Distal CpG islands can serve as alternative promoters to transcribe genes with silenced proximal promoters.

abstract：:Structured elements of RNA molecules are essential in, e.g., RNA stabilization, localization, and protein interaction, and their conservation across species suggests a common functional role. We computationally screened vertebrate genomes for conserved RNA structures (CRSs), leveraging structure-based, rather than seq...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Seemann SE,Mirza AH,Hansen C,Bang-Berthelsen CH,Garde C,Christensen-Dalsgaard M,Torarinsson E,Yao Z,Workman CT,Pociot F,Nielsen H,Tommerup N,Ruzzo WL,Gorodkin J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we propose a system-theoretic approach to the analysis and quantitative modeling of the TNFalpha-mediated NF-kappaB-signaling pathway. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is a potent proinflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in immunity and inflammation, in the control of cell proliferati...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Cho KH,Shin SY,Lee HW,Wolkenhauer O

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing is a major mechanism for gene product regulation in many multicellular organisms. By using different exon combinations, some coding regions can encode amino acids in multiple reading frames in different transcripts. Here we performed a systematic search through a set of high-quality human transcri...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Liang H,Landweber LF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is a powerful tool for studying gene function and for drug target discovery in diverse organisms and cell types. In mammalian systems, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), or DNA plasmids expressing these siRNAs, have been used to down-modulate gene expression. However, inefficient transfection protocols,...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Arts GJ,Langemeijer E,Tissingh R,Ma L,Pavliska H,Dokic K,Dooijes R,Mesić E,Clasen R,Michiels F,van der Schueren J,Lambrecht M,Herman S,Brys R,Thys K,Hoffmann M,Tomme P,van Es H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale sequencing of human and model organism genomes will have a profound impact on our ability to use sequence data base searching to predict the biochemical functions of sequences of interest. Despite the great value of more sequences in the data bases, a huge increase in data base size will also have adverse ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Smith RF

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe software tools for the automated detection of DNA restriction fragments resolved on agarose fingerprinting gels. We present a mathematical model for the location and shape of the restriction fragments as a function of fragment size, with model parameters determined empirically from "marker" lanes cont...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Fuhrmann DR,Krzywinski MI,Chiu R,Saeedi P,Schein JE,Bosdet IE,Chinwalla A,Hillier LW,Waterston RH,McPherson JD,Jones SJ,Marra MA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro cloning of DNA molecules traditionally uses PCR amplification or site-specific restriction endonucleases to generate linear DNA inserts with defined termini and requires DNA ligase to covalently join those inserts to vectors with the corresponding ends. We have used the properties of Vaccinia DNA topoisom...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Heyman JA,Cornthwaite J,Foncerrada L,Gilmore JR,Gontang E,Hartman KJ,Hernandez CL,Hood R,Hull HM,Lee WY,Marcil R,Marsh EJ,Mudd KM,Patino MJ,Purcell TJ,Rowland JJ,Sindici ML,Hoeffler JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live-cell imaging allows detailed dynamic cellular phenotyping for cell biology and, in combination with small molecule or drug libraries, for high-content screening. Fully automated analysis of live cell movies has been hampered by the lack of computational approaches that allow tracking and recognition of individual...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Harder N,Mora-Bermúdez F,Godinez WJ,Wünsche A,Eils R,Ellenberg J,Rohr K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptomic genome-wide analyses demonstrate massive variation of alternative splicing in many physiological and pathological situations. One major challenge is now to establish the biological contribution of alternative splicing variation in physiological- or pathological-associated cellular phenotypes. Toward thi...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Tranchevent LC,Aubé F,Dulaurier L,Benoit-Pilven C,Rey A,Poret A,Chautard E,Mortada H,Desmet FO,Chakrama FZ,Moreno-Garcia MA,Goillot E,Janczarski S,Mortreux F,Bourgeois CF,Auboeuf D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial comparison of the human and chimpanzee genome sequences revealed 16 genomic regions with an unusually high density of rapidly evolving genes. One such region is the whey acidic protein (WAP) four-disulfide core domain locus (or WFDC locus), which contains 14 WFDC genes organized in two subloci on human chr...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Hurle B,Swanson W,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Green ED

