Mapping and validation of major quantitative trait loci for kernel length in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum).

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high mobility group A1 proteins (HMGA1a/HMGA1b) are highly conserved between mammalian species and widely described as participating in various cellular processes. By inducing DNA conformation changes the HMGA1 proteins indirectly influence the binding of various transcription factors and therefore effec...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Beuing C,Soller JT,Muth M,Wagner S,Dolf G,Schelling C,Richter A,Willenbrock S,Reimann-Berg N,Winkler S,Nolte I,Bullerdiek J,Murua Escobar H

更新日期：2008-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukin-10 and tumor necrosis factor α play an important role in breast carcinogenesis. Genes, encoding those two cytokines, contain single nucleotide polymorphisms, which are associated with differential levels of gene transcription. This study analyzes single nucleotide polymorphisms in interleukin 10 ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Korobeinikova E,Myrzaliyeva D,Ugenskiene R,Raulinaityte D,Gedminaite J,Smigelskas K,Juozaityte E

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genotyping technologies enable us to genotype multiple Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) within selected genes/regions, providing data for haplotype association analysis. While haplotype-based association analysis is powerful for detecting untyped causal alleles in linkage-disequilibrium (LD) with neigh...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang Y,Li SS,Chien JW,Andriesen J,Zhao LP

更新日期：2008-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare vascular disorder characterized by a capillary wedge pressure ≤ 15 mmHg and a mean pulmonary arterial pressure ≥ 25 mmHg at rest. PAH can be idiopathic, heritable or associated with other conditions. The aim of this study was to analyze the Endoglin (ENG) gene ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Pousada G,Baloira A,Fontán D,Núñez M,Valverde D

更新日期：2016-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Glued gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes the homologue of the vertebrate p150Glued subunit of dynactin. The Glued1 mutation compromises the dynein-dynactin retrograde motor complex and causes disruptions to the adult eye and the CNS, including sensory neurons and the formation of the giant fiber sys...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ma L,Johns LA,Allen MJ

更新日期：2009-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 90% of colorectal cancer (CRC) deaths are caused by tumors ability to migrate into the adjacent tissues and metastase into distant organs. More than 40 genes have been causally linked to the development of CRC but no mutations have been associated with metastasis yet. To identify molecular basi...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Goryca K,Kulecka M,Paziewska A,Dabrowska M,Grzelak M,Skrzypczak M,Ginalski K,Mroz A,Rutkowski A,Paczkowska K,Mikula M,Ostrowski J

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Sapsaree is a breed of dog (Canis familiaris) native to Korea, which became perilously close to extinction in the mid-1980s. However, with systematic genetic conservation and restoration efforts, this breed was rescued from extinction and population sizes have been gradually increasing over the past few ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gajaweera C,Kang JM,Lee DH,Lee SH,Kim YK,Wijayananda HI,Kim JJ,Ha JH,Choi BH,Lee SH

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For anurans, knowledge of 5S rDNA is scarce. For Engystomops species, chromosomal homeologies are difficult to recognize due to the high level of inter- and intraspecific cytogenetic variation. In an attempt to better compare the karyotypes of the Amazonian species Engystomops freibergi and Engystomops peter...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Rodrigues DS,Rivera M,Lourenço LB

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:India is home to many ethnically and linguistically diverse populations. It is hypothesized that history of invasions by people from Persia and Central Asia, who are referred as Aryans in Hindu Holy Scriptures, had a defining role in shaping the Indian population canvas. A shift in spoken languages from Drav...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ali M,Liu X,Pillai EN,Chen P,Khor CC,Ong RT,Teo YY

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acipenseriformes is a basal lineage of ray-finned fishes and comprise 27 extant species of sturgeons and paddlefishes. They are characterized by several specific genomic features as broad ploidy variation, high chromosome numbers, presence of numerous microchromosomes and propensity to interspecific hybridiz...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Symonová R,Havelka M,Amemiya CT,Howell WM,Kořínková T,Flajšhans M,Gela D,Ráb P

