Novel Resilience Phenotypes Using Feed Intake Data From a Natural Disease Challenge Model in Wean-to-Finish Pigs.

abstract：:The termites evolved eusociality and complex societies before the ants, but have been studied much less. The recent publication of the first two termite genomes provides a unique comparative opportunity, particularly because the sequenced termites represent opposite ends of the social complexity spectrum. Zootermopsis...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Korb J,Poulsen M,Hu H,Li C,Boomsma JJ,Zhang G,Liebig J

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and aims: Obesity is a major health problem worldwide. Given the heterogeneous obesity phenotype, an optimal obesity stratification would improve clinical management. Since obesity has a strong genetic component, we aimed to develop a polygenic risk score (PRS) to stratify obesity according to the genetic b...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： de Toro-Martín J,Guénard F,Bouchard C,Tremblay A,Pérusse L,Vohl MC

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ZNF143, a human homolog of the transcriptional activator Staf, is a C2H2-type protein consisting of seven zinc finger domains. As a transcription factor (TF), ZNF143 is sequence specifically binding to chromatin and activates the expression of protein-coding and non-coding genes on a genome scale. Although it is ubiqu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ye B,Yang G,Li Y,Zhang C,Wang Q,Yu G

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the hotspot regions for sympatric speciation studies, Evolution Canyon (EC) became an ideal place for its high level of microclimatic divergence interslopes. In this study, to highlight the genetic mechanisms of sympatric speciation, phenotypic variation on flowering time and transcriptomic divergence were i...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Qian C,Yan X,Yin H,Fan X,Yin X,Sun P,Li Z,Nevo E,Ma XF

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In genome wide association studies (GWAS), family-based studies tend to have less power to detect genetic associations than population-based studies, such as case-control studies. This can be an issue when testing if genes in a family-based GWAS have a direct effect on the phenotype of interest over and above their po...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lutz SM,Vansteelandt S,Lange C

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the processes that cause speciation is a key aim of evolutionary biology. Lineages or biomes that exhibit recent and rapid diversification are ideal model systems for determining these processes. Species rich biomes reported to be of relatively recent origin, i.e., since the beginning of the Miocene, inc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Madriñán S,Cortés AJ,Richardson JE

更新日期：2013-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The comet assay is a simple and cost effective technique, commonly used to analyze and quantify DNA damage in individual cells. The versatility of the comet assay allows introduction of various modifications to the basic technique. The difference in the methylation sensitivity of the isoschizomeric restriction enzymes...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lewies A,Van Dyk E,Wentzel JF,Pretorius PJ

更新日期：2014-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivation:Arabidopsis thaliana is a well-established model system for the analysis of the basic physiological and metabolic pathways of plants. Nevertheless, the system is not yet fully understood, although many mechanisms are described, and information for many processes exists. However, the combination and interpre...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Koch I,Nöthen J,Schleiff E

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) is a rare heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases, with upper and lower limb spasticity motor neuron disintegration leading to paraplegias. NT5C2 gene (OMIM: 600417) encode a hydrolase enzyme 5'-nucleotidase, cytosolic II play an important role in maintaining the balance...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Naseer MI,Abdulkareem AA,Pushparaj PN,Bibi F,Chaudhary AG

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication disorders have complex genetic origins, with constellations of relevant gene markers that vary across individuals. Some genetic variants are present in healthy individuals as well as those affected by developmental disorders. Growing evidence suggests that some variants may increase susceptibility to the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Centanni TM,Green JR,Iuzzini-Seigel J,Bartlett CW,Hogan TP

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:While substantial progress has been made in finding genetic variants associated with nicotine dependence (ND), a large proportion of the genetic variants remain undiscovered. The current research focuses have shifted toward uncovering rare variants, gene-gene/gene-environment interactions, and structural variations pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang X,Lan T,Wang T,Xue W,Tong X,Ma T,Liu G,Lu Q

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate inference of causal gene regulatory networks from gene expression data is an open bioinformatics challenge. Gene interactions are dynamical processes and consequently we can expect that the effect of any regulation action occurs after a certain temporal lag. However such lag is unknown a priori and temporal a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lopes M,Bontempi G

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews research results and ideas presented at a special symposium at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) Congress held in July 2017 in San Francisco. Five researchers presented their results related to infection and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Prof. Itzhaki presented her wor...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fülöp T,Itzhaki RF,Balin BJ,Miklossy J,Barron AE

更新日期：2018-09-10 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：:The TempO-SeqTM platform allows for targeted transcriptomic analysis and is currently used by many groups to perform high-throughput gene expression analysis. Herein we performed a comparison of gene expression characteristics measured using 45 purified RNA samples from the livers of rats exposed to chemicals that fal...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bushel PR,Paules RS,Auerbach SS

更新日期：2018-10-30 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：:Multidrug resistant bacteria are a serious worldwide problem, especially carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli), Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Since the emergence of extensive and pan-drug resistant bacteria there are few antibiotics left to t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Parmeciano Di Noto G,Molina MC,Quiroga C

更新日期：2019-02-22 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：: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：: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：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is mainly reflected in the communication and language barriers, difficulties in social communication, and it is a kind of neurological developmental disorder. Most researches have used the machine learning method to classify patients and normal controls, among which support vector machin...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bi XA,Wang Y,Shu Q,Sun Q,Xu Q

更新日期：2018-02-06 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：:In 2017 the Swiss federal government established the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), a nationally coordinated data infrastructure for genetic research. The SPHN advisory group on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) was tasked with the creation of a recommendation to ensure ethically responsible re...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Blasimme A,Brall C,Vayena E

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous pathogens, such as phytopathogenic oomycetes and fungi, secrete a remarkable diversity of apoplastic effector proteins to facilitate infection, many of which are able to induce cell death in plants. Over the past decades, over 177 apoplastic cell death-inducing proteins (CDIPs) have been identified in fila...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li Y,Han Y,Qu M,Chen J,Chen X,Geng X,Wang Z,Chen S

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tools for genomic island prediction use strategies for genomic comparison analysis and sequence composition analysis. The goal of comparative analysis is to identify unique regions in the genomes of related organisms, whereas sequence composition analysis evaluates and relates the composition of specific regions with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： da Silva Filho AC,Raittz RT,Guizelini D,De Pierri CR,Augusto DW,Dos Santos-Weiss ICR,Marchaukoski JN

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain a detailed understanding of how plant microbes evolve and adapt to hosts, pesticides, and other factors, knowledge of the population dynamics and evolutionary history of populations is crucial. Plant pathogen populations are often clonal or partially clonal which requires different analytical tools. With the a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kamvar ZN,Brooks JC,Grünwald NJ

更新日期：2015-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock conservation practice is changing rapidly in light of policy developments, climate change and diversifying market demands. The last decade has seen a step change in technology and analytical approaches available to define, manage and conserve Farm Animal Genomic Resources (FAnGR). However, these rapid change...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bruford MW,Ginja C,Hoffmann I,Joost S,Orozco-terWengel P,Alberto FJ,Amaral AJ,Barbato M,Biscarini F,Colli L,Costa M,Curik I,Duruz S,Ferenčaković M,Fischer D,Fitak R,Groeneveld LF,Hall SJ,Hanotte O,Hassan FU,Helsen

更新日期：2015-10-21 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：: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：:Telomeres are essential nucleoprotein structures at linear chromosomes that maintain genome integrity by protecting chromosome ends from being recognized and processed as damaged DNA. In addition, they limit the cell's proliferative capacity, as progressive loss of telomeric DNA during successive rounds of cell divisi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yalçin Z,Selenz C,Jacobs JJL

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00