The Non-coding Mammary Carcinoma Susceptibility Locus, Mcs5c, Regulates Pappa Expression via Age-Specific Chromatin Folding and Allele-Dependent DNA Methylation.

abstract：:The Caenorhabditis elegans left and right AWC olfactory neurons communicate to establish stochastic asymmetric identities, AWC(ON) and AWC(OFF), by inhibiting a calcium-mediated signaling pathway in the future AWC(ON) cell. NSY-4/claudin-like protein and NSY-5/innexin gap junction protein are the two parallel signals ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hsieh YW,Chang C,Chuang CF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New systems genetics approaches are needed to rapidly identify host genes and genetic networks that regulate complex disease outcomes. Using genetically diverse animals from incipient lines of the Collaborative Cross mouse panel, we demonstrate a greatly expanded range of phenotypes relative to classical mouse models ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gralinski LE,Ferris MT,Aylor DL,Whitmore AC,Green R,Frieman MB,Deming D,Menachery VD,Miller DR,Buus RJ,Bell TA,Churchill GA,Threadgill DW,Katze MG,McMillan L,Valdar W,Heise MT,Pardo-Manuel de Villena F,Baric RS

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage observed during plant immune responses is reported to be an intrinsic component of plant immunity. However, other immune responses may suppress DNA damage to maintain host genome integrity. Here, we show that immunity-related DNA damage can be abrogated by preventing cell death triggered by Nucleotide-bindi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rodriguez E,Chevalier J,El Ghoul H,Voldum-Clausen K,Mundy J,Petersen M

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >500 common variants associated with quantitative metabolic traits, but in aggregate such variants explain at most 20-30% of the heritable component of population variation in these traits. To further investigate the impact of genotypic variation on metabolic trai...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Service SK,Teslovich TM,Fuchsberger C,Ramensky V,Yajnik P,Koboldt DC,Larson DE,Zhang Q,Lin L,Welch R,Ding L,McLellan MD,O'Laughlin M,Fronick C,Fulton LL,Magrini V,Swift A,Elliott P,Jarvelin MR,Kaakinen M,McCarthy

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the primary DNA repair pathway thought to underlie chromosomal translocations and other genomic rearrangements in somatic cells. The canonical NHEJ pathway, including DNA ligase IV (Lig4), suppresses genomic instability and chromosomal translocations, leading to the notion that a po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Simsek D,Brunet E,Wong SY,Katyal S,Gao Y,McKinnon PJ,Lou J,Zhang L,Li J,Rebar EJ,Gregory PD,Holmes MC,Jasin M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi Anemia (FA) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hypersensitivity to inter-strand crosslinks (ICLs). FANCD2, a central factor of the FA pathway, is essential for the repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) generated during fork collapse at ICLs. While lesions different from ICLs can also trigg...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Federico MB,Vallerga MB,Radl A,Paviolo NS,Bocco JL,Di Giorgio M,Soria G,Gottifredi V

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney function depends on the nephron, which comprises a blood filter, a tubule that is subdivided into functionally distinct segments, and a collecting duct. How these regions arise during development is poorly understood. The zebrafish pronephros consists of two linear nephrons that develop from the intermediate me...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wingert RA,Selleck R,Yu J,Song HD,Chen Z,Song A,Zhou Y,Thisse B,Thisse C,McMahon AP,Davidson AJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the rare colonizers of heavy-metal rich toxic soils, Arabidopsis halleri is a compelling model extremophile, physiologically distinct from its sister species A. lyrata, and A. thaliana. Naturally selected metal hypertolerance and extraordinarily high leaf metal accumulation in A. halleri both require Heavy Metal...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hanikenne M,Kroymann J,Trampczynska A,Bernal M,Motte P,Clemens S,Krämer U

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonreplicating type I uracil auxotrophic mutants of Toxoplasma gondii possess a potent ability to activate therapeutic immunity to established solid tumors by reversing immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment. Here we engineered targeted deletions of parasite secreted effector proteins using a genetically tra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fox BA,Sanders KL,Rommereim LM,Guevara RB,Bzik DJ

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008320.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic concepts are based on the assumption that phenotypes arise from the expression of genetic variants. However, the presence of non-Mendelian inheritance patterns provides a direct challenge to this view and suggests an important role for alternative mechanisms of gene regulation and inheritance. Over the past fe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liebers R,Rassoulzadegan M,Lyko F

更新日期：2014-04-17 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：:Centromere sequences are not conserved between species, and there is compelling evidence for epigenetic regulation of centromere identity, with location being dictated by the presence of chromatin containing the histone H3 variant CENP-A. Paradoxically, in most organisms CENP-A chromatin generally occurs on particular...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Catania S,Pidoux AL,Allshire RC

