Frontiers Article Alert

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

 

Frontiers is pleased to announce a number of exciting new articles in the field of Genetics.

 

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Applied Genetic Epidemiology”

Genetic-based prediction of disease traits: prediction is very difficult, especially about the future†
Steven J Schrodi, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Ying Shan, Gerard Tromp, John J Sninsky, Amy P Callear, Tonia C. Carter, Zhan Ye, Jonathan L Haines, Murray H Brilliant, Paul K Crane, Diane T Smelser, Robert C Elston, and Daniel E Weeks
eMERGEing progress in genomics—the first seven years
Dana C. Crawford, David R. Crosslin, Gerard Tromp, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Helena Kuivaniemi, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Joshua C. Denny, William Scott Bush, Jonathan L. Haines, Dan M. Roden, Catherine Anne McCarty, Gail P. Jarvik, and Marylyn D. Ritchie

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Bioinformatics and Computational Biology”

Network Assessor: an automated method for quantitative assessment of a network's potential for gene function prediction
Jason Montojo, Khalid Zuberi, Quentin Shao, Gary Bader, and Quaid Morris
Last-gen nostalgia: a lighthearted rant and reflection on genome sequencing culture
David Roy Smith
Quality control on the frontier
Konrad Hubert Paszkiewicz, Audrey Farbos, Paul O'Neill, and Karen Moore
Different miRNA expression profiles between human breast cancer tumors and serum
Jie Zhu, Zhibao Zheng, Jia Wang, Jinhua Sun, Pan Wang, Xianying Cheng, Lun Fu, Liming Zhang, Zuojun Wang, and Zhaoyun Li

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Cancer Genetics”

Tumors that mimic asbestos-related mesothelioma: time to consider a genetics-based tumor registry?
Brent Daniel Kerger, Robert Cary James, and David Galbraith
Is homologous recombination really an error-free process?
Bernard S Lopez

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Epigenomics and Epigenetics”

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their transmission through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms
Edward A Mead and Dipak Sarkar
Long-term genomic and epigenomic dysregulation as a consequence of prenatal alcohol exposure: a model for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Morgan L Kleiber, Eric J Diehl, Benjamin I Laufer, Katarzyna Mantha, Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque, Bonnie Alberry, and Shiva M Singh
Characterization of HPV DNA methylation of contiguous CpG sites by bisulfite treatment and massively parallel sequencing—the FRAGMENT approach
Chang Sun, Thomas McAndrew, Benjamin C. Smith, Zigui Chen, Marina Frimer, and Robert D Burk
Epigenetic-based therapies for Friedreich ataxia
Chiranjeevi Sandi, Madhavi Sandi, Sara Anjomani-Virmouni, Sahar Al-Mahdawi, and Mark Adrian Pook
Culturing intestinal stem cells: applications for colorectal cancer research
Masayuki Fujii and Toshiro Sato
Implications of genomic signatures in the differential vulnerability to fetal alcohol exposure in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice
Amy C. Lossie, William Muir, Chiao-Ling Lo, Floyd Timm, Yunlong Liu, Whitney Gray, and Feng C. Zhou

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Heterologous expression in Caenorhabditis elegans as an alternative approach to functional studies in Schistosoma mansoni
Sandra Grossi Gava, Larissa Lopes Silva Scholte, Riva Paula Oliveira, and Guilherme Oliveira
Gonad RNA-specific qRT-PCR analyses identify genes with potential functions in schistosome reproduction such as SmFz1 and SmFGFRs
Steffen Hahnel, Thomas Quack, Sophie J. Parker-Manuel, Zhigang Lu, Mathieu Vanderstraete, Marion Morel, Colette Dissous, Katia Cailliau, and Christoph G Grevelding
Revisiting glucose uptake and metabolism in schistosomes: new molecular insights for improved schistosomiasis therapies
Hong You, Rachel J Stephenson, Geoffrey N Gobert, and Donald P McManus
Evaluation of the Schistosoma mansoni Y-box-binding protein (SMYB1) potential as a vaccine candidate against schistosomiasis
Silvia Regina Costa Dias, Mariana Boroni, Elizângela Almeida Rocha, Thomaz Lüscher-Dias, Daniela Laet-Souza, Fabricio Marcus Silva Oliveira, Mainá Bitar, Andréa Mara Macedo, Carlos Renato Machado, Marcelo Vidigal Caliari, and Gloria Regina Franco

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Evolutionary and Population Genetics”

Adaptation through chromosomal inversions in Anopheles
Diego Ayala, Anna Ullastres, and Josefa González
Homologous recombination is involved in the diversity of replacement flexible genomic islands in aquatic prokaryotes
Mario López-Pérez, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Glycans – the third revolution in evolution
Gordan Lauc, Jasminka Kristic, and Vlatka Zoldos
Beyond fossil calibrations: realities of molecular clock practices in evolutionary biology
Christy Anna Hipsley and Johannes Müller
Transposable elements in cancer as a by-product of stress-induced evolvability
Tobias Mourier, Lars Peter Nielsen, Anders Johannes Hansen, and Eske Willerslev
Copy number variants and selective sweeps in natural populations of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus)
Jarosław Bryk and Diethard Tautz

