Prioritizing Cancer Genes Based on an Improved Random Walk Method.

abstract：:We report on three new patients with spondyloocular syndrome (SOS) in a consanguineous Pakistani family. All three patients present progressive generalized osteoporosis, short stature, recurrent fractures, hearing loss and visual impairments. WES revealed a novel homozygous frameshift variant in exon 11 of XYLT2 (NG 0...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kausar M,Chew EGY,Ullah H,Anees M,Khor CC,Foo JN,Makitie O,Siddiqi S

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome with poor survival. The current recommendations have proposed uniform surveillance strategies for all patients, neglecting the obvious phenotypic varieties. In this study, we aim to confirm the phenotypic heterogeneity in VHL disease and the underlying me...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang J,Peng X,Chen C,Ning X,Peng S,Li T,Liu S,Hong B,Zhou J,Ma K,Cai L,Gong K

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in genomes is a crucial task for not only molecular cell biology but also bioinformatics. Secondary structures of ncRNAs are employed as a key feature of ncRNA analysis since biological functions of ncRNAs are deeply related to their secondary structures. Although the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Okada Y,Saito Y,Sato K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2011-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Postpartum depression (PPD) affects up to 19% of women, negatively impacting maternal and infant health. Reductions in plasma oxytocin levels have been associated with PPD and heritability studies have established a genetic contribution. Epigenetic regulation of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been demonstrated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bell AF,Carter CS,Steer CD,Golding J,Davis JM,Steffen AD,Rubin LH,Lillard TS,Gregory SP,Harris JC,Connelly JJ

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndrome 13 (MTDPS13) is a rare genetic disorder caused by defects in F-box leucine-rich repeat protein 4 (FBXL4). Although FBXL4 is essential for the bioenergetic homeostasis of the cell, the precise role of the protein remains unknown. In this study, we report t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Emperador S,Garrido-Pérez N,Amezcua-Gil J,Gaudó P,Andrés-Sanz JA,Yubero D,Fernández-Marmiesse A,O'Callaghan MM,Ortigoza-Escobar JD,Iriondo M,Ruiz-Pesini E,García-Cazorla A,Gil-Campos M,Artuch R,Montoya J,Bayona-Bafaluy MP

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease for which it is difficult to find exact disease-related genes. Effectively identifying disease-related genes would contribute to improving the treatment and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Current methods for identifying disease-related genes mainly focus on the hypoth...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu H,Guan J,Li H,Bao Z,Wang Q,Luo X,Xue H

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human malnutrition due to micronutrient deficiencies, particularly with regards to Zinc (Zn) and Selenium (Se), affects millions of people around the world, and the enrichment of staple foods through biofortification has been successfully used to fight hidden hunger. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the staple foods m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Roda FA,Marques I,Batista-Santos P,Esquível MG,Ndayiragije A,Lidon FC,Swamy BPM,Ramalho JC,Ribeiro-Barros AI

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder with a lifetime morbidity rate of 0.5-1.0%. The pathophysiology of schizophrenia still remains obscure. Accumulating evidence indicates that DNA methylation, which is the addition of a methyl group to the cytosine in a CpG dinucleotide, might play an important ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Numata S,Ye T,Herman M,Lipska BK

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, neural networks have become one of the cutting-edge methods in various research fields, outshining specifically in complex classification problems. In this paper, we propose two main contributions: first, we conduct a methodological study of neural network modeling for classifying biological trai...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wilentzik Müller R,Gat-Viks I

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The New England Centenarian Study (NECS) was founded in 1994 as a longitudinal study of centenarians to determine if centenarians could be a model of healthy human aging. Over time, the NECS along with other centenarian studies have demonstrated that the majority of centenarians markedly delay high mortality risk-asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sebastiani P,Perls TT

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a consanguineous family was identified in Israel with three children affected by Infantile Nystagmus and Foveal Hypoplasia, following an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. A homozygous stop mutation c.1861C > T; p.Q621∗ in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) gene (AHR; MIM 600253) was identified that c...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Borovok N,Weiss C,Sharkia R,Reichenstein M,Wissinger B,Azem A,Mahajnah M

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The sustainable development of aquaculture has been impeded by infectious diseases worldwide. However, the genomic architecture and the genetic basis underlying the disease resistance remain poorly understood, which severely hampers both the understanding of the evolution of fish disease resistance traits and the prev...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhou Q,Su Z,Li Y,Liu Y,Wang L,Lu S,Wang S,Gan T,Liu F,Zhou X,Wei M,Liu G,Chen S

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of eusociality ("true sociality") in several insect lineages represents one of the most successful evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom in terms of species richness and global biomass. In contrast to solitary insects, eusocial insects evolved a set of unique behavioral and physiological traits ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Søvik E,Bloch G,Ben-Shahar Y