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytoplasmic effects on agronomic traits--involving cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes of either different species or different cultivars--are well documented in wheat but have seldom been demonstrated in rice (Oryza sativa L.). To detect cytoplasmic effects, we introgressed the nuclear genomes of three indica c...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Tao D,Xu P,Zhou J,Deng X,Li J,Deng W,Yang J,Yang G,Li Q,Hu F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cross breeding, it is important to choose a good parental combination that has high probability of generating offspring with desired characteristics. This study examines a method for predicting the segregation of target traits in a progeny population based on genome-wide markers and phenotype data of pare...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Iwata H,Hayashi T,Terakami S,Takada N,Saito T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2013-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyses of genetic data at the level of haplotypes provide increased accuracy and power to infer genotype-phenotype correlations and evolutionary history of a locus. However, empirical determination of haplotypes is expensive and laborious. Therefore, several methods of inferring haplotypes from unphased ge...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Adkins RM

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population stratification can cause spurious associations in a genome-wide association study (GWAS), and occurs when differences in allele frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are due to ancestral differences between cases and controls rather than the trait of interest. Principal components ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Solovieff N,Hartley SW,Baldwin CT,Perls TT,Steinberg MH,Sebastiani P

更新日期：2010-12-09 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:Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are large groups of hydrophilic proteins with major role in drought and other abiotic stresses tolerance in plants. In-depth study and characterization of LEA protein families have been carried out in other plants, but not in upland cotton. The main aim of this rese...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Magwanga RO,Lu P,Kirungu JN,Lu H,Wang X,Cai X,Zhou Z,Zhang Z,Salih H,Wang K,Liu F

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dyslexia is a polygenic speech and language disorder characterized by an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and adults despite normal intelligence and schooling. Increasing evidence reveals that different speech and language disorders could share common genetic factors. As previous study reported a...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen H,Xu J,Zhou Y,Gao Y,Wang G,Xia J,Huen MS,Siok WT,Jiang Y,Tan LH,Sun Y

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to investigate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation types affecting lung cancer treatment in patients in Xinjiang, China. We detected and analyzed differences in the EGFR mutation points of Uighur and Han patients with lung adenocarcinoma. We examined 181 specimens of lung...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Li X,Wang X,Zhu H,Liu C,Zhou X,Zhao B,Duan H,Yang J,Gu G,Zhan Y,Yuan J,Abuduwaili K,Qionglu S

更新日期：2015-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monogenic diabetes is a genetic disease often caused by mutations in genes involved in beta-cell function. Correct sub-categorization of the disease is a prerequisite for appropriate treatment and genetic counseling. Target-region capture sequencing is a combination of genomic region enrichment and next gene...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gao R,Liu Y,Gjesing AP,Hollensted M,Wan X,He S,Pedersen O,Yi X,Wang J,Hansen T

更新日期：2014-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oil and food crop in the world. Pod- and kernel-related traits are direct factors involved in determining the yield of the peanut. However, the genetic basis underlying pod- and kernel-related traits in the peanut remained largely unknown, which ham...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen W,Jiao Y,Cheng L,Huang L,Liao B,Tang M,Ren X,Zhou X,Chen Y,Jiang H

更新日期：2016-01-25 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: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:The Tnfrh1 gene (gene symbol Tnfrsf23) is located near one end of a megabase-scale imprinted region on mouse distal chromosome 7, about 350 kb distant from the nearest known imprinting control element. Within 20 kb of Tnfrh1 is a related gene called Tnfrh2 (Tnfrsf22) These duplicated genes encode putative de...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Clark L,Wei M,Cattoretti G,Mendelsohn C,Tycko B

更新日期：2002-06-27 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: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：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:We introduce the use of short insertion-deletion polymorphisms (indels) for genetic analysis of natural populations. RESULTS:Sequence reads from light shot-gun sequencing efforts of different dog breeds were aligned to the dog genome reference sequence and gaps corresponding to indels were identified. One h...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Väli U,Brandström M,Johansson M,Ellegren H

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is responsible for detecting and addressing foreign pathogens inside the body. While the general structure of MHC genes is relatively well conserved among mammalian species, it is notably different among ruminants due to a chromosomal inversion that splits MHC type ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ivy-Israel NMD,Moore CE,Schwartz TS,Ditchkoff SS

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marbling score (MS) is the major quantitative trait that affects carcass quality in beef cattle. In this study, we examined the association between genetic polymorphisms of the micromolar calcium-activated neutral protease gene (micro-calpain, CAPN1) and carcass traits in Korean cattle (also known as Hanwoo)...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Cheong HS,Yoon DH,Park BL,Kim LH,Bae JS,Namgoong S,Lee HW,Han CS,Kim JO,Cheong IC,Shin HD

更新日期：2008-04-19 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