A Genome-wide Association Analysis in Four Populations Reveals Strong Genetic Heterogeneity For Birth Weight.

abstract：:According to the Developmental Origin of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept, maternal obesity and the resulting accelerated growth in neonates predispose offspring to obesity and associated metabolic diseases that may persist across generations. In this context, the adipose tissue has emerged as an important player du...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Lecoutre S,Kwok KHM,Petrus P,Lambert M,Breton C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:As a consequence of a sessile lifestyle, plants often have to face a number of life threatening abiotic and biotic stresses. Plants counteract the stresses through morphological and physiological adaptations, which are imparted through flexible and well-coordinated network of signalling and effector molecu...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Shukla A,Srivastava S,Suprasanna P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, microbes do not exist in isolation but co-exist in a variety of ecological and biological environments and on various host organisms. Due to their close proximity, these microbes interact among themselves, and also with the hosts in both positive and negative manners. Moreover, these interactions may modula...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Ang KS,Lakshmanan M,Lee NR,Lee DY

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosomal fragile sites are specific genomic regions which exhibit gaps or breaks on metaphase chromosomes following conditions of partial replication stress. Fragile sites often coincide with genes that are frequently rearranged or deleted in human cancers, with over half of cancer-specific translocations con...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Dillon LW,Burrow AA,Wang YH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein folding and clearance networks sense and respond to misfolded and aggregation-prone proteins by activating cytoprotective cell stress responses that safeguard the proteome against damage, maintain the health of the cell, and enhance lifespan. Surprisingly, cellular proteostasis undergoes a sudden and widesprea...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Shai N,Shemesh N,Ben-Zvi A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases (p-diphenol oxidase, EC 1.10.3.2) are blue multicopper oxidases that catalyze the reduction of dioxygen to water, with a concomitant oxidation of small organic substrates. Since the description at the end of the nineteenth century of a factor catalyzing the rapid hardening of the latex of the Japanese lacquer...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Robert V,Mekmouche Y,Pailley PR,Tron T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeding has been very successful in developing improved varieties using conventional tools and methodologies. Nowadays, the availability of genomic tools and resources is leading to a new revolution of plant breeding, as they facilitate the study of the genotype and its relationship with the phenotype, in parti...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Pérez-de-Castro AM,Vilanova S,Cañizares J,Pascual L,Blanca JM,Díez MJ,Prohens J,Picó B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 proteins are critical regulators of mitochondrial membrane permeability and the proapoptotic mitochondrial pathway. The family encloses pro- and antiapoptotic factors encoded by over 15 genes, which frequently give rise to alternative splice products. Antiapoptotic, proapoptotic multidomain, and proapoptotic BH3...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Eberle J,Hossini AM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence links genomic and epigenomic instability, including multiple fragile sites regions to neuropsychiatric diseases including schizophrenia and autism. Cancer is the only other disease associated with multiple fragile site regions, and genome and epigenomic instability is a characteristic of cancer. Re...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Smith CL,Bolton A,Nguyen G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After completion of the human genome, genome-wide association studies were conducted to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer initiation and progression. Most of the studies identified SNPs that were located outside the coding region, and the odds ratios were too low to implement in cl...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Verma M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing contributes to the complexity of proteome by producing multiple mRNAs from a single gene. Affymetrix exon arrays and experiments in vivo or in vitro demonstrated that alternative splicing was regulated by mechanical stress. Expression of mechano-growth factor (MGF) which is the splicing isoform of...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Liu H,Tang L

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis involves the inactivation or inhibition of genes that function as tumor suppressors. Deletions, mutations, or epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes can lead to altered growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. DNA methylation and histone modifications are important epigenetic mechanisms of gene r...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Takai N,Narahara H

