abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster gene Dscam is essential for axon guidance and has 38,016 possible alternative splice forms. This diversity can potentially be used to distinguish cells. We analyzed the Dscam mRNA isoforms expressed by different cell types and individual cells. The choice of splice variants expressed is reg...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Neves G,Zucker J,Daly M,Chess A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold induces expression of a number of genes that encode proteins that enhance tolerance to freezing temperatures in plants. A cis-acting element responsive to cold and drought, the C-repeat/dehydration-responsive element (C/DRE), was identified in the Arabidopsis thaliana stress-inducible genes RD29A and COR15a and f...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Kim HJ,Hyun Y,Park JY,Park MJ,Park MK,Kim MD,Kim HJ,Lee MH,Moon J,Lee I,Kim J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication protein A (RPA) is a highly conserved single-stranded DNA-binding protein involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair. We show here that RPA is present at the telomeres of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a maximal association in S phase. A truncation of the N-terminal region of R...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Schramke V,Luciano P,Brevet V,Guillot S,Corda Y,Longhese MP,Gilson E,Géli V

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian homeobox transcription factor CDX2 has key roles in intestinal development and differentiation. Heterozygous Cdx2 mice develop one or two benign hamartomas in the proximal colon, whereas heterozygous Apc(Delta716) mice develop numerous adenomatous polyps, mostly in the small intestine. Here we show that ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Aoki K,Tamai Y,Horiike S,Oshima M,Taketo MM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global health impact of malaria is enormous, with an estimated 300-500 million clinical cases and 1 million annual deaths. In humans, initial susceptibility to infection with Plasmodium species, disease severity and ultimate outcome of malaria (self-healing or lethal) are under complex genetic control. Alleles ass...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Min-Oo G,Fortin A,Tam MF,Nantel A,Stevenson MM,Gros P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni is the primary causative agent of schistosomiasis, which affects 200 million individuals in 74 countries. We generated 163,000 expressed-sequence tags (ESTs) from normalized cDNA libraries from six selected developmental stages of the parasite, resulting in 31,000 assembled sequences and 92% sampli...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Verjovski-Almeida S,DeMarco R,Martins EA,Guimarães PE,Ojopi EP,Paquola AC,Piazza JP,Nishiyama MY Jr,Kitajima JP,Adamson RE,Ashton PD,Bonaldo MF,Coulson PS,Dillon GP,Farias LP,Gregorio SP,Ho PL,Leite RA,Malaquias LC,

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously mapped susceptibility to stroke to chromosome 5q12. Here we finely mapped this locus and tested it for association with stroke. We found the strongest association in the gene encoding phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D), especially for carotid and cardiogenic stroke, the forms of stroke related to atheroscleros...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Gretarsdottir S,Thorleifsson G,Reynisdottir ST,Manolescu A,Jonsdottir S,Jonsdottir T,Gudmundsdottir T,Bjarnadottir SM,Einarsson OB,Gudjonsdottir HM,Hawkins M,Gudmundsson G,Gudmundsdottir H,Andrason H,Gudmundsdottir AS,Sigur

