Genome-wide analysis of long non-coding RNAs in Catalpa bungei and their potential function in floral transition using high-throughput sequencing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is involved in the recruitment of lymphocytes and monocytes and their migration to sites of injury and cellular immune reactions. In a Ghanaian tuberculosis (TB) case-control study group, associations of the MCP1 -362C and the MCP1 -2581G alleles with resistance...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Intemann CD,Thye T,Förster B,Owusu-Dabo E,Gyapong J,Horstmann RD,Meyer CG

更新日期：2011-04-19 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:Selection for grain yield under drought is an efficient criterion for improving the drought tolerance of rice. Recently, some drought-tolerant rice varieties have been developed using this selection criterion and successfully released for cultivation in drought-prone target environments. The process can be m...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Mishra KK,Vikram P,Yadaw RB,Swamy BP,Dixit S,Cruz MT,Maturan P,Marker S,Kumar A

更新日期：2013-02-26 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:Non-pathological cognitive ageing is a distressing condition affecting an increasing number of people in our 'ageing society'. Oxidative stress is hypothesised to have a major role in cellular ageing, including brain ageing. RESULTS:Associations between cognitive ageing and 325 single nucleotide polymorphis...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Harris SE,Fox H,Wright AF,Hayward C,Starr JM,Whalley LJ,Deary IJ

更新日期：2007-07-02 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：BACKGROUND:Lone atrial flutter (AFL) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are common and sometimes consequential cardiac conduction disorders with a strong heritability, as underlined by recent genome-wide association studies that identified genetic modifiers. Follow-up family-based genetic analysis also identified Mendelian t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Maciąg A,Villa F,Ferrario A,Spinelli CC,Carrizzo A,Malovini A,Torella A,Montenero C,Parisi A,Condorelli G,Vecchione C,Nigro V,Montenero AS,Puca AA

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typically, the first phase of a genome wide association study (GWAS) includes genotyping across hundreds of individuals and validation of the most significant SNPs. Allelotyping of pooled genomic DNA is a common approach to reduce the overall cost of the study. Knowledge of haplotype structure can provide ad...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Iliadis A,Anastassiou D,Wang X

更新日期：2012-10-30 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:Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is among the prominent crops in the world as food and feed. There are relatively few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers developed from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in P. sativum. RESULTS:In the present study, 15 new EST-SSR markers were developed from publicly available ESTs...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Teshome A,Bryngelsson T,Dagne K,Geleta M

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linkage maps are essential tools for the study of several topics in genome biology. High density linkage maps for the porcine autosomes have been constructed exploiting the high density data provided by the PorcineSNP60 BeadChip. However, a high density SSCX linkage map has not been reported up to date. The ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Fernández AI,Muñoz M,Alves E,Folch JM,Noguera JL,Enciso MP,Rodríguez Mdel C,Silió L

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sudan is endowed with a variety of indigenous goat breeds which are used for meat and milk production and which are well adapted to the local environment. The aim of the present study was to determine the genetic diversity and relationship within and between the four main Sudanese breeds of Nubian, Desert, T...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Rahmatalla SA,Arends D,Reissmann M,Said Ahmed A,Wimmers K,Reyer H,Brockmann GA

更新日期：2017-10-23 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:ENU-mutagenesis is a powerful technique to identify genes regulating mammalian development. To functionally annotate the distal region of mouse chromosome 4, we performed an ENU-mutagenesis screen using a balancer chromosome targeted to this region of the genome. RESULTS:We isolated 11 lethal lines that map...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Boles MK,Wilkinson BM,Maxwell A,Lai L,Mills AA,Nishijima I,Salinger AP,Moskowitz I,Hirschi KK,Liu B,Bradley A,Justice MJ

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A typical genetical genomics experiment results in four separate data sets; genotype, gene expression, higher-order phenotypic data and metadata that describe the protocols, processing and the array platform. Used in concert, these data sets provide the opportunity to perform genetic analysis at a systems le...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Druka A,Druka I,Centeno AG,Li H,Sun Z,Thomas WT,Bonar N,Steffenson BJ,Ullrich SE,Kleinhofs A,Wise RP,Close TJ,Potokina E,Luo Z,Wagner C,Schweizer GF,Marshall DF,Kearsey MJ,Williams RW,Waugh R

