abstract：:Abnormal fetal growth is a risk factor for infant morbidity and mortality and is associated with cardiometabolic diseases in adults. Genetic influences on fetal growth can vary at different gestation times, but genome-wide association studies have been limited to birthweight. We performed trans-ethnic genome-wide meta...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tekola-Ayele F,Zhang C,Wu J,Grantz KL,Rahman ML,Shrestha D,Ouidir M,Workalemahu T,Tsai MY

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex traits are known to be influenced by a combination of environmental factors and rare and common genetic variants. However, detection of such multivariate associations can be compromised by low statistical power and confounding by population structure. Linear mixed effects models (LMM) can account for correlati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bhatnagar SR,Yang Y,Lu T,Schurr E,Loredo-Osti JC,Forest M,Oualkacha K,Greenwood CMT

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bases within DNA are frequently damaged, producing obstacles to efficient and accurate DNA replication by replicative polymerases. Translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases, via their ability to catalyze nucleotide additions to growing DNA chains across DNA lesions, promote replication of damaged DNA, thus preventing ch...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Bostelen I,van Schendel R,Romeijn R,Tijsterman M

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alphaproteobacteria show a remarkable diversity of cell cycle-dependent developmental patterns, which are governed by the conserved CtrA pathway. Its central component CtrA is a DNA-binding response regulator that is controlled by a complex two-component signaling network, mediating distinct transcriptional progra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leicht O,van Teeseling MCF,Panis G,Reif C,Wendt H,Viollier PH,Thanbichler M

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) is a rare and aggressive malignancy. Though the molecular underpinnings of this cancer have been largely unexplored, recurrent chromosomal breakpoints affecting a noncoding region on chr19q13, which includes the chromosome 19 microRNA cluster (C19MC), have been re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Setty BA,Jinesh GG,Arnold M,Pettersson F,Cheng CH,Cen L,Yoder SJ,Teer JK,Flores ER,Reed DR,Brohl AS

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the extent to which ecological divergence is repeatable is essential for predicting responses of biodiversity to environmental change. Here we test the predictability of evolution, from genotype to phenotype, by studying parallel evolution in a salmonid fish, Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), across ele...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jacobs A,Carruthers M,Yurchenko A,Gordeeva NV,Alekseyev SS,Hooker O,Leong JS,Minkley DR,Rondeau EB,Koop BF,Adams CE,Elmer KR

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is a pivotal centre for the integration and processing of motor and sensory information. Its extended development into the postnatal period makes this structure vulnerable to a variety of pathologies, including neoplasia. These properties have prompted intensive investigations that reveal not only devel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Essen MJ,Nayler S,Becker EBE,Jacob J

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the XPF-ERCC1 endonuclease causes a dramatic phenotype that results in progeroid features associated with liver, kidney and bone marrow dysfunction. As this nuclease is involved in multiple DNA repair transactions, it is plausible that this severe phenotype results from the simultaneous inactivation of both br...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mulderrig L,Garaycoechea JI

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, gene expression in the haploid male gametophyte (pollen) is essential for sperm delivery and double fertilization. Pollen also undergoes dynamic epigenetic regulation of expression from transposable elements (TEs), but how this process interacts with gene expression is not clearly understood. To e...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Warman C,Panda K,Vejlupkova Z,Hokin S,Unger-Wallace E,Cole RA,Chettoor AM,Jiang D,Vollbrecht E,Evans MMS,Slotkin RK,Fowler JE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is a nearly universal behavior that is regulated by diverse environmental stimuli and physiological states. A defining feature of sleep is a homeostatic rebound following deprivation, where animals compensate for lost sleep by increasing sleep duration and/or sleep depth. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brown EB,Shah KD,Faville R,Kottler B,Keene AC

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous systems have the ability to select appropriate actions and action sequences in response to sensory cues. The circuit mechanisms by which nervous systems achieve choice, stability and transitions between behaviors are still incompletely understood. To identify neurons and brain areas involved in controlling the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Masson JB,Laurent F,Cardona A,Barré C,Skatchkovsky N,Zlatic M,Jovanic T

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of the small and isolated Greenlandic population is advantageous for identification of novel genetic variants associated with cardio-metabolic traits. We aimed to identify genetic loci associated with body mass index (BMI), to expand the knowledge of the genetic and biological mechanisms under...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Andersen MK,Jørsboe E,Skotte L,Hanghøj K,Sandholt CH,Moltke I,Grarup N,Kern T,Mahendran Y,Søborg B,Bjerregaard P,Larsen CVL,Dahl-Petersen IK,Tiwari HK,Feenstra B,Koch A,Wiener HW,Hopkins SE,Pedersen O,Melbye M,Boy

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogens N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis display robust intra- and interstrain glycan diversity associated with their O-linked protein glycosylation (pgl) systems. In an effort to better understand the evolution and function of protein glycosylation operating there, we aimed to determine if other human-r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hadjineophytou C,Anonsen JH,Wang N,Ma KC,Viburiene R,Vik Å,Harrison OB,Maiden MCJ,Grad YH,Koomey M

