=1,685) from...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Jung KJ,Won D,Jeon C,Kim S,Kim TI,Jee SH,Beaty TH

更新日期：2015-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MUC4 is a type of membrane anchored glycoprotein and serves as the major constituent of mucus that covers epithelial surfaces of many tissues such as trachea, colon and cervix. MUC4 plays important roles in the lubrication and protection of the surface epithelium, cell proliferation and differentiation, immu...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang M,Yang B,Yan X,Ouyang J,Zeng W,Ai H,Ren J,Huang L

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Land plants have evolved several measures to maintain their life against abiotic stresses. The accumulation of proline is the most generalized response of plants under drought, heat or salt stress conditions. It is known as an osmoprotectant which also acts as an instant source of energy during drought recov...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Sayed MA,Schumann H,Pillen K,Naz AA,Léon J

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic markers conferring susceptibility to diabetes specific renal disease remains to be identified for early prediction and development of effective drugs and therapies. Inconsistent results obtained from analysis of genes from classical pathways generate need for examination of unconventional genetic mar...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Prasad P,Kumar KM,Ammini AC,Gupta A,Gupta R,Thelma BK

更新日期：2008-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Japanese Black cattle are a beef breed whose meat is well known to excel in meat quality, especially in marbling, and whose effective population size is relatively low in Japan. Unlike dairy cattle, the accuracy of genomic evaluation (GE) for carcass traits in beef cattle, including this breed, has been poor...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ogawa S,Matsuda H,Taniguchi Y,Watanabe T,Nishimura S,Sugimoto Y,Iwaisaki H

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the crossover frequency in 1,232 gametes from 356 subjects in pedigrees from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics on Alcoholism. We examined the effect of covariates including age, ethnicity, and years with ALDX1 on recombination rate, and found a positive correlation between recombination rate and yea...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang L,Xu X

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Yami and Ivatan islanders are Austronesian speakers from Orchid Island and the Batanes archipelago that are located between Taiwan and the Philippines. The paternal genealogies of the Yami tribe from 1962 monograph of Wei and Liu were compared with our dataset of non-recombining Y (NRY) chromosomes from the ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Loo JH,Trejaut JA,Yen JC,Chen ZS,Lee CL,Lin M

更新日期：2011-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To contribute to the knowledge of coleopteran cytogenetics, especially with respect to the genomic content of B chromosomes, we analyzed the composition and organization of repetitive DNA sequences in the Coprophanaeus cyanescens karyotype. We used conventional staining and the application of fluorescence in...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gomes de Oliveira S,Cassia de Moura R,Martins C

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple multipoint procedure to test for parent-of-origin effects in samples of affected siblings is discussed. The procedure consists of artificially changing all full sibs to half-sibs, with distinct mothers or fathers depending on the parental origin to be evaluated, then analyzing these families with commonly use...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lemire M

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00