The obesity epidemic: from the environment to epigenetics - not simply a response to dietary manipulation in a thermoneutral environment.

abstract：:Assortative mating is a universal feature of human societies, and individuals from ethnically diverse populations are known to mate assortatively based on similarities in genetic ancestry. However, little is currently known regarding the exact phenotypic cues, or their underlying genetic architecture, which inform anc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Norris ET,Rishishwar L,Wang L,Conley AB,Chande AT,Dabrowski AM,Valderrama-Aguirre A,Jordan IK

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 23 in vol. 9, PMID: 29456554.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Yang L,Banerjee S,Cao J,Bai X,Peng Z,Chen H,Huang H,Han P,Feng S,Yi N,Song X,Wu J

更新日期：2018-04-04 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：:Apomixis, an asexual mode of reproduction through seeds, has immense scope for crop improvement due to its ability to fix hybrid vigor. In C. ciliaris, a predominantly apomictically reproducing range grass, apomixis is genetically controlled by an apospory-specific-genomic-region (ASGR) which is enriched with retrotra...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Rathore P,Raina SN,Kumar S,Bhat V

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Cryptococcus complex, includes Cryptococcus neoformans (most common fungal infection of the brain) and Cryptococcus gattii (high-impact emerging pathogen worldwide). Currently, the fungal multilocus sequence typing database (Fungal MLST Database) constitutes a valuable data repository of the genes used ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Muñoz M,Camargo M,Ramírez JD

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Recessive genetic diseases impose physical and psychological impacts to both newborns and parents who may not be aware of being carriers. Expanded carrier screening (ECS) allows screening for multiple genetic conditions at the same time. Whether or not such non-targeted panethnic approach of genetic carrier s...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Cheng HYH,Wong GCY,Chan YK,Lee CP,Tang MHY,Ng EH,Kan AS

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) have demonstrated utility in validating genetic associations derived from traditional genetic studies as well as identifying novel genetic associations. Here we used an electronic health record (EHR)-based PheWAS to explore pleiotropy of genetic variants in the fat mass and ob...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Cronin RM,Field JR,Bradford Y,Shaffer CM,Carroll RJ,Mosley JD,Bastarache L,Edwards TL,Hebbring SJ,Lin S,Hindorff LA,Crane PK,Pendergrass SA,Ritchie MD,Crawford DC,Pathak J,Bielinski SJ,Carrell DS,Crosslin DR,Ledbett

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have acknowledged that testing mediational hypotheses between treatments, genes, physiological measures, and behaviors may substantially advance our understanding of how these associations operate. In psychiatric research, the costs of measuring the putative mediator or the outcome can be prohibitive. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Makowsky R,Beasley TM,Gadbury GL,Albert JM,Kennedy RE,Allison DB

更新日期：2011-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of functional modules in gene interaction networks is a key step in understanding biological processes. Network interpretation is essential for unveiling biological mechanisms, candidate biomarkers, or potential targets for drug discovery/repositioning. Plenty of biological module identification alg...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Nazzicari N,Vella D,Coronnello C,Di Silvestre D,Bellazzi R,Marini S

更新日期：2019-10-09 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：:The Galway sheep population is the only native Irish sheep breed and this livestock genetic resource is currently categorised as 'at-risk'. In the present study, comparative population genomics analyses of Galway sheep and other sheep populations of European origin were used to investigate the microevolution and recen...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： McHugo GP,Browett S,Randhawa IAS,Howard DJ,Mullen MP,Richardson IW,Park SDE,Magee DA,Scraggs E,Dover MJ,Correia CN,Hanrahan JP,MacHugh DE

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian genome is packed tightly in the nucleus of the cell. This packing is primarily facilitated by histone proteins and results in an ordered organization of the genome in chromosome territories that can be roughly divided in heterochromatic and euchromatic domains. On top of this organization several distinc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Palstra RJ,Grosveld F

更新日期：2012-09-28 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：: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：:With the gradual development of intelligence, human got curious to know his origin and evolutionary background. Historical statements and anthropological findings were his primary tool for solving the puzzles of his own origin, until came the golden era of molecular markers which took no time to prove it's excellence ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Guha P,Srivastava SK,Bhattacharjee S,Chaudhuri TK

