The phenotypic expression of mitochondrial tRNA-mutations can be modulated by either mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase or the C-terminal domain thereof.

abstract：:Most cell functions are carried out by interacting factors, thus underlying the functional importance of genetic interactions between genes, termed epistasis. Epistasis could be under strong selective pressures especially in conditions where the mutation rate of one of the interacting partners notably differs from the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Levin L,Blumberg A,Barshad G,Mishmar D

更新日期：2014-12-23 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：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains hard to diagnose early and cure due to a lack of accurate biomarkers and effective treatments. Hence, it is necessary to explore the tumorigenesis and tumor progression of HCC to discover new biomarkers for clinical treatment. We performed weighted gene co-expression network anal...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gu Y,Li J,Guo D,Chen B,Liu P,Xiao Y,Yang K,Liu Z,Liu Q

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms in β1-, β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) have been associated with chronic non-communicable disorders, such as cardiovascular diseases, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obesity, as well as β-agonists and antagonists response and toxicity. The purpose of this study w...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Katsarou MS,Karathanasopoulou A,Andrianopoulou A,Desiniotis V,Tzinis E,Dimitrakis E,Lagiou M,Charmandari E,Aschner M,Tsatsakis AM,Chrousos GP,Drakoulis N

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The TP53 gene is the most commonly mutated gene in human cancers and mutations in TP53 have been shown to have either gain-of-function or loss-of-function effects. Using the data generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas, we sought to define the spectrum of TP53 mutations in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and their assoc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kancherla V,Abdullazade S,Matter MS,Lanzafame M,Quagliata L,Roma G,Hoshida Y,Terracciano LM,Ng CKY,Piscuoglio S

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent models have been extensively used to investigate the cause and mechanisms behind Alzheimer's disease. Despite many years of intensive research using these models we still lack a detailed understanding of the molecular events that lead to neurodegeneration. Although zebrafish lack the complexity of advanced cogn...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Newman M,Ebrahimie E,Lardelli M

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex disease triggered by the interaction between genetics and the environment, especially through the shared epitope (SE) and cell surface calreticulin (CSC) theory. However, the available evidence shows that genetic diversity and environmental exposure cannot explain all the clinica...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guo S,Xu L,Chang C,Zhang R,Jin Y,He D

更新日期：2020-08-04 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNAs, have been proved as novel and potent regulators of adipogenesis. A previous study has found out that miR-144-3p was a biomarker of type 2 diabetes, but the role of miR-144-3p in regulating adipogenesis was still unclear. In the present study, the expression of miR-...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shen L,Li Q,Wang J,Zhao Y,Niu L,Bai L,Shuai S,Li X,Zhang S,Zhu L

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The systematic study of genotoxicity in plants induced by contaminants and other stress agents has been hindered to date by the lack of reliable and robust biomarkers. The comet assay is a versatile and sensitive method for the evaluation of DNA damages and DNA repair capacity at single-cell level. Due to its simplici...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Santos CL,Pourrut B,Ferreira de Oliveira JM

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the prevalence of obesity and cancer have been rising. Since this poses a serious threat to human health, the relationship between the two has attracted much attention. This study examined whether fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genes are linked, taking into account a Genome-wide Association Stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lan N,Lu Y,Zhang Y,Pu S,Xi H,Nie X,Liu J,Yuan W

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone proteins are dynamically modified to mediate a variety of cellular processes including gene transcription, DNA damage repair, and apoptosis. Regulation of these processes occurs through the recruitment of non-histone proteins to chromatin by specific combinations of histone post-translational modifications (PT...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Karch KR,Denizio JE,Black BE,Garcia BA

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence show that Poly C Binding Protein 1 (PCBP1) is deleted in distinct types of tumors as a novel tumor suppressor, but its tumor suppression mechanism remains elusive. Here, we firstly describe that downregulation of PCBP1 is significantly associated with clinical ovarian tumor progression. Mechanist...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang W,Zhang S,Guan W,Huang Z,Kong J,Huang C,Wang H,Yang S

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered tens of thousands of associations between common genetic variants and complex diseases. However, these statistical associations can rarely be interpreted functionally and mechanistically. As the majority of the disease-associated variants are l...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mariella E,Marotta F,Grassi E,Gilotto S,Provero P

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation and differentiation of preadipocyte are essential for the formation of fat tissues. However, the genes that regulate the early stage of preadipocyte differentiation in chicken have remained elusive. Here we identify a novel spliced variant of the DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a gene, named Dnmt3a3, that con...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Abdalla BA,Li Z,Nie Q

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The castes of social insects provide outstanding opportunities to address the causes and consequences of evolution of discrete phenotypes, i.e., polymorphisms. Here we focus on recently described patterns of a positive association between the degree of caste-specific gene expression and the rate of sequence evolution....

