Heritability informed power optimization (HIPO) leads to enhanced detection of genetic associations across multiple traits.

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), ligand-gated ionotropic glutamate receptors, play key roles in normal brain development and various neurological disorders. Here we use standing variation data from the human population to assess which protein domains within NMDAR GluN1, GluN2A and GluN2B subunits show the stro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ogden KK,Chen W,Swanger SA,McDaniel MJ,Fan LZ,Hu C,Tankovic A,Kusumoto H,Kosobucki GJ,Schulien AJ,Su Z,Pecha J,Bhattacharya S,Petrovski S,Cohen AE,Aizenman E,Traynelis SF,Yuan H

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicins are plasmid-encoded narrow spectrum antibiotics that are synthesized by strains of Escherichia coli and govern intraspecies competition. In a previous report, we demonstrated that the global transcriptional factor IscR, co dependently with the master regulator of the DNA damage response, LexA, delays inductio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kamenšek S,Browning DF,Podlesek Z,Busby SJ,Žgur-Bertok D,Butala M

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A large fraction of human genes are regulated by genetic variation near the transcribed sequence (cis-eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus), and many cis-eQTLs have implications for human disease. Less is known regarding the effects of genetic variation on expression of distant genes (trans-eQTLs) and their biolo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pierce BL,Tong L,Chen LS,Rahaman R,Argos M,Jasmine F,Roy S,Paul-Brutus R,Westra HJ,Franke L,Esko T,Zaman R,Islam T,Rahman M,Baron JA,Kibriya MG,Ahsan H

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alphaproteobacteria show a remarkable diversity of cell cycle-dependent developmental patterns, which are governed by the conserved CtrA pathway. Its central component CtrA is a DNA-binding response regulator that is controlled by a complex two-component signaling network, mediating distinct transcriptional progra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leicht O,van Teeseling MCF,Panis G,Reif C,Wendt H,Viollier PH,Thanbichler M

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias affects protein translation because tRNAs that recognize synonymous codons differ in their abundance. Although the current dogma states that tRNA expression is exclusively regulated by intrinsic control elements (A- and B-box sequences), we revealed, using a reporter that monitors the levels of indivi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sagi D,Rak R,Gingold H,Adir I,Maayan G,Dahan O,Broday L,Pilpel Y,Rechavi O

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants utilize an innate immune system to protect themselves from disease. While many molecular components of plant innate immunity resemble the innate immunity of animals, plants also have evolved a number of truly unique defense mechanisms, particularly at the physiological level. Plant's flexible developmental prog...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Patharkar OR,Gassmann W,Walker JC

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Most B cell lymphomas originate from B cells that have germinal center (GC) experience and bear chromosome translocations and numerous point mutations. GC B cells remodel their immunoglobulin (Ig) genes by somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) in their Ig genes. Activation Induced Deaminase ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Delgado P,Álvarez-Prado ÁF,Marina-Zárate E,Sernandez IV,Mur SM,de la Barrera J,Sanchez-Cabo F,Cañamero M,de Molina A,Belver L,de Yébenes VG,Ramiro AR

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological aggregates of phosphorylated TDP-43 characterize amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP), two devastating groups of neurodegenerative disease. Kinase hyperactivity may be a consistent feature of ALS and FTLD-TDP, as phosphorylated TDP-43 is not observed in the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liachko NF,McMillan PJ,Strovas TJ,Loomis E,Greenup L,Murrell JR,Ghetti B,Raskind MA,Montine TJ,Bird TD,Leverenz JB,Kraemer BC

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical problem in biology is understanding how cells choose between self-renewal and differentiation. To generate a comprehensive view of the mechanisms controlling early hematopoietic precursor self-renewal and differentiation, we used systems-based approaches and murine EML multipotential hematopoietic precursor...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wu JQ,Seay M,Schulz VP,Hariharan M,Tuck D,Lian J,Du J,Shi M,Ye Z,Gerstein M,Snyder MP,Weissman S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved protein kinase Sch9 is a central player in the nutrient-induced signaling network in yeast, although only few of its direct substrates are known. We now provide evidence that Sch9 controls the vacuolar proton pump (V-ATPase) to maintain cellular pH homeostasis and ageing. A synthetic sick phenotype arise...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wilms T,Swinnen E,Eskes E,Dolz-Edo L,Uwineza A,Van Essche R,Rosseels J,Zabrocki P,Cameroni E,Franssens V,De Virgilio C,Smits GJ,Winderickx J

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:While there have been studies exploring regulatory variation in one or more tissues, the complexity of tissue-specificity in multiple primary tissues is not yet well understood. We explore in depth the role of cis-regulatory variation in three human tissues: lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCL), skin, and fat. The samples ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nica AC,Parts L,Glass D,Nisbet J,Barrett A,Sekowska M,Travers M,Potter S,Grundberg E,Small K,Hedman AK,Bataille V,Tzenova Bell J,Surdulescu G,Dimas AS,Ingle C,Nestle FO,di Meglio P,Min JL,Wilk A,Hammond CJ,Hassa

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Doolittle WF,Brunet TD

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 1...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Graff M,Scott RA,Justice AE,Young KL,Feitosa MF,Barata L,Winkler TW,Chu AY,Mahajan A,Hadley D,Xue L,Workalemahu T,Heard-Costa NL,den Hoed M,Ahluwalia TS,Qi Q,Ngwa JS,Renström F,Quaye L,Eicher JD,Hayes JE,Corneli

