Frontiers Article Alert

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

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

 

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Applied Genetic Epidemiology”

The ATXN2-SH2B3 locus is associated with peripheral arterial disease: an electronic medical record-based genome-wide association study
Iftikhar Kullo, Khader Shameer, Hayan Jouni, Timothy G. Lesnick, Jyotishman Pathak, Christopher G. Chute, and Mariza de Andrade
An alternative hypothesis testing strategy for secondary phenotype data in case-control genetic association studies
Sharon M Lutz, John E Hokanson, and Christoph Lange

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Bioinformatics and Computational Biology”

Relevance of different prior knowledge sources for inferring gene interaction networks
Catharina Olsen, Gianluca Bontempi, Frank Emmert-Streib, John Quackenbush, and Benjamin Haibe-Kains
YouGenMap: a web platform for dynamic multi-comparative mapping and visualization of genetic maps
Keith Batesole, Kokulapalan Wimalanathan, Lin Liu, Craig Echt, and Chun Liang
A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome
Joanna Moreton, Stephen P Dunham, and Richard D Emes
On best practices in the development of bioinformatics software
Felipe Veiga Leprevost, Valmir C. Barbosa, Eduardo Lemons Francisco, Yasset Perez-Riverol, and Paulo Costa Carvalho
Toward a systematic understanding of cancers: a survey of the pan-cancer study
Zhaoqi Liu and Shihua Zhang
Objective: biochemical function
Brian P Anton, Simon Kasif, Richard J. Roberts, and Martin Steffen

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Epigenomics and Epigenetics”

Environmental disruption of host–microbe co-adaptation as a potential driving force in evolution
Yoav Soen
Desregulated microRNAs in aging-related heart failure
Ran Zhuo, Siyi Fu, Shiyi Li, Mengchao Yao, Dongchao Lv, Tianzhao Xu, and Yihua Bei
MicroRNAs in diabetic cardiomyopathy and clinical perspectives
Qiulian Zhou, Dongchao Lv, Ping Chen, Tianzhao Xu, Siyi Fu, Jin Li, and Yihua BEI
Taking a chance on epigenetics
Sophie A Lelievre
The potential of epigenetic therapies in neurodegenerative diseases
Fabio Coppedè
Molecular pathways underpinning ethanol-induced neurodegeneration
Dan Goldowitz*, Alexandre André Lussier, Julia K Boyle, kaelen Wong, Scott Lemar Lattimer, Candis DuBose, Lu Lu, Michael S Kobor, and Kristin Hamre

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Evolutionary analysis of the cystatin family in three Schistosoma species
Yesid Cuesta-Astroz, Larissa Lopes Silva Scholte, Fabiano Sviatopolk-Mirsky Pais, Guilherme Correa Oliveira, and Laila Alves Nahum

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Evolutionary and Population Genetics”

Identification of structural variation in mouse genomes
Thomas M Keane, Kim Wong, David J Adams, Jonathan Flint, Alexandre Reymond, and Binnaz Yalcin
Inferring ancestry from population genomic data and its applications
Badri Padhukasahasram
Grand challenges in evolutionary and population genetics: the importance of integrating epigenetics, genomics, modeling, and experimentation
Samuel A Cushman

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

Estimating directional epistasis
Arnaud LE ROUZIC

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genetic Disorders”

The FMR1 gene, infertility, and reproductive decision-making: a review
Lisa M Pastore and Joshua Johnson

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genetics of Aging”

Using the zebrafish model for Alzheimer’s disease research
Morgan Newman, Michael Lardelli, and Esmaeil Ebrahimie
A semi-automated motion-tracking analysis of locomotion speed in the C. elegans transgenics overexpressing beta-amyloid in neurons
Kevin Machino, Christopher D Link, Susan Wang, Hana Murakami, and Shin Murakami
Emerging functional similarities and divergences between Drosophila Spargel/dPGC-1 and mammalian PGC-1 protein
Subhas Mukherjee, Claudette Davis, Mohammed Abdul Basar, and Atanu Duttaroy

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Genomic Assay Technology”

Using a medium-throughput comet assay to evaluate the global DNA methylation status of single cells
Angelique Lewies, Etresia van Dyk, Johannes Frederik Wentzel, and Pieter J Pretorius
Genetic anchoring of whole-genome shotgun assemblies
Martin Mascher and Nils Stein

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Non-Coding RNA”

Roles of lncRNAs in pancreatic beta cell identity and diabetes susceptibility
Timothy James Pullen and Guy Allen Rutter
The Missing lnc(RNA) between the pancreatic β-cell and diabetes
Vasumathi Kameswaran and Klaus H Kaestner
Functional implications of long non-coding RNAs in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans
Lena Eliasson and Jonathan Lou S. Esguerra
Role of microRNA-146a in normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cell function
Daniel Starczynowski and Jimmy Zhao
Handling tRNA introns, archaeal way and eukaryotic way
Tohru Yoshihisa
microRNAs in mycobacterial disease: friend or foe?
Manali D Mehta and Philip T Liu

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Statistical Genetics and Methodology”

Firth logistic regression for rare variant association tests
Xuefeng Wang

Frontiers in Genetics, section “Systems Biology”

Phosphorylation of unique domains of Src family kinases
Irene Amata, Mariano Maffei, and Miquel Pons
Computational methods for analysis and inference of kinase/inhibitor relationships
Fabrizio Ferrè, Antonio Palmeri, and Manuela Helmer Citterich
Toward a systems-level understanding of gene regulatory, protein interaction, and metabolic networks in cyanobacteria
Miguel Angel Hernández-Prieto, Trudi Ann Semeniuk, and Matthias Erwin Futschik
Systems genetics of obesity in an F2 pig model by genome-wide association, genetic network, and pathway analyses
Lisette J. A. Kogelman, Sameer D. Pant, Merete Fredholm, and Haja N. Kadarmideen
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