De novo Assembly and Characterization of the Floral Transcriptomes of Two Varieties of Melastoma malabathricum.

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the most commonly isolated species from human skin and the second leading cause of bloodstream infections. Here, we performed a large-scale comparative study without any pre-assigned reference to identify genomic determinants associated with the diversity and adaptation of S. epide...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Su F,Tian R,Yang Y,Li H,Sun G,Li Y,Han B,Xu X,Chen X,Zhao G,Cui H,Xu H

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular epidemiological studies have identified several risk factors linking to the genes and external factors in the pathogenesis of breast cancer. In this sense, genetic instability caused by DNA damage and DNA repair inefficiencies are important molecular events for the diagnosis and prognosis of therapies. There...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Paz MFCJ,de Alencar MVOB,Gomes Junior AL,da Conceição Machado K,Islam MT,Ali ES,Shill MC,Ahmed MI,Uddin SJ,da Mata AMOF,de Carvalho RM,da Conceição Machado K,Sobral ALP,da Silva FCC,de Castro E Souza JM,Arcanjo DDR,Ferrei

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide despite the availability of diverse treatment strategies. Much research progress has been made regarding immunotherapy but the effects remain unsatisfactory, highlighting the urgent need for novel immune-related therapy target...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Rao J,Wu X,Zhou X,Deng R,Ma Y

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A balanced pericentric inversion is normally without any clinical consequences for its carrier. However, there is a well-known risk of such inversions to lead to unbalanced offspring. Inversion-loop formation is the mechanism which may lead to duplication or deletion of the entire or parts of the inverted segment in t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liehr T,Weise A,Mrasek K,Ziegler M,Padutsch N,Wilhelm K,Al-Rikabi A

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition is the most important environmental factor that can influence early developmental processes through regulation of epigenetic mechanisms during pregnancy and neonatal periods. Maternal diets or nutritional compositions contribute to the establishment of the epigenetic profiles in the fetus that have a profoun...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li Y

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Using a novel candidate SNP approach, we aimed to identify a possible genetic basis for the higher glioma incidence in Whites relative to East Asians and African-Americans. METHODS:  We hypothesized that genetic regions containing SNPs with extreme differences in allele frequencies across ethnicities are mo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Jacobs DI,Walsh KM,Wrensch M,Wiencke J,Jenkins R,Houlston RS,Bondy M,Simon M,Sanson M,Gousias K,Schramm J,Labussière M,Di Stefano AL,Wichmann HE,Müller-Nurasyid M,Schreiber S,Franke A,Moebus S,Eisele L,Dewan AT,Du

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Indy encodes the fly homolog of a mammalian transporter of di and tricarboxylate components of the Krebs cycle. Reduced expression of fly Indy or two of the C. elegans Indy homologs leads to an increase in life span. Fly and worm tissues that play key roles in intermediary metabolism are also the places where Indy gen...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Frankel S,Rogina B

更新日期：2012-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus represents a group of complex metabolic diseases that result in impaired glucose homeostasis, which includes destruction of β-cells or the failure of these insulin-secreting cells to compensate for increased metabolic demand. Despite a strong interest in characterizing the transcriptome of the differ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kameswaran V,Kaestner KH

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 102 in vol. 6, PMID: 25852744.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Brito S,Thompson K,Campistol J,Colomer J,Hardy SA,He L,Fernández-Marmiesse A,Palacios L,Jou C,Jiménez-Mallebrera C,Armstrong J,Montero R,Artuch R,Tischner C,Wenz T,McFarland R,Taylor RW

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary function of leaves is to provide an interface between plants and their environment for gas exchange, light exposure and thermoregulation. Leaves have, therefore a central contribution to plant fitness by allowing an efficient absorption of sunlight energy through photosynthesis to ensure an optimal growth....

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fritz MA,Rosa S,Sicard A

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Through linkage and candidate gene screening, many breast cancer (BC) predisposition genes have been identified in the past 20 years. However, the majority of genetic risks that contribute to familial BC remains undetermined. In this study, we revisited whole exome sequencing datasets from non-BRCA1/2 familial BC pati...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yin J,Wu K,Ma Q,Dong H,Zhu Y,Hu L,Kong X

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed that the RNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification plays a critical role in a variety of biological processes and associated with multiple diseases including cancers. Till this day, transcriptome-wide m6A RNA methylation sites have been identified by high-throughput sequencing technique co...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tang Y,Chen K,Wu X,Wei Z,Zhang SY,Song B,Zhang SW,Huang Y,Meng J

