Now and next-generation sequencing techniques: future of sequence analysis using cloud computing.

abstract：:After the genomic era, the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has allowed us to advance our understanding of genetic variants responsible for adaptation to high altitude in humans. However, transcriptomic characteristics associated with phenotypic plasticity conferring tolerance to acute hypobaric ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yasukochi Y,Shin S,Wakabayashi H,Maeda T

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment of diverse populations and subjects living in Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/P's) into clinical trials is a considerable challenge. Likewise, representation of African-Americans in pharmacogenetic trials is often inadequate, but critical for identifying genetic variation within and betwee...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shah-Williams E,Levy KD,Zang Y,Holmes AM,Stoughton C,Dexter P,Skaar TC

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

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：:Network propagation is a central tool in biological research. While a number of variants and normalizations have been proposed for this method, each has its own shortcomings and no large scale assessment of those variants is available. Here we propose a novel normalization method for network propagation that is based ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Biran H,Kupiec M,Sharan R

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are an abundant and functionally diverse class of eukaryotic transcripts. Reported lincRNA repertoires in mammals vary, but are commonly in the thousands to tens of thousands of transcripts, covering ~90% of the genome. In addition to elucidating function, there is particular...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nelson ADL,Devisetty UK,Palos K,Haug-Baltzell AK,Lyons E,Beilstein MA

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that recombination in meiosis serves to reshuffle genetic material from both parents to increase genetic variation in the progeny. At the same time, the number of crossovers is usually kept at a very low level. As a consequence, many organisms need to make the best possible use from the one or two cross...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Dluzewska J,Szymanska M,Ziolkowski PA

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, several studies have been focused on revealing the microRNA (miRNA) repertoire and determining their functions in farm animals such as poultry, pigs, cattle, and fish. These small non-protein coding RNA molecules (18-25 nucleotides) are capable of controlling gene expression by binding to messenger...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Herkenhoff ME,Oliveira AC,Nachtigall PG,Costa JM,Campos VF,Hilsdorf AWS,Pinhal D

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialized cell types of trophoblast cells form the placenta in which each cell type has particular properties of proliferation and invasion. The placenta sustains the growth of the fetus throughout pregnancy and any aberrant trophoblast differentiation or invasion potentially affects the future health of the child a...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Logan PC,Mitchell MD,Lobie PE

更新日期：2013-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a novel class of RNA molecules defined as transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides that lack protein coding potential. They constitute a major, but still poorly characterized part of human transcriptome, however, evidence is growing that they are important regulatory molecules involved...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yarmishyn AA,Kurochkin IV

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Apelin (APLN)/apelin receptor (APLNR) signaling pathway is a newly identified regulator in various cardiovascular diseases, which is considered as a candidate pathway for the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD), depression, and anxiety. The goal of this study was to investigate the association between APLN/...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang Y,Liu W,Xiao Y,Yuan H,Wang F,Jiang P,Luo Z

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeng et al. (2005) proposed a general two-allele (G2A) model to model bi-allelic quantitative trait loci (QTL). Comparing with the classical Fisher model, the G2A model can avoid using redundant parameters and be fitted directly using standard least square (LS) approach. In this study, we further extend the G2A model ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang T

更新日期：2014-09-25 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：:Mud crab, Scylla paramamosain is one of the most important crustacean species in global aquaculture. To determine the genetic basis of sex and growth-related traits in S. paramamosain, a high-density genetic linkage map with 16,701 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was constructed using SLAF-seq and a full-sib fa...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Waiho K,Shi X,Fazhan H,Li S,Zhang Y,Zheng H,Liu W,Fang S,Ikhwanuddin M,Ma H

更新日期：2019-04-05 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：:In the last decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered tens of thousands of associations between common genetic variants and complex diseases. However, these statistical associations can rarely be interpreted functionally and mechanistically. As the majority of the disease-associated variants are l...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mariella E,Marotta F,Grassi E,Gilotto S,Provero P

更新日期：2019-08-16 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：:In recent years, there has been an explosive increase in the amount of bioinformatics data produced, but data are not information. The purpose of bioinformatics research is to obtain information with biological significance from large amounts of data. Multiple sequence alignment is widely used in sequence homology det...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shi H,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-02-27 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：:Lung diseases impact patients across the lifespan, from infants in the first minutes of life through the aged population. Congenital abnormalities of lung structure can cause lung disease at birth or make adults more susceptible to chronic disease. Continuous inhalation of atmospheric components also requires the lung...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Prince LS

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalates are esters of phthalic acid which are used in cosmetics and other daily personal care products. They are also used in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics to increase durability and plasticity. Phthalates are not present in plastics by covalent bonds and thus can easily leach into the environment and enter the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Dutta S,Haggerty DK,Rappolee DA,Ruden DM

更新日期：2020-05-06 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：Background:Lung disease phenotype varies widely even in the F508del (homozygous) genotype. Leukocyte-driven inflammation is important for pulmonary disease pathogenesis in cystic fibrosis (CF). Blood cytokines correlate negatively with pulmonary function in F508del homozygous patients, and gap junction proteins (GJA) m...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Horn T,Ludwig M,Eickmeier O,Neerinex AH,Maitland-van der Zee AH,Smaczny C,Wagner TOF,Schubert R,Zielen S,Majoor C,Bos LD,Schmitt-Grohé S

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used pan RNA-seq analysis to reveal the ubiquitous existence of both 5' and 3' end small RNAs (5' and 3' sRNAs). 5' and 3' sRNAs alone can be used to annotate nuclear non-coding and mitochondrial genes at 1-bp resolution and identify new steady RNAs, which are usually transcribed from functional gene...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Xu X,Ji H,Jin X,Cheng Z,Yao X,Liu Y,Zhao Q,Zhang T,Ruan J,Bu W,Chen Z,Gao S

更新日期：2019-02-14 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：:Objective: Schizophrenia is thought to be a neurodevelopmental disorder. As a key regulator in the development of the central nervous system, transcription factor 4 (TCF4) has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The aim of our study was to assay the association of TCF4 single nucleotide pol...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yin J,Zhu D,Li Y,Lv D,Yu H,Liang C,Luo X,Xu X,Fu J,Yan H,Dai Z,Zhou X,Wen X,Xiong S,Lin Z,Lin J,Zhao B,Wang Y,Li K,Ma G

更新日期：2019-05-28 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：:Post-translational methylation of H3 lysine 36 (H3K36) is an important epigenetic marker that majorly contributes to the functionality of the chromatin. This mark is interpreted by the cell in several crucial biological processes including gene transcription and DNA methylation. The homeostasis of H3K36 methylation is...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zaghi M,Broccoli V,Sessa A

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins are regulated by posttranslational modifications and changes in these modifications contribute to evolutionary changes as well as to human diseases. Phosphorylation of serines, threonines, and tyrosines are the most common modifications identified to date in eukaryotic proteomes. While the mode of action...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Landry CR,Freschi L,Zarin T,Moses AM

更新日期：2014-07-23 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：: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