A review of potassium channels in bipolar disorder.

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：:Circadian rhythms produce a biological measure of the time of day. In plants, circadian regulation forms an essential adaptation to the fluctuating environment. Most of our knowledge of the molecular aspects of circadian regulation in plants is derived from laboratory experiments that are performed under controlled co...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Panter PE,Muranaka T,Cuitun-Coronado D,Graham CA,Yochikawa A,Kudoh H,Dodd AN

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation (IR) is a high-energy radiation whose biological effects depend on the irradiation doses. Low-dose radiation (LDR) is delivered during medical diagnoses or by an exposure to radioactive elements and has been linked to the occurrence of chronic diseases, such as leukemia and cardiovascular diseases. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shin E,Lee S,Kang H,Kim J,Kim K,Youn H,Jin YW,Seo S,Youn B

更新日期：2020-10-02 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：:Identifying driver genes that contribute to cancer progression from numerous passenger genes, although a central goal, is a major challenge. The protein-protein interaction network provides convenient and reasonable assistance for driver gene discovery. Random walk-based methods have been widely used to prioritize nod...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wei PJ,Wu FX,Xia J,Su Y,Wang J,Zheng CH

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is one of the malignancies in women, which has the highest mortality. However, the microlevel mechanism has not been discussed in detail. The expression profiles GSE27651, GSE38666, GSE40595, and GSE66957 including 188 tumor and 52 nontumor samples were downloaded from the Gene Expressi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu J,Meng H,Li S,Shen Y,Wang H,Shan W,Qiu J,Zhang J,Cheng W

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Both natural and artificial selection are among the main driving forces shaping genetic variation across the genome of livestock species. Selection typically leaves signatures in the genome, which are often characterized by high genetic differentiation across breeds and/or a strong reduction in genetic diversity in re...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Onzima RB,Upadhyay MR,Doekes HP,Brito LF,Bosse M,Kanis E,Groenen MAM,Crooijmans RPMA

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a well-known occupational carcinogen, but the mechanisms contributing to DNA damage and cell cycle alternation have not been fully characterized. To study the dose-response effects of Cr(VI) on transcription, we exposed BEAS-2B cells to Cr(VI) at concentrations of 0.2, 0.6, and 1.8 μmol...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng P,Kang Y,Han S,Feng H,Ha F,Long C,Zhou D,Hu G,Chen Z,Wang Z,Wang T,Jia G

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed type of cancer worldwide. The mechanisms leading to the progression of CRC are involved in both genetic and epigenetic regulations. In this study, we applied systems biology methods to identify potential biomarkers and conduct drug discovery in a computation...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yeh SJ,Chen SW,Chen BS

更新日期：2020-03-06 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：: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：: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：:Accurate inference of causal gene regulatory networks from gene expression data is an open bioinformatics challenge. Gene interactions are dynamical processes and consequently we can expect that the effect of any regulation action occurs after a certain temporal lag. However such lag is unknown a priori and temporal a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lopes M,Bontempi G

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing non-timber forest plants. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is the most economically valuable bamboo in Asia, especially in China. With the release of the whole-genome sequence of moso bamboo, there are increasing demands for refined annotation of bamboo genes. Recently, large amo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ma X,Zhao H,Xu W,You Q,Yan H,Gao Z,Su Z

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in genomics and proteomics generated a large amount of trans regulatory data such as those mediated by RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and microRNAs. Since many trans regulators target 3' UTR of mRNA transcripts, it is likely that there would be interactions, i.e., competitive or cooperative effect, among ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liu Y,Pan C,Kong D,Luo J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 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：:Leprosy, an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affects millions of people worldwide. However, little is known regarding its molecular pathophysiological mechanisms. In this study, a comprehensive assessment of human mRNA was performed on leprosy skin lesions by using DNA chip microarrays, which include...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Belone Ade F,Rosa PS,Trombone AP,Fachin LR,Guidella CC,Ura S,Barreto JA,Pinilla MG,de Carvalho AF,Carraro DM,Soares FA,Soares CT

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative and progressive disease, which often causes irreversible damages to the cerebrum. The pathogenesis of AD is far from being fully understood, while there are some popular hypotheses. So far, the diagnosis of AD relies only on clinical screening in the form of imaging tech...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang L,Liu ZP

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors are involved in the regulation of various biological processes in plant growth, development, and stress response. However, members of this important transcription factor family have not been systematically identified and analyzed in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)....

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang Z,Chen J,Liang C,Liu F,Hou X,Zou X

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Recent evidence has indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can function as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) to modulate mRNAs expression by sponging microRNAs (miRNAs). However, the specific mechanism and function of lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulatory network in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang M,Zheng S,Li X,Ding Y,Zhang M,Lin L,Xu H,Cheng Y,Zhang X,Xu H,Li S

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: To explore a method for the early, rapid and accurate diagnosis of Wolfram syndrome 1 (WS1) and further enrich the spectrum of WFS1 mutations in the Chinese population. Methods: We analyzed 279 patients with unexplained optic atrophy using next-generation sequencing. All patients underwent detailed clinical e...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang DD,Hu FY,Gao FJ,Zhang SH,Xu P,Tian GH,Wu JH

更新日期：2019-11-26 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：:Over the past decade, neural networks have become one of the cutting-edge methods in various research fields, outshining specifically in complex classification problems. In this paper, we propose two main contributions: first, we conduct a methodological study of neural network modeling for classifying biological trai...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wilentzik Müller R,Gat-Viks I

更新日期：2020-05-15 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：:Genome-wide association study (GWAS), exploring the historical and evolutionary recombinations at the population level, is a major method adopted to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for complex traits. However, to summarize GWAS results, gene structure, and linkage disequilibrium (LD) in a single view, multiple ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： He F,Ding S,Wang H,Qin F

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver is the main organ of lipid metabolism in chicken, especially for laying hens. To explore the molecular mechanism of lipid metabolism in chicken, five novel genes discovered in chicken liver tissue were systematically studied. Bioinformatic analysis was used to analyze the gene characteristics. The expression pat...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li H,Li Y,Yang L,Zhang D,Liu Z,Wang Y,Han R,Li G,Li Z,Tian Y,Kang X,Liu X

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptome analyses have increased our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying human diseases. Most approaches aim to identify significant genes by comparing their expression values between healthy subjects and a group of patients with a certain disease. Given that studies normally contain few samples,...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Gonçalves ANA,Lever M,Russo PST,Gomes-Correia B,Urbanski AH,Pollara G,Noursadeghi M,Maracaja-Coutinho V,Nakaya HI

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms in β1-, β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) have been associated with chronic non-communicable disorders, such as cardiovascular diseases, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obesity, as well as β-agonists and antagonists response and toxicity. The purpose of this study w...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Katsarou MS,Karathanasopoulou A,Andrianopoulou A,Desiniotis V,Tzinis E,Dimitrakis E,Lagiou M,Charmandari E,Aschner M,Tsatsakis AM,Chrousos GP,Drakoulis N

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary function of leaves is to provide an interface between plants and their environment for gas exchange, light exposure and thermoregulation. Leaves have, therefore a central contribution to plant fitness by allowing an efficient absorption of sunlight energy through photosynthesis to ensure an optimal growth....

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Fritz MA,Rosa S,Sicard A

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous pathogens, such as phytopathogenic oomycetes and fungi, secrete a remarkable diversity of apoplastic effector proteins to facilitate infection, many of which are able to induce cell death in plants. Over the past decades, over 177 apoplastic cell death-inducing proteins (CDIPs) have been identified in fila...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li Y,Han Y,Qu M,Chen J,Chen X,Geng X,Wang Z,Chen S

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00