更新日期：2013-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a rare inherited bone dysplasia, which is mainly caused by mutations in genes encoding type I collagen including COL1A1 and COL1A2. It has been well established to identify the classical variants as well as consensus splicing-site-variants in these genes in our previous studies. However...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li L,Cao Y,Zhao F,Mao B,Ren X,Wang Y,Guan Y,You Y,Li S,Yang T,Zhao X

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed strain infection (MSI) refers to the concurrent infection of a susceptible host with multiple strains of a single pathogenic species. Known to occur in humans and animals, MSIs deserve special consideration when studying transmission dynamics, evolution, and treatment of mycobacterial diseases, notably tuberculo...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Byrne AS,Goudreau A,Bissonnette N,Shamputa IC,Tahlan K

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiome is known to have a profound effect on the development, physiology and health of its host. Whether and how it also contributes to evolutionary diversification of the host is, however, unclear. Here we hypothesize that disruption of the microbiome by new stressful environments interferes with host-microbe...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Soen Y

更新日期：2014-06-20 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：:Understanding the processes that cause speciation is a key aim of evolutionary biology. Lineages or biomes that exhibit recent and rapid diversification are ideal model systems for determining these processes. Species rich biomes reported to be of relatively recent origin, i.e., since the beginning of the Miocene, inc...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Madriñán S,Cortés AJ,Richardson JE

更新日期：2013-10-09 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：:Cereals are a staple food for many people around the world; however, they are also a major dietary source of toxic metal(loid)s. Many agricultural regions throughout the world are contaminated with toxic metal(loid)s, which can accumulate to high levels in the grains of cereals cultivated in these regions, posing seri...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Deng F,Yu M,Martinoia E,Song WY

更新日期：2019-04-09 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：:Plant Glycine-rich proteins (GRP), a superfamily with a glycine-rich domain, play an important role in various stresses such as high or low temperature stress and drought stress. GRP genes have been studied in many plants, but seldom in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis). In this study, a total of 64 G...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lu X,Cheng Y,Gao M,Li M,Xu X

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in genomes is a crucial task for not only molecular cell biology but also bioinformatics. Secondary structures of ncRNAs are employed as a key feature of ncRNA analysis since biological functions of ncRNAs are deeply related to their secondary structures. Although the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Okada Y,Saito Y,Sato K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2011-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The often-used A(C)E model that decomposes phenotypic variance into parts due to additive genetic and environmental influences can be extended to a longitudinal model when the trait has been assessed at multiple occasions. This enables inference about the nature (e.g., genetic or environmental) of the covariance among...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Schwabe I,Gu Z,Tijmstra J,Hatemi P,Pohl S

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) is a segmented negative-stranded RNA virus that brings a potentially serious threat to public health and animal husbandry. Mast cells play an important role in both the inherent and adaptive immune response. Previous studies have indicated that mast cells support the productive replication of H...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Huo C,Wu H,Xiao J,Meng D,Zou S,Wang M,Qi P,Tian H,Hu Y

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression profiling has been widely used to characterize cell status to reflect the health of the body, to diagnose genetic diseases, etc. In recent years, although the cost of genome-wide expression profiling is gradually decreasing, the cost of collecting expression profiles for thousands of genes is still ver...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li W,Yin Y,Quan X,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are an emerging class of RNA species that may play a critical regulatory role in gene expression. However, the association between lncRNAs and atrial fibrillation (AF) is still not fully understood. In this study, we used RNA sequencing data to identify and quantify the both protein codi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wu DM,Zhou ZK,Fan SH,Zheng ZH,Wen X,Han XR,Wang S,Wang YJ,Zhang ZF,Shan Q,Li MQ,Hu B,Lu J,Chen GQ,Hong XW,Zheng YL

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive allelic variation at both gene and single nucleotide level (SNV) between individuals is commonly associated with complex traits in humans and animals. Allele-specific expression (ASE) analysis, using RNA-Seq, can provide a detailed annotation of allelic imbalance and infer the existence of cis-acting transcr...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Salavati M,Bush SJ,Palma-Vera S,McCulloch MEB,Hume DA,Clark EL

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00