Extensive variation and low heritability of DNA methylation identified in a twin study.

abstract：:The draft genome ( approximately 160 Mb) of the urochordate ascidian Ciona intestinalis has been sequenced by the whole-genome shotgun method and should provide important insights into the origin and evolution of chordates as well as vertebrates. However, because this genomic data has not yet been mapped onto chromoso...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Shoguchi E,Kawashima T,Satou Y,Hamaguchi M,Sin-I T,Kohara Y,Putnam N,Rokhsar DS,Satoh N

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocations are a common class of chromosomal aberrations and can cause disease by physically disrupting genes or altering their regulatory environment. Some translocations, apparently balanced at the microscopic level, include deletions, duplications, insertions, or inversions at the molecular level. Traditionally...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Sobreira NL,Gnanakkan V,Walsh M,Marosy B,Wohler E,Thomas G,Hoover-Fong JE,Hamosh A,Wheelan SJ,Valle D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian cell nucleus contains numerous discrete suborganelles named nuclear bodies. While recruitment of specific genomic regions into these large ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes critically contributes to higher-order functional chromatin organization, such regions remain ill-defined. We have developed the hig...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Baudement MO,Cournac A,Court F,Seveno M,Parrinello H,Reynes C,Sabatier R,Bouschet T,Yi Z,Sallis S,Tancelin M,Rebouissou C,Cathala G,Lesne A,Mozziconacci J,Journot L,Forné T

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are >400 disorders in which hearing impairment is a characteristic of the syndrome, and family studies demonstrate that there are at least 30 autosomal loci for nonsyndromic hearing impairment. The genes that have been identified encode diaphanous (...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Keats BJ,Berlin CI

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the genetic code was one of the most important advances of modern biology. But there is more to a DNA code than protein sequence; DNA carries signals for splicing, localization, folding, and regulation that are often embedded within the protein-coding sequence. In this issue, Itzkovitz and Alon show t...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Bollenbach T,Vetsigian K,Kishony R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live-cell imaging allows detailed dynamic cellular phenotyping for cell biology and, in combination with small molecule or drug libraries, for high-content screening. Fully automated analysis of live cell movies has been hampered by the lack of computational approaches that allow tracking and recognition of individual...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Harder N,Mora-Bermúdez F,Godinez WJ,Wünsche A,Eils R,Ellenberg J,Rohr K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mammalian RNA polymerase II initiation events occur at CpG islands, which are rich in CpGs and devoid of DNA methylation. Despite their relevance for gene regulation, it is unknown to what extent the CpG dinucleotide itself actually contributes to promoter activity. To address this question, we determined the tra...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Hartl D,Krebs AR,Grand RS,Baubec T,Isbel L,Wirbelauer C,Burger L,Schübeler D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of long-term evolutionary conservation of microRNA (miRNA) target sites appears to contradict many analyses of their functions. Several hypotheses have been offered, but an attractive one-that the conservation may be a function of taxonomic hierarchy (vertebrates, mammals, primates, etc.)-has rarely been disc...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Xu J,Zhang R,Shen Y,Liu G,Lu X,Wu CI

