FISH comets show that the salvage enzyme TK1 contributes to gene-specific DNA repair.

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：:The Galway sheep population is the only native Irish sheep breed and this livestock genetic resource is currently categorised as 'at-risk'. In the present study, comparative population genomics analyses of Galway sheep and other sheep populations of European origin were used to investigate the microevolution and recen...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： McHugo GP,Browett S,Randhawa IAS,Howard DJ,Mullen MP,Richardson IW,Park SDE,Magee DA,Scraggs E,Dover MJ,Correia CN,Hanrahan JP,MacHugh DE

更新日期：2019-10-08 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：:Prolonged drug use causes long-lasting neuroadaptations in reward-related brain areas that contribute to addiction. Despite significant amount of research dedicated to understanding the underlying mechanisms of addiction, the molecular underpinnings remain unclear. At the same time, much of the pervasive transcription...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sartor GC,St Laurent G 3rd,Wahlestedt C

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to extract novel phenotypes related to disease resilience using daily feed intake data from growing pigs under a multifactorial natural disease challenge that was designed to mimic a commercial environment with high disease pressure to maximize expression of resilience. Data used were t...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Putz AM,Harding JCS,Dyck MK,Fortin F,Plastow GS,Dekkers JCM,PigGen Canada.

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Western societies. It is now well established that microRNAs (miRNAs) are determinant regulators in various medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases. The recent discovery that miRNAs, while associated with different carriers, can be ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kinet V,Halkein J,Dirkx E,Windt LJ

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is characterized by rapid and lethal infiltration of brain tissue, which is the primary cause of treatment failure and deaths for GBM. Therefore, understanding the molecular mechanisms of tumor cell invasion is crucial for the treatment of GBM. In this study, we dissected the single-cell RNA-seq dat...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pang B,Quan F,Ping Y,Hu J,Lan Y,Pang L

更新日期：2021-01-11 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：: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：:Colitis-associated cancer (CAC) has been linked to microRNA (miRNA) aberrant expression elicited by inflammation. In this study, we used the AOM/DSS-induced CAC mice model to explore the ectopic expression of miRNAs in the precancerous stage of CAC. As a result, we found that miR-31-5p, miR-223-3p, and let-7f-5p were ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Chen G,Feng Y,Li X,Jiang Z,Bei B,Zhang L,Han Y,Li Y,Li N

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Inverted repeat (IR) regions in the plastomes from land plants induce homologous recombination, generating isomeric plastomes. While the plastomes of Taxaceae species often lose one of the IR regions, considerable isomeric plastomes were created in Taxaceae species with a hitherto unclarified mechanism. To investigate...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Xu Y,Chen H,Wang L,Yin K,Du FK

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is one of the most common histological subtypes of renal cancer, with a poor prognosis. Our study aimed to identify a biomarker that is significantly associated with ccRCC prognosis and novel immunotherapeutic targets, as well as some novel molecular drugs for ccRCC. Based on th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xiao GF,Yan X,Chen Z,Zhang RJ,Liu TZ,Hu WL

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac myocytes (CMs) proliferate robustly during fetal life but withdraw permanently from the cell cycle soon after birth and undergo terminal differentiation. This cell cycle exit is associated with the upregulation of a host of adult cardiac-specific genes. The vast majority of adult CMs (ACMs) do not reenter cell...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Oyama K,El-Nachef D,Zhang Y,Sdek P,MacLellan WR

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are abundant in most biological fluids and considered promising biomarker candidates, but the development of EV biomarker assays is hindered, in part, by their requirement for prior EV purification and the lack of standardized and reproducible EV isolation methods. We now describe a far-fi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Amrollahi P,Rodrigues M,Lyon CJ,Goel A,Han H,Hu TY

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The codon redundancy ("degeneracy") found in protein-coding regions of mRNA also prescribes Translational Pausing (TP). When coupled with the appropriate interpreters, multiple meanings and functions are programmed into the same sequence of configurable switch-settings. This additional layer of Ontological Prescriptiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： D'Onofrio DJ,Abel DL

