Generation of an 870 kb deletion encompassing the Skt/Etl4 locus by combination of inter- and intra-chromosomal recombination.

abstract：:Genotype data from the Illumina Linkage III SNP panel (n = 4,720 SNPs) and the Affymetrix 10 k mapping array (n = 11,120 SNPs) were used to test the effects of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between SNPs in a linkage analysis in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism pedigree collection (143 pedigrees; 1,6...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Murray SS

更新日期：2005-12-30 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:Genomic selection exploits dense genome-wide marker data to predict breeding values. In this study we used a large sugar beet population of 924 lines representing different germplasm types present in breeding populations: unselected segregating families and diverse lines from more advanced stages of selectio...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Würschum T,Reif JC,Kraft T,Janssen G,Zhao Y

更新日期：2013-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame is an important oil crop in tropical and subtropical areas. Despite its nutritional value and historic and cultural importance, the research on sesame has been scarce, particularly as far as its genetic diversity is concerned. The aims of the present study were to clarify genetic relationships among 3...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Laurentin HE,Karlovsky P

更新日期：2006-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping is commonly used to evaluate markers for genome-wide association studies. Most types of LD software focus strictly on LD analysis and visualization, but lack supporting services for genotyping. RESULTS:We developed a freeware called LD2SNPing, which provides a complete pa...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chang HW,Chuang LY,Chang YJ,Cheng YH,Hung YC,Chen HC,Yang CH

更新日期：2009-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Questions remain regarding the utility of self-reported ethnicity (SRE) in genetic and epidemiologic research. It is not clear whether conditioning on SRE provides adequate protection from inflated type I error rates due to population stratification and admixture. We address this question using data obtained...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Divers J,Redden DT,Rice KM,Vaughan LK,Padilla MA,Allison DB,Bluemke DA,Young HJ,Arnett DK

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide investigation of molecular mechanisms for high-altitude adaptation has attracted great attention in the last few years. In order to understand the contribution of gene expression level variations to high-altitude adaptation in Asiatic toads (Bufo gargarizans), we implemented a reciprocal transpla...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang W,Qi Y,Lu B,Qiao L,Wu Y,Fu J

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marek's disease (MD) is a highly neoplastic disease primarily affecting chickens, and remains as a chronic infectious disease that threatens the poultry industry. Copy number variation (CNV) has been examined in many species and is recognized as a major source of genetic variation that directly contributes t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Bai H,He Y,Ding Y,Chu Q,Lian L,Heifetz EM,Yang N,Cheng HH,Zhang H,Chen J,Song J

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associations between haplotypes and quantitative traits provide valuable information about the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Haplotypes also provide an effective way to deal with untyped SNPs. Two major challenges arise in haplotype-based association analysis of family data. First, haplotypes may ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Diao G,Lin DY

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that the ability to adapt to seawater in teleost fish is modulated by genetic factors. Most studies have involved the comparison of species or strains and little is known about the genetic architecture of the trait. To address this question, we searched for QTL affecting osmoregu...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Le Bras Y,Dechamp N,Krieg F,Filangi O,Guyomard R,Boussaha M,Bovenhuis H,Pottinger TG,Prunet P,Le Roy P,Quillet E

更新日期：2011-05-14 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brachygnathia, cardiomegaly and renal hypoplasia syndrome (BCRHS, OMIA 001595-9940 ) is a previously reported recessively inherited disorder in Australian Poll Merino/Merino sheep. Affected lambs are stillborn with various congenital defects as reflected in the name of the disease, as well as short stature, ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Woolley SA,Hayes SE,Shariflou MR,Nicholas FW,Willet CE,O'Rourke BA,Tammen I

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human glycosylase IV is involved in GLUT2 transporter regulation in pancreatic beta cells. A KO of this gene along with a high fat diet in a mice model has been associated with the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aims of this study were to measure and compare the MGAT4A mRNA levels in white blood c...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： López-Orduña E,Cruz M,García-Mena J

更新日期：2007-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NUP98 gene is involved in multiple rearrangements in haematological malignancy. The leukemic cells in an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient with a t(9;11)(p22;p15) were recently shown to have a fusion between the NUP98 gene and the LEDGF gene but it was not demonstrated that this fusion was recurrent i...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Hussey DJ,Moore S,Nicola M,Dobrovic A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed 143 pedigrees (364 nuclear families) in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data provided to the participants in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW14) with the goal of comparing results obtained from genome linkage analysis using microsatellite and with results obtaine...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen G,Adeyemo A,Zhou J,Yuan A,Chen Y,Rotimi C

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological studies have indicated that obesity and low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels are strong cardiovascular risk factors, and that these traits are inversely correlated. Despite the belief that these traits are correlated in part due to pleiotropy, knowledge on specific genes commonly affecti...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Arya R,Lehman D,Hunt KJ,Schneider J,Almasy L,Blangero J,Stern MP,Duggirala R,Framingham Heart Study.

