Long-Read-Based de novo Genome Assembly and Comparative Genomics of the Wheat Leaf Rust Pathogen Puccinia triticina Identifies Candidates for Three Avirulence Genes.

abstract：:Evidence from clinical and epidemiological studies indicates that asthma is associated with allergic diseases including hay fever, allergic rhinitis, and eczema. Genetic analysis demonstrated that asthma had a positive genetic correlation with allergic diseases. A Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using the rs1696...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shen M,Liu X,Li G,Li Z,Zhou H

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) undergo high levels of regulation in skeletal muscle development and control skeletal muscle mass, function and metabolism over the lifespan. More recently, the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in skeletal muscle regulation has started to emerge. Following up on our recent study describing the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mikovic J,Sadler K,Butchart L,Voisin S,Gerlinger-Romero F,Della Gatta P,Grounds MD,Lamon S

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the target genes that interact with drugs-drug-target interactions-plays an important role in drug discovery. Identification of drug-target interactions through biological experiments is time consuming, laborious, and costly. Therefore, using computational approaches to predict candidate targets is a good ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xuan P,Sun C,Zhang T,Ye Y,Shen T,Dong Y

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Alport syndrome (AS) is a rare and inherited renal disorder with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. AS patients usually manifest with hematuria and progressive renal disorder also occasionally accompanied by hearing loss and ophthalmic disease. Germline variants in collagen type IV α-4 (COL4A4) gene lead to a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhu F,Li W,Li Z,Zhu H,Xiong J

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of microorganisms that pervade each and every part of this planet has encountered many challenges through time such as the discovery of unknown organisms and the understanding of how they interact with their environment. The aim of this review is to take the reader along the timeline and major milestones tha...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Escobar-Zepeda A,Vera-Ponce de León A,Sanchez-Flores A

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

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：: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：:Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a rare congenital erythroid aplasia with a highly heterogeneous genetic background; it usually occurs in infancy. Approximately 30-40% of patients have other associated congenital anomalies; in particular, facial anomalies, such as cleft palate, are part of about 10% of the DBA clinica...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Roberti D,Conforti R,Giugliano T,Brogna B,Tartaglione I,Casale M,Piluso G,Perrotta S

更新日期：2018-11-19 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：:Muscle weakness is a common consequence of both aging (sarcopenia) and neuromuscular disorders (NMD). Whilst genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified genetic variants associated with grip strength (GS; measure of muscle strength/weakness) and NMDs, including multiple sclerosis (MS), myasthenia gravis (MG)...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gokuladhas S,Schierding W,Cameron-Smith D,Wake M,Scotter EL,O'Sullivan J

更新日期：2020-04-24 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：:Most proteins are regulated by posttranslational modifications and changes in these modifications contribute to evolutionary changes as well as to human diseases. Phosphorylation of serines, threonines, and tyrosines are the most common modifications identified to date in eukaryotic proteomes. While the mode of action...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Landry CR,Freschi L,Zarin T,Moses AM

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapidly increasing number of reports on dysregulated long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) expression across numerous types of cancers indicates that aberrant lincRNA expression may be a major contributor to tumorigenesis. Marek's disease (MD) is a T cell lymphoma of chickens induced by Marek's disease virus (MDV...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： He Y,Han B,Ding Y,Zhang H,Chang S,Zhang L,Zhao C,Yang N,Song J

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs. Thus, understanding the effect of drug at the molecular level can be helpful in both drug discovery and personalized medicine. Over the years, transcriptome data upon drug treatment has been collected and several databases compiled before ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Oh M,Park S,Lee S,Lee D,Lim S,Jeong D,Jo K,Jung I,Kim S

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI) occurs in about 20% of women who carry a premutation allele (55-200 CGG repeats). These women develop hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and have secondary amenorrhea before age 40. A non-linear association with repeat size and risk for FXPOI has been seen in mult...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Allen EG,Glicksman A,Tortora N,Charen K,He W,Amin A,Hipp H,Shubeck L,Nolin SL,Sherman SL

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is an increasingly heterogeneous category of inherited muscle diseases, mainly affecting the muscles of shoulder areas and the hip, segregating in both autosomal recessive and dominant manner. To-date, thirty-one loci have been identified for LGMD including seven autos...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Younus M,Ahmad F,Malik E,Bilal M,Kausar M,Abbas S,Shaheen S,Kakar MU,Alfadhel M,Umair M