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has become a global public health emergency. G-quadruplex, one of the non-canonical secondary structures, has shown potential antiviral values. However, little is known about the G-quadruplexes of th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang R,Xiao K,Gu Y,Liu H,Sun X

更新日期：2020-11-27 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：: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：: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：:Lin28 is a developmentally regulated RNA-binding protein that plays important roles in diverse physiological and pathological processes including oncogenesis and brain synaptic function. These pleiotropic roles of Lin28 are mechanistically linked both to its ability to directly stimulate translation of genes involved ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kallen AN,Ma J,Huang Y

更新日期：2012-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic protein kinases are well conserved through evolution. The genome of Schistosoma mansoni, which causes intestinal schistosomiasis, encodes over 250 putative protein kinases with all of the main eukaryotic groups represented. However, unraveling functional roles for these kinases is a considerable endeavor, p...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Walker AJ,Ressurreição M,Rothermel R

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibians are important vertebrates in toxicology often representing both aquatic and terrestrial forms within the life history of the same species. Of the thousands of species, only two have substantial genomics resources: the recently published genome of the Pipid, Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis, and transcript info...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Helbing CC

更新日期：2012-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Schizophrenia is thought to be a neurodevelopmental disorder. As a key regulator in the development of the central nervous system, transcription factor 4 (TCF4) has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The aim of our study was to assay the association of TCF4 single nucleotide pol...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yin J,Zhu D,Li Y,Lv D,Yu H,Liang C,Luo X,Xu X,Fu J,Yan H,Dai Z,Zhou X,Wen X,Xiong S,Lin Z,Lin J,Zhao B,Wang Y,Li K,Ma G

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work shows strong evidence of ancestry-based assortative mating in spouse pairs of the older generation of the Framingham Heart Study. Here, we extend this analysis to two studies of human longevity: the Long Life Family Study (LLFS), and the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). In the LLFS, we identified 890 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sebastiani P,Gurinovich A,Bae H,Andersen SL,Perls TT

更新日期：2017-11-21 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：:A biochemical activity, that is, enzymatic reaction or molecular interaction, frequently involves a molecule, for example, an enzyme, capable of interacting with numerous substrates or partners. Specificity is a fundamental property of biochemical activities, and relative specificity refers to the situation whereby a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zeng Y

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemicals, toxicants, and environmental stressors mediate their biologic effect through specific modes of action (MOAs). These encompass key molecular events that lead to changes in the expression of genes within regulatory pathways. Elucidating shared biologic processes and overlapping gene networks will help to bett...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Funderburk KM,Auerbach SS,Bushel PR

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina (Pt), is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat, affecting production in nearly all wheat-growing regions worldwide. Despite its economic importance, genomic resources for Pt are very limited. In the present study, we have used long-read sequencing (LRS) and the pipeline ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu JQ,Dong C,Song L,Park RF

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Extensive literature put forward the link between sleep and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), however, little is known about the underlying causality of the associations. Here we aim to assess the causal relationships between five major sleep-related traits and T2DM. Design Setting and Participants:Two-sample...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gao X,Sun H,Zhang Y,Liu L,Wang J,Wang T

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, the role of non-coding regulatory elements and their involvement in human disease have received great attention. Among the non-coding regulatory sequences, enhancers are particularly important for the proper establishment of cell type-specific gene-expression programs. Furthermore, the disruptio...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sánchez-Gaya V,Mariner-Faulí M,Rada-Iglesias A

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The southern muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides) is the largest neotropical primate. This species is endemic to Brazil and is currently critically endangered due to its habitat destruction. The genetic basis underlying adaptive traits of New World monkeys has been a subject of interest to several investigators, with sig...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Moreira DA,Lamarca AP,Soares RF,Coelho AMA,Furtado C,Scherer NM,Moreira MAM,Seuánez HN,Boroni M

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia, specifically acute myeloid leukemia (AML), is a common malignancy that can be differentiated into multiple subtypes based on leukemogenic history and etiology. Although genetic aberrations, particularly cytogenetic abnormalities and mutations in known oncogenes, play an integral role in AML development, epig...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Goldman SL,Hassan C,Khunte M,Soldatenko A,Jong Y,Afshinnekoo E,Mason CE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification of DNA sequences is an important issue in the bioinformatics study, yet most existing methods for phylogenetic analysis including Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) are time-consuming and computationally expensive. The alignment-free methods are popular nowadays, whereas the manual intervention in those ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Dong R,He L,He RL,Yau SS

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00