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the consequences of regulatory variation in the human genome remains a major challenge, with important implications for understanding gene regulation and interpreting the many disease-risk variants that fall outside of protein-coding regions. Here, we provide a direct window into the regulatory consequen...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Battle A,Mostafavi S,Zhu X,Potash JB,Weissman MM,McCormick C,Haudenschild CD,Beckman KB,Shi J,Mei R,Urban AE,Montgomery SB,Levinson DF,Koller D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A-to-I RNA editing is a conserved widespread phenomenon in which adenosine (A) is converted to inosine (I) by adenosine deaminases (ADARs) in double-stranded RNA regions, mainly noncoding. Mutations in ADAR enzymes in Caenorhabditis elegans cause defects in normal development but are not lethal as in human and mouse. ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Goldstein B,Agranat-Tamir L,Light D,Ben-Naim Zgayer O,Fishman A,Lamm AT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is a developmentally important mechanism that involves both differential DNA methylation and allelic histone modifications. Through detailed comparative characterization, a large imprinted domain mapping to chromosome 7q21 in humans and proximal chromosome 6 in mice was redefined. This domain is org...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Monk D,Wagschal A,Arnaud P,Müller PS,Parker-Katiraee L,Bourc'his D,Scherer SW,Feil R,Stanier P,Moore GE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in gene repertoire among bacterial genomes are usually ascribed to gene loss or to lateral gene transfer from unrelated cellular organisms. However, most bacteria contain large numbers of ORFans, that is, annotated genes that are restricted to a particular genome and that possess no known homologs. The uni...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Daubin V,Ochman H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and copy number alteration (CNA) feature prominently in the somatic genomic landscape of tumors. As such, karyotypic aberrations in cancer genomes have been studied extensively to discover novel oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes. Advances in sequencing technology have enabled the cost-e...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Ha G,Roth A,Lai D,Bashashati A,Ding J,Goya R,Giuliany R,Rosner J,Oloumi A,Shumansky K,Chin SF,Turashvili G,Hirst M,Caldas C,Marra MA,Aparicio S,Shah SP

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-gel competitive reassociation (IGCR) is a method of differential subtraction to enrich polymorphic DNA restriction fragments between two DNA samples without probes or specific sequence information. Here, we show that by combining IGCR and expressed sequence tags (EST) array hybridization, polymorphic DNA fragments ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Gotoh K,Oishi M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplication of the genome in mammalian cells occurs in a defined temporal order referred to as its replication-timing (RT) program. RT changes dynamically during development, regulated in units of 400-800 kb referred to as replication domains (RDs). Changes in RT are generally coordinated with transcriptional competen...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Rivera-Mulia JC,Buckley Q,Sasaki T,Zimmerman J,Didier RA,Nazor K,Loring JF,Lian Z,Weissman S,Robins AJ,Schulz TC,Menendez L,Kulik MJ,Dalton S,Gabr H,Kahveci T,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale sequencing of human and model organism genomes will have a profound impact on our ability to use sequence data base searching to predict the biochemical functions of sequences of interest. Despite the great value of more sequences in the data bases, a huge increase in data base size will also have adverse ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Smith RF

