Local hopping mobile DNA implicated in pseudogene formation and reductive evolution in an obligate cyanobacteria-plant symbiosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:As crucial markers in identifying biological elements and processes in mammalian genomes, CpG islands (CGI) play important roles in DNA methylation, gene regulation, epigenetic inheritance, gene mutation, chromosome inactivation and nuclesome retention. The generally accepted criteria of CGI rely on: (a) %G+...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu N,Guo X,Zelikovsky A,Pan Y

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with ascending or descending monotonic expression patterns over time or stages of stem cells is an important issue in time-series microarray data analysis. We propose a method named Monotonic Feature Selector (MFSelector) based on a concept of total discriminating error (DEtotal) to i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang HW,Sun HJ,Chang TY,Lo HH,Cheng WC,Tseng GC,Lin CT,Chang SJ,Pal N,Chung IF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the postgenome era, a prediction of response to treatment could lead to better dose selection for patients in radiotherapy. To identify a radiosensitive gene signature and elucidate related signaling pathways, four different microarray experiments were reanalyzed before radiotherapy. RESULTS:Radiosensiti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim HS,Kim SC,Kim SJ,Park CH,Jeung HC,Kim YB,Ahn JB,Chung HC,Rha SY

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter is the leading cause of foodborne diarrhoeal illness in humans and is mostly acquired from consumption or handling of contaminated poultry meat. In the absence of effective licensed vaccines and inhibitors, selection for chickens with increased resistance to Campylobacter could potentially redu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Psifidi A,Fife M,Howell J,Matika O,van Diemen PM,Kuo R,Smith J,Hocking PM,Salmon N,Jones MA,Hume DA,Banos G,Stevens MP,Kaiser P

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genotype imputation can help reduce genotyping costs particularly for implementation of genomic selection. In applications entailing large populations, recovering the genotypes of untyped loci using information from reference individuals that were genotyped with a higher density panel is computationally chal...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sargolzaei M,Chesnais JP,Schenkel FS

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification and quantification of proteins using label-free Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) play crucial roles in biological and biomedical research. Increasing evidence has shown that biomarkers are often low abundance proteins. However, LC/MS systems are subject to considerable noise...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang J,Haskins W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glandular trichomes produce a wide variety of commercially important secondary metabolites in many plant species. The most prominent anti-malarial drug artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone, is produced in glandular trichomes of Artemisia annua. However, only limited genomic information is currently available...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang W,Wang Y,Zhang Q,Qi Y,Guo D

更新日期：2009-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA amplification is necessary for profiling gene expression from small tissue samples. Previous studies have shown that the T7 based amplification techniques are reproducible but may distort the true abundance of targets. However, the consequences of such distortions on the ability to detect biological vari...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Diboun I,Wernisch L,Orengo CA,Koltzenburg M

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that human populations have experienced a complex demographic history, including a recent epoch of rapid population growth that led to an excess in the proportion of rare genetic variants in humans today. This excess can impact the burden of private mutations for each individual, de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gao F,Keinan A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of congenital heart disease (CHD) is continuously increasing among infants born alive nowadays, making it one of the leading causes of infant morbidity worldwide. Various studies suggest that both genetic and environmental factors lead to CHD, and therefore identifying its candidate genes and d...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： He D,Liu ZP,Chen L

更新日期：2011-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infection of humans caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). In chronic carriers, the bacteria survive the harsh environment of the gallbladder by producing biofilm. The phenotype of S. Typhi biofilm cells is significantly different from t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chin KCJ,Taylor TD,Hebrard M,Anbalagan K,Dashti MG,Phua KK

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archived formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples are valuable clinical resources to examine clinically relevant morphology features and also to study genetic changes. However, DNA quality and quantity of FFPE samples are often sub-optimal, and resulting NGS-based genetics variant detections are prone...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bhagwate AV,Liu Y,Winham SJ,McDonough SJ,Stallings-Mann ML,Heinzen EP,Davila JI,Vierkant RA,Hoskin TL,Frost M,Carter JM,Radisky DC,Cunningham JM,Degnim AC,Wang C

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research has revealed that polymorphic behavioral strategies shape intra-and interspecific interactions and contribute to fitness in many animal species. A better understanding of the proximate mechanisms underlying these behavioral syndromes will enhance our grasp this phenomenon. Spiders in the genu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Purcell J,Pruitt JN

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Second-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized our ability to recover genetic information from the past, allowing the characterization of the first complete genomes from past individuals and extinct species. Recently, third generation Helicos sequencing platforms, which perform true Single-Mol...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ginolhac A,Vilstrup J,Stenderup J,Rasmussen M,Stiller M,Shapiro B,Zazula G,Froese D,Steinmann KE,Thompson JF,Al-Rasheid KA,Gilbert TM,Willerslev E,Orlando L

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), short approximately 21-nucleotide RNA molecules, play an important role in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The number of known miRNA hairpins registered in the miRBase database is rapidly increasing, but recent reports suggest that many miRNAs with restricted temporal ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： van der Burgt A,Fiers MW,Nap JP,van Ham RC

