Worming forward: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis toxicity mechanisms and genetic interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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：:Transcriptomics technologies such as next-generation sequencing and microarray platforms provide exciting opportunities for improving diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. Transcriptomics studies often share similar hypotheses, but are carried out on different platforms, in different conditions, and with differ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu C,Huang BE,Chen G,Lovenberg TW,Pocalyko DJ,Yao X

更新日期：2019-04-30 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：: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：: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：:Lactation is a dynamic process, which evolved to meet dietary demands of growing offspring. At the same time, the mother's metabolism changes to meet the high requirements of nutrient supply to the offspring. Through strong artificial selection, the strain of milk production on dairy cows is often associated with impa...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Strucken EM,Laurenson YC,Brockmann GA

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:People want to live long, healthy lives. Previous surveys suggest very limited interest in much longer lifespans, but we show that stipulating good health changes responses to favor longer lives by an order of magnitude. Advances in aging research hold out hope for greatly slowed aging with associated good health. Und...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Donner Y,Fortney K,Calimport SR,Pfleger K,Shah M,Betts-LaCroix J

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Undergraduate students in the biomedical sciences are often interested in future health-focused careers. This presents opportunities for instructors in genetics, molecular biology, and cancer biology to capture their attention using lab experiences built around clinically relevant data. As biomedical science in genera...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hankey W,Zanghi N,Crow MM,Dow WH,Kratz A,Robinson AM,Robinson MR,Segarra VA

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Myiopsitta monachus is a small Neotropical parrot (Psittaciformes: Arini Tribe) from subtropical and temperate regions of South America. It has a diploid chromosome number 2n = 48, different from other members of the Arini Tribe that have usually 70 chromosomes. The species has the lowest 2n within the Arini Tribe. In...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Furo IO,Kretschmer R,O'Brien PC,Pereira JC,Garnero ADV,Gunski RJ,O'Connor RE,Griffin DK,Gomes AJB,Ferguson-Smith MA,de Oliveira EHC

更新日期：2020-07-10 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：:Chemicals, toxicants, and environmental stressors mediate their biologic effect through specific modes of action (MOAs). These encompass key molecular events that lead to changes in the expression of genes within regulatory pathways. Elucidating shared biologic processes and overlapping gene networks will help to bett...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Funderburk KM,Auerbach SS,Bushel PR

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic breed composition (GBC) of an individual animal refers to the partition of its genome according to the inheritance from its ancestors or ancestral breeds. For crossbred or composite animals, knowing their GBC is useful to estimate heterosis, to characterize their actual inheritance from foundation breeds, and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu XL,Li Z,Wang Y,He J,Rosa GJM,Ferretti R,Genho J,Tait RG Jr,Parham J,Schultz T,Bauck S

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification of DNA sequences is an important issue in the bioinformatics study, yet most existing methods for phylogenetic analysis including Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) are time-consuming and computationally expensive. The alignment-free methods are popular nowadays, whereas the manual intervention in those ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Dong R,He L,He RL,Yau SS

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:HFE-related Hemochromatosis is the most common genetic iron overload disease in European populations, particularly of Nordic or Celtic ancestry. It is reported that the HFE p.C282Y mutation is present in 1/10 people of northern European descent, resulting in one in two hundred people will be homozygous. However, the H...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang W,Wang X,Duan W,Xu A,Zhao X,Huang J,You H,Brissot P,Ou X,Jia J

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and aims: Obesity is a major health problem worldwide. Given the heterogeneous obesity phenotype, an optimal obesity stratification would improve clinical management. Since obesity has a strong genetic component, we aimed to develop a polygenic risk score (PRS) to stratify obesity according to the genetic b...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： de Toro-Martín J,Guénard F,Bouchard C,Tremblay A,Pérusse L,Vohl MC

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is critical for patients who cannot undergo eradicable surgery to predict the risk of lung cancer recurrence and metastasis; therefore, the physicians can design the appropriate adjuvant therapy plan. However, traditional circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection or next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based methods are u...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu Z,Wang L,Li C,Cai Y,Liang Y,Mo X,Lu Q,Dong L,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory receptors (ORs) are a type of GTP-binding protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). These receptors are responsible for mediating the sense of smell through their interaction with odor ligands. OR-odorant interactions marks the first step in the process that leads to olfaction. Computational studies on model OR struc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lai PC,Crasto CJ

