Recommendations for Choosing the Genotyping Method and Best Practices for Quality Control in Crop Genome-Wide Association Studies.

abstract：:Melastoma malabathricum is an important medicinal and landscape plant that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical regions. However, available genomic information for the entire Melastomataceae family is notably limited. In view of the application potential of floral parts in secondary metabolite extracti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng T,Lin Y,Wang L,Lin Q,Lin X,Chen Z,Lin Z

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNAs that regulate gene expression. They are aberrantly expressed in many human cancers and are potential therapeutic targets and molecular biomarkers. METHODS:In this study, we for the first time validated the reported data on the entire set of published differential...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zabolotneva AA,Zhavoronkov AA,Shegay PV,Gaifullin NM,Alekseev BY,Roumiantsev SA,Garazha AV,Kovalchuk O,Aravin A,Buzdin AA

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Different genes have their protein products localized in various subcellular compartments. The diversity in protein localization may serve as a gene characteristic, revealing gene essentiality from a subcellular perspective. To measure this diversity, we introduced a Subcellular Diversity Index (SDI) based on the Gene...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Jia K,Zhou Y,Cui Q

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a heritable disease that results in sudden cardiac death. In the exome/genomic era, certain reported pathogenic variants in some genetic diseases have been reclassified as benign owing to their high frequency in some ancestries. In the present study, we comprehensively reassessed all previous...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Chen CJ,Lu TP,Lin LY,Liu YB,Ho LT,Huang HC,Lai LP,Hwang JJ,Yeh SS,Wu CK,Juang JJ,Antzelevitch C

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a rare autosomal-dominant inherited tumor syndrome. We aimed to analyze the correlations between frequent VHL mutations and phenotypes in Chinese VHL families. We screened 540 patients from 187 unrelated Chinese VHL families for 19 frequent VHL mutations. The penetrance and mean age ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hong B,Ma K,Zhou J,Zhang J,Wang J,Liu S,Zhang Z,Cai L,Zhang N,Gong K

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) has resulted in a number of exciting discoveries about the role of DNA methylation leading to a plethora of novel testable hypotheses. Methods for constructing sodium bisulfite-converted and amplified libraries have recently advanced to the point that the bot...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ji L,Sasaki T,Sun X,Ma P,Lewis ZA,Schmitz RJ

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogeography and community ecology can mutually illuminate the formation of a regional species pool or biome. Here, we apply phylogenetic methods to a large and diverse plant clade, Malpighiaceae, to characterize the formation of its species pool in Mexico, and its occupancy of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Willis CG,Franzone BF,Xi Z,Davis CC

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is a complex process that involved in various genetic and epigenetic alterations during the progression of breast cancer. Recent evidences have indicated that the mutation in the genome sequence may not be the key factor for increasing metastatic potential. Epigenetic changes were revealed to be important f...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhuang J,Huo Q,Yang F,Xie N

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung diseases impact patients across the lifespan, from infants in the first minutes of life through the aged population. Congenital abnormalities of lung structure can cause lung disease at birth or make adults more susceptible to chronic disease. Continuous inhalation of atmospheric components also requires the lung...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Prince LS

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:ncRNAs are key genes in many human diseases including cancer and viral infection, as well as providing critical functions in pathogenic organisms such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, and protists. Until now the identification and characterization of ncRNAs associated with disease has been slow or inaccurate requiring man...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Collins LJ

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phomopsis longicolla T. W. Hobbs (syn. Diaporthe longicolla) is the primary cause of Phomopsis seed decay (PSD) in soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill. This disease results in poor seed quality and is one of the most economically important seed diseases in soybean. The objectives of this study were to infer protein-prot...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li S,Musungu B,Lightfoot D,Ji P

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the turn of the century, researchers have sought to diagnose cancer based on gene expression signatures measured from the blood or biopsy as biomarkers. This task, known as classification, is typically solved using a suite of algorithms that learn a mathematical rule capable of discriminating one group ("cases")...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Quinn TP,Nguyen T,Lee SC,Venkatesh S

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the prevalence of obesity and cancer have been rising. Since this poses a serious threat to human health, the relationship between the two has attracted much attention. This study examined whether fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genes are linked, taking into account a Genome-wide Association Stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lan N,Lu Y,Zhang Y,Pu S,Xi H,Nie X,Liu J,Yuan W

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Some candidate genes have been robustly reported to be associated with complex traits, such as the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene on body mass index (BMI), and the fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) gene on blood pressure levels. It is of interest to know whether an environmental factor (E) can attenuate or...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lin WY,Lin YS,Chan CC,Liu YL,Tsai SJ,Kuo PH