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparison of the chromosome numbers of today's species with common reconstructed paleo-ancestors has led to intense speculation of how chromosomes have been rearranged over time in mammals. However, similar studies in plants with respect to genome evolution as well as molecular mechanisms leading to mosaic synten...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Murat F,Xu JH,Tannier E,Abrouk M,Guilhot N,Pont C,Messing J,Salse J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 20 years have been a remarkable era for biology and medicine. One of the most significant achievements has been the sequencing of the first human genomes, which has laid the foundation for profound insights into human genetics, the intricacies of regulation and development, and the forces of evolution. Incred...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Schatz MC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of high-density oligonucleotide arrays to measure the expression levels of thousands of genes in parallel has become commonplace. To take further advantage of the growing body of data, we developed a method, termed "GeSNP," to mine the detailed hybridization patterns in oligonucleotide array expression data fo...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Greenhall JA,Zapala MA,Cáceres M,Libiger O,Barlow C,Schork NJ,Lockhart DJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy (FSHD), a muscular hereditary disease with a prevalence of 1 in 20,000, is caused by a partial deletion of a subtelomeric repeat array on chromosome 4q. Earlier, we demonstrated the existence in the vicinity of the D4Z4 repeat of a nuclear matrix attachment site, FR-MAR, efficient in no...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Petrov A,Allinne J,Pirozhkova I,Laoudj D,Lipinski M,Vassetzky YS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand disease mechanisms, a large-scale analysis of human-yeast genetic interactions was performed. Of 1305 human disease genes assayed, 20 genes exhibited strong toxicity in yeast. Human-yeast genetic interactions were identified by en masse transformation of the human disease genes into a pool of 4653 homozy...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Jo M,Chung AY,Yachie N,Seo M,Jeon H,Nam Y,Seo Y,Kim E,Zhong Q,Vidal M,Park HC,Roth FP,Suk K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumors are comprised of heterogeneous cell populations that display diverse molecular and phenotypic features. To examine the extent to which epigenetic differences contribute to intratumoral cellular heterogeneity, we have developed a high-throughput method, termed MAPit-patch. The method uses multiplexed ampli...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Nabilsi NH,Deleyrolle LP,Darst RP,Riva A,Reynolds BA,Kladde MP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer progression in humans is difficult to infer because we do not routinely sample patients at multiple stages of their disease. However, heterogeneous breast tumors provide a unique opportunity to study human tumor progression because they still contain evidence of early and intermediate subpopulations in the form...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Navin N,Krasnitz A,Rodgers L,Cook K,Meth J,Kendall J,Riggs M,Eberling Y,Troge J,Grubor V,Levy D,Lundin P,Månér S,Zetterberg A,Hicks J,Wigler M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large terminal fragments of human chromosomes 2p, 6p, 8q, 12q, and 18q were cloned using yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs). RecA-assisted restriction endonuclease (RARE) cleavage analysis of genomic DNA samples from II unrelated individuals using YAC-derived probes confirmed the telomeric localizations of the half-Y...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Macina RA,Morii K,Hu XL,Negorev DG,Spais C,Ruthig LA,Riethman HC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bidirectional promoters have received considerable attention because of their ability to regulate two downstream genes (divergent genes). They are also highly abundant, directing the transcription of approximately 11% of genes in the human genome. We categorized the presence of DNA sequence motifs, binding of transcri...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Lin JM,Collins PJ,Trinklein ND,Fu Y,Xi H,Myers RM,Weng Z

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigmentation of skin, eye, and hair reflects some of the most evident common phenotypes in humans. Several candidate genes for human pigmentation are identified. The SNP rs12913832 has strong statistical association with human pigmentation. It is located within an intron of the nonpigment gene HERC2, 21 kb upstream of...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Visser M,Kayser M,Palstra RJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have described novel families of genes, warthog (wrt) and groundhog (grd), in Caenorhabditis elegans. They are related to Hedgehog (Hh) through the carboxy-terminal autoprocessing domain (called Hog or Hint). A comprehensive survey revealed 10 genes with Hog/Hint modules in C. elegans. Five of these are...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Aspöck G,Kagoshima H,Niklaus G,Bürglin TR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor microenvironment of colorectal carcinoma is a complex community of genomically altered cancer cells, nonneoplastic cells, and a diverse collection of microorganisms. Each of these components may contribute to carcinogenesis; however, the role of the microbiota is the least well understood. We have characteri...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kostic AD,Gevers D,Pedamallu CS,Michaud M,Duke F,Earl AM,Ojesina AI,Jung J,Bass AJ,Tabernero J,Baselga J,Liu C,Shivdasani RA,Ogino S,Birren BW,Huttenhower C,Garrett WS,Meyerson M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to post-transcriptionally regulate target mRNAs through the 3'-UTR, which interacts mainly with the 5'-end of miRNA in animals. Here we identify many endogenous motifs within human 5'-UTRs specific to the 3'-ends of miRNAs. The 3'-end of conserved miRNAs in particular has significant inter...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Lee I,Ajay SS,Yook JI,Kim HS,Hong SH,Kim NH,Dhanasekaran SM,Chinnaiyan AM,Athey BD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed that insertions and deletions (indels) are more different in their formation than previously assumed. What remains enigmatic is how the local DNA sequence context contributes to these differences. To investigate the relative impact of various molecular mechanisms to indel formation, we ana...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kvikstad EM,Chiaromonte F,Makova KD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00