Abstract：
:The nature-nurture argument surrounding the mechanisms of disease causation cannot be resolved, as the roles of genes and environment are inextricably entwined. Environmental fluctuation is clearly a major modifier of phenotype, as well as a promoter of evolutionary change. Both types of variability can be mediated by the stress response pathway, with the Hsp90 chaperone family as key components. Hsp90 has been hailed as a capacitor for evolutionary change, because partial inhibition of its functions can uncover cryptic mutations, leading to unexpected phenotypes that, although generally deleterious, will under rare new environmental conditions provide improved survival to the carrier of that variant. There is, therefore, a strong environmentally elicited link between the capacity to reveal hidden variation as human disease phenotype and as novel morphological forms for evolutionary selection.
journal_name
Curr Opin Genet Devjournal_title
Current opinion in genetics & developmentauthors
Yeyati PL,van Heyningen Vdoi
10.1016/j.gde.2008.07.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-06-01 00:00:00pages
264-72issue
3eissn
0959-437Xissn
1879-0380pii
S0959-437X(08)00083-Xjournal_volume
18pub_type
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(00)00175-1
更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(05)80198-4
更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2012.08.005
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2018.05.005
更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2004.04.012
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(05)80329-6
更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2009.02.007
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(97)80148-7
更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0959-437x(94)90137-r
更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2013.03.003
更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2004.08.007
更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0959-437x(93)90030-s
更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(96)80085-2
更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2010.05.003
更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2010.04.003
更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2009.07.005
更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2018.06.002
更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2018.09.002
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0959-437x(95)80014-v
更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Eukaryotic messenger RNA utilization is a tightly controlled process. Control of translation is exerted at several levels, but the predominant step is ribosome binding, which is rate limiting for translation of most mRNAs. There appear to be several alternative modes by which ribosomes bind to the mRNA and initiate tr...
journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(05)80059-0
更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Eukaryotic organisms have the remarkable ability to inherit states of gene activity without altering the underlying DNA sequence. This epigenetic inheritance can persist over thousands of years, providing an alternative to genetic mutations as a substrate for natural selection. Epigenetic inheritance might be propagat...
journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2005.07.002
更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2011.10.002
更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mitochondria are highly abundant in and essential to the beat-to-beat contractile performance of hearts. However, relatively few cardiac diseases have been attributed to primary mitochondrial dysfunction. The paucity of evidence for 'primary mitochondrial cardiac diseases' may be because such an entity does not exist....
journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.gde.2016.03.001
更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Identification of new genes involved in muscle disorders has dramatically changed the traditional clinical classification of the large and heterogeneous group of the muscular dystrophies. Results obtained in recent years by positional candidate cloning have demonstrated the role of the sarcolemma and of the nuclear en...
journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0959-437x(99)80041-0
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
