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Volume 4(3);  March 2008
Interview
Imagine: An Interview with Svante Pääbo
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000035. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000035.
PMCID: PMC2274957
Research Articles
ruvA Mutants That Resolve Holliday Junctions but Do Not Reverse Replication Forks
Zeynep Baharoglu, Alison Sylvia Bradley, Marie Le Masson, Irina Tsaneva, and Bénédicte Michel
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000012. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000012.
PMCID: PMC2265524
GADD45A Does Not Promote DNA Demethylation
Seung-Gi Jin, Cai Guo, and Gerd P. Pfeifer
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000013. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000013.
PMCID: PMC2265528
Role of Duplicate Genes in Robustness against Deleterious Human Mutations
Tzu-Lin Hsiao and Dennis Vitkup
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000014. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000014.
PMCID: PMC2265532
Transcription and Chromatin Organization of a Housekeeping Gene Cluster Containing an Integrated β-Globin Locus Control Region
Daan Noordermeer, Miguel R. Branco, Erik Splinter, Petra Klous, Wilfred van IJcken, Sigrid Swagemakers, Manousos Koutsourakis, Peter van der Spek, Ana Pombo, and Wouter de Laat
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000016. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000016.
PMCID: PMC2265466
SIRT1 Inhibition Alleviates Gene Silencing in Fragile X Mental Retardation Syndrome
Rea Biacsi, Daman Kumari, and Karen Usdin
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000017. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000017.
PMCID: PMC2265469
Functional Characterization of Variations on Regulatory Motifs
Lapidot Michal, Orna Mizrahi-Man, and Yitzhak Pilpel
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000018. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000018.
PMCID: PMC2265473
Evolution of a Core Gene Network for Skeletogenesis in Chordates
Jochen Hecht, Sigmar Stricker, Ulrike Wiecha, Asita Stiege, Georgia Panopoulou, Lars Podsiadlowski, Albert J. Poustka, Christoph Dieterich, Siegfried Ehrich, Julia Suvorova, Stefan Mundlos, and Volkhard Seitz
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000025. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000025.
PMCID: PMC2265531
Leukocyte Tyrosine Kinase Functions in Pigment Cell Development
Susana S. Lopes, Xueyan Yang, Jeanette Müller, Thomas J. Carney, Anthony R. McAdow, Gerd-Jörg Rauch, Arie S. Jacoby, Laurence D. Hurst, Mariana Delfino-Machín, Pascal Haffter, Robert Geisler, Stephen L. Johnson, Andrew Ward, and Robert N. Kelsh
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000026. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000026.
PMCID: PMC2265441
C. elegans Model Identifies Genetic Modifiers of α-Synuclein Inclusion Formation During Aging
Tjakko J. van Ham, Karen L. Thijssen, Rainer Breitling, Robert M. W. Hofstra, Ronald H. A. Plasterk, and Ellen A. A. Nollen
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000027. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000027.
PMCID: PMC2265412
Gene Activation Using FLP Recombinase in C. elegans
M. Wayne Davis, J. Jason Morton, Dana Carroll, and Erik M. Jorgensen
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000028. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000028.
PMCID: PMC2265415
From Classical Genetics to Quantitative Genetics to Systems Biology: Modeling Epistasis
David L. Aylor and Zhao-Bang Zeng
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000029. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000029.
PMCID: PMC2265472
The Mating-Type Chromosome in the Filamentous Ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma Represents a Model for Early Evolution of Sex Chromosomes
Audrius Menkis, David J. Jacobson, Tim Gustafsson, and Hanna Johannesson
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000030. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000030.
PMCID: PMC2268244
An Abundant Evolutionarily Conserved CSB-PiggyBac Fusion Protein Expressed in Cockayne Syndrome
John C. Newman, Arnold D. Bailey, Hua-Ying Fan, Thomas Pavelitz, and Alan M. Weiner
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000031. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000031.
PMCID: PMC2268245
Global Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic and Transcriptional Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Whole Genome Tiling Arrays
Xu Zhang, Shinhan Shiu, Andrew Cal, and Justin O. Borevitz
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000032. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000032.
PMCID: PMC2265482
New Insights into Human Nondisjunction of Chromosome 21 in Oocytes
Tiffany Renee Oliver, Eleanor Feingold, Kai Yu, Vivian Cheung, Stuart Tinker, Maneesha Yadav-Shah, Nirupama Masse, and Stephanie L. Sherman
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000033. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000033.
PMCID: PMC2265487
Genetic Networks of Liver Metabolism Revealed by Integration of Metabolic and Transcriptional Profiling
Christine T. Ferrara, Ping Wang, Elias Chaibub Neto, Robert D. Stevens, James R. Bain, Brett R. Wenner, Olga R. Ilkayeva, Mark P. Keller, Daniel A. Blasiole, Christina Kendziorski, Brian S. Yandell, Christopher B. Newgard, and Alan D. Attie
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000034. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000034.
