You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Genes, Volume 12, Issue 10

October 2021 - 187 articles

Cover Story: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a neuropsychiatric condition with strong ties to disease and lifestyle factors. Trait associations at the population level can result from a shared genetic or environmental etiology. In a twin pedigree approach with almost 20.000 relatives, we establish to what degree genetic and environmental factors influence the association between MDD and smoking behavior, physical inactivity, and obesity. We show that each of these traits is heritable, and that the associations between MDD and lifestyle factors are mainly driven by shared genetic factors.View this paper
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (187)

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,572 Views
20 Pages

19 October 2021

Patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and type 1 NF1 deletions often exhibit more severe clinical manifestations than patients with intragenic NF1 gene mutations, including facial dysmorphic features, overgrowth, severe global developmental de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,900 Views
15 Pages

Single-Cell RNA-Seq Revealed the Gene Expression Pattern during the In Vitro Maturation of Donkey Oocytes

  • Zhipeng Li,
  • Xinhui Song,
  • Shan Yin,
  • Jiageng Yan,
  • Peiru Lv,
  • Huiquan Shan,
  • Kuiqing Cui,
  • Hongbo Liu and
  • Qingyou Liu

19 October 2021

Donkeys are an important domesticated animal, providing labor, meat, milk, and medicinal materials for humans. However, the donkey population is continuously declining and even at risk of extinction. The application of modern animal production techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,843 Views
8 Pages

Evaluation of the Association of COMT Rs4680 Polymorphism with Swimmers’ Competitive Performance

  • Piotr Zmijewski,
  • Agata Leońska-Duniec,
  • Aleksander Stuła and
  • Marek Sawczuk

19 October 2021

Swimmers’ competitive performance is a result of complicated interactions between physiological, biochemical, physical and psychological factors, all of which are strongly affected by water. Recently, great attention has been paid to the role of gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,575 Views
7 Pages

Association of PIP4K2A Polymorphisms with Alcohol Use Disorder

  • Olga Yu. Fedorenko,
  • Ekaterina V. Mikhalitskaya,
  • Valentina A. Toshchakova,
  • Anton J. M. Loonen,
  • Nikolay A. Bokhan and
  • Svetlana A. Ivanova

19 October 2021

Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) not only influences individuals and families but also has a lasting social impact on communities at the national level. Dopaminergic neurotransmission is involved in excessive alcohol consumption. Phosphatidylin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,773 Views
12 Pages

Mitochondrial Strokes: Diagnostic Challenges and Chameleons

  • Chiara Pizzamiglio,
  • Enrico Bugiardini,
  • William L. Macken,
  • Cathy E. Woodward,
  • Michael G. Hanna and
  • Robert D. S. Pitceathly

19 October 2021

Mitochondrial stroke-like episodes (SLEs) are a hallmark of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). They should be suspected in anyone with an acute/subacute onset of focal neurological symptoms at any age...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,668 Views
8 Pages

19 October 2021

(1) Aim: To investigate the causal effects of T2DM liability and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels on various cardiovascular disease outcomes, both in the general population and in non-diabetic individuals specifically. (2) Methods: We selected 243...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,803 Views
11 Pages

19 October 2021

Blood cell development is regulated through intrinsic gene regulation and local factors including the microenvironment and cytokines. The differentiation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) into mature erythrocytes is dependent on thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,841 Views
12 Pages

FA-nf: A Functional Annotation Pipeline for Proteins from Non-Model Organisms Implemented in Nextflow

  • Anna Vlasova,
  • Toni Hermoso Pulido,
  • Francisco Camara,
  • Julia Ponomarenko and
  • Roderic Guigó

19 October 2021

Functional annotation allows adding biologically relevant information to predicted features in genomic sequences, and it is, therefore, an important procedure of any de novo genome sequencing project. It is also useful for proofreading and improving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,206 Views
16 Pages

Association and Gene–Gene Interactions Study of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in the Russian Population

  • Anna Bocharova,
  • Kseniya Vagaitseva,
  • Andrey Marusin,
  • Natalia Zhukova,
  • Irina Zhukova,
  • Larisa Minaycheva,
  • Oksana Makeeva and
  • Vadim Stepanov

19 October 2021

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, and represents the most common cause of dementia. In this study, we performed several different analyses to detect loci involved in development of the late onset AD in the Russian population....

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,178 Views
20 Pages

ABA and Bud Dormancy in Perennials: Current Knowledge and Future Perspective

  • Wenqiang Pan,
  • Jiahui Liang,
  • Juanjuan Sui,
  • Jingru Li,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Yin Xin,
  • Yanmin Zhang,
  • Shaokun Wang,
  • Yajie Zhao and
  • Jie Zhang
  • + 3 authors

18 October 2021

Bud dormancy is an evolved trait that confers adaptation to harsh environments, and affects flower differentiation, crop yield and vegetative growth in perennials. ABA is a stress hormone and a major regulator of dormancy. Although the physiology of...

of 19

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Genes - ISSN 2073-4425