Towards the Complete Goat Pan-Genome by Recovering Missing Genomic Segments From the Reference Genome.

abstract：:The Xichuan black-bone chicken, which is a rare local chicken species in China, is an important genetic resource of black-bone chickens. Tyrosine can affect melanin production, but the molecular mechanism underlying tyrosine-induced melanin deposition in Xichuan black-bone chickens is poorly understood. Here, the blac...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li D,Wang X,Fu Y,Zhang C,Cao Y,Wang J,Zhang Y,Li Y,Chen Y,Li Z,Li W,Jiang R,Sun G,Tian Y,Li G,Kang X

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype imputation is a powerful tool for increasing statistical power in an association analysis. Meta-analysis of multiple study datasets also requires a substantial overlap of SNPs for a successful association analysis, which can be achieved by imputation. Quality of imputed datasets is largely dependent on the so...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Schurz H,Müller SJ,van Helden PD,Tromp G,Hoal EG,Kinnear CJ,Möller M

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidences have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a significant role relating to many important bioprocesses; their mutations and disorders will cause the occurrence of various complex diseases. The prediction of miRNAs associated with underlying diseases via computational approaches is beneficial to ident...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Chen M,Cheng X,Wei H

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmercury (MeHg) is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant and neurotoxicant that has long been known to cause a variety of motor deficits. These motor deficits have primarily been attributed to MeHg targeting of developing neurons and induction of oxidative stress and calcium dysregulation. Few studies have looke...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Prince LM,Rand MD

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to extract novel phenotypes related to disease resilience using daily feed intake data from growing pigs under a multifactorial natural disease challenge that was designed to mimic a commercial environment with high disease pressure to maximize expression of resilience. Data used were t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Putz AM,Harding JCS,Dyck MK,Fortin F,Plastow GS,Dekkers JCM,PigGen Canada.

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of the transition to flowering is carefully controlled by plants in order to optimize sexual reproduction and the ensuing production of seeds, grains, and fruits. The genetic networks that regulate floral induction are best characterized in the temperate eudicot Arabidopsis in which the florigen gene FT pla...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Jaudal M,Zhang L,Che C,Putterill J

更新日期：2015-02-19 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：:Environmental exposures vary by timing, severity, and frequency and may have a number of deleterious effects throughout the life course. The period of in utero development, for example, is one of the most crucial stages of development during which adverse environmental exposures can both alter the growth and developme...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Maccani MA,Knopik VS

更新日期：2012-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative and progressive disease, which often causes irreversible damages to the cerebrum. The pathogenesis of AD is far from being fully understood, while there are some popular hypotheses. So far, the diagnosis of AD relies only on clinical screening in the form of imaging tech...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang L,Liu ZP

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological developments and intense research over the last years have led to a better understanding of the 3D structure of the genome and its influence on genome function inside the cell nucleus. We will summarize topological studies performed on four model gene loci: the α- and β-globin gene loci, the antigen rece...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Holwerda S,de Laat W

更新日期：2012-10-17 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：:Software which simulates, infers, or analyzes ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) faces the problem of communicating them. Existing formats omit information either about the location of recombinations along the chromosome or the position of recombinations relative to the branching topology. We present a specializati...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： McGill JR,Walkup EA,Kuhner MK

更新日期：2013-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1994, it was suggested that AGG interruptions affect the stability of the fragile X triplet repeat. Until recently, however, this hypothesis was not explored on a large scale due primarily to the technical difficulty of determining AGG interruption patterns of the two alleles in females. The recent development of a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Latham GJ,Coppinger J,Hadd AG,Nolin SL

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advances over the past decade have unraveled the remarkable complexity of RNA. The identification of small peptides encoded by long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as well as regulatory functions mediated by non-coding regions of mRNAs have further complicated our understanding of the multifaceted functions of...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li J,Liu C

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase H1 is able to recognize DNA/RNA heteroduplexes and to degrade their RNA component. As a consequence, it has been implicated in different aspects of mtDNA replication such as primer formation, primer removal, and replication termination, and significant differences have been reported between control and mutant RN...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Reyes A,Rusecka J,Tońska K,Zeviani M