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss (AHL) in common inbred mouse strains is a genetically complex quantitative trait. We found a synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphism in exon 7 of Cdh23 that shows significant association with AHL and the deafness modifier mdfw (modifer of deafwaddler). The hypomorphic Cdh23(753A) allele caus...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Noben-Trauth K,Zheng QY,Johnson KR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hindbrain roof plate and choroid plexus are essential organizing centers for inducing dorsal neuron fates and sustaining neuron function. To map the formation of these structures, we developed a broadly applicable, high resolution, recombinase-based method for mapping the fate of cells originating from coordinates...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Awatramani R,Soriano P,Rodriguez C,Mai JJ,Dymecki SM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most errors that arise during DNA replication can be corrected by DNA polymerase proofreading or by post-replication mismatch repair (MMR). Inactivation of both mutation-avoidance systems results in extremely high mutability that can lead to error catastrophe. High mutability and the likelihood of cancer can be caused...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Jin YH,Clark AB,Slebos RJ,Al-Refai H,Taylor JA,Kunkel TA,Resnick MA,Gordenin DA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of tight association between epidermis and dermis underlies several blistering disorders and is frequently caused by impaired function of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Here we describe a new protein in mouse, Fras1, that is specifically detected in a linear fashion underlying the epidermis and the basal su...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Vrontou S,Petrou P,Meyer BI,Galanopoulos VK,Imai K,Yanagi M,Chowdhury K,Scambler PJ,Chalepakis G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic or immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated diseases include the common disorders of asthma, atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis. Chromosome 13q14 shows consistent linkage to atopy and the total serum IgE concentration. We previously identified association between total serum IgE levels and a novel 13q14 microsatell...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Leaves NI,Anderson GG,Ponting CP,Broxholme J,Holt R,Edser P,Bhattacharyya S,Dunham A,Adcock IM,Pulleyn L,Barnes PJ,Harper JI,Abecasis G,Cardon L,White M,Burton J,Matthews L,Mott R,Ross M,Cox R,Moffatt MF

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with hereditary hemochromatosis suffer from systemic iron overload due to duodenal hyperabsorption. Most cases arise from a founder mutation in HFE (845G-->A; ref. 2) that results in the amino-acid substitution C282Y and prevents the association of HFE with beta2-microglobulin. Mice homozygous with respect...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Muckenthaler M,Roy CN,Custodio AO,Miñana B,deGraaf J,Montross LK,Andrews NC,Hentze MW

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We took advantage of overlapping interstitial deletions at chromosome 8p11-p12 in two individuals with contiguous gene syndromes and defined an interval of roughly 540 kb associated with a dominant form of Kallmann syndrome, KAL2. We establish here that loss-of-function mutations in FGFR1 underlie KAL2 whereas a gain-...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Dodé C,Levilliers J,Dupont JM,De Paepe A,Le Dû N,Soussi-Yanicostas N,Coimbra RS,Delmaghani S,Compain-Nouaille S,Baverel F,Pêcheux C,Le Tessier D,Cruaud C,Delpech M,Speleman F,Vermeulen S,Amalfitano A,Bachelot Y,Boucha

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 5 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with minor-allele frequency greater than 10% are expected to exist in the human genome. Some of these SNPs may be associated with risk of developing common diseases. To assess the power of currently available SNPs to detect such associations, we resequenced 50...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Carlson CS,Eberle MA,Rieder MJ,Smith JD,Kruglyak L,Nickerson DA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, bioinformatics has become an integral part of research and development in the biomedical sciences. Bioinformatics now has an essential role both in deciphering genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data generated by high-throughput experimental technologies and in organizing information gathered fr...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Kanehisa M,Bork P

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amnionless gene, Amn, on mouse chromosome 12 encodes a type I transmembrane protein that is expressed in the extraembryonic visceral layer during gastrulation. Mice homozygous with respect to the amn mutation generated by a transgene insertion have no amnion. The embryos are severely compromised, surviving to the ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Tanner SM,Aminoff M,Wright FA,Liyanarachchi S,Kuronen M,Saarinen A,Massika O,Mandel H,Broch H,de la Chapelle A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence in eukaryotic genomes that gene order is not random, even allowing for tandem duplication. Notably, in numerous genomes, genes of similar expression tend to be clustered. Are there other reasons for clustering of functionally similar genes? If genes are linked to enable genetic, rather tha...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Pál C,Hurst LD

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By imposing a limit on the proliferative lifespan of most somatic cells, telomere erosion represents an innate mechanism for tumor suppression and may contribute to age-related disease. A detailed understanding of the pathways that link shortened telomeres to replicative senescence has been severely hindered by the in...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Baird DM,Rowson J,Wynford-Thomas D,Kipling D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that ASPP1 and ASPP2 are specific activators of p53; one mechanism by which wild-type p53 is tolerated in human breast carcinomas is through loss of ASPP activity. We have further shown that 53BP2, which corresponds to a C-terminal fragment of ASPP2, acts as a dominant negative inhibitor of p5...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Bergamaschi D,Samuels Y,O'Neil NJ,Trigiante G,Crook T,Hsieh JK,O'Connor DJ,Zhong S,Campargue I,Tomlinson ML,Kuwabara PE,Lu X

