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Genes, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2017 - 55 articles

Cover Story: In the Roman-Christian municipality of Kellis (ca. 50–450 AD), within the remote southwest Egyptian Desert, over 700 burials in the associated Kellis 2 cemetery were analyzed for paleodemography, paleopathology, and paleogenetic data. Using high-throughput DNA sequencing analysis, the initial mitochondrial genome data revealed a U1a1a maternal sequence consistent with the results from the Abusir el-Meleq site on the west side of the Nile, near to the Fayuum. View this paper
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,419 Views
10 Pages

Identification of Gene Expression Changes in the Aorta of ApoE Null Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

  • Dan Xi,
  • Jinzhen Zhao,
  • Miao Zhao,
  • Weijun Fu,
  • Zhigang Guo and
  • Hui Chen

24 October 2017

Atherosclerosis is a chronic multifactorial inflammatory disease with high worldwide prevalence, and has become the leading cause of death. In the present study, we analyzed global gene expression changes in the aorta of Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) null...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
7,481 Views
24 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Structural Analysis of bZIP Transcription Factor Genes in Brassica napus

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Daixiang Xu,
  • Ledong Jia,
  • Xiaohu Huang,
  • Guoqiang Ma,
  • Shuxian Wang,
  • Meichen Zhu,
  • Aoxiang Zhang,
  • Mingwei Guan and
  • Kun Lu
  • + 4 authors

24 October 2017

The basic region/leucine zipper motif (bZIP) transcription factor family is one of the largest families of transcriptional regulators in plants. bZIP genes have been systematically characterized in some plants, but not in rapeseed (Brassica napus). I...

  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
10,716 Views
19 Pages

Chromosome Evolution in Connection with Repetitive Sequences and Epigenetics in Plants

  • Shu-Fen Li,
  • Ting Su,
  • Guang-Qian Cheng,
  • Bing-Xiao Wang,
  • Xu Li,
  • Chuan-Liang Deng and
  • Wu-Jun Gao

24 October 2017

Chromosome evolution is a fundamental aspect of evolutionary biology. The evolution of chromosome size, structure and shape, number, and the change in DNA composition suggest the high plasticity of nuclear genomes at the chromosomal level. Repetitive...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,401 Views
8 Pages

23 October 2017

Thiopurines are clinically useful in the management of diverse immunological and malignant conditions. Nevertheless, these purine analogues can cause lethal myelosuppression, which may be prevented by prospective testing for variants in the thiopurin...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,283 Views
2 Pages

Correction: Gustafson et al., Whole Genome Sequencing Revealed Mutations in Two Independent Genes as the Underlying Cause of Retinal Degeneration in an Ashkenazi Jewish Pedigree. Genes 2017, 8, 210

  • Kevin Gustafson,
  • Jacque L. Duncan,
  • Pooja Biswas,
  • Angel Soto-Hermida,
  • Hiroko Matsui,
  • David Jakubosky,
  • John Suk,
  • Amalio Telenti,
  • Kelly A. Frazer and
  • Radha Ayyagari

23 October 2017

Following publication of our article [1], we identified discrepancies between the pedigree shown in Figure 1 and the rest of the text.[...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,871 Views
17 Pages

The Transcriptomes of Xiphinema index and Longidorus elongatus Suggest Independent Acquisition of Some Plant Parasitism Genes by Horizontal Gene Transfer in Early-Branching Nematodes

  • Etienne G.J. Danchin,
  • Laetitia Perfus-Barbeoch,
  • Corinne Rancurel,
  • Peter Thorpe,
  • Martine Da Rocha,
  • Simon Bajew,
  • Roy Neilson,
  • Elena Sokolova (Guzeeva),
  • Corinne Da Silva and
  • Julie Guy
  • + 5 authors

23 October 2017

Nematodes have evolved the ability to parasitize plants on at least four independent occasions, with plant parasites present in Clades 1, 2, 10 and 12 of the phylum. In the case of Clades 10 and 12, horizontal gene transfer of plant cell wall degradi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Citations
11,453 Views
15 Pages

Eco-Friendly Formulated Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Induction of Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis in the MCF-7 Cancer Cell Line

  • Amin Boroumand Moghaddam,
  • Mona Moniri,
  • Susan Azizi,
  • Raha Abdul Rahim,
  • Arbakariya Bin Ariff,
  • Mohammad Navaderi and
  • Rosfarizan Mohamad

20 October 2017

Green products have strong potential in the discovery and development of unique drugs. Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have been observed to have powerful cytotoxicity against cells that cause breast cancer. The present study aims to examine the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,626 Views
15 Pages

Chromosome Synapsis and Recombination in Male Hybrids between Two Chromosome Races of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus L., Soricidae, Eulipotyphla)

  • Nadezhda M. Belonogova,
  • Andrei V. Polyakov,
  • Tatyana V. Karamysheva,
  • Anna A. Torgasheva,
  • Jeremy B. Searle and
  • Pavel M. Borodin

20 October 2017

Hybrid zones between chromosome races of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) provide exceptional models to study the potential role of chromosome rearrangements in the initial steps of speciation. The Novosibirsk and Tomsk races differ by a series of Ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,395 Views
17 Pages

Clinical and Genetic Evaluation of a Cohort of Pediatric Patients with Severe Inherited Retinal Dystrophies

  • Valentina Di Iorio,
  • Marianthi Karali,
  • Raffaella Brunetti-Pierri,
  • Mariaelena Filippelli,
  • Giuseppina Di Fruscio,
  • Mariateresa Pizzo,
  • Margherita Mutarelli,
  • Vincenzo Nigro,
  • Francesco Testa and
  • Sandro Banfi
  • + 1 author

20 October 2017

We performed a clinical and genetic characterization of a pediatric cohort of patients with inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) to identify the most suitable cases for gene therapy. The cohort comprised 43 patients, aged between 2 and 18 years, with se...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,229 Views
12 Pages

Allelic Expression Imbalance in the Human Retinal Transcriptome and Potential Impact on Inherited Retinal Diseases

  • Pablo Llavona,
  • Michele Pinelli,
  • Margherita Mutarelli,
  • Veer Singh Marwah,
  • Simone Schimpf-Linzenbold,
  • Sebastian Thaler,
  • Efdal Yoeruek,
  • Jan Vetter,
  • Susanne Kohl and
  • Bernd Wissinger

20 October 2017

Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are often associated with variable clinical expressivity (VE) and incomplete penetrance (IP). Underlying mechanisms may include environmental, epigenetic, and genetic factors. Cis-acting expression quantitative trait...

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