Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) gene family in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

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:Structured association mapping is proving to be a powerful strategy to find genetic polymorphisms associated with disease. However, these algorithms are often distributed as command line implementations that require expertise and effort to customize and put into practice. Because of the difficulty required t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Curtis RE,Goyal A,Xing EP

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tyrosinemia type I, the most severe disease of the tyrosine catabolic pathway is caused by a deficiency in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). A patient showing few of the symptoms associated with the disease, was found to be a compound heterozygote for a splice mutation, IVS6-1g->t, and a putative missense...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Dreumont N,Poudrier JA,Bergeron A,Levy HL,Baklouti F,Tanguay RM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene identification and sequence determination are critical requirements for many biological, genomic, and bioinformatic studies. With the advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, such determinations are predominantly accomplished in silico for organisms for which the genome is known or for w...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Romine NM,Martin RJ,Beetham JK

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Land plants have evolved several measures to maintain their life against abiotic stresses. The accumulation of proline is the most generalized response of plants under drought, heat or salt stress conditions. It is known as an osmoprotectant which also acts as an instant source of energy during drought recov...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Sayed MA,Schumann H,Pillen K,Naz AA,Léon J

更新日期：2012-07-20 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:Adaption to cold temperatures, especially those below freezing, is essential for animal survival in cold environments. Freezing is also used for many medical, scientific, and industrial purposes. Natural freezing survival in animals has been extensively studied. However, the underlying mechanisms remain uncl...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Hu JP,Xu XY,Huang LY,Wang LS,Fang NY

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this article, I propose a model-selection-free method to map multiple quantitative trait loci (QTL) in variance component model, which is useful in outbred populations. The new method can estimate the variance of zero-effect QTL infinitely to zero, but nearly unbiased for non-zero-effect QTL. It is analog...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Fang M

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associations between haplotypes and quantitative traits provide valuable information about the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Haplotypes also provide an effective way to deal with untyped SNPs. Two major challenges arise in haplotype-based association analysis of family data. First, haplotypes may ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Diao G,Lin DY

更新日期：2020-09-07 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:Fenofibrate (Fb) is a known treatment for elevated triglyceride (TG) levels. The Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network (GOLDN) study was designed to investigate potential contributors to the effects of Fb on TG levels. Here, we summarize the analyses of 8 papers whose authors had access to the GO...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Cherlin S,Wang MH,Bickeböller H,Cantor RM

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatolactin alpha (SLa) is a fish-specific peptide hormone secreted from the pituitary. In medaka, SLa functions to darken the skin color and lack of SLa makes it pale. Transcription of SLa is enhanced or suppressed when fish are kept in dark or bright conditions, respectively, indicating SLa's important ro...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Sasano Y,Yoshimura A,Fukamachi S

更新日期：2012-07-24 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

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:Questions remain regarding the utility of self-reported ethnicity (SRE) in genetic and epidemiologic research. It is not clear whether conditioning on SRE provides adequate protection from inflated type I error rates due to population stratification and admixture. We address this question using data obtained...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Divers J,Redden DT,Rice KM,Vaughan LK,Padilla MA,Allison DB,Bluemke DA,Young HJ,Arnett DK

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare and contrast the performance of SIMPLE, a Monte Carlo based software, with that of several other methods for linkage and haplotype analyses, focusing on the simulated data from the New York City population. First, a whole-genome scan study based on the microsatellite markers was performed using GENEHUNTER. ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lin S,Ding J,Dong C,Liu Z,Ma ZJ,Wan S,Xu Y

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Africa is home to numerous cattle breeds whose diversity has been shaped by subtle combinations of human and natural selection. African Sanga cattle are an intermediate type of cattle resulting from interbreeding between Bos taurus and Bos indicus subspecies. Recently, research has asserted the potential of ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Taye M,Kim J,Yoon SH,Lee W,Hanotte O,Dessie T,Kemp S,Mwai OA,Caetano-Anolles K,Cho S,Oh SJ,Lee HK,Kim H

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South African (SA) Black women have a high prevalence of preeclampsia and HIV, both conditions associated with increased inflammation. miR-146a is an inflammatory-associated miR and a common single nucleotide polymorphism (rs2910164) has been associated with several disease conditions. To date, this SNP has ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Maharaj NR,Ramkaran P,Pillay S,Chuturgoon AA

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed 143 pedigrees (364 nuclear families) in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data provided to the participants in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW14) with the goal of comparing results obtained from genome linkage analysis using microsatellite and with results obtaine...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chen G,Adeyemo A,Zhou J,Yuan A,Chen Y,Rotimi C

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame is an important oil crop in tropical and subtropical areas. Despite its nutritional value and historic and cultural importance, the research on sesame has been scarce, particularly as far as its genetic diversity is concerned. The aims of the present study were to clarify genetic relationships among 3...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Laurentin HE,Karlovsky P

更新日期：2006-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat leaf rust is an important disease worldwide. Understanding the pathogenic molecular mechanism of Puccinia triticina Eriks. (Pt) and the inconstant toxic region is critical for managing the disease. The present study aimed to analyze the pathogenic divergence between Pt isolates. RESULTS:Total RNA was ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wei J,Cui L,Zhang N,Du D,Meng Q,Yan H,Liu D,Yang W

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic maps characterizing the inheritance patterns of traits and markers have been developed for a wide range of species and used to study questions in biomedicine, agriculture, ecology and evolutionary biology. The status of rainbow trout genetic maps has progressed significantly over the last decade due ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Rexroad CE 3rd,Palti Y,Gahr SA,Vallejo RL

更新日期：2008-11-19 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:Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus, GC), as the highest-output fish in China, is economically important. The production of gynogenetic grass carp (GGC) will provide important germplasm resource for producing improved GC. At present, knowledge regarding the heterologous sperm DNA in gynogenetic offspring is...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Mao Z,Fu Y,Wang Y,Wang S,Zhang M,Gao X,Luo K,Qin Q,Zhang C,Tao M,Yao Z,Liu S

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discerning the traits evolving under neutral conditions from those traits evolving rapidly because of various selection pressures is a great challenge. We propose a new method, composite selection signals (CSS), which unifies the multiple pieces of selection evidence from the rank distribution of its diverse...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Randhawa IA,Khatkar MS,Thomson PC,Raadsma HW

更新日期：2014-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is a diploid C4 panicoid species. Because of its prominent drought resistance, small genome size, self-pollination, and short life cycle, foxtail millet has become an ideal model system for studying drought tolerance of crops. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous, small RNAs tha...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang Y,Li L,Tang S,Liu J,Zhang H,Zhi H,Jia G,Diao X

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Only one genome scan to date has attempted to make use of the longitudinal data available in the Framingham Heart Study, and this attempt yielded evidence of linkage to a gene for mean systolic blood pressure. We show how the additional information available in these longitudinal data can be utilized to examine linkag...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Jacobs KB,Gray-McGuire C,Cartier KC,Elston RC

更新日期：2003-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pest eradication using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) involves high-density releases of sterilized males that mate with wild females and ultimately suppress the population. Sterilized females are not required for SIT and their removal or separation from males prior to release remains challenging. In orde...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Choo A,Fung E,Chen IY,Saint R,Crisp P,Baxter SW

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hip dysplasia remains one of the most serious hereditary diseases occurring in dogs despite long-standing evaluation schemes designed to aid selection for healthy joints. Many researchers have recommended the use of estimated breeding values (EBV) to improve the rate of genetic progress from selection agains...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Lewis TW,Blott SC,Woolliams JA

更新日期：2013-03-02 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