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional silencing by CpG island methylation is a prevalent mechanism of tumor-suppressor gene suppression in cancers. Genetic experiments have defined the importance of the DNA methyltransferase Dnmt1 for the maintenance of methylation in mouse cells and its role in neoplasia. In human bladder cancer cells, se...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Robert MF,Morin S,Beaulieu N,Gauthier F,Chute IC,Barsalou A,MacLeod AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models indicate that the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin (HAMP; OMIM 606464) is probably a key regulator of iron absorption in mammals. Here we report the identification of two mutations (93delG and 166C-->T) in HAMP on 19q13 in two families with a new type of juvenile hemochromatosis. ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Roetto A,Papanikolaou G,Politou M,Alberti F,Girelli D,Christakis J,Loukopoulos D,Camaschella C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to demonstrate rigorously in practice, and co-evolutionary thinking is only just beginning to inform medical or veterinary research in any meaningf...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Woolhouse ME,Webster JP,Domingo E,Charlesworth B,Levin BR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between distal chromosomal elements is essential for control of many nuclear processes. For example, genes in higher eukaryotes often require distant enhancer sequences for high-level expression. The mechanisms proposed for long-range enhancer action fall into two basic categories. Non-contact models pro...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Carter D,Chakalova L,Osborne CS,Dai YF,Fraser P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1 retrotransposon has had an immense impact on the size and structure of the human genome through a variety of mechanisms, including insertional mutagenesis. To study retrotransposition in a living organism, we created a mouse model of human L1 retrotransposition. Here we show that L1 elements can retrotranspose ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Ostertag EM,DeBerardinis RJ,Goodier JL,Zhang Y,Yang N,Gerton GL,Kazazian HH Jr

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single microarray can provide information on the expression of tens of thousands of genes. The amount of information generated by a microarray-based experiment is sufficiently large that no single study can be expected to mine each nugget of scientific information. As a consequence, the scale and complexity of micro...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Stoeckert CJ Jr,Causton HC,Ball CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twenty-first century heralds a new era for the biological sciences and medicine. The tools of our time are allowing us to analyze complex genomes more comprehensively than ever before. A principal technology contributing to this explosion of information is the DNA microarray, which enables us to study genome-wide ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Chung CH,Bernard PS,Perou CM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic modification that results in expression from only one of the two parental copies of a gene. Differences in methylation between the two parental chromosomes are often observed at or near imprinted genes. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), which predisposes to cancer and excessive gro...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Fitzpatrick GV,Soloway PD,Higgins MJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) belongs to a family of nine transcription factors that share a highly conserved helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain and a less conserved protein-binding domain. Most IRFs regulate the expression of interferon-alpha and -beta after viral infection, but the function of IRF6 is unkno...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Kondo S,Schutte BC,Richardson RJ,Bjork BC,Knight AS,Watanabe Y,Howard E,de Lima RL,Daack-Hirsch S,Sander A,McDonald-McGinn DM,Zackai EH,Lammer EJ,Aylsworth AS,Ardinger HH,Lidral AC,Pober BR,Moreno L,Arcos-Burgos M,V

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions on human chromosome 8p22-23 in prostate cancer cells and linkage studies in families affected with hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) have implicated this region in the development of prostate cancer. The macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene (MSR1, also known as SR-A) is located at 8p22 and functions in severa...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Xu J,Zheng SL,Komiya A,Mychaleckyj JC,Isaacs SD,Hu JJ,Sterling D,Lange EM,Hawkins GA,Turner A,Ewing CM,Faith DA,Johnson JR,Suzuki H,Bujnovszky P,Wiley KE,DeMarzo AM,Bova GS,Chang B,Hall MC,McCullough DL,Partin A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-level ectopic expression of the Runt transcription factor blocks activation of the Drosophila melanogaster segmentation gene engrailed (en) in odd-numbered parasegments and is associated with a lethal phenotype. Here we show, by using a genetic screen for maternal factors that contribute in a dose-dependent fashio...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Wheeler JC,VanderZwan C,Xu X,Swantek D,Tracey WD,Gergen JP

