Epigenetic Regulation Mediated by Methylation in the Pathogenesis and Precision Medicine of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

abstract：:The identification of functional modules in gene interaction networks is a key step in understanding biological processes. Network interpretation is essential for unveiling biological mechanisms, candidate biomarkers, or potential targets for drug discovery/repositioning. Plenty of biological module identification alg...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nazzicari N,Vella D,Coronnello C,Di Silvestre D,Bellazzi R,Marini S

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput genotyping boosts genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in crop species, leading to the identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with economically important traits. Choosing a cost-effective genotyping method for crop GWAS requires careful examination of several aspects, nam...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pavan S,Delvento C,Ricciardi L,Lotti C,Ciani E,D'Agostino N

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges in the analysis of large data sets, particularly in a population-based setting, is the ability to perform comparisons across projects. This has to be done in such a way that the integrity of each individual project is maintained, while ensuring that the data are comparable across projects. These ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fejes AP,Jones MJ,Kobor MS

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian genome is packed tightly in the nucleus of the cell. This packing is primarily facilitated by histone proteins and results in an ordered organization of the genome in chromosome territories that can be roughly divided in heterochromatic and euchromatic domains. On top of this organization several distinc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Palstra RJ,Grosveld F

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have been conducted to explore the influence of the catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype on the severity of and treatment efficacy on auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) symptoms in healthy individuals with AVHs (Hi-AVHs). We hypothesized that the efficacy of dopamine antagonist treatment on AVHs i...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhuo C,Xu Y,Zhang L,Jing R,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The often-used A(C)E model that decomposes phenotypic variance into parts due to additive genetic and environmental influences can be extended to a longitudinal model when the trait has been assessed at multiple occasions. This enables inference about the nature (e.g., genetic or environmental) of the covariance among...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Schwabe I,Gu Z,Tijmstra J,Hatemi P,Pohl S

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:With the gradual development of intelligence, human got curious to know his origin and evolutionary background. Historical statements and anthropological findings were his primary tool for solving the puzzles of his own origin, until came the golden era of molecular markers which took no time to prove it's excellence ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guha P,Srivastava SK,Bhattacharjee S,Chaudhuri TK

更新日期：2013-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) interacting with target RNAs play essential roles in RNA metabolism at the post-transcription level. Perturbations of RBPs can accelerate cancer development and cause dysregulation of the immune cell function and activity leading to evade immune destruction of cancer cells. However, few stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hu G,Jiang Q,Liu L,Peng H,Wang Y,Li S,Tang Y,Yu J,Yang J,Liu Z

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this review is to discuss how behavioral tests in mice relate to the pathological and neuropsychological features seen in human Alzheimer's disease (AD), and present a comprehensive analysis of the temporal progression of behavioral impairments in commonly used AD mouse models that contain mutations in amy...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Webster SJ,Bachstetter AD,Nelson PT,Schmitt FA,Van Eldik LJ

更新日期：2014-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary dynamics and tissue specificity of protein-coding genes are well documented in plants. However, the evolutionary consequences of small RNAs (sRNAs) on tissue-specific functions remain poorly understood. Here, we performed integrated analysis of 195 deeply sequenced sRNA libraries of maize B73, represe...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xu Y,Zhang T,Li Y,Miao Z

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous associations between genetic loci and individual phenotypes; however, relatively few GWAS have attempted to detect pleiotropic associations, in which loci are simultaneously associated with multiple distinct phenotypes. We show that pleiotropic associatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hartley SW,Monti S,Liu CT,Steinberg MH,Sebastiani P

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:ZNF143, a human homolog of the transcriptional activator Staf, is a C2H2-type protein consisting of seven zinc finger domains. As a transcription factor (TF), ZNF143 is sequence specifically binding to chromatin and activates the expression of protein-coding and non-coding genes on a genome scale. Although it is ubiqu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ye B,Yang G,Li Y,Zhang C,Wang Q,Yu G

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The first breeding program in the world for durum wheat was conceived in Italy in the early 1900s. Over the decades, pressure exerted by natural and artificial selection could have progressively reduced the genetic diversity of the durum wheat germplasm. In the present study, a large panel of Italian durum wheat acces...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Taranto F,D'Agostino N,Rodriguez M,Pavan S,Minervini AP,Pecchioni N,Papa R,De Vita P

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles and function of chromatin and nuclear architecture have been extensively studied in model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster. However, little is known about the role of these epigenetic processes in transcriptional regulation in other insects including mosquitoes, which are major disease vectors...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lezcano ÓM,Sánchez-Polo M,Ruiz JL,Gómez-Díaz E

