MTGO-SC, A Tool to Explore Gene Modules in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data.

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：:I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered first. Some of the shortcomings of popular approaches-uncorrelated clock models in particular-are presented and discussed. Autocorrelated mo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guindon S

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Searching for the Multiple Longest Common Subsequences (MLCS) of multiple sequences is a classical NP-hard problem, which has been used in many applications. One of the most effective exact approaches for the MLCS problem is based on dominant point graph, which is a kind of directed acyclic graph (DAG). However, the t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Peng Z,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a paradigm shift from the traditional focus on the "average" individual towards the definition and analysis of trait variation within individual life-history and among individuals in populations. This is a result of increasing availability of individual phenotypic data. The shift allows the use of genetic and...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Filipe JAN,Kyriazakis I

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is one of the most common histological subtypes of renal cancer, with a poor prognosis. Our study aimed to identify a biomarker that is significantly associated with ccRCC prognosis and novel immunotherapeutic targets, as well as some novel molecular drugs for ccRCC. Based on th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xiao GF,Yan X,Chen Z,Zhang RJ,Liu TZ,Hu WL

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are abundant in most biological fluids and considered promising biomarker candidates, but the development of EV biomarker assays is hindered, in part, by their requirement for prior EV purification and the lack of standardized and reproducible EV isolation methods. We now describe a far-fi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Amrollahi P,Rodrigues M,Lyon CJ,Goel A,Han H,Hu TY

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant Starch (RS), plays a crucial role in human health and nutrition by controlling glucose metabolism. RS or dietary fibre content in rice is low because it goes through a variety of process before it is ready for cooking and consumption. Hence, this study was carried out to develop a rice mutant with increased ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gurunathan S,Ramadoss BR,Mudili V,Siddaiah C,Kalagatur NK,Bapu JRK,Mohan CD,Alqarawi AA,Hashem A,Abd Allah EF

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Milroy disease (MD) is rare and autosomal dominant resulting from mutations of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3 or FLT4), which leads to dysgenesis of the lymphatic system. Methods: Here we report a Chinese MD family with 2 affected members of two generations. We identified the mu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang S,Chen X,Yuan L,Wang S,Moli D,Liu S,Wu Y

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:History of East-Central Europe has been intertwined with the history of Turks in the past. A significant part of this region of Europe has been fallen under Ottoman control during the 150 years of Ottoman occupation in the 16-17th centuries. The presence of the Ottoman Empire affected this area not only culturally but...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bánfai Z,Melegh BI,Sümegi K,Hadzsiev K,Miseta A,Kásler M,Melegh B

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Taproot skin color is a crucial visual and nutritional quality trait of radish, and purple skin is most attractive to consumers. However, the genetic mechanism underlying this character is unknown. Herein, F2 segregating populations were constructed to investigate radish genomic regions with purple skin genes. Segrega...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu T,Wang J,Wu C,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Li X,Wang H,Song J,Li X

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models are invaluable for biomedical research, especially in the context of rare diseases, which have a very low prevalence and are often complex. Concretely mouse models provide key information on rare disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies that cannot be obtained by using only alternative methods, and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Murillo-Cuesta S,Artuch R,Asensio F,de la Villa P,Dierssen M,Enríquez JA,Fillat C,Fourcade S,Ibáñez B,Montoliu L,Oliver E,Pujol A,Salido E,Vallejo M,Varela-Nieto I

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Across species and tissues and especially in the mammalian brain, production of gene isoforms is widespread. While gene expression coordination has been previously described as a scale-free coexpression network, the properties of transcriptome-wide isoform production coordination have been less studied. Here we evalua...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Iancu OD,Colville A,Oberbeck D,Darakjian P,McWeeney SK,Hitzemann R

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Filet quality traits determine consumer satisfaction and affect profitability of the aquaculture industry. Soft flesh is a criterion for fish filet downgrades, resulting in loss of value. Filet firmness is influenced by many factors, including rate of protein turnover. A 50K transcribed gene SNP chip was used to genot...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ali A,Al-Tobasei R,Lourenco D,Leeds T,Kenney B,Salem M

