Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

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Latest articles

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    ARID1A governs the silencing of sex-linked transcription during male meiosis in the mouse

    Debashish U Menon, Prabuddha Chakraborty ... Terry Magnuson
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype-phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N’Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Regulatory genome annotation of 33 insect species

    Hasiba Asma, Ellen Tieke ... Marc S Halfon
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Ethnic and region-specific genetic risk variants of stroke and its comorbid conditions can define the variations in the burden of stroke and its phenotypic traits

    Rashmi Sukumaran, Achuthsankar S Nair, Moinak Banerjee
    Genomic differences in stroke and its comorbid conditions can aid in refining the socio-economic interpretation of risk among different ethnicities and can assist in distinguishing their phenotypic variation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Dysfunction of Calcyphosine-Like gene impairs retinal angiogenesis through the MYC axis and is associated with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy

    Wenjing Liu, Shujin Li ... Xianjun Zhu
    Genetic analysis and knockout mouse model study identified calcyphosine-like (CAPSL) as a candidate disease gene in familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), offering valuable insights into disease mechanisms.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Intergenerational transport of double-stranded RNA limits heritable epigenetic changes

    Nathan Shugarts, Aishwarya Sathya ... Antony M Jose
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Early moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and maternal diet impact offspring DNA methylation across species

    Mitchell Bestry, Alexander N Larcombe ... David Martino
    Early moderate consumption of alcohol in pregnancy was sufficient to disrupt the fetal epigenome in newborn mice, and high folate maternal diets had a mitigating effect.

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    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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    Brandeis University, United States
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