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Evolutionary and Population Genetics” (Continued)

Evolution of genomic structural variation and genomic architecture in the adaptive radiations of African cichlid fishes
Shaohua Fan and Axel Meyer

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genetic Disorders”

In silico identification of genetic variants in glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene involved in Gaucher's disease using multiple software tools
Madhumathi Manickam, Palaniyandi Ravanan, Pratibha Singh, Deepesh Tourani, and Priti Talwar

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genetics of Aging”

Genetic analysis of long-lived families reveals novel variants influencing high density-lipoprotein cholesterol
Mary F Feitosa, Mary Kaye Wojczynski, Robert Straka, Candace M Kammerer, Joseph H Lee, Aldi T Kraja, Kaare Christensen, Anne B Newman, Michael M Province, and Ingrid B Borecki
Longevity pathways and memory aging
Ilias Gkikas, Dionisia Petratou, and Nektarios Tavernarakis

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genomic Assay Technology”

Functional evaluation of DNA repair in human biopsies and their relation to other cellular biomarkers
Jana Slyskova, Sabine Langie, Andrew Collins, and Pavel Vodicka

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Livestock Genomics”

Genome-wide association mapping including phenotypes from relatives without genotypes in a single-step (ssGWAS) for 6-week body weight in broiler chickens
Huiyu Wang, Ignacy Misztal, Ignacio Aguilar, Andres Legarra, Rohan Luigi Fernando, Zulma Vitezica, Ron Okimoto, Terry Wing, William M. Muir, and Rachel Hawken

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Non-Coding RNA”

Insights into the structure and architecture of the CCR4–NOT complex
Kun Xu, Yuwei Bai, Aili Zhang, Qionglin Zhang, and Mark Gerrard Bartlam
The role of the E3 ligase Not4 in cotranslational quality control
Olesya O Panasenko
Novel roles of the multi-functional CCR4-NOT complex in post-transcriptional regulation
Toshifumi Inada and Shiho Makino
Methylated nucleosides in tRNA and tRNA methyltransferases
Hiroyuki Hori
Deadenylation of mRNA by the CCR4–NOT complex in Drosophila: molecular and developmental aspects
Claudia Temme, Martine Simonelig, and Elmar Wahle
tRNA gene diversity in the three domains of life
Kosuke Fujishima and Akio Kanai
Transfer RNA and human disease
Jamie A Abbott, Chris S Francklyn, and Susan M Robey-Bond
Long non-coding RNA-dependent transcriptional regulation in neuronal development and disease
Brian Clark and Seth Blackshaw
Argonaute-dependent small RNAs derived from single-stranded, non-structured precursors
Li-Ling Chak and Katsutomo Okamura
tRNAs as regulators of biological processes
Medha Raina and Michael Ibba
Progress and challenge of microRNA research in immunity
Hyang-Mi Lee, Duc Thanh Nguyen, and Li-Fan Lu

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics”

Genetic variation in the 3′-UTR of CYP1A2, CYP2B6, CYP2D6, CYP3A4, NR1I2, and UGT2B7: potential effects on regulation by microRNA and pharmacogenomics relevance
Marelize Swart and Collet Dandara

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Statistical Genetics and Methodology”

Estimating the predictive ability of genetic risk models in simulated data based on published results from genome-wide association studies
Suman Kundu, Raluca Mihaescu, Catherina M.C. Meijer, Rachel Bakker, and A. Cecile J.W. Janssens

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Systems Biology”

Redundancy of the genetic code enables translational pausing
David Joseph D"onofrio and David L. Abel
Identification of developmentally-specific kinotypes and mechanisms of Varroa mite resistance through whole-organism, kinome analysis of honeybee
Albert James Robertson, Brett Trost, Erin Scruten, Thomas Robertson, Mohammad Mostajeran, Wayne Connor, Anthony Kusalik, Philip Griebel, and Scott Napper
Identification of potential therapeutic targets in a model of neuropathic pain
Hemalatha B Raju, Zoe Alexandra Englander, Enrico Capobianco, Nick Tsinoremas, and Jessica K Lerch
Bioinformatics for precision medicine in oncology: principles and application to the SHIVA clinical trial
Nicolas Servant, Julien Roméjon, Pierre Gestraud, Philippe La Rosa, Georges Lucotte, Séverine Lair, Virginie Bernard, Bruno Zeitouni, Fanny Coffin, Gérôme Jules-Clément, Florent Yvon, Alban Lermine, Patrick Poullet, Stéphane Liva, Stuart Pook, Tatiana Popova, Camille Barette, François Prud'homme, Jean-Gabriel Dick, Maud Kamal, Christophe Le Tourneau, Emmanuel Barillot, and Philippe Hupé
Targeting molecular networks for drug research
José Pedro Pinto, Rui Machado, Joana Gonçalves Xavier, and Matthias Erwin Futschik
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