更新日期：2019-05-03 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

abstract：Background/Aims:Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a tumor derived from malignant mesenchymal tissue associated with poor prognosis. Determining potential prognostic markers for LMS can provide clues for early diagnosis, recurrence, and treatment. Methods:RNA sequence data and clinical features of 103 LMS were obtained from the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yang J,Li C,Zhou J,Liu X,Wang S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) is a highly heterogeneous disease involving more than 70 pathogenic genes. However, most ARNSHL families have small-sized pedigrees with limited genetic information, rendering challenges for the molecular diagnosis of these patients. Therefore, we attempted to es...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sang S,Ling J,Liu X,Mei L,Cai X,Li T,Li W,Li M,Wen J,Liu X,Liu J,Liu Y,Chen H,He C,Feng Y

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale tumor genome sequencing projects have revealed a complex landscape of genomic mutations in multiple cancer types. A major goal of these projects is to characterize somatic mutations and discover cancer drivers, thereby providing important clues to uncover diagnostic or therapeutic targets for clinical trea...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Chen L,Miao Y,Liu M,Zeng Y,Gao Z,Peng D,Hu B,Li X,Zheng Y,Xue Y,Zuo Z,Xie Y,Ren J

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Breeding livestock that are better able to withstand the onslaught of endemic- and exotic pathogens is high on the wish list of breeders and farmers world-wide. However, the defense systems in both pathogens and their hosts are complex and the degree of genetic variation in resistance and tolerance will depend on the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Glass EJ

更新日期：2012-12-14 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：:Background: There is a continued debate and inconsistent findings in previous literature about the relationship of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and Parkinson's disease (PD) susceptibility as well as cognitive dysfunction. To substantiate this existing gap, we comprehensively examine COMT genotype effects on the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tang C,Wang W,Shi M,Zhang N,Zhou X,Li X,Ma C,Chen G,Xiang J,Gao D

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and cognitive traits have a genetic component even though contributions from individual genes and genomic loci are in many cases modest. Changes in the environment can alter genotype-phenotype relationships. Space travel, which includes exposure to ionizing radiation, constitutes environmental challenges an...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Iancu OD,Boutros SW,Olsen RHJ,Davis MJ,Stewart B,Eiwaz M,Marzulla T,Belknap J,Fallgren CM,Edmondson EF,Weil MM,Raber J

更新日期：2018-10-09 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：:The aging of the population represents one of the largest healthcare challenges facing the world today. The available scientific evidence shows that interventions are available now that can target fundamental "aging" processes or pathways. Sufficient economic evidence is available to argue convincingly that this appro...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Faragher RG

更新日期：2015-07-14 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：:In this study, we examined whether smoking and drinking affect sperm quality and the DNA methylation of the repetitive element LINE-1, MEST, P16, H19, and GNAS in sperm. Semen samples were obtained from 143 male residents in a minority-inhabited district of Guizhou province in southwest China. Quantitative DNA methyla...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang W,Li M,Sun F,Xu X,Zhang Z,Liu J,Sun X,Zhang A,Shen Y,Xu J,Miao M,Wu B,Yuan Y,Huang X,Shi H,Du J

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable volume of research over the last decade has focused on understanding the fundamental mechanisms for the progression of atherosclerosis-the underlying cause for the vast majority of all cardiovascular (CVD)-related complications. Aging is the dominant risk factor for clinically significant atheroscleroti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Head T,Daunert S,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Recent evidence has indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can function as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) to modulate mRNAs expression by sponging microRNAs (miRNAs). However, the specific mechanism and function of lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulatory network in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang M,Zheng S,Li X,Ding Y,Zhang M,Lin L,Xu H,Cheng Y,Zhang X,Xu H,Li S

更新日期：2020-09-18 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：:Selection for improved host response to infectious disease offers a desirable alternative to chemical treatment but has proven difficult in practice, due to low heritability estimates of disease traits. Disease data from field studies is often binary, indicating whether an individual has become infected or not followi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lipschutz-Powell D,Woolliams JA,Bijma P,Pong-Wong R,Bermingham ML,Doeschl-Wilson AB

更新日期：2012-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Recessive genetic diseases impose physical and psychological impacts to both newborns and parents who may not be aware of being carriers. Expanded carrier screening (ECS) allows screening for multiple genetic conditions at the same time. Whether or not such non-targeted panethnic approach of genetic carrier s...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Cheng HYH,Wong GCY,Chan YK,Lee CP,Tang MHY,Ng EH,Kan AS

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00