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting how species interactions evolve requires that we understand the mechanistic basis of coevolution, and thus the functional genotype-by-genotype interactions (G × G) that drive reciprocal natural selection. Theory on host-parasite coevolution provides testable hypotheses for empiricists, but depends upon mode...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Heath KD,Nuismer SL

更新日期：2014-04-11 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：:Systemic sclerosis-associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-PAH) is still a major cause of SSc related deaths. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment are crucial to reduce the mortality of patients with SSc-PAH. To screen the candidate biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for SSc-PAH, we analyzed the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng JN,Li Y,Yan YM,Shi H,Zou TT,Shao WQ,Wang Q

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination (HR) is an evolutionarily conserved process that plays a pivotal role in the equilibrium between genetic stability and diversity. HR is commonly considered to be error-free, but several studies have shown that HR can be error-prone. Here, we discuss the actual accuracy of HR. First, we present...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guirouilh-Barbat J,Lambert S,Bertrand P,Lopez BS

更新日期：2014-06-11 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：:Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important natural fiber crop in the world. The R2R3-MYB gene family is a large gene family involved in many plant functions including cotton fiber development. Although previous studies have reported its phylogenetic relationships, gene structures, and expression patterns in tetrapl...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang N,Ma Q,Ma J,Pei W,Liu G,Cui Y,Wu M,Zang X,Zhang J,Yu S,Ma L,Yu J

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) have demonstrated utility in validating genetic associations derived from traditional genetic studies as well as identifying novel genetic associations. Here we used an electronic health record (EHR)-based PheWAS to explore pleiotropy of genetic variants in the fat mass and ob...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Cronin RM,Field JR,Bradford Y,Shaffer CM,Carroll RJ,Mosley JD,Bastarache L,Edwards TL,Hebbring SJ,Lin S,Hindorff LA,Crane PK,Pendergrass SA,Ritchie MD,Crawford DC,Pathak J,Bielinski SJ,Carrell DS,Crosslin DR,Ledbett

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chaperonopathies have been linked to mutations in the human hsp60 (hHsp60; HSPD1) gene, but other existing variants might cause diseases, even if there is no comprehensive information about this possibility. To fill this vacuum, which might be at the basis of misdiagnoses or simply ignorance of chaperonopathies in...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Vitale AM,Conway de Macario E,Alessandro R,Cappello F,Macario AJL,Marino Gammazza A

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant, misfolded, and mislocalized proteins are often toxic to cells and result in many human diseases. All proteins and their mRNA templates are subject to quality control. There are several distinct mechanisms that control the quality of mRNAs and proteins during translation at the ribosome. mRNA quality control ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Karamyshev AL,Karamysheva ZN

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are increasingly used for cell-based regenerative therapies worldwide, with embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells as potential treatments for debilitating and chronic conditions, such as age-related macular degeneration, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, and type 1 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Henry MP,Hawkins JR,Boyle J,Bridger JM

更新日期：2019-01-21 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：:Mutations in mitochondrial (mt) DNA determine important human diseases. The majority of the known pathogenic mutations are located in transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and are responsible for a wide range of currently untreatable disorders. Experimental evidence both in yeast and in human cells has shown that the detrimental ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Giordano C,Morea V,Perli E,d'Amati G

更新日期：2015-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: There is a continued debate and inconsistent findings in previous literature about the relationship of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and Parkinson's disease (PD) susceptibility as well as cognitive dysfunction. To substantiate this existing gap, we comprehensively examine COMT genotype effects on the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tang C,Wang W,Shi M,Zhang N,Zhou X,Li X,Ma C,Chen G,Xiang J,Gao D

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The switch to a modern lifestyle in recent decades has coincided with a rapid increase in prevalence of obesity and other diseases. These shifts in prevalence could be explained by the release of genetic susceptibility for disease in the form of gene-by-environment (GxE) interactions. Yet, the detection of interaction...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Marigorta UM,Gibson G

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: During the last decades a number of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) has identified numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with different complex diseases. However, associations reported in one population are often conflicting and did not replicate when studied in other populatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nikoghosyan M,Hakobyan S,Hovhannisyan A,Loeffler-Wirth H,Binder H,Arakelyan A

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00