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Helanterä H,Uller T

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive allelic variation at both gene and single nucleotide level (SNV) between individuals is commonly associated with complex traits in humans and animals. Allele-specific expression (ASE) analysis, using RNA-Seq, can provide a detailed annotation of allelic imbalance and infer the existence of cis-acting transcr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Salavati M,Bush SJ,Palma-Vera S,McCulloch MEB,Hume DA,Clark EL

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case report, we characterize a novel inherited frameshift mutation c.4700_4701del (p.Phe1567Cysfs*221) in a single copy of the SCN5A gene and its association with Brugada syndrome (BrS). The proband experienced a life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia successfully treated with DC-shock and he also suffered fr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Micaglio E,Monasky MM,Ciconte G,Vicedomini G,Conti M,Mecarocci V,Giannelli L,Giordano F,Pollina A,Saviano M,Pozzi PR,Di Resta C,Benedetti S,Ferrari M,Santinelli V,Pappone C

更新日期：2019-06-06 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：:The multi-subunit protein complex, cohesin, is responsible for sister chromatid cohesion during cell division. The interaction of cohesin with DNA is controlled by a number of additional regulatory proteins. Mutations in cohesin, or its regulators, cause a spectrum of human developmental syndromes known as the "cohesi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Horsfield JA,Print CG,Mönnich M

更新日期：2012-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hypercholesterolemia (HC) is defined as an elevation of total cholesterol (TC) due to the increase in LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) >95th percentile or 190 mg/dl. The high values of LDL-C, especially when it is maintained over time, is considered a risk factor for the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular dis...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Jarauta E,Bea-Sanz AM,Marco-Benedi V,Lamiquiz-Moneo I

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Searching for the Multiple Longest Common Subsequences (MLCS) of multiple sequences is a classical NP-hard problem, which has been used in many applications. One of the most effective exact approaches for the MLCS problem is based on dominant point graph, which is a kind of directed acyclic graph (DAG). However, the t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Peng Z,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The global prevalence of metabolic disorders, such as obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease, is dramatically increasing. Both genetic and environmental factors are well-known contributors to the development of these diseases and therefore, the study of epigenetics can provide additional mechanistic insight. Dietar...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Asif S,Morrow NM,Mulvihill EE,Kim KH

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of DNA lesions are estimated to occur in each cell every day and almost all are recognized and repaired. DNA repair is an essential system that prevents accumulation of mutations which can lead to serious cellular malfunctions. Phenotypic evaluation of DNA repair activity of individuals is a relatively new a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Slyskova J,Langie SA,Collins AR,Vodicka P

更新日期：2014-05-23 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：:Genetic variants can influence the expression of mRNA and protein. Genetic regulatory loci such as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) and protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) exist in several species. However, it remains unclear how human genetic variants regulate mRNA and protein expression. Here, we chara...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang Y,He B,Zhao Y,Reiter JL,Chen SX,Simpson E,Feng W,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast growth is one of the most desired traits for all food animals, which affects the profitability of animal production. The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is an important aquaculture shellfish around the world with the largest annual production. Growth of the Pacific oyster has been greatly improved by artificia...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang F,Hu B,Fu H,Jiao Z,Li Q,Liu S

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a major healthcare risk to growing economies like India, and a chromosome-level reference genome of Anopheles stephensi is critical for successful vector management and understanding of vector evolution using comparative genomics. We report chromosome-level assemblies of an Indian strain, STE2, and a P...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Chida AR,Ravi S,Jayaprasad S,Paul K,Saha J,Suresh C,Whadgar S,Kumar N,Rao K R,Ghosh C,Choudhary B,Subramani S,Srinivasan S

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are an emerging class of RNA species that may play a critical regulatory role in gene expression. However, the association between lncRNAs and atrial fibrillation (AF) is still not fully understood. In this study, we used RNA sequencing data to identify and quantify the both protein codi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu DM,Zhou ZK,Fan SH,Zheng ZH,Wen X,Han XR,Wang S,Wang YJ,Zhang ZF,Shan Q,Li MQ,Hu B,Lu J,Chen GQ,Hong XW,Zheng YL

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are subjected to strong fluctuations in light intensity in their natural growth environment, caused both by unpredictable changes due to weather conditions and movement of clouds and upper canopy leaves and predictable changes during day-night cycle. The mechanisms of long-term acclimation to fluctuating light ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Niedermaier S,Schneider T,Bahl MO,Matsubara S,Huesgen PF

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00