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrolithiasis is a common nephrologic disorder with complex etiology. To identify the genetic factor(s) for nephrolithiasis, we conducted a three-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a total of 5,892 nephrolithiasis cases and 17,809 controls of Japanese origin. Here we found three novel loci for nephroli...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Urabe Y,Tanikawa C,Takahashi A,Okada Y,Morizono T,Tsunoda T,Kamatani N,Kohri K,Chayama K,Kubo M,Nakamura Y,Matsuda K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous mutations in the PRPF31 gene cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP), a hereditary disorder leading to progressive blindness. In some cases, such mutations display incomplete penetrance, implying that certain carriers develop retinal degeneration while others have no symptoms at all. Asymptom...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Venturini G,Rose AM,Shah AZ,Bhattacharya SS,Rivolta C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic characterization of ẖybrid incompatibility (HI) between related species remains the key to understanding speciation. The genetic basis of HI has been intensively studied in Drosophila species, but remains largely unknown in other species, including nematodes, which is mainly due to the lack of a sister spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bi Y,Ren X,Yan C,Shao J,Xie D,Zhao Z

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase, Est2p, is a telomere associated throughout most of the cell cycle, while the Est1p subunit binds only in late S/G2 phase, the time of telomerase action. Est2p binding in G1/early S phase requires a specific interaction between telomerase RNA (TLC1) and Ku80p. Here, we show th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chan A,Boulé JB,Zakian VA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, genes expressed in males tend to accumulate on autosomes and are underrepresented on the X chromosome. In particular, genes expressed in testis have been observed to frequently relocate from the X chromosome to the autosomes. The inactivation of X-linked genes during male meiosis (i.e., meiotic sex chro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vibranovski MD,Lopes HF,Karr TL,Long M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic basis of floral symmetry is a topic of great interest because of its effect on pollinator behavior and, consequently, plant diversification. The Asteraceae, which is the largest family of flowering plants, is an ideal system in which to study this trait, as many species within the family exhibit a compound...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chapman MA,Tang S,Draeger D,Nambeesan S,Shaffer H,Barb JG,Knapp SJ,Burke JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (Alk) receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) plays a critical role in the specification of founder cells (FCs) in the Drosophila visceral mesoderm (VM) during embryogenesis. Reporter gene and CRISPR/Cas9 deletion analysis reveals enhancer regions in and upstream of the Alk locus that influence t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mendoza-García P,Hugosson F,Fallah M,Higgins ML,Iwasaki Y,Pfeifer K,Wolfstetter G,Varshney G,Popichenko D,Gergen JP,Hens K,Deplancke B,Palmer RH

更新日期：2017-04-03 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006396.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hibshman JD,Hung A,Baugh LR

更新日期：2018-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, gene expression in the haploid male gametophyte (pollen) is essential for sperm delivery and double fertilization. Pollen also undergoes dynamic epigenetic regulation of expression from transposable elements (TEs), but how this process interacts with gene expression is not clearly understood. To e...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Warman C,Panda K,Vejlupkova Z,Hokin S,Unger-Wallace E,Cole RA,Chettoor AM,Jiang D,Vollbrecht E,Evans MMS,Slotkin RK,Fowler JE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important follow-up step after genetic markers are found to be associated with a disease outcome is a more detailed analysis investigating how the implicated gene or chromosomal region and an established environment risk factor interact to influence the disease risk. The standard approach to this study of gene-envi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yu K,Wacholder S,Wheeler W,Wang Z,Caporaso N,Landi MT,Liang F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual toxicity/essentiality of copper forces cells to maintain a tightly regulated homeostasis for this metal in all living organisms, from bacteria to humans. Consequently, many genes have previously been reported to participate in copper detoxification in bacteria. Myxococcus xanthus, a prokaryote, encodes many p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gómez-Santos N,Pérez J,Sánchez-Sutil MC,Moraleda-Muñoz A,Muñoz-Dorado J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elg1, the major subunit of a Replication Factor C-like complex, is critical to ensure genomic stability during DNA replication, and is implicated in controlling chromatin structure. We investigated the consequences of Elg1 loss for the dynamics of chromatin re-formation following DNA replication. Measurement of Okazak...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gali VK,Dickerson D,Katou Y,Fujiki K,Shirahige K,Owen-Hughes T,Kubota T,Donaldson AD

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of germline mutation varies widely between species but little is known about the extent of variation in the germline mutation rate between individuals of the same species. Here we demonstrate that an allele that increases the rate of germline mutation can result in a distinctive signature in the genomic regio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Seoighe C,Scally A

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that gene expression profiling of peripheral blood cells is a valuable tool for assessing gene signatures related to exposure, drug-response, or disease. However, the true promise of this approach can not be estimated until the scientific community has robust baseline data describing variatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dumeaux V,Olsen KS,Nuel G,Paulssen RH,Børresen-Dale AL,Lund E

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the XPF-ERCC1 endonuclease causes a dramatic phenotype that results in progeroid features associated with liver, kidney and bone marrow dysfunction. As this nuclease is involved in multiple DNA repair transactions, it is plausible that this severe phenotype results from the simultaneous inactivation of both br...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mulderrig L,Garaycoechea JI

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007814.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun G,Elowsky C,Li G,Wilson RA

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00