Human migration, diversity and disease association: a convergent role of established and emerging DNA markers.

abstract：:Domestication to captive rearing conditions, along with targeted selective breeding have genetic consequences that vary from those in wild environments. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is one of the most translocated and farmed aquaculture species globally, farmed throughout Asia, North and South America, and its...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nayfa MG,Jones DB,Benzie JAH,Jerry DR,Zenger KR

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) has resulted in a number of exciting discoveries about the role of DNA methylation leading to a plethora of novel testable hypotheses. Methods for constructing sodium bisulfite-converted and amplified libraries have recently advanced to the point that the bot...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ji L,Sasaki T,Sun X,Ma P,Lewis ZA,Schmitz RJ

更新日期：2014-10-21 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：:Advances in the field of sequencing techniques have resulted in the greatly accelerated production of huge sequence datasets. This presents immediate challenges in database maintenance at datacenters. It provides additional computational challenges in data mining and sequence analysis. Together these represent a signi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Thakur RS,Bandopadhyay R,Chaudhary B,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Postpartum depression (PPD) affects up to 19% of women, negatively impacting maternal and infant health. Reductions in plasma oxytocin levels have been associated with PPD and heritability studies have established a genetic contribution. Epigenetic regulation of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been demonstrated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Bell AF,Carter CS,Steer CD,Golding J,Davis JM,Steffen AD,Rubin LH,Lillard TS,Gregory SP,Harris JC,Connelly JJ

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Alcohol use has been linked to a number of physical conditions, but the relationship between alcohol drinking and depression, one of the most common mental disorders that is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease, is still under debate. We aim to help fill the literature gap on the causa...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhu C,Chen Q,Si W,Li Y,Chen G,Zhao Q

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) is the most representative wild ungulate of the high Andes of South America with two recognized morphological subspecies, V. v. mensalis in the north and V. v. vicugna in the south of its distribution. Current vicuña population size (460,000-520,000 animals) is the result of population rec...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： González BA,Vásquez JP,Gómez-Uchida D,Cortés J,Rivera R,Aravena N,Chero AM,Agapito AM,Varas V,Wheleer JC,Orozco-terWengel P,Marín JC

更新日期：2019-06-06 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Leukemia, specifically acute myeloid leukemia (AML), is a common malignancy that can be differentiated into multiple subtypes based on leukemogenic history and etiology. Although genetic aberrations, particularly cytogenetic abnormalities and mutations in known oncogenes, play an integral role in AML development, epig...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Goldman SL,Hassan C,Khunte M,Soldatenko A,Jong Y,Afshinnekoo E,Mason CE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges in the analysis of large data sets, particularly in a population-based setting, is the ability to perform comparisons across projects. This has to be done in such a way that the integrity of each individual project is maintained, while ensuring that the data are comparable across projects. These ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fejes AP,Jones MJ,Kobor MS

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered first. Some of the shortcomings of popular approaches-uncorrelated clock models in particular-are presented and discussed. Autocorrelated mo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guindon S

更新日期：2020-05-27 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：:Cytotoxicity assays of immortalized lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) represent a promising new in vitro approach in pharmacogenomics research. However, previous studies employing LCLs in gene mapping have used simple association methods, which may not adequately capture the true differences in non-linear response prof...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Brown C,Havener TM,Everitt L,McLeod H,Motsinger-Reif AA

更新日期：2011-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the biological role of N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a ubiquitous non-editing RNA modification, has increased greatly since 2011. More recently, work from several labs revealed that m6A methylation regulates several aspects of mRNA metabolism. The "writer" protein METTL3, known as MT-A70 in humans, Dm...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Rockwell AL,Hongay CF

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A lot of studies indicated that aberrant expression of long non-coding RNA genes (lncRNAs) is closely related to human diseases. Identifying disease-related lncRNAs (disease lncRNAs) is critical for understanding the pathogenesis and etiology of diseases. Most of the previous methods focus on prioritizing the potentia...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xuan P,Cao Y,Zhang T,Kong R,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Known as the "fifth RNA nucleotide", pseudouridine (Ψ or psi) is the first-discovered and most abundant RNA modification occurring at the Uridine site, and it plays a prominent role in a number of biological processes. Thousands of Ψ sites have been identified within different biological contexts thanks to the advance...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Song B,Tang Y,Wei Z,Liu G,Su J,Meng J,Chen K

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase H1 is able to recognize DNA/RNA heteroduplexes and to degrade their RNA component. As a consequence, it has been implicated in different aspects of mtDNA replication such as primer formation, primer removal, and replication termination, and significant differences have been reported between control and mutant RN...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Reyes A,Rusecka J,Tońska K,Zeviani M

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Some candidate genes have been robustly reported to be associated with complex traits, such as the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene on body mass index (BMI), and the fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) gene on blood pressure levels. It is of interest to know whether an environmental factor (E) can attenuate or...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lin WY,Lin YS,Chan CC,Liu YL,Tsai SJ,Kuo PH

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 40 years, the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus, indigenous to East Asia, has colonized every continent except Antarctica. Its spread is a major public health concern, given that this species is a competent vector for numerous arboviruses, including those causing dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, and the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Battaglia V,Gabrieli P,Brandini S,Capodiferro MR,Javier PA,Chen XG,Achilli A,Semino O,Gomulski LM,Malacrida AR,Gasperi G,Torroni A,Olivieri A

更新日期：2016-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain a detailed understanding of how plant microbes evolve and adapt to hosts, pesticides, and other factors, knowledge of the population dynamics and evolutionary history of populations is crucial. Plant pathogen populations are often clonal or partially clonal which requires different analytical tools. With the a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Kamvar ZN,Brooks JC,Grünwald NJ

更新日期：2015-06-10 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：:Detection of differentially expressed genes is a common task in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) studies. Various methods based on both bulk-cell and single-cell approaches are in current use. Due to the unique distributional characteristics of single-cell data, it is important to compare these methods with rigorous st...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mou T,Deng W,Gu F,Pawitan Y,Vu TN

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/HYPOTHESIS:Genome-wide association studies have identified over 50 new genetic loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Several studies conclude that higher dietary heme iron intake increases the risk of T2D. Therefore we assessed whether the relation between genetic loci and T2D is modified by dietary heme iron intake. M...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pasquale LR,Loomis SJ,Aschard H,Kang JH,Cornelis MC,Qi L,Kraft P,Hu FB

更新日期：2013-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the target genes that interact with drugs-drug-target interactions-plays an important role in drug discovery. Identification of drug-target interactions through biological experiments is time consuming, laborious, and costly. Therefore, using computational approaches to predict candidate targets is a good ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xuan P,Sun C,Zhang T,Ye Y,Shen T,Dong Y

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a complex illness, frequently co-morbid with depression, caused by both genetics, and the environment. Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), which also co-occurs with depression, is often co-morbid with PTSD. To date, very few genes have been identified for PTSD and even less for PTSD com...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lim PH,Shi G,Wang T,Jenz ST,Mulligan MK,Redei EE,Chen H

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, studies have shown that phytopathogenic fungi possess the ability of cross-kingdom regulation of host plants through small RNAs (sRNAs). Magnaporthe oryzae, a causative agent of rice blast, introduces disease by penetrating the rice tissues through appressoria. However, little is known about the trans...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang H,Liu S,Chang H,Zhan M,Qin QM,Zhang B,Li Z,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00