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) is the most representative wild ungulate of the high Andes of South America with two recognized morphological subspecies, V. v. mensalis in the north and V. v. vicugna in the south of its distribution. Current vicuña population size (460,000-520,000 animals) is the result of population rec...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： González BA,Vásquez JP,Gómez-Uchida D,Cortés J,Rivera R,Aravena N,Chero AM,Agapito AM,Varas V,Wheleer JC,Orozco-terWengel P,Marín JC

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data is a valuable tool to understand transcription at the genome scale. Targeted sequencing of RNA has emerged as a practical means of assessing the majority of the transcriptomic space with less reliance on large resources for consumables and bioinformatics. TempO-Seq is a t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bushel PR,Ferguson SS,Ramaiahgari SC,Paules RS,Auerbach SS

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis and its comorbidities are the major contributors to the global burden of death worldwide. Lower extremities arterial disease (LEAD) is a common manifestation of atherosclerotic disease of arteries of lower extremities. MicroRNAs belong to epigenetic factors that regulate gene expression and have not ye...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bogucka-Kocka A,Zalewski DP,Ruszel KP,Stępniewski A,Gałkowski D,Bogucki J,Komsta Ł,Kołodziej P,Zubilewicz T,Feldo M,Kocki J

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the complex nature of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the recently estimated contribution of low-frequency variants into disease, decoding its genetic risk components requires novel variant prioritization strategies. We selected, by reviewing MS Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS), 107 candidate loci marked...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ziliotto N,Marchetti G,Scapoli C,Bovolenta M,Meneghetti S,Benazzo A,Lunghi B,Balestra D,Laino LA,Bozzini N,Guidi I,Salvi F,Straudi S,Gemmati D,Menegatti E,Zamboni P,Bernardi F

更新日期：2019-06-26 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：:Replicative senescence of cells in vitro is often considered as counterpart for aging of the organism in vivo. In fact, both processes are associated with functional decay and similar molecular modifications. On epigenetic level, replicative senescence and aging evoke characteristic modifications in the DNA methylatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wagner W

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Shotgun metagenomics has greatly advanced our understanding of microbial communities over the last decade. Metagenomic analyses often include assembly and genome binning, computationally daunting tasks especially for big data from complex environments such as soil and sediments. In many studies, however, only a subset...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guo J,Quensen JF,Sun Y,Wang Q,Brown CT,Cole JR,Tiedje JM

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) within the coding regions of genes causing amino acid substitutions (AASs) may have a large impact on protein function. The possibilities to identify nsSNPs across genomes have increased notably with the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li X,Kierczak M,Shen X,Ahsan M,Carlborg O,Marklund S

更新日期：2013-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline variants of PIP4K2A impact susceptibility of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) through inducing its overexpression. Although limited reports suggested the oncogenic role of PIP4K2A in cancers, regulatory network and prognostic effect of this gene remains poorly understood in tumorigenesis and leukemogenesis....

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang S,Li Z,Yan X,Bao L,Deng Y,Zeng F,Wang P,Zhu J,Yin D,Liao F,Zhou X,Zhang D,Xia X,Wang H,Yang X,Zhang W,Gao H,Zhang W,Yang L,Hou Q,Xu H,Zhang Y,Shu Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a rare inherited bone dysplasia, which is mainly caused by mutations in genes encoding type I collagen including COL1A1 and COL1A2. It has been well established to identify the classical variants as well as consensus splicing-site-variants in these genes in our previous studies. However...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li L,Cao Y,Zhao F,Mao B,Ren X,Wang Y,Guan Y,You Y,Li S,Yang T,Zhao X

更新日期：2019-10-18 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：:Transcriptomics technologies such as next-generation sequencing and microarray platforms provide exciting opportunities for improving diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. Transcriptomics studies often share similar hypotheses, but are carried out on different platforms, in different conditions, and with differ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu C,Huang BE,Chen G,Lovenberg TW,Pocalyko DJ,Yao X

更新日期：2019-04-30 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：:Disease relationship studies for understanding the pathogenesis of complex diseases, diagnosis, prognosis, and drug development are important. Traditional approaches consider one type of disease data or aggregating multiple types of disease data into a single network, which results in important temporal- or context-re...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yu L,Yao S,Gao L,Zha Y

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The aim of this study was to explore the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) genotype composition and intra-genotype variants within individual samples of low- and high-grade cervical cytology by deep sequencing. Clinical, cytological, sequencing, and functional/structural data were forged into an integrated varian...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shen-Gunther J,Cai H,Zhang H,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00