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the accuracy and bias of genomic prediction (GP) in purebred Holstein (H) and Jersey (J) as well as crossbred (H and J) validation cows using different reference sets and prediction strategies. The reference sets were made up of different combinations of 36,695 H and J purebreds and crossbreds. Add...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Khansefid M,Goddard ME,Haile-Mariam M,Konstantinov KV,Schrooten C,de Jong G,Jewell EG,O'Connor E,Pryce JE,Daetwyler HD,MacLeod IM

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A lot of studies indicated that aberrant expression of long non-coding RNA genes (lncRNAs) is closely related to human diseases. Identifying disease-related lncRNAs (disease lncRNAs) is critical for understanding the pathogenesis and etiology of diseases. Most of the previous methods focus on prioritizing the potentia...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xuan P,Cao Y,Zhang T,Kong R,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-05-03 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：:Adult adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) constitute a vital population of multipotent cells capable of differentiating into numerous end-organ phenotypes. However, scientific and translational endeavors to harness the regenerative potential of ASCs are currently limited by an incomplete understanding...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pepin ME,Infante T,Benincasa G,Schiano C,Miceli M,Ceccarelli S,Megiorni F,Anastasiadou E,Della Valle G,Fatone G,Faenza M,Docimo L,Nicoletti GF,Marchese C,Wende AR,Napoli C

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dwarfism (adw) in chickens is a growth deficiency caused by a recessive mutation. Characteristic for adw is an approximately 30% growth reduction with short shank. The adw variant was first recognized in the Cornell K-strain of White Leghorns, but the genetic causal variant remained unknown. To identify the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu Z,Derks MFL,Dibbits B,Megens HJ,Groenen MAM,Crooijmans RPMA

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a primary intraocular malignant tumor that occurs primarily in children, and results from loss-of-function mutations in the RB transcriptional corepressor 1 (RB1) gene. Genetic testing forms the basis of genetic counseling for affected families, as well as for clinical management of this disease...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lan X,Xu W,Tang X,Ye H,Song X,Lin L,Ren X,Yu G,Zhang H,Wu S

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the field of sequencing techniques have resulted in the greatly accelerated production of huge sequence datasets. This presents immediate challenges in database maintenance at datacenters. It provides additional computational challenges in data mining and sequence analysis. Together these represent a signi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Thakur RS,Bandopadhyay R,Chaudhary B,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A livestock population can be characterized by different population genetic parameters, such as linkage disequilibrium and recombination rate between pairs of genetic markers. The population structure, which may be caused by family stratification, has an influence on the estimates of these parameters. An expectation m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hampel A,Teuscher F,Gomez-Raya L,Doschoris M,Wittenburg D

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There are associations between DNA methylation and the expression of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), also known as lncRNA expression quantitative trait methylations (lnc-eQTMs). Lnc-eQTMs may induce a wide range of carcinogenesis pathways. However, lnc-eQTMs have not been globally identified and studied, and their roles...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu X,Gao Y,Bu J,Deng L,Zhang P,Chi M,Jiang L,Shi X,Ning S,Wang G

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report the first pediatric specific Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) using electronic medical records (EMRs). Given the early success of PheWAS in adult populations, we investigated the feasibility of this approach in pediatric cohorts in which associations between a previously known genetic variant...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Namjou B,Marsolo K,Caroll RJ,Denny JC,Ritchie MD,Verma SS,Lingren T,Porollo A,Cobb BL,Perry C,Kottyan LC,Rothenberg ME,Thompson SD,Holm IA,Kohane IS,Harley JB

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging brain undergoes a range of changes varying from subtle structural and physiological changes causing only minor functional decline under healthy normal aging conditions, to severe cognitive or neurological impairment associated with extensive loss of neurons and circuits due to age-associated neurodegenerativ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hermann PM,Watson SN,Wildering WC

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation and differentiation of preadipocyte are essential for the formation of fat tissues. However, the genes that regulate the early stage of preadipocyte differentiation in chicken have remained elusive. Here we identify a novel spliced variant of the DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a gene, named Dnmt3a3, that con...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Abdalla BA,Li Z,Nie Q

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in technology have made it convenient to obtain a large amount of single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. Since that clustering is a very important step in identifying or defining cellular phenotypes, many clustering approaches have been developed recently for these applications. The general methods can ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhu Y,Zhang DX,Zhang XF,Yi M,Ou-Yang L,Wu M

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:At the time of translation, nascent proteins are thought to be sorted into their final subcellular localization sites, based on the part of their amino acid sequences (i.e., sorting or targeting signals). Thus, it is interesting to computationally recognize these signals from the amino acid sequences of any given prot...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Imai K,Nakai K

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00