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008320.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites follow a complex life cycle that consists of multiple stages that span from the human host to the mosquito vector. Among the species causing malaria, Plasmodium falciparum is the most lethal, with clinical symptoms manifesting during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle (IDC). During the IDC, P....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Walzer KA,Fradin H,Emerson LY,Corcoran DL,Chi JT

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite strong vetting for disease activity, only 10% of candidate new molecular entities in early stage clinical trials are eventually approved. Analyzing historical pipeline data, Nelson et al. 2015 (Nat. Genet.) concluded pipeline drug targets with human genetic evidence of disease association are twice as likely t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： King EA,Davis JW,Degner JF

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful replication and repair of DNA lesions ensure genome maintenance. During replication in eukaryotic cells, DNA is unwound by the CMG helicase complex, which is composed of three major components: the Cdc45 protein, Mcm2-7, and the GINS complex. The CMG in complex with DNA polymerase epsilon (CMG-E) participates...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jedrychowska M,Denkiewicz-Kruk M,Alabrudzinska M,Skoneczna A,Jonczyk P,Dmowski M,Fijalkowska IJ

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic fungi have evolved a complex regulatory network to maintain the precise balance of nutrients required for growth and hydrolytic enzyme production. When fungi are exposed to cellulose, the transcript levels of cellulase genes rapidly increase and then decline. However, the mechanisms underlying this bell-s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lin L,Wang S,Li X,He Q,Benz JP,Tian C

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide O-antigen structure expressed by the European Helicobacter pylori model strain G27 encompasses a trisaccharide, an intervening glucan-heptan and distal Lewis antigens that promote immune escape. However, several gaps still remain in the corresponding biosynthetic pathway. Here, systematic mutage...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li H,Marceau M,Yang T,Liao T,Tang X,Hu R,Xie Y,Tang H,Tay A,Shi Y,Shen Y,Yang T,Pi X,Lamichhane B,Luo Y,Debowski AW,Nilsson HO,Haslam SM,Mulloy B,Dell A,Stubbs KA,Marshall BJ,Benghezal M

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetochore is the central molecular machine that drives chromosome segregation in all eukaryotes. Genetic studies have suggested that protein sumoylation plays a role in regulating the inner kinetochore; however, the mechanism remains elusive. Here, we show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ulp2, an evolutionarily co...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Suhandynata RT,Quan Y,Yang Y,Yuan WT,Albuquerque CP,Zhou H

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are a conserved class of ATP-independent chaperones that bind to aggregation-prone polypeptides at stress conditions. sHsps encage these polypeptides in assemblies, shielding them from further aggregation. To facilitate their subsequent solubilization and refolding by Hsp70 (DnaK) and...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Obuchowski I,Piróg A,Stolarska M,Tomiczek B,Liberek K

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt signaling regulates primary body axis formation across the Metazoa, with high Wnt signaling specifying posterior identity. Whether a common Wnt-driven transcriptional program accomplishes this broad role is poorly understood. We identified genes acutely affected after Wnt signaling inhibition in the posterior of t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tewari AG,Owen JH,Petersen CP,Wagner DE,Reddien PW

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have now been conducted for hundreds of phenotypes of relevance to human health. Many such GWAS involve multiple closely-related phenotypes collected on the same samples. However, the vast majority of these GWAS have been analyzed using simple univariate analyses, which consider ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turchin MC,Stephens M

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria have been increasingly recognized as a central regulatory nexus for multiple metabolic pathways, in addition to ATP production via oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Here we show that inducing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) stress in Drosophila using a mitochondrially-targeted Type I restriction endonuclease ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bahhir D,Yalgin C,Ots L,Järvinen S,George J,Naudí A,Krama T,Krams I,Tamm M,Andjelković A,Dufour E,González de Cózar JM,Gerards M,Parhiala M,Pamplona R,Jacobs HT,Jõers P

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between neoplastic cells and cells of their microenvironment is critical to cancer progression. To investigate the role of cytoneme-mediated signaling as a mechanism for distributing growth factor signaling proteins between tumor and tumor-associated cells, we analyzed EGFR and RET Drosophila tumor model...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fereres S,Hatori R,Hatori M,Kornberg TB

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin is a major developmental regulator in plants and the acquisition of a transcriptional response to auxin likely contributed to developmental innovations at the time of water-to-land transition. Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) Transcription Factors (TFs) that mediate auxin-dependent transcriptional changes are divid...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Martin-Arevalillo R,Thévenon E,Jégu F,Vinos-Poyo T,Vernoux T,Parcy F,Dumas R

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Iran, despite its size, geographic location and past cultural influence, has largely been a blind spot for human population genetic studies. With only sparse genetic information on the Iranian population available, we pursued its genome-wide and geographic characterization based on 1021 samples from eleven ethnic grou...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mehrjoo Z,Fattahi Z,Beheshtian M,Mohseni M,Poustchi H,Ardalani F,Jalalvand K,Arzhangi S,Mohammadi Z,Khoshbakht S,Najafi F,Nikuei P,Haddadi M,Zohrehvand E,Oladnabi M,Mohammadzadeh A,Jafari MH,Akhtarkhavari T,Gooshki ES

