Evidence for the multiple hits genetic theory for inherited language impairment: a case study.

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：: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：:The Apelin (APLN)/apelin receptor (APLNR) signaling pathway is a newly identified regulator in various cardiovascular diseases, which is considered as a candidate pathway for the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD), depression, and anxiety. The goal of this study was to investigate the association between APLN/...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang Y,Liu W,Xiao Y,Yuan H,Wang F,Jiang P,Luo Z

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Tumor stem cells play important roles in the survival, proliferation, metastasis and recurrence of tumors. We aimed to identify new prognostic biomarkers for lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) based on the cancer stem cell theory. Methods:RNA-seq data and relevant clinical information were downloaded from ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liao Y,Xiao H,Cheng M,Fan X

更新日期：2020-05-13 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：:Molybdenum cofactor deficiency (MoCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder belonging to the large family of inborn errors in metabolism. Patients typically present with encephalopathy and seizures early after birth and develop severe neurodegeneration within the first few weeks of life. The main pathomechanism underlyin...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mellis AT,Roeper J,Misko AL,Kohl J,Schwarz G

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Goats (Capra hircus) are an economically important livestock species providing meat and milk across the globe. They are of particular importance in tropical agri-systems contributing to sustainable agriculture, alleviation of poverty, social cohesion, and utilisation of marginal grazing. There are excellent genetic an...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Muriuki C,Bush SJ,Salavati M,McCulloch MEB,Lisowski ZM,Agaba M,Djikeng A,Hume DA,Clark EL

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder with a lifetime morbidity rate of 0.5-1.0%. The pathophysiology of schizophrenia still remains obscure. Accumulating evidence indicates that DNA methylation, which is the addition of a methyl group to the cytosine in a CpG dinucleotide, might play an important ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Numata S,Ye T,Herman M,Lipska BK

更新日期：2014-08-26 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：:It is broadly expected that next generation sequencing will ultimately generate a complete genome as is the latest goat reference genome (ARS1), which is considered to be one of the most continuous assemblies in livestock. However, the rich diversity of worldwide goat breeds indicates that a genome from one individual...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li R,Fu W,Su R,Tian X,Du D,Zhao Y,Zheng Z,Chen Q,Gao S,Cai Y,Wang X,Li J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in rats and mice have established that maternal nutrition induces epigenetic modifications, sometimes permanently, that alter gene expression in the fetus, which in turn leads to phenotypic changes. However, limited data is available on the influence of maternal diet on epigenetic modifications and gene expres...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lan X,Cretney EC,Kropp J,Khateeb K,Berg MA,Peñagaricano F,Magness R,Radunz AE,Khatib H

更新日期：2013-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A within-breed genome-wide association study (GWAS) is useful when identifying the QTL that segregates in a breed. However, an across-breed meta-analysis can be used to increase the power of identification and precise localization of QTL that segregate in multiple breeds. Precise localization will allow including QTL ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Marete AG,Guldbrandtsen B,Lund MS,Fritz S,Sahana G,Boichard D

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeng et al. (2005) proposed a general two-allele (G2A) model to model bi-allelic quantitative trait loci (QTL). Comparing with the classical Fisher model, the G2A model can avoid using redundant parameters and be fitted directly using standard least square (LS) approach. In this study, we further extend the G2A model ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang T

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The red junglefowl Gallus gallus is the main progenitor of domestic chicken, the commonest livestock species, outnumbering humans by an approximate ratio of six to one. The genetic control for production traits have been well studied in commercial chicken, but the selection pressures underlying unique adaptation and p...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lawal RA,Al-Atiyat RM,Aljumaah RS,Silva P,Mwacharo JM,Hanotte O

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Beef is an essential food source in the world. Beef quality, especially tenderness, has a significant impact on consumer satisfaction and industry profit. Many types of research to date have focused on the exploration of physiological and developmental mechanisms of beef tenderness. Still, the role and impact of DNA m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhao C,Ji G,Carrillo JA,Li Y,Tian F,Baldwin RL,Zan L,Song J

