Multi-Phenotype Association Decomposition: Unraveling Complex Gene-Phenotype Relationships.

abstract：:Normalization of cDNA is widely used to improve the coverage of rare transcripts in analysis of transcriptomes employing next-generation sequencing. Recently, long-read technology has been emerging as a powerful tool for sequencing and construction of transcriptomes, especially for complex genomes containing highly si...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hoang NV,Furtado A,Perlo V,Botha FC,Henry RJ

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Galápagos Islands are known to have experienced significant drought during the Quaternary. The loss of mesophytic upland habitats has been suggested to underlie the relatively lower endemism of upland compared with lowland plant assemblages. A fossil pollen record spanning the last 26,000 years from an upland bog ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Collins AF,Bush MB,Sachs JP

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanotransduction is an essential mechanism of transforming external mechanical stimulus to biochemical response. In cardiomyocytes mechanotransduction plays an important role in contraction, stretch sensing and homeostasis regulation. One of the major mechanosensitive area in cardiomyocytes, the Z-disk, consists of...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Knyazeva A,Krutikov A,Golovkin A,Mishanin A,Pavlov G,Smolina N,Hushkina A,Sejersen T,Sjoberg G,Galagudza M,Kostareva A

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence is limited on whether allopolyploid species combine or merge parental adaptations to broaden habitats. The allopolyploid Arabidopsis kamchatica is a hybrid of the two diploid parents Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis lyrata. A. halleri is a facultative heavy metal hyperaccumulator, and may be foun...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Paape T,Akiyama R,Cereghetti T,Onda Y,Hirao AS,Kenta T,Shimizu KK

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of high-throughput sequencing data, identification of genetic causal variants accurately requires the efficient incorporation of function annotation data into the optimization routine. This motivates the need for development of novel methods for genome wide association studies with special focus ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sundar VS,Fan CC,Holland D,Dale AM

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the significant advancements in the treatment modalities, 30% of advanced stage ovarian cancer (OC) patients do not respond to the standard chemotherapeutic regimen and most of the responders finally relapse over time due to the escalation of multidrug resistance (MDR) Phenomenon. Our present study evaluat...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Haque A,Sait KHW,Alam Q,Alam MZ,Anfinan N,Wali AWN,Rasool M

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors behind genome size evolution have been of great interest, considering that eukaryotic genomes vary in size by more than three orders of magnitude. Using a model of two wild peanut relatives, Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, in which one genome experienced large rearrangements, we find that the main...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ren L,Huang W,Cannon EKS,Bertioli DJ,Cannon SB

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell secretion is an important physiological process that ensures smooth metabolic activities and tissue repair as well as growth and immunological functions in the body. Apocrine secretion occurs when the secretory process is accomplished with a partial loss of cell cytoplasm. The secretory materials are contained wi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ishikawa T,Toyoda Y,Yoshiura K,Niikawa N

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile-X syndrome is one of the most common forms of inherited mental retardation and autistic behaviors. The reduction/absence of the functional FMRP protein, coded by the X-linked Fmr1 gene in humans, is responsible for the syndrome. Patients exhibit a variety of symptoms predominantly linked to the function of FMR...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Specchia V,Puricella A,D'Attis S,Massari S,Giangrande A,Bozzetti MP

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

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：:Apomixis, an asexual mode of reproduction through seeds, has immense scope for crop improvement due to its ability to fix hybrid vigor. In C. ciliaris, a predominantly apomictically reproducing range grass, apomixis is genetically controlled by an apospory-specific-genomic-region (ASGR) which is enriched with retrotra...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Rathore P,Raina SN,Kumar S,Bhat V

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological pathology of deficit schizophrenia (DS) remains unclear. Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) might be associated with neural plasticity and glutamate regulation, involved in schizophrenia pathogenesis. This study explores gene expression and DNA methylation of MMP9 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gao J,Yi H,Tang X,Feng X,Yu M,Sha W,Wang X,Zhang X,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiome is known to have a profound effect on the development, physiology and health of its host. Whether and how it also contributes to evolutionary diversification of the host is, however, unclear. Here we hypothesize that disruption of the microbiome by new stressful environments interferes with host-microbe...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Soen Y