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of new genes, via horizontal transfer or gene duplication/diversification, has been the dominant mechanism thus far implicated in the evolution of microbial pathogenicity. In contrast, the role of many other modes of evolution--such as changes in gene expression regulation-remains unknown. A transition...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Fraser HB,Levy S,Chavan A,Shah HB,Perez JC,Zhou Y,Siegal ML,Sinha H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate-specific multisequence family chAB4 is represented with approximately 40 copies within the haploid human genome. Former analyis revealed that unusually long repetition units ( > 35 kb) are distributed to at least eight different chromosomal loci. Remarkably varying copy-numbers within the genomes of closel...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Wöhr G,Fink T,Assum G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of DNA viruses into the human genome plays an important role in various types of tumors, including hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the molecular details and clinical impact of HBV integration on either human or HBV epigenomes are unknown. Here, we show that methylation of...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Watanabe Y,Yamamoto H,Oikawa R,Toyota M,Yamamoto M,Kokudo N,Tanaka S,Arii S,Yotsuyanagi H,Koike K,Itoh F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory sequences in higher genomes can map large distances from gene coding regions, and cannot yet be identified by simple inspection of primary DNA sequence information. Here we describe an efficient method of surveying large genomic regions for gene regulatory information, and subdividing complex sets of distan...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Mortlock DP,Guenther C,Kingsley DM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a conserved role in regulating gene expression, chromatin dynamics, and cell differentiation. They serve as a platform for RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated heterochromatin formation or DNA methylation in many eukaryotic organisms. We found in Schizosaccharomyces pombe that heterochro...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Brönner C,Salvi L,Zocco M,Ugolini I,Halic M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of a simplified cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) protocol adapted for single-molecule sequencers that avoids second strand synthesis, ligation, digestion, and PCR. HeliScopeCAGE directly sequences the 3' end of cap trapped first-strand cDNAs. As with previous versions of CAGE, we better...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kanamori-Katayama M,Itoh M,Kawaji H,Lassmann T,Katayama S,Kojima M,Bertin N,Kaiho A,Ninomiya N,Daub CO,Carninci P,Forrest AR,Hayashizaki Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphotyrosine (pTyr) signaling, which plays a central role in cell-cell and cell-environment interactions, has been considered to be an evolutionary innovation in multicellular metazoans. However, neither the emergence nor the evolution of the human pTyr signaling system is currently understood. Tyrosine kinase (TK)...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Li L,Tibiche C,Fu C,Kaneko T,Moran MF,Schiller MR,Li SS,Wang E

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic L1 retrotransposition events have been shown to occur in epithelial cancers. Here, we attempted to determine how early somatic L1 insertions occurred during the development of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. Using L1-targeted resequencing (L1-seq), we studied different stages of four colorectal cancers arising ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Ewing AD,Gacita A,Wood LD,Ma F,Xing D,Kim MS,Manda SS,Abril G,Pereira G,Makohon-Moore A,Looijenga LH,Gillis AJ,Hruban RH,Anders RA,Romans KE,Pandey A,Iacobuzio-Donahue CA,Vogelstein B,Kinzler KW,Kazazian HH Jr,Sol