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a well-known occupational carcinogen, but the mechanisms contributing to DNA damage and cell cycle alternation have not been fully characterized. To study the dose-response effects of Cr(VI) on transcription, we exposed BEAS-2B cells to Cr(VI) at concentrations of 0.2, 0.6, and 1.8 μmol...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng P,Kang Y,Han S,Feng H,Ha F,Long C,Zhou D,Hu G,Chen Z,Wang Z,Wang T,Jia G

更新日期：2021-01-13 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

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs repressing gene expression. They contribute to many physiological processes and pathologies. Consequently, strategies for manipulation of the miRNA pathway are of interest as they could provide tools for experimental or therapeutic interventions. One of such tools could be small chemi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Brustikova K,Sedlak D,Kubikova J,Skuta C,Solcova K,Malik R,Bartunek P,Svoboda P

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA is a unique bio-macromolecule that can both record genetic information and perform biological functions in a variety of molecular processes, including transcription, splicing, translation, and even regulating protein function. RNAs adopt specific three-dimensional conformations to enable their functions. Experimen...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li B,Cao Y,Westhof E,Miao Z

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in mitochondrial (mt) DNA determine important human diseases. The majority of the known pathogenic mutations are located in transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and are responsible for a wide range of currently untreatable disorders. Experimental evidence both in yeast and in human cells has shown that the detrimental ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Giordano C,Morea V,Perli E,d'Amati G

更新日期：2015-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of high-throughput sequencing data, identification of genetic causal variants accurately requires the efficient incorporation of function annotation data into the optimization routine. This motivates the need for development of novel methods for genome wide association studies with special focus ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sundar VS,Fan CC,Holland D,Dale AM

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment of diverse populations and subjects living in Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/P's) into clinical trials is a considerable challenge. Likewise, representation of African-Americans in pharmacogenetic trials is often inadequate, but critical for identifying genetic variation within and betwee...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shah-Williams E,Levy KD,Zang Y,Holmes AM,Stoughton C,Dexter P,Skaar TC

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown by many researchers that SET-domain containing proteins modify chromatin structure and, as expected, genes coding for SET-domain containing proteins have been found in all eukaryotic genomes sequenced to date. However, during the last years, a great number of bacterial genomes have been sequenced and...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Alvarez-Venegas R

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 23 in vol. 9, PMID: 29456554.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yang L,Banerjee S,Cao J,Bai X,Peng Z,Chen H,Huang H,Han P,Feng S,Yi N,Song X,Wu J

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Lung disease phenotype varies widely even in the F508del (homozygous) genotype. Leukocyte-driven inflammation is important for pulmonary disease pathogenesis in cystic fibrosis (CF). Blood cytokines correlate negatively with pulmonary function in F508del homozygous patients, and gap junction proteins (GJA) m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Horn T,Ludwig M,Eickmeier O,Neerinex AH,Maitland-van der Zee AH,Smaczny C,Wagner TOF,Schubert R,Zielen S,Majoor C,Bos LD,Schmitt-Grohé S

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete and compelling evolutionary explanation for the origin of human menopause is wanting. Menopause onset is defined clinically as the final menses, confirmed after 1 year without menstruation. The theory proposed herein explains at multiple levels - ultimately genetic but involving (1) behavioral, (2) life his...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Takahashi M,Singh RS,Stone J

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:As a commercially important species, the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) has been cultured for a long time in China. Agonistic behavior often causes limb disability and requires much energy, which is harmful to the growth and survival of crabs. In this paper, we divided crabs into a control group (control, no...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pang Y,He L,Song Y,Song X,Lv J,Cheng Y,Yang X

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of scientific knowledge into negotiations of the Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) is crucial to effective implementation of those MEAs by ensuring uniformity in their terminology. Recent innovations in the field of biotechnology provoked a discussion over "Digital Sequence Information" (DSI) in f...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kobayashi K,Domon E,Watanabe KN

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a severe neurological disease. The brain of the AE patient is attacked by a dysregulated immune system, which is caused by the excessive production of autoantibodies against neuronal receptors and synaptic proteins. AE is also characterized by the uncontrolled B lymphocyte infiltration ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tsai MH,Lin CH,Tsai KW,Lin MH,Ho CJ,Lu YT,Weng KP,Lin Y,Lin PH,Li SC

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The SLC2A9 gene, that encodes a renal uric acid reuptake transporter, has genetic variants that explain ∼3% of variance in urate levels. There are previous reports of non-additive interaction between SLC2A9 genotype and environmental factors which influence urate control. Therefore, our aim was to further investigate ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Topless RK,Flynn TJ,Cadzow M,Stamp LK,Dalbeth N,Black MA,Merriman TR

更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast growth is one of the most desired traits for all food animals, which affects the profitability of animal production. The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is an important aquaculture shellfish around the world with the largest annual production. Growth of the Pacific oyster has been greatly improved by artificia...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang F,Hu B,Fu H,Jiao Z,Li Q,Liu S

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00