更新日期：2015-05-27 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：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts which are usually more than 200 nt in length, and which do not have the protein-coding capacity. LncRNAs can be categorized based on their generation from distinct DNA elements, or derived from specific RNA processing pathways. During the past several decades, dramatic pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li L,Zhuang Y,Zhao X,Li X

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:SOX2 overlapping transcript (SOX2-OT) produces alternatively spliced long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA). Previous studies of the prognostic role of SOX2-OT expression met with conflicting results. The aim of this study was to properly consider the prognostic role of SOX2-OT expression in several cancers. In addit...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li Y,Du M,Wang S,Zha J,Lei P,Wang X,Wu D,Zhang J,Chen D,Huang D,Lu J,Li H,Sun M

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a rare genetic disorder, is mostly caused by defects in more than 40 known cilia structure-related genes. However, in approximately 20-35% of patients, it is caused by unknown genetic factors, and the inherited pathogenic factors are difficult to confirm. Kartagener syndrome (KTS) is ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yue Y,Huang Q,Zhu P,Zhao P,Tan X,Liu S,Li S,Han X,Cheng L,Li B,Fu Y

更新日期：2019-08-22 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：:Imprinted loci play a critical role in fetal development. Their expression is often regulated by CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) protein binding at imprinting control regions (ICRs). Prenatal alcohol exposure has been shown to reduce global DNA methylation in the developing mouse fetus. This study explored the effect of p...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Knezovich JG,Ramsay M

更新日期：2012-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare human autosomal recessive premature aging disorder characterized by early onset of aging-associated diseases, chromosomal instability, and cancer predisposition. The function of the DNA helicase encoded by WRN, the gene responsible for WS, has been studied extensively. WRN helicase is in...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shimamoto A,Yokote K,Tahara H

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The switch to a modern lifestyle in recent decades has coincided with a rapid increase in prevalence of obesity and other diseases. These shifts in prevalence could be explained by the release of genetic susceptibility for disease in the form of gene-by-environment (GxE) interactions. Yet, the detection of interaction...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Marigorta UM,Gibson G

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Galway sheep population is the only native Irish sheep breed and this livestock genetic resource is currently categorised as 'at-risk'. In the present study, comparative population genomics analyses of Galway sheep and other sheep populations of European origin were used to investigate the microevolution and recen...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： McHugo GP,Browett S,Randhawa IAS,Howard DJ,Mullen MP,Richardson IW,Park SDE,Magee DA,Scraggs E,Dover MJ,Correia CN,Hanrahan JP,MacHugh DE

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide and is derived from an accumulation of genetic and epigenetic changes. This study explored potential prognostic markers in CRC via the construction and in-depth analysis of a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network, which was gene...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guo L,Yang G,Kang Y,Li S,Duan R,Shen L,Jiang W,Qian B,Yin Z,Liang T

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is generally incurable due to the late diagnosis and absence of markers that are concordant with expression in several sample sources (i.e., tissue, blood, plasma) and platforms (i.e., Microarray, sequencing). We optimized meta-analysis of 19 PDAC (tissue and blood) transcriptom...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Khatri I,Bhasin MK

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cyanobacterial species are dominant primary producers in hot spring microbial mats. To date, hot spring cyanobacterial taxonomy, as well as the evolution of their genomic adaptations to high temperatures, are poorly understood, with genomic information currently available for only a few dominant genera, includ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Alcorta J,Alarcón-Schumacher T,Salgado O,Díez B

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, a gram-negative bacterium that causes cholera, has already caused seven major pandemics across the world and infects roughly 1.3-4 million people every year. Cholera treatment primarily involves oral rehydration therapy supplemented with antibiotics. But recently, multidrug-resistant strains of V. cho...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shankar U,Jain N,Majee P,Kodgire P,Sharma TK,Kumar A

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases (DOHaD) recognizes that an unfavorable maternal environment alters the developmental trajectory of the fetus and can lead to long-term risk of developing chronic noncommunicable diseases. More recently, the concept of a paternal transmission [Paternal Origins...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Dupont C,Kappeler L,Saget S,Grandjean V,Lévy R

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered tens of thousands of associations between common genetic variants and complex diseases. However, these statistical associations can rarely be interpreted functionally and mechanistically. As the majority of the disease-associated variants are l...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mariella E,Marotta F,Grassi E,Gilotto S,Provero P

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Single variant analysis in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been proven to be successful in identifying thousands of genetic variants associated with hundreds of complex diseases. However, these identified variants only explain a small fraction of inheritable variability in many diseases, suggesting that oth...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： He T,Zhong PS,Cui Y

更新日期：2014-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is one of the crucial mediators of varicocele-related male infertility. Recently, roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in oxidative stress have begun to emerge, however, little is known about their role in male infertility. The aim of this study was to determine the role of lncRNA SLC7A11-AS1 in var...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sanei-Ataabadi N,Mowla SJ,Nasr-Esfahani MH

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00