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Genes, Volume 13, Issue 2

February 2022 - 227 articles

Cover Story: After finding human hairs in a gold pendant containing a picture of Alexandra Romanov (image courtesy of Nikolai Bachmakov) as well as in a framed picture of Tsar Nicholas’ grandmother, Queen Louise Hesse Kassel, Fabergé expert Nikolai Bachmakov explored the feasibility of attributing the hairs to the Romanov family using DNA technology. Because of its previously published work on DNA recovery from challenging samples such as hair, teeth, and bones, he contacted the FBI Laboratory that subsequently tested them using novel forensic DNA isolation protocols that ultimately yielded both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence information that supports these hairs being associated with the Romanov family. View this paper
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Articles (227)

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,592 Views
10 Pages

Following Excitation/Inhibition Ratio Homeostasis from Synapse to EEG in Monogenetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  • Lisa Geertjens,
  • Torben W. van Voorst,
  • Arianne Bouman,
  • Maaike A. van Boven,
  • Tjitske Kleefstra,
  • Matthijs Verhage,
  • Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen,
  • Nael Nadif Kasri,
  • L. Niels Cornelisse and
  • Hilgo Bruining

21 February 2022

Pharmacological options for neurodevelopmental disorders are limited to symptom suppressing agents that do not target underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Studies on specific genetic disorders causing neurodevelopmental disorders have elucidated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,628 Views
16 Pages

Early Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Associated with Clinical Data and Autosomal Ancestry in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Admixed Brazilian Population

  • Roberta Maria Duailibe Ferreira Reis,
  • Rossana Santiago de Sousa Azulay,
  • Maria da Glória Tavares,
  • Gilvan Cortês Nascimento,
  • Sabrina da Silva Pereira Damianse,
  • Viviane Chaves de Carvalho Rocha,
  • Ana Gregória Almeida,
  • Débora Cristina Ferreira Lago,
  • Vandilson Rodrigues and
  • Marcelo Magalhães
  • + 9 authors

21 February 2022

Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is a major cause of death in this population. This study investigates early markers of CVD associated with clinical data and autosomal ancestry i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,565 Views
15 Pages

Characterization and Functional Study of FAM49B Reveals Its Effect on Cell Proliferation in HEK293T Cells

  • Yijian Chen,
  • Yuyan Jiang,
  • Jihui Lao,
  • Yankuan Zhou,
  • Lida Su and
  • Xiao Huang

21 February 2022

FAM49B/Fam49b is a member of the Fam49 (Family with sequence similarity 49) gene family, which is characterized by the conserved domain, DUF1394 (Domain of Unknown Function 1394). It has also been named CYRI-B (CYFIP related RAC1 interactor B), impli...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,347 Views
10 Pages

Distinct Minor Splicing Patterns across Cancers

  • Lauren Levesque,
  • Nicole Salazar and
  • Scott William Roy

21 February 2022

In human cells, the U12 spliceosome, also known as the minor spliceosome, is responsible for the splicing of 0.5% of introns, while the major U2 spliceosome is responsible for the other 99.5%. While many studies have been done to characterize and und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,875 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2022

The goal of this research is to computationally identify candidate modifiers for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a group of rare genetic disorders that trigger the cellular degeneration of retinal tissue. RP being subject to phenotypic variation complicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,636 Views
12 Pages

Consequences of the Last Glacial Period on the Genetic Diversity of Southeast Asians

  • Catarina Branco,
  • Marina Kanellou,
  • Antonio González-Martín and
  • Miguel Arenas

21 February 2022

The last glacial period (LGP) promoted a loss of genetic diversity in Paleolithic populations of modern humans from diverse regions of the world by range contractions and habitat fragmentation. However, this period also provided some currently submer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,244 Views
14 Pages

Salinity Gradient Controls Microbial Community Structure and Assembly in Coastal Solar Salterns

  • Tianran Song,
  • Qiyun Liang,
  • Zhaozhong Du,
  • Xiaoqun Wang,
  • Guanjun Chen,
  • Zongjun Du and
  • Dashuai Mu

21 February 2022

Salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities in natural systems, negatively affecting microbial diversity. However, how salinity affects microbial community assembly remains unclear. This study used Wendeng multi-pond sal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,870 Views
12 Pages

Alpha Satellite RNA Levels Are Upregulated in the Blood of Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

  • Sven Ljubić,
  • Antonio Sermek,
  • Angela Prgomet Sečan,
  • Marin Prpić,
  • Blanka Jakšić,
  • Jure Murgić,
  • Ana Fröbe,
  • Đurđica Ugarković and
  • Isidoro Feliciello

20 February 2022

The aberrant overexpression of alpha satellite DNA is characteristic of many human cancers including prostate cancer; however, it is not known whether the change in the alpha satellite RNA amount occurs in the peripheral tissues of cancer patients, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,204 Views
22 Pages

Single-Cell Transcriptome and Network Analyses Unveil Key Transcription Factors Regulating Mesophyll Cell Development in Maize

  • Shentong Tao,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Yining Shi,
  • Yilong Feng,
  • Jingjing Gao,
  • Lifen Chen,
  • Aicen Zhang,
  • Xuejiao Cheng,
  • Hairong Wei and
  • Tao Zhang
  • + 1 author

20 February 2022

Background: Maize mesophyll (M) cells play important roles in various biological processes such as photosynthesis II and secondary metabolism. Functional differentiation occurs during M-cell development, but the underlying mechanisms for regulating M...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,171 Views
11 Pages

Current and Future Approaches to Classify VUSs in LGMD-Related Genes

  • Chengcheng Li,
  • Gabe Haller and
  • Conrad C. Weihl

19 February 2022

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revealed large numbers of genetic variants in LGMD-related genes, with most of them classified as variants of uncertain significance (VUSs). VUSs are genetic changes with unknown pathological impact and present a...

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