更新日期：2014-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that play key regulatory roles in cancer acting as both oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Due to their potential roles in improving cancer prognostic, predictive, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, they have become an area of intense research focus in recent yea...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Macharia LW,Wanjiru CM,Mureithi MW,Pereira CM,Ferrer VP,Moura-Neto V

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, cancer has been characterized as a heterogeneous disease composed of many different subtypes. Early diagnosis of cancer subtypes is an important study of cancer research, which can be of tremendous help to patients after treatment. In this paper, we first extract a novel dataset, which contains gene expressi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li S,Jiang L,Tang J,Gao N,Guo F

更新日期：2020-09-10 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：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is mostly caused by two distinct events that occur in the FMR1 gene (Xq27.3): an expansion above 200 repeats of a CGG triplet located in the 5'UTR of the gene, and methylation of the cytosines located in the CpG islands upstream of the CGG repeats. Here, we describe two unrelated families with...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fernández E,Gennaro E,Pirozzi F,Baldo C,Forzano F,Turolla L,Faravelli F,Gastaldo D,Coviello D,Grasso M,Bagni C

更新日期：2018-11-02 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：:The autotetraploid fish (4n = 200, RRRR) (abbreviated as 4nRR) resulted from the whole genome duplication of red crucian carp (Carassius auratus red var., 2n = 100, RR) (abbreviated as RCC). During investigation of the influence of polyploidization on organization and evolution of the multigene family of 5S rDNA, mole...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Qin Q,Liu Q,Wang C,Cao L,Zhou Y,Qin H,Zhao C,Liu S

更新日期：2019-05-15 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：:Background: Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a single-stranded RNA virus member that infects pigs and causes losses to the commercial industry reaching upward of a billion dollars annually in combined direct and indirect costs. The virus can be separated into etiologies that contain multi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fleming DS,Miller LC

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Beef tenderness, a complex trait affected by many factors, is economically important to beef quality, industry, and consumer's palatability. In this study, RNA-Seq was used in network analysis to better understand the biological processes that lead to differences in beef tenderness. Skeletal muscle transcriptional pro...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gonçalves TM,de Almeida Regitano LC,Koltes JE,Cesar ASM,da Silva Andrade SC,Mourão GB,Gasparin G,Moreira GCM,Fritz-Waters E,Reecy JM,Coutinho LL

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell viability and gene expression profiles are altered in cellular models of neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's Disease (HD). Using the yeast model system, we show that the SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase (STUbL) Slx5 reduces the toxicity and abnormal transcriptional activity associated with a mutant, ag...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ohkuni K,Pasupala N,Peek J,Holloway GL,Sclar GD,Levy-Myers R,Baker RE,Basrai MA,Kerscher O

更新日期：2018-09-18 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：: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：: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：:In animals, interactions among gene products of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes (mitonuclear interactions) are of profound fitness, evolutionary, and ecological significance. Most fundamentally, the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) complexes responsible for cellular bioenergetics are formed by the direct interacti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sunnucks P,Morales HE,Lamb AM,Pavlova A,Greening C

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoiesis results in the correct formation of all the different blood cell types. In mammals, it starts from specific hematopoietic stem and precursor cells residing in the bone marrow. Mature blood cells are responsible for supplying oxygen to every cell of the organism and for the protection against pathogens. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Rissone A,Burgess SM

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have been conducted to explore the influence of the catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype on the severity of and treatment efficacy on auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) symptoms in healthy individuals with AVHs (Hi-AVHs). We hypothesized that the efficacy of dopamine antagonist treatment on AVHs i...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhuo C,Xu Y,Zhang L,Jing R,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite ncRNAs are emerging as key players in cell and cancer pathways. Cancer-linked satellite DNA hypomethylation seems to be responsible for the overexpression of satellite non-coding DNAs in several tumors. FA-SAT is the major satellite DNA of Felis catus and recently, its presence and transcription was describe...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ferreira D,Escudeiro A,Adega F,Chaves R

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00