PRDM9 binding organizes hotspot nucleosomes and limits Holliday junction migration.

abstract：:To gauge the complexity of gene regulation in yeast, it is essential to know how much promoter sequence is functional. Conservation across species can be a sensitive means of detecting functional sequences, provided that the significance of conservation can be accurately calibrated with the local neutral mutation rate...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Chin CS,Chuang JH,Li H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short tandem repeats (STRs) have a wide range of applications, including medical genetics, forensics, and genetic genealogy. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has the potential to profile hundreds of thousands of STR loci. However, mainstream bioinformatics pipelines are inadequate for the task. These pipelines treat S...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Gymrek M,Golan D,Rosset S,Erlich Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics data introduce a substantial computational burden as well as data privacy and ownership issues. Data sets generated by high-throughput sequencing platforms require immense amounts of computational resources to align to reference genomes and to call and annotate genomic variants. This problem is even more pron...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Ozercan HI,Ileri AM,Ayday E,Alkan C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The centromere is the structural unit responsible for the faithful segregation of chromosomes. Although regulation of centromeric function by epigenetic factors has been well-studied, the contributions of the underlying DNA sequences have been much less well defined, and existing methodologies for studying centromere ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Contreras-Galindo R,Fischer S,Saha AK,Lundy JD,Cervantes PW,Mourad M,Wang C,Qian B,Dai M,Meng F,Chinnaiyan A,Omenn GS,Kaplan MH,Markovitz DM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors canonically bind nucleosome-free DNA, making the positioning of nucleosomes within regulatory regions crucial to the regulation of gene expression. Using the assay of transposase accessible chromatin (ATAC-seq), we observe a highly structured pattern of DNA fragment lengths and positions around n...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Schep AN,Buenrostro JD,Denny SK,Schwartz K,Sherlock G,Greenleaf WJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse chromosome 7F4/F5, where the imprinting domain is located, is syntenic to human 11p15.5, the locus for Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. The domain is thought to consist of the two subdomains Kip2 (p57(kip2))/Lit1 and Igf2/H19. Because DNA methylation is believed to be a key factor in genomic imprinting, we performed...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Yatsuki H,Joh K,Higashimoto K,Soejima H,Arai Y,Wang Y,Hatada I,Obata Y,Morisaki H,Zhang Z,Nakagawachi T,Satoh Y,Mukai T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C2H2 zinc finger proteins represent the largest and most enigmatic class of human transcription factors. Their C2H2-ZF arrays are highly variable, indicating that most will have unique DNA binding motifs. However, most of the binding motifs have not been directly determined. In addition, little is known about whether ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Schmitges FW,Radovani E,Najafabadi HS,Barazandeh M,Campitelli LF,Yin Y,Jolma A,Zhong G,Guo H,Kanagalingam T,Dai WF,Taipale J,Emili A,Greenblatt JF,Hughes TR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in developed countries and represents a significant risk factor for hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Splicing mutations constitute at least 14% of disease-causing mutations, thus implicating polymorphisms that affect splicing as likely candidates for dis...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Goren A,Kim E,Amit M,Bochner R,Lev-Maor G,Ahituv N,Ast G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions mediated by cell surface receptors initiate important instructive signaling cues but can be difficult to detect in biochemical assays because they are often highly transient and membrane-embedded receptors are difficult to solubilize in their native conformation. Here, we address these biochemical challen...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Sharma S,Bartholdson SJ,Couch ACM,Yusa K,Wright GJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro cloning of DNA molecules traditionally uses PCR amplification or site-specific restriction endonucleases to generate linear DNA inserts with defined termini and requires DNA ligase to covalently join those inserts to vectors with the corresponding ends. We have used the properties of Vaccinia DNA topoisom...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Heyman JA,Cornthwaite J,Foncerrada L,Gilmore JR,Gontang E,Hartman KJ,Hernandez CL,Hood R,Hull HM,Lee WY,Marcil R,Marsh EJ,Mudd KM,Patino MJ,Purcell TJ,Rowland JJ,Sindici ML,Hoeffler JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel quantitative method for rapidly assessing the CpG methylation density of a DNA region in mammalian cells. After bisulfite modification of genomic DNA, the region of interest is PCR amplified with primers containing two dam sites (GATC). The purified PCR products are then incubated with 14C-la...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Galm O,Rountree MR,Bachman KE,Jair KW,Baylin SB,Herman JG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular cues play critical roles in the establishment of the epigenome during development and may also contribute to epigenetic perturbations found in disease states. The direct role of the local tissue environment on the post-development human epigenome, however, remains unclear due to limitations in studies of...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Lay FD,Triche TJ Jr,Tsai YC,Su SF,Martin SE,Daneshmand S,Skinner EC,Liang G,Chihara Y,Jones PA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances toward the characterization of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have permitted the identification of a dozen of genetic risk factors, although many more remain undiscovered. In parallel, works in the field of network biology have shown a strong link between protein connectivity and disease. In this manuscript,...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Soler-López M,Zanzoni A,Lluís R,Stelzl U,Aloy P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially distinct gene expression profiles in neural stem cells (NSCs) are a prerequisite to the formation of neuronal diversity, but how these arise from the regulatory interactions between chromatin accessibility and transcription factor activity has remained unclear. Here, we demonstrate that, despite their distin...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Hagey DW,Zaouter C,Combeau G,Lendahl MA,Andersson O,Huss M,Muhr J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human AIRE gene (hAIRE) result in the development of an autoimmune disease named APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy; OMIM 240300). Previously, we have cloned hAIRE and shown that it codes for a putative transcription-associated factor. Here we report the cloning and...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Blechschmidt K,Schweiger M,Wertz K,Poulson R,Christensen HM,Rosenthal A,Lehrach H,Yaspo ML

