journal article
LitStream Collection
Home
Zhou, Xin; Edmonson, Michael N; Wilkinson, Mark R; Patel, Aman; Wu, Gang; Liu, Yu; Li, Yongjin; Zhang, Zhaojie; Rusch, Michael C; Parker, Matthew; Becksfort, Jared; Downing, James R; Zhang, Jinghui
doi: 10.1038/ng.3466pmid: 26711108
doi: 10.1038/ng.3472pmid: 26711109
Two new studies show how highly divergent modes of male reproduction in a wading bird are controlled by alternate alleles at a single locus encompassing a 4.5-Mb inversion in the genome. The locus is an example of a 'supergene' controlling multiple complex phenotypes.
Kay, Steve A; Remigereau, Marie-Stanislas
doi: 10.1038/ng.3476pmid: 26711110
The plant circadian clock is a complex network of genes crucial for plant survival. A new study finds that domestication gradually slowed down the circadian clock of tomato via selection on two major genes—one that delayed phasing of the clock with daylight, whereas the other induced a longer period.
doi: 10.1038/ng.3478pmid: 26711111
Iron is essential in multiple cellular processes and is especially critical for cellular respiration and division. A new study identified a mutation affecting the iron import receptor TfR1 as the cause of a human primary immunodeficiency, illuminating the importance of iron in immune cell function.
Castro, Mauro A A; de Santiago, Ines; Campbell, Thomas M; Vaughn, Courtney; Hickey, Theresa E; Ross, Edith; Tilley, Wayne D; Markowetz, Florian; Ponder, Bruce A J; Meyer, Kerstin B
doi: 10.1038/ng.3458pmid: 26618344
Gymrek, Melissa; Willems, Thomas; Guilmatre, Audrey; Zeng, Haoyang; Markus, Barak; Georgiev, Stoyan; Daly, Mark J; Price, Alkes L; Pritchard, Jonathan K; Sharp, Andrew J; Erlich, Yaniv
doi: 10.1038/ng.3461pmid:
Mancuso, Nicholas; Rohland, Nadin; Rand, Kristin A; Tandon, Arti; Allen, Alexander; Quinque, Dominique; Mallick, Swapan; Li, Heng; Stram, Alex; Sheng, Xin; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia; Easton, Douglas F; Eeles, Rosalind A; Le Marchand, Loic; Lubwama, Alex; Stram, Daniel;
Harley, Margaret E; Murina, Olga; Leitch, Andrea; Higgs, Martin R; Bicknell, Louise S; Yigit, Gökhan; Blackford, Andrew N; Zlatanou, Anastasia; Mackenzie, Karen J; Reddy, Kaalak; Halachev, Mihail; McGlasson, Sarah; Reijns, Martin A M; Fluteau, Adeline; Martin, Carol-Anne;
Durruthy-Durruthy, Jens; Sebastiano, Vittorio; Wossidlo, Mark; Cepeda, Diana; Cui, Jun; Grow, Edward J; Davila, Jonathan; Mall, Moritz; Wong, Wing H; Wysocka, Joanna; Au, Kin Fai; Reijo Pera, Renee A
doi:
Showing 1 to 10 of 18 Articles
Kerstin Meyer and colleagues analyze a breast cancer gene regulatory network generated using publicly available expression and ChIP-seq data sets. They identify a cluster of 36 regulons that are significantly enriched for known breast cancer risk-associated genes and propose the use of regulon activity for patient stratification.
Yaniv Erlich and colleagues report a genome-wide survey of the contribution of short tandem repeats (STRs) to gene expression in humans and identify 2,060 significant expression STRs (eSTRs). They find that eSTRs contribute 10–15% of the cis heritability mediated by all common variants and are associated with various clinically relevant phenotypes.
doi: 10.1038/ng.3446pmid: 26569126
Christopher Haiman, Bogdan Pasaniuc, David Reich and colleagues report a major role for low-frequency variation in the risk for prostate cancer. They show that alleles with >1% minor allele frequency contribute an order of magnitude more to risk for prostate cancer than these alleles do to overall genetic variation.
doi: 10.1038/ng.3451pmid: 26595769
Andrew Jackson, Grant Stewart, Bernd Wollnik and colleagues identify TRAIP mutations in three patients with primordial dwarfism. They show that TRAIP is involved in DNA damage response during genome replication and is necessary for efficient cell cycle progression.
Renee Reijo Pera, Vittorio Sebastiano and colleagues identify three human pluripotency-associated transcripts (HPATs) that function in preimplantation development. They find that these three HPATs are also required for efficient nuclear reprogramming and that one, HPAT5, interacts with let-7 to modulate gene expression during reprogramming and differentiation.