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbes exhibit quorum sensing (QS) to cooperate, share and perform a social task in unison. Recent studies have shown the emergence of reversible phenotypic heterogeneity in the QS-responding pathogenic microbial population under laboratory conditions as a possible bet-hedging survival strategy. However, very l...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Samal B,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources for the domestic dog have improved with the widespread adoption of a 173k SNP array platform and updated reference genome. SNP arrays of this density are sufficient for detecting genetic associations within breeds but are underpowered for finding associations across multiple breeds or in mixed-breed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hayward JJ,White ME,Boyle M,Shannon LM,Casal ML,Castelhano MG,Center SA,Meyers-Wallen VN,Simpson KW,Sutter NB,Todhunter RJ,Boyko AR

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient adaptation to iron starvation is an essential virulence determinant of the most common human mold pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. Here, we demonstrate that the cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxin GrxD plays an essential role in iron sensing in this fungus. Our studies revealed that (i) GrxD is essential for gr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Misslinger M,Scheven MT,Hortschansky P,López-Berges MS,Heiss K,Beckmann N,Heigl T,Hermann M,Krüger T,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA,Haas H

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual development is a key evolutionary innovation of eukaryotes. In many species, mating involves interaction between compatible mating partners that can undergo cell and nuclear fusion and subsequent steps of development including meiosis. Mating compatibility in fungi is governed by the mating type (MAT) loci. In ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun S,Coelho MA,Heitman J,Nowrousian M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase (PRPS) is a rate-limiting enzyme whose function is important for the biosynthesis of purines, pyrimidines, and pyridines. Importantly, while missense mutations of PRPS1 have been identified in neurological disorders such as Arts syndrome, how they contribute to neuropathogenesis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Delos Santos K,Kim M,Yergeau C,Jean S,Moon NS

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome assembly cofactors are widely conserved across all domains of life. One such group, the ribosome-associated GTPases (RA-GTPase), act as molecular switches to coordinate ribosome assembly. We previously identified the Staphylococcus aureus RA-GTPase Era as a target for the stringent response alarmone (p)ppGpp,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wood A,Irving SE,Bennison DJ,Corrigan RM

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopamine (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Rare genetic mutations in genes such as Parkin, Pink1, DJ-1, α-synuclein, LRRK2 and GBA are found to be responsible for the disease in about 15% of the cases. A key u...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Giguère N,Delignat-Lavaud B,Herborg F,Voisin A,Li Y,Jacquemet V,Anand-Srivastava M,Gether U,Giros B,Trudeau LÉ

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Teleost fishes, thanks to their rapid evolution of sex determination mechanisms, provide remarkable opportunities to study the formation of sex chromosomes and the mechanisms driving the birth of new master sex determining (MSD) genes. However, the evolutionary interplay between the sex chromosomes and the MSD genes t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pan Q,Feron R,Yano A,Guyomard R,Jouanno E,Vigouroux E,Wen M,Busnel JM,Bobe J,Concordet JP,Parrinello H,Journot L,Klopp C,Lluch J,Roques C,Postlethwait J,Schartl M,Herpin A,Guiguen Y

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele age has long been a focus of population genetic research, primarily because it can be an important clue to the fitness effects of an allele. By virtue of their effects on fitness, alleles under directional selection are expected to be younger than neutral alleles of the same frequency. We developed a new coales...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Platt A,Pivirotto A,Knoblauch J,Hey J

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methyltransferases are ubiquitous enzymes conserved in bacteria, plants and opisthokonta. These enzymes, which methylate cytosines, are involved in numerous biological processes, notably development. In mammals and higher plants, methylation patterns established and maintained by the cytosine DNA methyltransferase...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grognet P,Timpano H,Carlier F,Aït-Benkhali J,Berteaux-Lecellier V,Debuchy R,Bidard F,Malagnac F

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins associated with familial neurodegenerative disease often aggregate in patients' neurons. Several such proteins, e.g. TDP-43, aggregate and are toxic when expressed in yeast. Deletion of the ATXN2 ortholog, PBP1, reduces yeast TDP-43 toxicity, which led to identification of ATXN2 as an amyotrophic lateral scle...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Park S,Park SK,Watanabe N,Hashimoto T,Iwatsubo T,Shelkovnikova TA,Liebman SW

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The length of cilia is controlled by a poorly understood mechanism that involves members of the conserved RCK kinase group, and among them, the LF4/MOK kinases. The multiciliated protist model, Tetrahymena, carries two types of cilia (oral and locomotory) and the length of the locomotory cilia is dependent on their po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jiang YY,Maier W,Baumeister R,Minevich G,Joachimiak E,Wloga D,Ruan Z,Kannan N,Bocarro S,Bahraini A,Vasudevan KK,Lechtreck K,Orias E,Gaertig J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of eye tissue is initiated by a conserved set of transcription factors termed retinal determination network (RDN). In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zinc-finger transcription factor Glass acts directly downstream of the RDN to control identity of photoreceptor as well as non-photoreceptor cells...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fritsch C,Bernardo-Garcia FJ,Humberg TH,Mishra AK,Miellet S,Almeida S,Frochaux MV,Deplancke B,Huber A,Sprecher SG

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00