A simulation study of gene-by-environment interactions in GWAS implies ample hidden effects.

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：:Environmental exposures vary by timing, severity, and frequency and may have a number of deleterious effects throughout the life course. The period of in utero development, for example, is one of the most crucial stages of development during which adverse environmental exposures can both alter the growth and developme...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Maccani MA,Knopik VS

更新日期：2012-04-09 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：:Carcass weight, meat quality and muscle components are important traits economically and they underpin most of the commercial return to goat producers. In this study, the Longissimus dorsi muscle tissues were collected from five Liaoning cashmere (LC) goats and five Ziwuling black (ZB) goats with phenotypic difference...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shen J,Hao Z,Wang J,Hu J,Liu X,Li S,Ke N,Song Y,Lu Y,Hu L,Qiao L,Wu X,Luo Y

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of RNA species and their response to perturbations are set by the kinetics rates of RNA synthesis, processing, and degradation. However, the visualization, interpretation, and manipulation of these data require familiarity with mathematical modeling and command line tools. INSPEcT-GUI is an R-Shiny inter...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： de Pretis S,Furlan M,Pelizzola M

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaminophen (APAP) is widely used as an over-the-counter fever reducer and pain reliever. However, the current therapeutic use of APAP is not optimal. The inter-patient variability in both efficacy and toxicity limits the use of this drug. This is particularly an issue in pediatric populations, where tools for predi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Krasniak AE,Knipp GT,Svensson CK,Liu W

更新日期：2014-10-14 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：: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：:The mammalian hearing organ is a regular array of two types of hair cells (HCs) surrounded by six types of supporting cells. Along the tonotopic axis, this conserved radial array of cell types shows longitudinal variations to enhance the tuning properties of basilar membrane. We present the current evidence supporting...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Booth KT,Azaiez H,Jahan I,Smith RJH,Fritzsch B

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful seedling establishment depends on the optimum depth of seed placement especially in drought-prone conditions, providing an opportunity to exploit subsoil water and increase winter survival in winter wheat. Coleoptile length is a key determinant for the appropriate depth at which seed can be sown. Thus, unde...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sidhu JS,Singh D,Gill HS,Brar NK,Qiu Y,Halder J,Al Tameemi R,Turnipseed B,Sehgal SK

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is the leading cause of cancer-related death among skin tumors, with an increasing incidence worldwide. Few studies have effectively investigated the significance of an immune-related gene (IRG) signature for melanoma prognosis. Here, we constructed an IRGs prognostic signature using bioinformatics methods an...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu N,Liu Z,Liu X,Duan X,Huang Y,Jin Z,Niu Y,Zhang L,Chen H

更新日期：2020-08-28 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：:Pearl millet is a climate-resilient, drought-tolerant crop capable of growing in marginal environments of arid and semi-arid regions globally. Pearl millet is a staple food for more than 90 million people living in poverty and can address the triple burden of malnutrition substantially. It remained a neglected crop un...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Srivastava RK,Singh RB,Pujarula VL,Bollam S,Pusuluri M,Chellapilla TS,Yadav RS,Gupta R

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Across species and tissues and especially in the mammalian brain, production of gene isoforms is widespread. While gene expression coordination has been previously described as a scale-free coexpression network, the properties of transcriptome-wide isoform production coordination have been less studied. Here we evalua...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Iancu OD,Colville A,Oberbeck D,Darakjian P,McWeeney SK,Hitzemann R

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have acknowledged that testing mediational hypotheses between treatments, genes, physiological measures, and behaviors may substantially advance our understanding of how these associations operate. In psychiatric research, the costs of measuring the putative mediator or the outcome can be prohibitive. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Makowsky R,Beasley TM,Gadbury GL,Albert JM,Kennedy RE,Allison DB