PMCID: PMC2265422
Transcriptional Profiling Uncovers a Network of Cholesterol-Responsive Atherosclerosis Target Genes
Josefin Skogsberg, Jesper Lundström, Alexander Kovacs, Roland Nilsson, Peri Noori, Shohreh Maleki, Marina Köhler, Anders Hamsten, Jesper Tegnér, and Johan Björkegren
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000036. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000036.
PMCID: PMC2265530
Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos
Sijia Wang, Nicolas Ray, Winston Rojas, Maria V. Parra, Gabriel Bedoya, Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Guido Mazzotti, Kim Hill, Ana M. Hurtado, Beatriz Camrena, Humberto Nicolini, William Klitz, Ramiro Barrantes, Julio A. Molina, Nelson B. Freimer, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Francisco M. Salzano, Maria L. Petzl-Erler, Luiza T. Tsuneto, José E. Dipierri, Emma L. Alfaro, Graciela Bailliet, Nestor O. Bianchi, Elena Llop, Francisco Rothhammer, Laurent Excoffier, and Andrés Ruiz-Linares
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000037. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000037.
PMCID: PMC2265669
Fine Mapping of the Psoriasis Susceptibility Locus PSORS1 Supports HLA-C as the Susceptibility Gene in the Han Chinese Population
Xing Fan, Sen Yang, Wei Huang, Zhi-Min Wang, Liang-Dan Sun, Yan-Hua Liang, Min Gao, Yue-Qing Ren, Kai-Yue Zhang, Wen-Hui Du, Yu-Jun Shen, Jian-Jun Liu, and Xue-Jun Zhang
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000038. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000038.
PMCID: PMC2265413
Recruitment to the Nuclear Periphery Can Alter Expression of Genes in Human Cells
Lee E. Finlan, Duncan Sproul, Inga Thomson, Shelagh Boyle, Elizabeth Kerr, Paul Perry, Bauke Ylstra, Jonathan R. Chubb, and Wendy A. Bickmore
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000039. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000039.
PMCID: PMC2265557
ZIP4H (TEX11) Deficiency in the Mouse Impairs Meiotic Double Strand Break Repair and the Regulation of Crossing Over
Carrie A. Adelman and John H. J. Petrini
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000042. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000042.
PMCID: PMC2267488
Phospholipase C-ε Regulates Epidermal Morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
Rafael P. Vázquez-Manrique, Anikó I. Nagy, James C. Legg, Olivia A. M. Bales, Sung Ly, and Howard A. Baylis
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000043. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000043.
PMCID: PMC2274882
An Essential Role for DYF-11/MIP-T3 in Assembling Functional Intraflagellar Transport Complexes
Chunmei Li, Peter N. Inglis, Carmen C. Leitch, Evgeni Efimenko, Norann A. Zaghloul, Calvin A. Mok, Erica E. Davis, Nathan J. Bialas, Michael P. Healey, Elise Héon, Mei Zhen, Peter Swoboda, Nicholas Katsanis, and Michel R. Leroux
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000044. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000044.
PMCID: PMC2268012
Global Chromatin Domain Organization of the Drosophila Genome
Elzo de Wit, Ulrich Braunschweig, Frauke Greil, Harmen J. Bussemaker, and Bas van Steensel
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000045. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000045.
PMCID: PMC2274884
Corrections
Correction: The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders
Jonathan S Friedlaender, Françoise R Friedlaender, Floyd A Reed, Kenneth K Kidd, Judith R Kidd, Geoffrey K Chambers, Rodney A Lea, Jun-Hun Loo, George Koki, Jason A Hodgson, D. Andrew Merriwether, and James L Weber
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): 10.1371/annotation/cbdd11a0-4a29-4e7c-9e4e-c00a184c7777. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/annotation/cbdd11a0-4a29-4e7c-9e4e-c00a184c7777.
PMCID: PMC2637087
Corrects: Jonathan S Friedlaender, et al. The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders. PLoS Genet. 2008 January; 4(1): e19.
Correction: Transcription and Chromatin Organization of a Housekeeping Gene Cluster Containing an Integrated β-Globin Locus Control Region
Daan Noordermeer, Miguel R. Branco, Erik Splinter, Petra Klous, Wilfred van IJcken, Sigrid Swagemakers, Manousos Koutsourakis, Peter van der Spek, Ana Pombo, and Wouter de Laat
PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): 10.1371/annotation/b4241c5d-5403-4797-8579-913ef9be560b. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/annotation/b4241c5d-5403-4797-8579-913ef9be560b.
PMCID: PMC2637086
Corrects: Daan Noordermeer, et al. Transcription and Chromatin Organization of a Housekeeping Gene Cluster Containing an Integrated β-Globin Locus Control Region. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000016.
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