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are major regulators of embryonic development. One of their most conserved functions is to coordinate the formation of specific body structures along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis in Bilateria. This architectural role was at the basis of several morphological innovations across bilaterian evolution. In th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Merabet S,Galliot B

更新日期：2015-08-18 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：: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：:DNA methylation is an indispensable epigenetic modification that dynamically regulates gene expression and genome stability during cell growth and development processes. The target of rapamycin (TOR) has emerged as a central regulator to regulate many fundamental cellular metabolic processes from protein synthesis to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhu T,Li L,Feng L,Mo H,Ren M

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For datasets of gastric cancer collected by TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) and GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) repositories, we applied a bioinformatics approach to obtain expression data for the ISLR (immunoglobulin superfamily containing leucine-rich repeat) gene, which is highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues an...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li S,Zhao W,Sun M

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anther extrusion (AE) is the most important male floral trait for hybrid wheat seed production. AE is a complex quantitative trait that is difficult to phenotype reliably in field experiments not only due to high genotype-by-environment effects but also due to the short expression window in the field condition. In thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Adhikari A,Basnet BR,Crossa J,Dreisigacker S,Camarillo F,Bhati PK,Jarquin D,Manes Y,Ibrahim AMH

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocyte differentiation requires intricately coordinated spatiotemporal expression changes that specify epidermis structure and function. This article utilizes single-cell RNA-seq data from 22,338 human foreskin keratinocytes to reconstruct the transcriptional regulation of skin development and homeostasis genes,...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Finnegan A,Cho RJ,Luu A,Harirchian P,Lee J,Cheng JB,Song JS

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence of a purifying filter acting in the female germline to prevent the expansion of deleterious mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Given our poor understanding of this filter, here we investigate the competence of the mouse embryo to eliminate dysfunctional mitochondria. Toward that, mitochondri...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Machado TS,Macabelli CH,Collado MD,Meirelles FV,Guimarães FEG,Chiaratti MR

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：:The goal of any plant breeding program is to improve quality of a target crop. Crop quality is a comprehensive feature largely determined by biological background. To improve the quality parameters of crops grown for the production of fiber, a functional approach was used to search for genes suitable for the effective...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Galinousky D,Mokshina N,Padvitski T,Ageeva M,Bogdan V,Kilchevsky A,Gorshkova T

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of statistical methods, such as admixture models, have been used to estimate genomic breed composition (GBC). These methods, however, tend to produce non-zero components to reference breeds that shared some genomic similarity with a test animal. These non-essential GBC components, in turn, offset the estimat...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang Y,Wu XL,Li Z,Bao Z,Tait RG Jr,Bauck S,Rosa GJM

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the field of sequencing techniques have resulted in the greatly accelerated production of huge sequence datasets. This presents immediate challenges in database maintenance at datacenters. It provides additional computational challenges in data mining and sequence analysis. Together these represent a signi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Thakur RS,Bandopadhyay R,Chaudhary B,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers are single-stranded nucleic acids that specifically recognize and bind tightly to their cognate targets due to their stable three-dimensional structure. Nucleic acid aptamers have been developed for various applications, including diagnostics, molecular imaging, biomarker discovery, target validation, therape...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhou J,Bobbin ML,Burnett JC,Rossi JJ

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene copy-number differences due to gene duplications and deletions are rampant in natural populations and play a crucial role in the evolution of genome complexity. Per-locus analyses of gene duplication rates in the pre-genomic era revealed that gene duplication rates are much higher than the per nucleotide substitu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Katju V,Bergthorsson U

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Melastoma malabathricum is an important medicinal and landscape plant that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical regions. However, available genomic information for the entire Melastomataceae family is notably limited. In view of the application potential of floral parts in secondary metabolite extracti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng T,Lin Y,Wang L,Lin Q,Lin X,Chen Z,Lin Z

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00