更新日期：2011-10-31 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：:The aging of the population represents one of the largest healthcare challenges facing the world today. The available scientific evidence shows that interventions are available now that can target fundamental "aging" processes or pathways. Sufficient economic evidence is available to argue convincingly that this appro...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Faragher RG

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The uses of breeding programs for the Pacific white shrimp [Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei] based on mixed linear models with pedigreed data are described. The application of these classic breeding methods yielded continuous progress of great value to increase the profitability of the shrimp industry in several countr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Castillo-Juárez H,Campos-Montes GR,Caballero-Zamora A,Montaldo HH

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of scientific knowledge into negotiations of the Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) is crucial to effective implementation of those MEAs by ensuring uniformity in their terminology. Recent innovations in the field of biotechnology provoked a discussion over "Digital Sequence Information" (DSI) in f...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kobayashi K,Domon E,Watanabe KN

更新日期：2020-09-16 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：:Over millions of years, vertebrate species populated vast environments spanning the globe. Among the most challenging habitats encountered were those with limited availability of oxygen, yet many animal and human populations inhabit and perform life cycle functions and/or daily activities in varying degrees of hypoxia...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pamenter ME,Hall JE,Tanabe Y,Simonson TS

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and metabolic disorders, adding to the global burden of disease attributable to lifestyle and behavioral factors. Although long interspersed nucleotide elements 1 (LINE-1) methylation has been associated with these disorde...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Barchitta M,Maugeri A,Quattrocchi A,Barone G,Mazzoleni P,Catalfo A,De Guidi G,Iemmolo MG,Crimi N,Agodi A

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:History of East-Central Europe has been intertwined with the history of Turks in the past. A significant part of this region of Europe has been fallen under Ottoman control during the 150 years of Ottoman occupation in the 16-17th centuries. The presence of the Ottoman Empire affected this area not only culturally but...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bánfai Z,Melegh BI,Sümegi K,Hadzsiev K,Miseta A,Kásler M,Melegh B

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective breeding programs aiming to increase the productivity and profitability of the sheep meat industry use elite, progeny tested sires. The broad genetic traits of primary interest in the progeny of these sires include skeletal muscle yield, fat content, eating quality, and reproductive efficiency. Natural mutat...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tellam RL,Cockett NE,Vuocolo T,Bidwell CA

更新日期：2012-08-29 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：:Human malnutrition due to micronutrient deficiencies, particularly with regards to Zinc (Zn) and Selenium (Se), affects millions of people around the world, and the enrichment of staple foods through biofortification has been successfully used to fight hidden hunger. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the staple foods m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Roda FA,Marques I,Batista-Santos P,Esquível MG,Ndayiragije A,Lidon FC,Swamy BPM,Ramalho JC,Ribeiro-Barros AI

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inference of absolute copy numbers in tumor genomes is one of the key points in the study of tumor genesis. However, the mixture of tumor and normal cells poses a big challenge to this task. Accurate estimation of tumor purity (i.e., the fraction of tumor cells) is a necessary step to solve this problem. In this paper...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yuan X,Li Z,Zhao H,Bai J,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant genomic heterozygosity can be found in wild strains of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from industrial and clinical environments. The extent to which heterozygosity influences the phenotypes of these isolates is not fully understood. One such case is the PE-2/JAY270 strain, a natural hybri...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sampaio NMV,Watson RA,Argueso JL

更新日期：2019-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles and function of chromatin and nuclear architecture have been extensively studied in model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster. However, little is known about the role of these epigenetic processes in transcriptional regulation in other insects including mosquitoes, which are major disease vectors...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lezcano ÓM,Sánchez-Polo M,Ruiz JL,Gómez-Díaz E

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background/Aims:Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a tumor derived from malignant mesenchymal tissue associated with poor prognosis. Determining potential prognostic markers for LMS can provide clues for early diagnosis, recurrence, and treatment. Methods:RNA sequence data and clinical features of 103 LMS were obtained from the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yang J,Li C,Zhou J,Liu X,Wang S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00