Using a medium-throughput comet assay to evaluate the global DNA methylation status of single cells.

abstract：:Measuring facial traits by quantitative means is a prerequisite to investigate epidemiological, clinical, and forensic questions. This measurement process has received intense attention in recent years. We divided this process into the registration of the face, landmarking, morphometric quantification, and dimension r...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Böhringer S,de Jong MA

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors behind genome size evolution have been of great interest, considering that eukaryotic genomes vary in size by more than three orders of magnitude. Using a model of two wild peanut relatives, Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, in which one genome experienced large rearrangements, we find that the main...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ren L,Huang W,Cannon EKS,Bertioli DJ,Cannon SB

更新日期：2018-10-09 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：:Reliability of genomic selection (GS) models was tested in an admixed population of Atlantic salmon, originating from crossing of several wild subpopulations. The models included ordinary genomic BLUP models (GBLUP), using genome-wide SNP markers of varying densities (1-220 k), a genomic identity-by-descent model (IBD...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Odegård J,Moen T,Santi N,Korsvoll SA,Kjøglum S,Meuwissen TH

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Challenges in diagnosing primary immunodeficiency are numerous and diverse, with current whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing approaches only able to reach a molecular diagnosis in 25-60% of cases. We assess these problems and discuss how RNA-focused analysis has expanded and improved in recent years and may now be...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lye JJ,Williams A,Baralle D

更新日期：2019-12-11 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：: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：:Sucrose transporters (SUTs) play key roles in allocating the translocation of assimilates from source to sink tissues. Although the characteristics and biological roles of SUTs have been intensively investigated in higher plants, this gene family has not been functionally characterized in cotton. In this study, we per...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li W,Sun K,Ren Z,Song C,Pei X,Liu Y,Wang Z,He K,Zhang F,Zhou X,Ma X,Yang D

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report the first pediatric specific Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) using electronic medical records (EMRs). Given the early success of PheWAS in adult populations, we investigated the feasibility of this approach in pediatric cohorts in which associations between a previously known genetic variant...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Namjou B,Marsolo K,Caroll RJ,Denny JC,Ritchie MD,Verma SS,Lingren T,Porollo A,Cobb BL,Perry C,Kottyan LC,Rothenberg ME,Thompson SD,Holm IA,Kohane IS,Harley JB

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of high-throughput sequencing data, identification of genetic causal variants accurately requires the efficient incorporation of function annotation data into the optimization routine. This motivates the need for development of novel methods for genome wide association studies with special focus ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Sundar VS,Fan CC,Holland D,Dale AM

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher type 1 syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder involving congenital severe-to-profound hearing loss, development of vision impairment in the first decade, and severe balance difficulties. The PCDH15 gene, one of the five genes implicated in this disease, is involved in 8-20% of cases. In this study, we a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Vaché C,Puechberty J,Faugère V,Darmaisin F,Liquori A,Baux D,Blanchet C,Garcia-Garcia G,Meunier I,Pellestor F,Koenig M,Roux AF

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical activity, that is, enzymatic reaction or molecular interaction, frequently involves a molecule, for example, an enzyme, capable of interacting with numerous substrates or partners. Specificity is a fundamental property of biochemical activities, and relative specificity refers to the situation whereby a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zeng Y

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play a regulatory role and influence various biological activities, such as cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival. Our group has demonstrated through functional studies that Schistosoma mansoni c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SmJNK) MAPK is involved in the parasite's deve...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gava SG,Tavares NC,Falcone FH,Oliveira G,Mourão MM

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of miRNA and lncRNA is known to be important for gene regulations. However, the number of known lncRNA-miRNA interactions is still very limited and there are limited computational tools available for predicting new ones. Considering that lncRNAs and miRNAs share internal patterns in the partnership bet...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Huang YA,Huang ZA,You ZH,Zhu Z,Huang WZ,Guo JX,Yu CQ

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive fat deposition can cause chicken health problem, and affect production efficiency by causing great economic losses to the industry. However, the molecular underpinnings of the complex adiposity trait remain elusive. In the current study, we constructed and compared the gene co-expression networks on four tra...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gao Z,Ding R,Zhai X,Wang Y,Chen Y,Yang CX,Du ZQ

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town, during the Roman period there were areas which were clearly used solely as cemeteries. One of the most significant is at Butt Road, which includes a late Roman probable Christian cemetery with an associated building, apparently a church, that overlies and developed from a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Voong CP,Spencer PS,Navarrete CV,Turner D,Hayrabedyan SB,Crummy P,Holloway E,Wilson MT,Smith PR,Fernández N

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been widely used to determine the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in dairy cattle. In this study, with the aim of identifying candidate genes that affect milk protein composition traits, we conducted a GWAS for nine such traits (αs1-casein, αs2-casein, β-casein,...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhou C,Li C,Cai W,Liu S,Yin H,Shi S,Zhang Q,Zhang S

更新日期：2019-02-19 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：: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：: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：:Metastasis is a complex process that involved in various genetic and epigenetic alterations during the progression of breast cancer. Recent evidences have indicated that the mutation in the genome sequence may not be the key factor for increasing metastatic potential. Epigenetic changes were revealed to be important f...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhuang J,Huo Q,Yang F,Xie N

更新日期：2020-10-29 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：:Variability of the comet assay is a serious issue, whether it occurs from experiment to experiment in the same laboratory, or between different laboratories analysing identical samples. Do we have to live with high variability, just because the comet assay is a biological assay rather than analytical chemistry? Numero...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Collins AR,El Yamani N,Lorenzo Y,Shaposhnikov S,Brunborg G,Azqueta A

更新日期：2014-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is mainly reflected in the communication and language barriers, difficulties in social communication, and it is a kind of neurological developmental disorder. Most researches have used the machine learning method to classify patients and normal controls, among which support vector machin...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bi XA,Wang Y,Shu Q,Sun Q,Xu Q

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathway-centric approaches are widely used to interpret and contextualize -omics data. However, databases contain different representations of the same biological pathway, which may lead to different results of statistical enrichment analysis and predictive models in the context of precision medicine. We have performe...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mubeen S,Hoyt CT,Gemünd A,Hofmann-Apitius M,Fröhlich H,Domingo-Fernández D

更新日期：2019-11-22 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：:In this article, we make a theoretical and in silico study for uncovering and evaluating biomarkers in colon and rectal cancer (CRC) by the dynamic network biomarker (DNB) theory. We propose a strategy to employ the theoretical concept of UICC TNM classification in CRC. To reveal the critical transition of CRC, the DN...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Tong Y,Song Y,Xia C,Deng S

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Watson for Oncology (WFO) is a artificial intelligence clinical decision-support system with evidence-based treatment options for oncologists. WFO has been gradually used in China, but limited reports on whether WFO is suitable for Chinese patients. This study aims to investigate the concordance of treatment options b...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zou FW,Tang YF,Liu CY,Ma JA,Hu CH

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of individuals worldwide and can occur relatively early or later in life. It is well known that genetic components, such as the amyloid precursor protein gene on chromosome 21, are fundamental in early-onset AD (EOAD). To date, however, only...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bajic VP,Essack M,Zivkovic L,Stewart A,Zafirovic S,Bajic VB,Gojobori T,Isenovic E,Spremo-Potparevic B

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), which is involved in the regulation of vitamin D, is an emerging independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies have demonstrated a positive association between FGF23 and stroke. In this study, we aimed to assess the association of FGF23 with ischemic stroke ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng K,Lin L,Cui P,Liu T,Chen L,Yang C,Jiang W

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00