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex is a specialized region of the brain that processes cognitive, motor, somatosensory, auditory, and visual functions. Its characteristic architecture and size is dependent upon the number of neurons generated during embryogenesis and has been postulated to be governed by symmetric versus asymmetric ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sakai D,Dixon J,Dixon MJ,Trainor PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins associated with familial neurodegenerative disease often aggregate in patients' neurons. Several such proteins, e.g. TDP-43, aggregate and are toxic when expressed in yeast. Deletion of the ATXN2 ortholog, PBP1, reduces yeast TDP-43 toxicity, which led to identification of ATXN2 as an amyotrophic lateral scle...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Park S,Park SK,Watanabe N,Hashimoto T,Iwatsubo T,Shelkovnikova TA,Liebman SW

更新日期：2019-08-07 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：:Intercellular communication mediated by gap junction (GJ) proteins is indispensable during embryogenesis, tissue regeneration and wound healing. Here we report functional analysis of a gap junction protein, Innexin 2 (Inx2), in cell type specification during Drosophila oogenesis. Our data reveal a novel involvement of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sahu A,Ghosh R,Deshpande G,Prasad M

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Short insertions, deletions (INDELs) and larger structural variants have been increasingly employed in genetic association studies, but few improvements over SNP-based association have been reported. In order to understand why this might be the case, we analysed two publicly available datasets and observed that 63% of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Song B,Mott R,Gan X

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic models built from genetic data play important roles in illuminating prehistorical events and serving as null models in genome scans for selection. We introduce an inference method based on the joint frequency spectrum of genetic variants within and between populations. For candidate models we numerically c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gutenkunst RN,Hernandez RD,Williamson SH,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L1 retrotransposons have a prominent role in reshaping mammalian genomes. To replicate, the L1 ribonucleoprotein particle (RNP) first uses its endonuclease (EN) to nick the genomic DNA. The newly generated DNA end is subsequently used as a primer to initiate reverse transcription within the L1 RNA poly(A) tail, a proc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Monot C,Kuciak M,Viollet S,Mir AA,Gabus C,Darlix JL,Cristofari G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria is a formidable barrier that is difficult for antimicrobial drugs to penetrate. Thus, the list of treatments effective against these organisms is small and with the rise of new resistance mechanisms is shrinking rapidly. New therapies to treat Gram-negative bacterial infecti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Paradis-Bleau C,Kritikos G,Orlova K,Typas A,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed development in angiosperms is dependent on the interplay among different transcriptional programs operating in the embryo, the endosperm, and the maternally-derived seed coat. In angiosperms, the embryo and the endosperm are products of double fertilization during which the two pollen sperm cells fuse with the eg...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shirzadi R,Andersen ED,Bjerkan KN,Gloeckle BM,Heese M,Ungru A,Winge P,Koncz C,Aalen RB,Schnittger A,Grini PE

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because cohesion prevents sister-chromatid separation and spindle elongation, cohesion dissolution may trigger these two events simultaneously. However, the relatively normal spindle elongation kinetics in yeast cohesin mutants indicates an additional mechanism for the temporal control of spindle elongation. Here we s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liang F,Richmond D,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an evolutionarily conserved epigenetic modification that is critical for gene silencing and the maintenance of genome integrity. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the de novo DNA methyltransferase, domains rearranged methyltransferase 2 (DRM2), is targeted to specific genomic loci by 24 nt small interfering ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Law JA,Vashisht AA,Wohlschlegel JA,Jacobsen SE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe encodes 17 kinases that are essential for cell growth. These include the cell-cycle regulator Cdc2, as well as several kinases that coordinate cell growth, polarity, and morphogenesis during the cell cycle. In this study, we further characterized another of the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eckert D,Andrée N,Razanau A,Zock-Emmenthal S,Lützelberger M,Plath S,Schmidt H,Guerra-Moreno A,Cozzuto L,Ayté J,Käufer NF

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical growth of plants is a dynamic process that is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and has a pronounced effect on overall plant architecture and biomass composition. We have performed six controlled growth trials of an interspecific Setaria italica x Setaria viridis recombinant inbred line populati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feldman MJ,Paul RE,Banan D,Barrett JF,Sebastian J,Yee MC,Jiang H,Lipka AE,Brutnell TP,Dinneny JR,Leakey ADB,Baxter I

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the somatic cells of adult metazoans, including mammals, do not undergo continuous cycles of replication. Instead, they are quiescent and devote most of their metabolic activity to gene expression. The mutagenic consequences of exposure to DNA-damaging agents are well documented, but less is known about the im...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brégeon D,Peignon PA,Sarasin A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase, an enzyme complex comprising two component proteins that contains three different metalloclusters. Diazotrophs contain a common core of nitrogen fixation nif genes that encode the structural subunits of the enzyme and components requir...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Liu Z,Zhao D,Liu X,Zhang B,Xie J,Hong Y,Li P,Chen S,Dixon R,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhox cluster on the mouse X chromosome contains reproduction-related homeobox genes expressed in a sexually dimorphic manner. We report that two members of the Rhox cluster, Rhox6 and 9, are regulated by de-methylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 by KDM6A, a histone demethylase with female-biased expression. Consis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Berletch JB,Deng X,Nguyen DK,Disteche CM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant stress responses require both protective measures that reduce or restore stress-inflicted damage to cellular structures and mechanisms that efficiently remove damaged and toxic macromolecules, such as misfolded and damaged proteins. We have recently reported that NBR1, the first identified plant autophagy adapto...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhou J,Zhang Y,Qi J,Chi Y,Fan B,Yu JQ,Chen Z

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00