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Genes, Volume 13, Issue 6

June 2022 - 168 articles

Cover Story: Tuberculosis leads to approximately 1.5 million deaths annually and is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Lineage 3 strains are particularly successful in South Asia, the suspected evolutionary origin, as well as North and East Africa. We sought to understand how lineage 3 strains came to the African continent. To this end, we performed genotyping of more than 2500 isolates from 38 countries and selected 373 isolates for whole genome analysis and a phylogeographic approach. The origin of lineage 3 could be located in India, and we found evidence for four independent introductions of lineage 3 strains to North/East Africa, in line with known ancient human exchanges and migrations. Our study further provides a systematic understanding of the genomic diversity of lineage 3 strains, which could be relevant for clinical trials of new vaccines or new therapeutics. View this paper
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Articles (168)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,940 Views
18 Pages

Gene Conversion Explains Elevated Diversity in the Immunity Modulating APL1 Gene of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus

  • Jack Hearn,
  • Jacob M. Riveron,
  • Helen Irving,
  • Gareth D. Weedall and
  • Charles S. Wondji

20 June 2022

Leucine-rich repeat proteins and antimicrobial peptides are the key components of the innate immune response to Plasmodium and other microbial pathogens in Anopheles mosquitoes. The APL1 gene of the malaria vector Anopheles funestus has exceptional l...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,353 Views
16 Pages

Synthetic Lethality Targeting Polθ

  • Małgorzata Drzewiecka,
  • Gabriela Barszczewska-Pietraszek,
  • Piotr Czarny,
  • Tomasz Skorski and
  • Tomasz Śliwiński

20 June 2022

Research studies regarding synthetic lethality (SL) in human cells are primarily motivated by the potential of this phenomenon to be an effective, but at the same time, safe to the patient’s anti-cancer chemotherapy. Among the factors that are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,526 Views
15 Pages

The Sweetpotato Voltage-Gated K+ Channel β Subunit, KIbB1, Positively Regulates Low-K+ and High-Salinity Tolerance by Maintaining Ion Homeostasis

  • Hong Zhu,
  • Xue Yang,
  • Qiyan Li,
  • Jiayu Guo,
  • Tao Ma,
  • Shuyan Liu,
  • Shunyu Lin,
  • Yuanyuan Zhou,
  • Chunmei Zhao and
  • Jingshan Wang
  • + 1 author

20 June 2022

Voltage-gated K+ channel β subunits act as a structural component of Kin channels in different species. The β subunits are not essential to the channel activity but confer different properties through binding the T1 domain or the C-terminal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,737 Views
27 Pages

Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease: A Lesson from Genetics

  • Efthalia Angelopoulou,
  • Anastasia Bougea,
  • Sokratis G. Papageorgiou and
  • Chiara Villa

20 June 2022

Psychosis in Parkinson’s disease (PDP) represents a common and debilitating condition that complicates Parkinson’s disease (PD), mainly in the later stages. The spectrum of psychotic symptoms are heterogeneous, ranging from minor phenomen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,679 Views
11 Pages

Identifying Rare Genetic Variants of Immune Mediators as Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Chunquan Cai,
  • Zhaoqing Yin,
  • Aiping Liu,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Shujuan Zeng,
  • Zhangxing Wang,
  • Huixian Qiu,
  • Shijun Li,
  • Jiaxiu Zhou and
  • Mingbang Wang

20 June 2022

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects more than 1% of children, and there is no viable pharmacotherapeutic agent to treat the core symptoms of ASD. Studies have shown that children with ASD show changes in their levels of immune response molecules....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,450 Views
8 Pages

20 June 2022

In the field of gene expression analysis, methods of integrating multiple gene expression profiles are still being developed and the existing methods have scope for improvement. The previously proposed tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,182 Views
14 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal Candidate Genes Related to Stem Diameter in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

  • Yingying Yang,
  • Shaoyun Dong,
  • Han Miao,
  • Xiaoping Liu,
  • Zhuonan Dai,
  • Xiangsheng Li,
  • Xingfang Gu and
  • Shengping Zhang

19 June 2022

The stem diameter, an important agronomic trait, affects cucumber growth and yield. However, no genes responsible for cucumber stem diameter have been identified yet. In this study, the stem diameter of 88 cucumber core germplasms were measured in sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,930 Views
21 Pages

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Organ-Specific Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia Provides Insights to Human Diseases

  • Kuo-Sheng Hung,
  • Shiow-Yi Chen,
  • Pang-Hung Hsu,
  • Bo-An Lin,
  • Chin-Hua Hu,
  • Cing-Han Yang,
  • Tun-Wen Pai,
  • Wen-Shyong Tzou and
  • Hsin-Yu Chung

19 June 2022

The common carp is a hypoxia-tolerant fish, and the understanding of its ability to live in low-oxygen environments has been applied to human health issues such as cancer and neuron degeneration. Here, we investigated differential gene expression cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,861 Views
23 Pages

Integrated Analysis of a Ferroptosis-Related LncRNA Signature for Evaluating the Prognosis of Patients with Colorectal Cancer

  • Shaohua Xu,
  • Yanjie Zhou,
  • Junyun Luo,
  • Su Chen,
  • Jiahui Xie,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Yirong Wang and
  • Zhaoyong Li

19 June 2022

LncRNAs have been well known for their multiple functions in the tumorigenesis, development, and relapse of colorectal cancer (CRC). Accumulating studies demonstrated that the expression of lncRNAs can be regulated by ferroptosis, a biological proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,589 Views
19 Pages

Screening of Differentially Expressed Genes and miRNAs in Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland of Sheep under Different Photoperiods

  • Qingqing Liu,
  • Ran Di,
  • Chunhuan Ren,
  • Xiaoyun He,
  • Xiangyu Wang,
  • Qing Xia,
  • Mingxing Chu and
  • Zijun Zhang

19 June 2022

The reproduction of sheep is affected by many factors such as light, nutrition and genetics. The Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis is an important pathway for sheep reproduction, and changes in HPG axis-related gene expression can affect shee...

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