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons commonly encode a reverse transcriptase (RT), but other functional domains are variable. The acquisition of new domains is the dominant evolutionary force that brings structural variety to retrotransposons. Non-long-terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons are classified into two groups by their str...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kojima KK,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are identifying genetic predisposition to various diseases. The 17q24.3 locus harbors the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1859962 that is statistically associated with prostate cancer (PCa). It defines a 130-kb linkage disequilibrium (LD) block that lies in an ∼2-Mb gene d...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Zhang X,Cowper-Sal lari R,Bailey SD,Moore JH,Lupien M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the patterns and causes of phenotypic divergence is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Much work has shown that mRNA abundance is highly variable between closely related species. However, the extent and mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulatory evolution are largely unknown. Here we used ri...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： McManus CJ,May GE,Spealman P,Shteyman A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the FANTOM2 mouse cDNA set (60,770 clones), public mRNA data, and mouse genome sequence data to identify 2481 pairs of sense-antisense transcripts and 899 further pairs of nonantisense bidirectional transcription based upon genomic mapping. The analysis greatly expands the number of known examples of sens...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kiyosawa H,Yamanaka I,Osato N,Kondo S,Hayashizaki Y,RIKEN GER Group.,GSL Members.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few methods are available for mapping the local structure of DNA throughout a genome. The hydroxyl radical cleavage pattern is a measure of the local variation in solvent-accessible surface area of duplex DNA, and thus provides information on the local shape and structure of DNA. We report the construction of a relati...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Greenbaum JA,Pang B,Tullius TD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare the functional spectrum of protein evolution in two separate animal lineages with respect to two hypotheses: (1) rates of divergence are distributed similarly among functional classes within both lineages, indicating that selective pressure on the proteome is largely independent of organismic-level biologic...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Castillo-Davis CI,Kondrashov FA,Hartl DL,Kulathinal RJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirtrons are intronic hairpin substrates of the dicing machinery that generate functional microRNAs. In this study, we describe experimental assays that defined the essential requirements for entry of introns into the mirtron pathway. These data informed a bioinformatic screen that effectively identified functional mi...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Chung WJ,Agius P,Westholm JO,Chen M,Okamura K,Robine N,Leslie CS,Lai EC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a conserved role in regulating gene expression, chromatin dynamics, and cell differentiation. They serve as a platform for RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated heterochromatin formation or DNA methylation in many eukaryotic organisms. We found in Schizosaccharomyces pombe that heterochro...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Brönner C,Salvi L,Zocco M,Ugolini I,Halic M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive DNA is a significant component of eukaryotic genomes. We have developed a strategy to efficiently and accurately sequence repetitive DNA in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using integrated artificial transposons and automated fluorescent sequencing. Mapping and assembly tools represent important compone...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Devine SE,Chissoe SL,Eby Y,Wilson RK,Boeke JD

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are an integral part of the host transcriptome. TE-containing noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) show considerable tissue specificity and play important roles during development, including stem cell maintenance and cell differentiation. Recent advances in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) revolutionized...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Shao W,Wang T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hi-C is a powerful technology for studying genome-wide chromatin interactions. However, current methods for assessing Hi-C data reproducibility can produce misleading results because they ignore spatial features in Hi-C data, such as domain structure and distance dependence. We present HiCRep, a framework for assessin...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Yang T,Zhang F,Yardımcı GG,Song F,Hardison RC,Noble WS,Yue F,Li Q

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identity-by-descent (IBD) inference is the problem of establishing a genetic connection between two individuals through a genomic segment that is inherited by both individuals from a recent common ancestor. IBD inference is an important preceding step in a variety of population genomic studies, ranging from demographi...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Rodriguez JM,Bercovici S,Huang L,Frostig R,Batzoglou S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential genes refer to those whose null mutation leads to lethality or sterility. Theoretical reasoning and empirical data both suggest that the fatal effect of inactivating an essential gene can be attributed to either the loss of indispensable core cellular function (Type I), or the gain of fatal side effects afte...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Chen P,Wang D,Chen H,Zhou Z,He X

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocations are known to affect the expression of genes at the breakpoints and, in the case of unbalanced translocations, alter the gene copy number. However, a comprehensive understanding of the functional impact of this class of variation is lacking. Here, we have studied the effect of balanced chromosomal rearra...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Harewood L,Schütz F,Boyle S,Perry P,Delorenzi M,Bickmore WA,Reymond A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional networks have been shown to evolve very rapidly, prompting questions as to how such changes arise and are tolerated. Recent comparisons of transcriptional networks across species have implicated variations in the cis-acting DNA sequences near genes as the main cause of divergence. What is less clear is...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kuo D,Licon K,Bandyopadhyay S,Chuang R,Luo C,Catalana J,Ravasi T,Tan K,Ideker T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00