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One challenge of systems biology is the integration of new data into the preexisting, and then re-interpretation of the integrated data. Here we use readily available metaanalysis computational methods to integrate new data on the transcriptomic effects of EGF in primary human epidermal keratinocytes with pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Blumenberg M

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A composite biological structure, such as an insect head or abdomen, contains many internal structures with distinct functions. Composite structures are often used in RNA-seq studies, though it is unclear how expression of the same gene in different tissues and structures within the same structure affects th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Johnson BR,Atallah J,Plachetzki DC

更新日期：2013-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on sequence similarity, the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPRs) can be subdivided into several subfamilies, the members of which often share similar ligands. The sequence data provided by the human genome project allows us to identify new GPRs by in silico homology screening, and to predi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wittenberger T,Hellebrand S,Munck A,Kreienkamp HJ,Schaller HC,Hampe W

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed a novel software package, XCAVATOR, for the identification of genomic regions involved in copy number variants/alterations (CNVs/CNAs) from short and long reads whole-genome sequencing experiments. RESULTS:By using simulated and real datasets we showed that our tool, based on read count approac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Magi A,Pippucci T,Sidore C

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The steroid hormone environment in healthy horses seems to have a significant impact on the efficiency of their uterine immune response. The objective of this study was to characterize the changes in gene expression in the equine endometrium in response to the introduction of bacterial pathogens and the infl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Marth CD,Young ND,Glenton LY,Noden DM,Browning GF,Krekeler N

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic approaches provide unique opportunities to study interactions of insects with their pathogens. We developed a cDNA microarray to analyze the gene transcription profile of the lepidopteran pest Spodoptera frugiperda in response to injection of the polydnavirus HdIV associated with the ichneumonid wasp...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Barat-Houari M,Hilliou F,Jousset FX,Sofer L,Deleury E,Rocher J,Ravallec M,Galibert L,Delobel P,Feyereisen R,Fournier P,Volkoff AN

更新日期：2006-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid acquisition of accurate genotyping information is essential for all genetic marker-based studies. For species with relatively small genomes, complete genome resequencing is a feasible approach for genotyping; however, for species with large and highly repetitive genomes, the acquisition of whole genome...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Morishige DT,Klein PE,Hilley JL,Sahraeian SM,Sharma A,Mullet JE

更新日期：2013-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have become widely used as molecular markers in plant genetic studies due to their abundance, high allelic variation at each locus and simplicity to analyze using conventional PCR amplification. To study plants with unknown genome sequence, SSR markers from Expressed Sequence T...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ponyared P,Ponsawat J,Tongsima S,Seresangtakul P,Akkasaeng C,Tantisuwichwong N

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing interest in berries, especially blackberries in the diet, because of recent reports of their health benefits due to their high content of flavonoids. A broad range of genomic tools are available for other Rosaceae species but these tools are still lacking in the Rubus genus, thus limit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Garcia-Seco D,Zhang Y,Gutierrez-Mañero FJ,Martin C,Ramos-Solano B

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to history, in the pre-Hispanic period, during the conquest and Inka expansion in Ecuador, many Andean families of the Cañar region would have been displaced to several places of Tawantinsuyu, including Kañaris, a Quechua-speaking community located at the highlands of the Province of Ferreñafe, Lam...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sandoval JR,Lacerda DR,Jota MMS,Robles-Ruiz P,Danos P,Paz-Y-Miño C,Wells S,Santos FR,Fujita R

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is interest in improving the flavor of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) varieties. Fruit flavor is shaped by combinations of sugars, acids and volatile compounds. Many efforts seek to use genomics-based strategies to identify genes controlling flavor, and then designing durable molecular mar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chambers AH,Pillet J,Plotto A,Bai J,Whitaker VM,Folta KM

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjuvant Radiotherapy (RT) after surgical removal of tumors proved beneficial in long-term tumor control and treatment planning. For many years, it has been well concluded that radio-sensitivities of tumors upon radiotherapy decrease according to the sizes of tumors and RT models based on Poisson statistics ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang JY,Niemierko A,Yang MQ,Deng Y

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:V(D)J recombinations in lymphocytes are essential for immunological diversity. They are also useful markers of pathologies. In leukemia, they are used to quantify the minimal residual disease during patient follow-up. However, the full breadth of lymphocyte diversity is not fully understood. RESULTS:We prop...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Giraud M,Salson M,Duez M,Villenet C,Quief S,Caillault A,Grardel N,Roumier C,Preudhomme C,Figeac M

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genomic organisation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) varies greatly between different vertebrates. In mammals, the classical MHC consists of a large number of linked genes (e.g. greater than 200 in humans) with predominantly immune function. In some birds, it consists of only a small number...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sambrook JG,Figueroa F,Beck S

更新日期：2005-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genome-wide association (GWA) approach represents an alternative to biparental linkage mapping for determining the genetic basis of trait variation. Both approaches rely on recombination to re-arrange the genome, and seek to establish correlations between phenotype and genotype. The major advantages of G...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cericola F,Portis E,Lanteri S,Toppino L,Barchi L,Acciarri N,Pulcini L,Sala T,Rotino GL

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00