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory is a hallmark of adaptive immunity, wherein lymphocytes mount a superior response to a previously encountered antigen. It has been speculated that epigenetic alterations in memory lymphocytes contribute to their functional distinction from their naive counterparts. However, the nature and extent of epigenetic a...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Lai AY,Mav D,Shah R,Grimm SA,Phadke D,Hatzi K,Melnick A,Geigerman C,Sobol SE,Jaye DL,Wade PA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal rearrangements and copy number variants (CNVs) play key roles in genome evolution and genetic disease; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these types of structural genomic variation are not fully understood. The availability of complete genome sequences for two bird species, the chicken and the z...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Völker M,Backström N,Skinner BM,Langley EJ,Bunzey SK,Ellegren H,Griffin DK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remnants of more than 3 million transposable elements, primarily retroelements, comprise nearly half of the human genome and have generated much speculation concerning their evolutionary significance. We have exploited the draft human genome sequence to examine the distributions of retroelements on a genome-wide scale...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Medstrand P,van de Lagemaat LN,Mager DL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that interactions between regulatory genomic elements play an important role in regulating gene expression. We generated a genome-wide interaction map of regulatory elements in human cells (ENCODE tier 1 cells, K562, GM12878) using Chromatin Interaction Analysis by Paired-End Tag sequencin...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Heidari N,Phanstiel DH,He C,Grubert F,Jahanbani F,Kasowski M,Zhang MQ,Snyder MP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the consequences of regulatory variation in the human genome remains a major challenge, with important implications for understanding gene regulation and interpreting the many disease-risk variants that fall outside of protein-coding regions. Here, we provide a direct window into the regulatory consequen...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Battle A,Mostafavi S,Zhu X,Potash JB,Weissman MM,McCormick C,Haudenschild CD,Beckman KB,Shi J,Mei R,Urban AE,Montgomery SB,Levinson DF,Koller D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplication of the genome in mammalian cells occurs in a defined temporal order referred to as its replication-timing (RT) program. RT changes dynamically during development, regulated in units of 400-800 kb referred to as replication domains (RDs). Changes in RT are generally coordinated with transcriptional competen...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Rivera-Mulia JC,Buckley Q,Sasaki T,Zimmerman J,Didier RA,Nazor K,Loring JF,Lian Z,Weissman S,Robins AJ,Schulz TC,Menendez L,Kulik MJ,Dalton S,Gabr H,Kahveci T,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous approaches to mutation detection in mRNA from the neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) locus have required the PCR amplification of five or more overlapping cDNA segments to screen the entire 8.5-kb open reading frame (ORF). Systematically, these assays do not detect deletions that span the region of overlap (usually 1-...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Martinez JM,Breidenbach HH,Cawthon R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that most modern mammalian lineages arose from a series of rapid speciation events near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. It is shown that such a phylogeny makes the common ancestral genome sequence an ideal target for reconstruction. Simulations suggest that with methods currently available, we can exp...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Blanchette M,Green ED,Miller W,Haussler D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A region-specific ENU mutagenesis screen was conducted to elucidate the functional content of proximal mouse Chr 5. We used the visibly marked, recessive, lethal inversion Rump White (Rw) as a balancer in a three-generation breeding scheme to identify recessive mutations within the approximately 50 megabases spanned b...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Wilson L,Ching YH,Farias M,Hartford SA,Howell G,Shao H,Bucan M,Schimenti JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroposed copies (RPCs) of genes are functional (intronless paralogs) or nonfunctional (processed pseudogenes) copies derived from mRNA through a process of retrotransposition. Previous studies found that gene families involved in mRNA translation or nuclear function were more likely to have large numbers of RPCs. He...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Strichman-Almashanu LZ,Bustin M,Landsman D

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well understood that selection shapes the polymorphism pattern in Drosophila, signatures of classic selective sweeps are scarce. Here, we focus on Drosophila mauritiana, an island endemic, which is closely related to Drosophila melanogaster. Based on a new, annotated genome sequence, we characterized th...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Nolte V,Pandey RV,Kofler R,Schlötterer C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent progress in genome topology knowledge, the role of repeats, which make up the majority of mammalian genomes, remains elusive. Satellite repeats are highly abundant sequences that cluster around centromeres, attract pericentromeric heterochromatin, and aggregate into nuclear chromocenters. These nuclear ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Wijchers PJ,Geeven G,Eyres M,Bergsma AJ,Janssen M,Verstegen M,Zhu Y,Schell Y,Vermeulen C,de Wit E,de Laat W

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00