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During evolution different genes evolve at unequal rates, reflecting the varying functional constraints on phenotype. An important contributor to this variation is genetic buffering, which reduces the potential detrimental effects of mutations. We studied whether gene duplication and redundant metabolic networks affec...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Kitami T,Nadeau JH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the genes involved in polygenic traits has been difficult. In the 1950s and 1960s, laboratory selection experiments for extreme geotaxic behavior in fruit flies established for the first time that a complex behavioral trait has a genetic basis. But the specific genes responsible for the behavior have never...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Toma DP,White KP,Hirsch J,Greenspan RJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelger-Huët anomaly (PHA; OMIM *169400) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by abnormal nuclear shape and chromatin organization in blood granulocytes. Affected individuals show hypolobulated neutrophil nuclei with coarse chromatin. Presumed homozygous individuals have ovoid neutrophil nuclei, as well as v...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Hoffmann K,Dreger CK,Olins AL,Olins DE,Shultz LD,Lucke B,Karl H,Kaps R,Müller D,Vayá A,Aznar J,Ware RE,Sotelo Cruz N,Lindner TH,Herrmann H,Reis A,Sperling K

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic integrity is crucial to normal cell function, and mutations in genes required for DNA replication and repair underlie various forms of genetic instability and disease, including cancer. One structural feature of intact genomes is runs of homopolymeric dC/dG. Here we describe an unusual mutator phenotype in Cae...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Cheung I,Schertzer M,Rose A,Lansdorp PM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urocortin is a member of the corticotropin-releasing hormone peptide family and is found in many discrete brain regions. The distinct expression pattern of urocortin suggests that it influences such behaviors as feeding, anxiety and auditory processing. To better define the physiological roles of urocortin, we have ge...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Vetter DE,Li C,Zhao L,Contarino A,Liberman MC,Smith GW,Marchuk Y,Koob GF,Heinemann SF,Vale W,Lee KF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is a slow and expensive process: in eukaryotes, approximately 20 nucleotides can be transcribed per second at the expense of at least two ATP molecules per nucleotide. Thus, at least for highly expressed genes, transcription of long introns, which are particularly common in mammals, is costly. Using data...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Castillo-Davis CI,Mekhedov SL,Hartl DL,Koonin EV,Kondrashov FA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long interspersed elements (LINE-1s) are abundant retrotransposons in mammalian genomes that probably retrotranspose by target site-primed reverse transcription (TPRT). During TPRT, the LINE-1 endonuclease cleaves genomic DNA, freeing a 3' hydroxyl that serves as a primer for reverse transcription of LINE-1 RNA by LIN...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Morrish TA,Gilbert N,Myers JS,Vincent BJ,Stamato TD,Taccioli GE,Batzer MA,Moran JV

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia (OMIM 602014) is an autosomal recessive disease that results in electrolyte abnormalities shortly after birth. Affected individuals show severe hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia, which lead to seizures and tetany. The disorder has been thought to be caused by a defect ...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Walder RY,Landau D,Meyer P,Shalev H,Tsolia M,Borochowitz Z,Boettger MB,Beck GE,Englehardt RK,Carmi R,Sheffield VC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A layered organization of cells is a common architectural feature of many neuronal formations. Mutations of the zebrafish gene nagie oko (nok) produce a severe disruption of retinal architecture, indicating a key role for this locus in neuronal patterning. We show that nok encodes a membrane-associated guanylate kinas...

journal_title：Nature genetics

authors： Wei X,Malicki J

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00