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The cardiac system is a combination of a complex structure, various cells, and versatile specified functions and sophisticated regulatory mechanisms. Moreover, cardiac diseases that encompass a wide range of endogenous conditions, remain a serious health burden worldwide. Recent genome-wide profiling techniq...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Chen Z,Wei L,Duru F,Chen L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-Seq is a recently developed sequencing technology, that through the analysis of cDNA allows for unique insights into the transcriptome of a cell. The data generated by RNA-Seq provides information on gene expression, alternative splicing events and the presence of non-coding RNAs. It has been realised non-coding R...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mills JD,Kawahara Y,Janitz M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance of genetic material requires that chromosomes segregate faithfully during cell division. Failure in this process can drive to aneuploidy phenomenon. Kinetochores are unique centromere macromolecular protein structures that attach chromosomes to the spindle for a proper movement and segregation. A unique ty...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Valdivia MM,Hamdouch K,Ortiz M,Astola A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly regenerative adult tissues are supported by rare populations of stem cells that continuously divide to self-renew and generate differentiated progeny. This process is tightly regulated by signals emanating from surrounding cells to fulfill the dynamic demands of the tissue. One of the hallmarks of aging is slow...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Gonen O,Toledano H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is currently a major public health problem and, as such, emerging research is making significant progress in identifying major players in its biology. One recent topic of interest involves microRNAs (miRNAs) which are small, non-coding RNA molecules that inhibit gene expression post-transcriptionally. They acco...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Vandenboom Ii TG,Li Y,Philip PA,Sarkar FH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a membrane-bound, 170 kDa, protein tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in tumorigenesis. The EGFR gene, which is composed of over 168 kb of sequence, including a 123-kb first intron, is frequently amplified and rearranged in malignant gliomas leading to the expre...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Fenstermaker RA,Ciesielski MJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oils of plant origin have been predominantly used for food-based applications. Plant oils not only represent a non-polluting renewable resource but also provide a wide diversity in fatty acids (FAs) composition with diverse applications. Besides being edible, they are now increasingly being used in industrial applicat...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Kumar A,Sharma A,Upadhyaya KC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cryobiology has primarily emerged from the classical fields of cryobiology and plant stress physiology. Cryopreservation tools are now available to geneticists for germplasm preservation and the field itself is advancing significantly through the use of molecular techniques. Long-term preservation of vegetativel...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Volk GM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm Birth (PTB) accounts for approximately 11% of all births worldwide each year and is a profound physiological stressor in early life. The burden of neuropsychiatric and developmental impairment is high, with severity and prevalence correlated with gestational age at delivery. PTB is a major risk factor for the ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Fitzgerald E,Boardman JP,Drake AJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome studies involving a phenotype of interest are increasingly prevalent, in part due to a dramatic increase in speed at which many high throughput technologies can be performed coupled to simultaneous decreases in cost. This type of genome-scale methodology has been applied to the phenotype of lifespan, as w...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： McCormick MA,Kennedy BK

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the sequencing of the nuclear genome of Arabidopsis thaliana ten years ago, various large-scale analyses of gene function have been performed in this model species. In particular, the availability of collections of lines harbouring random T-DNA or transposon insertions, which include mutants for almost all of th...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Bolle C,Schneider A,Leister D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MDM family proteins are crucial regulators of the oncosuppressor p53. Alterations of their gene status, mainly amplification events, have been frequently observed in human tumors.MDM4 is one of the two members of the MDM family. The human gene is located on chromosome 1 at q32-33 and codes for a protein of 490aa. In a...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mancini F,Di Conza G,Moretti F

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triatoma infestans (Klug) is the main vector of Chagas' disease in the Southern Cone of Latin America between the latitudes 10° S and 46° S. The long-term effectiveness of the control campaigns is greatly dependent upon the vector population structure. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes have been used in a number of T. i...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： García BA,de Rosas AR,Blariza MJ,Grosso CG,Fernández CJ,Stroppa MM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers arise as a result of stepwise accumulation of mutations which may occur at the nucleotide level and/or the gross chromosomal level. Many cancers particularly those of the colon display a form of genomic instability which may facilitate and speed up tumor initiation and development. In few instances, a "mutator...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Abdel-Rahman WM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of chromosomes with diffuse centromeres (holocentric chromosomes) has been reported in several taxa since more than fifty years, but a full understanding of their origin is still lacking. Comparative and functional genomics are nowadays furnishing new data to better understand holocentric chromosome evolu...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mandrioli M,Manicardi GC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of local adaptation is a main focus of evolutionary biology since it may contribute to explain the current species diversity. The genomic scan procedures permit for the first time to study the connection between specific DNA patterns and processes as natural selection, genetic drift, recombination, mutation ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Rivas MJ,Domínguez-García S,Carvajal-Rodríguez A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The important role of non coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the cell has made their identification a critical issue in the biological research. However, traditional approaches such as PT-PCR and Northern Blot are costly. With recent progress in bioinformatics and computational prediction technology, the discovery of ncRNAs has ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Wang C,Wei L,Guo M,Zou Q

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spliceosomal introns in higher eukaryotes are present in a high percentage of protein coding genes and represent a high proportion of transcribed nuclear DNA. In the last fifteen years, a growing mass of data concerning functional roles carried out by such intervening sequences elevated them from a selfish burden carr...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Morello L,Breviario D

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00