Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Mosaic of somatic mutations in one of Earth’s largest organisms, Pando

    Rozenn M Pineau, Karen E Mock ... Zachariah Gompert
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Competition for the conserved branch point sequence influences physiological outcomes in pre-mRNA splicing

    Karen Larisssa Pereira de Castro, Jose M Abril ... William S Fagg
    Competition between Quaking and SF1 for a subset of ACUAA intron branch sites influences alternative splicing in different tissues and organisms.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Expression of specific var gene subtypes is differentially associated with severe malaria syndromes

    Henry Ndugwa, Michelle Muthui ... Abdirahman I Abdi
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Effects of knockdown of autophagy pathway genes on C. elegans longevity are highly condition dependent

    Kuei Ching Hsiung, Hannah Chapman ... David Gems
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    ARID5B mutations cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome with neuroinflammation episodes

    Hendrikus J van Heesbeen, Nazim Rabouhi ... Philippe M Campeau
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Transcriptional responses to chronic oxidative stress require cholinergic activation of G-protein-coupled receptor signaling

    Kasturi Biswas, Caroline Moore ... Michael M Francis
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    A minimal tooth enhancer regulates dlx2b expression during zebrafish tooth formation: insights into cis-regulatory logic in organogenesis

    William R Jackman, Yujin Moon ... Yann Gibert
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The impact of stability considerations on genetic fine-mapping

    Alan J Aw, Lionel Chentian Jin ... Yun S Song
    In statistical fine-mapping, signals stable across stratified subgroups can capture functionally important loci missed by covariate adjustment approaches, and prioritizing agreement between both approaches enhances functional variant discovery.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Human-specific lncRNAs contributed critically to human evolution by distinctly regulating gene expression

    Jie Lin, Yujian Wen ... Hao Zhu
    Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in genes determining human traits.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Ripply1 and Gsc collectively suppress anterior endoderm differentiation from prechordal plate progenitors

    Tao Cheng, Xiang Liu ... Peng-Fei Xu
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