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Boar taint is an unpleasant condition of pork, mainly due to the accumulation of androstenone and skatole in male pigs at onset of puberty. This condition is the cause of considerable economic losses in the pig industry and the most common practice to control it is to castrate male piglets. Because of the ec...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Ramos AM,Duijvesteijn N,Knol EF,Merks JW,Bovenhuis H,Crooijmans RP,Groenen MA,Harlizius B

更新日期：2011-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified 20 promising candidate genes for milk fatty acid (FA) traits in a Chinese Holstein population, including PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1 and CHUK genes. In this study, we performed whether they had significant genetic effects on milk FA traits in Chinese Holst...

journal_title：BMC genetics

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

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on genetic effects of coffee consumption are scarce for Asian populations. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of habitual coffee consumption in Japan using a self-reporting online survey. RESULTS:Candidate genetic loci associated with habitual coffee consumption were searched within...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Jia H,Nogawa S,Kawafune K,Hachiya T,Takahashi S,Igarashi M,Saito K,Kato H

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cockerham genetic models are commonly used in quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis with a special feature of partitioning genotypic variances into various genetic variance components, while the F(infinity) genetic models are widely used in genetic association studies. Over years, there have been some confu...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang T,Zeng ZB

更新日期：2009-09-04 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:Association mapping studies offer great promise to identify polymorphisms associated with phenotypes and for understanding the genetic basis of quantitative trait variation. To date, almost all association mapping studies based on structured plant populations examined the main effects of genetic factors on t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Saïdou AA,Thuillet AC,Couderc M,Mariac C,Vigouroux Y

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous investigations have highlighted the importance of genetic variation in the determination of bitter tasting ability, however have left unaddressed questions as to within group variation in tasting ability or the possibility of genetic prescription of intermediate tasting ability. Our aim was to exami...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Timpson NJ,Heron J,Day IN,Ring SM,Bartoshuk LM,Horwood J,Emmett P,Davey-Smith G

更新日期：2007-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical comparison between three different methods for estimation of pair-wise identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing at marker loci was conducted in order to quantify the resulting differences in power and localization precision in variance components-based linkage analysis. On the examined simulated, error-free data...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Göring HH,Williams JT,Dyer TD,Blangero J

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hu sheep, a unique Chinese breed with high reproductive performance, are also well known for their rare white lambskin in China. The quality of lambskin is affected by hair follicles, and dermal papilla cells are an important component of hair follicles that plays a key role in hair follicle growth and devel...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lv X,Gao W,Jin C,Wang L,Wang Y,Chen W,Zou S,Huang S,Li Z,Wang J,Sun W

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) has emerged as one of the most destructive root pathogens of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in the United States. Management of R. reniformis has been hindered by the lack of resistant G. hirsutum cultivars; however, resistance has been frequently identified i...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Li R,Erpelding JE,Stetina SR

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The SNF3 gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a low glucose sensor that regulates expression of an important subset of the hexose transporter (HXT) superfamily. Null mutations of snf3 result in a defect in growth on low glucose concentrations due to the inability to relieve repression of a subs...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Dietzel KL,Ramakrishnan V,Murphy EE,Bisson LF

更新日期：2012-12-12 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:In a deep sequencing analysis of small RNAs prepared from a living fossil, the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis, a 32-nt small RNA was specifically detected in the adult stage. A nucleotide sequence comparison between the 32-nt small RNA and predicted tRNA sequences in the draft nuclear genomic DNA showed ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Hirose Y,Ikeda KT,Noro E,Hiraoka K,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DGAT2 is a promising candidate gene for obesity because of its function as a key enzyme in fat metabolism and because of its localization on chromosome 11q13, a linkage region for extreme early onset obesity detected in our sample. We performed a mutation screen in 93 extremely obese children and adolescents...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Friedel S,Reichwald K,Scherag A,Brumm H,Wermter AK,Fries HR,Koberwitz K,Wabitsch M,Meitinger T,Platzer M,Biebermann H,Hinney A,Hebebrand J

更新日期：2007-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Root is the prime organ that sucks water and nutrients from deep layer of soil. Wild barley diversity exhibits remarkable variation in root system architecture that seems crucial in its adaptation to abiotic stresses like drought. In the present study, we performed quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping of r...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Naz AA,Arifuzzaman M,Muzammil S,Pillen K,Léon J

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00