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In genome wide association studies (GWAS), family-based studies tend to have less power to detect genetic associations than population-based studies, such as case-control studies. This can be an issue when testing if genes in a family-based GWAS have a direct effect on the phenotype of interest over and above their po...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lutz SM,Vansteelandt S,Lange C

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play a regulatory role and influence various biological activities, such as cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival. Our group has demonstrated through functional studies that Schistosoma mansoni c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SmJNK) MAPK is involved in the parasite's deve...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gava SG,Tavares NC,Falcone FH,Oliveira G,Mourão MM

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in GNB5 gene have been associated with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, ranging from neurodevelopmental issues with or without cardiac arrhythmia (LADCI) to severe developmental delay with epileptic encephalopathy, retinal dystrophy, and heart rhythm abnormaliti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sciacca FL,Ciaccio C,Fontana F,Strano C,Gilardoni F,Pantaleoni C,D'Arrigo S

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective population size over time (demographic history) can be retraced from a sample of contemporary DNA sequences. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology based on importance sampling (IS) for exploring such demographic histories. Our starting point is the generalized skyline plot with the main differenc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ait Kaci Azzou S,Larribe F,Froda S

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeng et al. (2005) proposed a general two-allele (G2A) model to model bi-allelic quantitative trait loci (QTL). Comparing with the classical Fisher model, the G2A model can avoid using redundant parameters and be fitted directly using standard least square (LS) approach. In this study, we further extend the G2A model ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang T

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional annotation of the genome is important to understand the phenotypic complexity of various species. The road toward functional annotation involves several challenges ranging from experiments on individual molecules to large-scale analysis of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data. HTS data is typically a resul...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pundhir S,Poirazi P,Gorodkin J

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoiesis of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) maintains generation of red blood cells throughout life. However, little is known how human erythropoiesis is regulated by long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). By using ChIRP-seq, we report here that the lncRNA steroid receptor RNA activator (SRA) occupies chromatin, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sawaengdee W,Cui K,Zhao K,Hongeng S,Fucharoen S,Wongtrakoongate P

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in genomics and proteomics generated a large amount of trans regulatory data such as those mediated by RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and microRNAs. Since many trans regulators target 3' UTR of mRNA transcripts, it is likely that there would be interactions, i.e., competitive or cooperative effect, among ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu Y,Pan C,Kong D,Luo J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Flavivirus genus comprises many viruses (including dengue, Zika, West Nile and yellow fever viruses) which constitute important public health concerns worldwide. For several of these pathogens, neither antivirals nor vaccines are currently available. In addition to this unmet medical need, flaviviruses are of part...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mazeaud C,Freppel W,Chatel-Chaix L

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Network propagation is a central tool in biological research. While a number of variants and normalizations have been proposed for this method, each has its own shortcomings and no large scale assessment of those variants is available. Here we propose a novel normalization method for network propagation that is based ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Biran H,Kupiec M,Sharan R

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive allelic variation at both gene and single nucleotide level (SNV) between individuals is commonly associated with complex traits in humans and animals. Allele-specific expression (ASE) analysis, using RNA-Seq, can provide a detailed annotation of allelic imbalance and infer the existence of cis-acting transcr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Salavati M,Bush SJ,Palma-Vera S,McCulloch MEB,Hume DA,Clark EL

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:STI/HOP functions as a co-chaperone of HSP90 and HSP70 whose molecular function has largely been being restricted as an adaptor protein. However, its role in thermotolerance is not well explored. In this article, we have identified six members of the TaSTI family, which were named according to their distribution on gr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Meena S,Deb S,Samtani H,Khurana P

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliability of genomic selection (GS) models was tested in an admixed population of Atlantic salmon, originating from crossing of several wild subpopulations. The models included ordinary genomic BLUP models (GBLUP), using genome-wide SNP markers of varying densities (1-220 k), a genomic identity-by-descent model (IBD...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Odegård J,Moen T,Santi N,Korsvoll SA,Kjøglum S,Meuwissen TH

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development takes place. By allowing organisms to produce phenotypes adjusted to the conditions that adults will experience, developmental plasticity can provide...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lafuente E,Beldade P

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose transporters (SUTs) play key roles in allocating the translocation of assimilates from source to sink tissues. Although the characteristics and biological roles of SUTs have been intensively investigated in higher plants, this gene family has not been functionally characterized in cotton. In this study, we per...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li W,Sun K,Ren Z,Song C,Pei X,Liu Y,Wang Z,He K,Zhang F,Zhou X,Ma X,Yang D

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are subjected to strong fluctuations in light intensity in their natural growth environment, caused both by unpredictable changes due to weather conditions and movement of clouds and upper canopy leaves and predictable changes during day-night cycle. The mechanisms of long-term acclimation to fluctuating light ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Niedermaier S,Schneider T,Bahl MO,Matsubara S,Huesgen PF

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00