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is one of the most important abiotic stresses causing drastic reductions in yield in rainfed rice environments. The suitability of grain yield (GY) under drought as a selection criterion has been reported in the past few years. Most of the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for GY under drought in rice r...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Vikram P,Swamy BP,Dixit S,Ahmed HU,Teresa Sta Cruz M,Singh AK,Kumar A

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many QTL have been detected in pigs, but very few of them have been fine-mapped up to the causal mutation. On SSC2, the IGF2-intron3-G3072A mutation has been described as the causative polymorphism for a QTL underlying muscle mass and backfat deposition, but further studies have demonstrated that at least on...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Tortereau F,Sanchez MP,Fève K,Gilbert H,Iannuccelli N,Billon Y,Milan D,Bidanel JP,Riquet J

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cymbidium is a genus of 68 species in the orchid family, with extremely high ornamental value. Marker-assisted selection has proven to be an effective strategy in accelerating plant breeding for many plant species. Analysis of cymbidiums genetic background by molecular markers can be of great value in assist...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Li X,Jin F,Jin L,Jackson A,Huang C,Li K,Shu X

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patellar luxation is an orthopedic disorder in which the patella moves out of its normal location within the femoral trochlea of the knee and it can lead to osteoarthritis, lameness, and pain. In dogs it is a heritable trait, with both environmental and genetic factors contributing to the phenotype. The prev...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lavrijsen IC,Leegwater PA,Wangdee C,van Steenbeek FG,Schwencke M,Breur GJ,Meutstege FJ,Nijman IJ,Cuppen E,Heuven HC,Hazewinkel HA

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported the need for a more detailed acknowledgement of the source of the samples that were analyzed and their coordinates, which are discussed in the 'Methods' section of the article. This Correction provides an addition to the 'Methods' section, and a s...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Omari S,Kamenir Y,Benichou JIC,Pariente S,Sela H,Perl-Treves R

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although harness racing is of high economic importance to the global equine industry, significant genomic resources have yet to be applied to mapping harness racing success. To identify genomic regions associated with harness racing success, the current study performs genome-wide association analyses with th...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Velie BD,Fegraeus KJ,Solé M,Rosengren MK,Røed KH,Ihler CF,Strand E,Lindgren G

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the abundance of new genomic projects and gene annotations, researchers trying to pinpoint causal genetic variants are faced with a challenging task of how to efficiently integrate all current genomic information. The objective of the study was to develop an approach to integrate various genomic annota...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Beltram J,Morton NM,Kunej T,Horvat S

更新日期：2016-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Only one genome scan to date has attempted to make use of the longitudinal data available in the Framingham Heart Study, and this attempt yielded evidence of linkage to a gene for mean systolic blood pressure. We show how the additional information available in these longitudinal data can be utilized to examine linkag...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Jacobs KB,Gray-McGuire C,Cartier KC,Elston RC

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spotted wilt caused by tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is one of the major peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) diseases in the southeastern United States. Occurrence, severity, and symptoms of spotted wilt disease are highly variable from season to season, making it difficult to efficiently evaluate breeding popul...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Tseng YC,Tillman BL,Peng Z,Wang J

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of pooled DNA on SNP microarrays (SNP-MaP) has been shown to be a cost effective and rapid manner to perform whole-genome association evaluations. While the accuracy of SNP-MaP was extensively evaluated on the early Affymetrix 10 k and 100 k platforms, there have not been as many similarly comprehens...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Anantharaman R,Chew FT

更新日期：2009-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many QTL studies have two common features: (1) often there is missing marker information, (2) among many markers involved in the biological process only a few are causal. In statistics, the second issue falls under the headings "sparsity" and "causal inference". The goal of this work is to develop a two-step...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Demetrashvili N,Van den Heuvel ER,Wit EC

更新日期：2013-12-30 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:Genome-wide association studies involve detecting association between millions of genetic variants and a trait, which typically use univariate regression to test association between each single variant and the phenotype. Alternatively, Lasso penalized regression allows one to jointly model the relationship b...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Arbet J,McGue M,Chatterjee S,Basu S

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) strategy for milk fatty acids in Chinese Holstein, and identified 83 genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 314 suggestive significant SNPs. Among them, two SNPs, BTB-01077939 and BTA-11275-no-rs associated with C10:0,...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Shi L,Lv X,Liu L,Yang Y,Ma Z,Han B,Sun D

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00