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to be important post-transcriptional regulators that are involved in the etiology of complex psychiatric traits. The present study aimed to incorporate miRNAs information into pathway analysis using a genome-wide association dataset to identify relevant biological pathways for bipolar diso...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shih WL,Kao CF,Chuang LC,Kuo PH

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its emergence, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated base editors (BEs) with cytosine deaminase activity have been used to precisely and efficiently introduce single-base mutations in genomes, including those of human cells, mice, and crop species. Most production traits in livestock are induced by point mutations, and genome ed...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhou S,Cai B,He C,Wang Y,Ding Q,Liu J,Liu Y,Ding Y,Zhao X,Li G,Li C,Yu H,Kou Q,Niu W,Petersen B,Sonstegard T,Ma B,Chen Y,Wang X

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Genomic regions associated with divergent livestock feed efficiency have been found predominantly outside protein coding sequences. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) can modulate chromatin accessibility, gene expression and act as important metabolic regulators in mammals. By integrating phenotypic, transcript...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nolte W,Weikard R,Brunner RM,Albrecht E,Hammon HM,Reverter A,Kühn C

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, an increasing number of studies sequence multiple biopsies of primary tumors, and even paired metastatic tumors to understand heterogeneity and the evolutionary trajectory of cancer progression. Although several algorithms are available to infer the phylogeny, most tools rely on accurate measurements of muta...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu P,Hou L,Zhang Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-02-07 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：:An increasing number of studies have shown that long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are a very important class of non-coding RNAs that plays a vital role in many biological processes. Adipose tissue is an important place for storing energy, but few studies on lincRNAs were related to pig subcutaneous fat develo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shi G,Chen L,Chen G,Zou C,Li J,Li M,Fang C,Li C

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play a key role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. They have been shown to be dysfunctional in a variety of cancers and are closely related to the occurrence and progression of cancers. However, the biological function and clinical significance of RBPs in clear cell renal carcinoma (c...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu Y,Wei X,Feng H,Hu B,Liu B,Luan Y,Ruan Y,Liu X,Liu Z,Wang S,Liu J,Wang T

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms governing the response to DNA damage in higher eucaryotes crucially depends on our ability to dissect the temporal and spatial organization of the cellular machinery responsible for maintaining genomic integrity. To achieve this goal, we need experimental tools to inflict DNA lesion...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ferrando-May E,Tomas M,Blumhardt P,Stöckl M,Fuchs M,Leitenstorfer A

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor with the ability to bind to a CCAAT box in nearly all eukaryotes. However, the function of NF-Y in the life-history traits of insects is unclear. Here, we identified three NF-Y subunits, NlNF-YA, NlNF-YB, and NlNF-YC, in the wing-dimorphic brown planthop...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Chen HH,Liu YL,Liu XY,Zhang JL,Xu HJ

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition is the most important environmental factor that can influence early developmental processes through regulation of epigenetic mechanisms during pregnancy and neonatal periods. Maternal diets or nutritional compositions contribute to the establishment of the epigenetic profiles in the fetus that have a profoun...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li Y

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile-X syndrome is one of the most common forms of inherited mental retardation and autistic behaviors. The reduction/absence of the functional FMRP protein, coded by the X-linked Fmr1 gene in humans, is responsible for the syndrome. Patients exhibit a variety of symptoms predominantly linked to the function of FMR...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Specchia V,Puricella A,D'Attis S,Massari S,Giangrande A,Bozzetti MP

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed dormancy and germination are important agronomic traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) because they determine pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) resistance and thus affect grain production. These processes are regulated by Gibberellic Acid-Stimulated Regulator (GASR) genes. In this study, we identified 37 GASR genes in...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Cheng X,Wang S,Xu D,Liu X,Li X,Xiao W,Cao J,Jiang H,Min X,Wang J,Zhang H,Chang C,Lu J,Ma C

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the accuracy and bias of genomic prediction (GP) in purebred Holstein (H) and Jersey (J) as well as crossbred (H and J) validation cows using different reference sets and prediction strategies. The reference sets were made up of different combinations of 36,695 H and J purebreds and crossbreds. Add...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Khansefid M,Goddard ME,Haile-Mariam M,Konstantinov KV,Schrooten C,de Jong G,Jewell EG,O'Connor E,Pryce JE,Daetwyler HD,MacLeod IM

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00