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Volume 4(6);  June 2008
Interview
The Exception That Proves the Rule: An Interview with Jenny Graves
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000063. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000063.
PMCID: PMC2377341
Research Articles
CRA-1 Uncovers a Double-Strand Break-Dependent Pathway Promoting the Assembly of Central Region Proteins on Chromosome Axes During C. elegans Meiosis
Sarit Smolikov, Kristina Schild-Prüfert, and Mónica P. Colaiácovo
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000088. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000088.
PMCID: PMC2408554
Genetic Identification of a Network of Factors that Functionally Interact with the Nucleosome Remodeling ATPase ISWI
Giosalba Burgio, Gaspare La Rocca, Anna Sala, Walter Arancio, Dario Di Gesù, Marianna Collesano, Adam S. Sperling, Jennifer A. Armstrong, Simon J. van Heeringen, Colin Logie, John W. Tamkun, and Davide F. V. Corona
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000089. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000089.
PMCID: PMC2390755
Combined Analysis of Murine and Human Microarrays and ChIP Analysis Reveals Genes Associated with the Ability of MYC To Maintain Tumorigenesis
Chi-Hwa Wu, Debashis Sahoo, Constadina Arvanitis, Nicole Bradon, David L. Dill, and Dean W. Felsher
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000090. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000090.
PMCID: PMC2390767
Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals a Complex Pattern of Genomic Imprinting in Mice
Jason B. Wolf, James M. Cheverud, Charles Roseman, and Reinmar Hager
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000091. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000091.
PMCID: PMC2390766
Novel Roles for MLH3 Deficiency and TLE6-Like Amplification in DNA Mismatch Repair-Deficient Gastrointestinal Tumorigenesis and Progression
Peng-Chieh Chen, Mari Kuraguchi, John Velasquez, Yuxun Wang, Kan Yang, Robert Edwards, Dan Gillen, Winfried Edelmann, Raju Kucherlapati, and Steven M. Lipkin
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000092. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000092.
PMCID: PMC2410297
Regulation and Role of Arabidopsis CUL4-DDB1A-DDB2 in Maintaining Genome Integrity upon UV Stress
Jean Molinier, Esther Lechner, Eva Dumbliauskas, and Pascal Genschik
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000093. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000093.
PMCID: PMC2396500
Overlapping Protein-Encoding Genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1
Mark W. Silby and Stuart B. Levy
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000094. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000094.
PMCID: PMC2396522
Trends in Selenium Utilization in Marine Microbial World Revealed through the Analysis of the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Project
Yan Zhang and Vadim N. Gladyshev
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000095. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000095.
PMCID: PMC2398784
SINE RNA Induces Severe Developmental Defects in Arabidopsis thaliana and Interacts with HYL1 (DRB1), a Key Member of the DCL1 Complex
Marie-Noëlle Pouch-Pélissier, Thierry Pélissier, Taline Elmayan, Hervé Vaucheret, Drasko Boko, Michael F. Jantsch, and Jean-Marc Deragon
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000096. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000096.
PMCID: PMC2408557
Mitochondrial Morphogenesis, Dendrite Development, and Synapse Formation in Cerebellum Require both Bcl-w and the Glutamate Receptor δ2
Qiong A. Liu and Helen Shio
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000097. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000097.
PMCID: PMC2405952
Evaluating Statistical Methods Using Plasmode Data Sets in the Age of Massive Public Databases: An Illustration Using False Discovery Rates
Gary L. Gadbury, Qinfang Xiang, Lin Yang, Stephen Barnes, Grier P. Page, and David B. Allison
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000098. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000098.
PMCID: PMC2409977
A Drastic Reduction in the Life Span of Cystatin C L68Q Carriers Due to Life-Style Changes during the Last Two Centuries
Astridur Palsdottir, Agnar Helgason, Snaebjorn Palsson, Hans Tomas Bjornsson, Birkir Thor Bragason, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Elias Olafsson, and Kari Stefansson
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000099. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000099.
PMCID: PMC2409978
An Evolutionarily Conserved Sexual Signature in the Primate Brain
Björn Reinius, Peter Saetre, Jennifer A. Leonard, Ran Blekhman, Roxana Merino-Martinez, Yoav Gilad, and Elena Jazin
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000100. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000100.
PMCID: PMC2413013
Plasminogen Alleles Influence Susceptibility to Invasive Aspergillosis
Aimee K. Zaas, Guochun Liao, Jason W. Chien, Clarice Weinberg, David Shore, Steven S. Giles, Kieren A. Marr, Jonathan Usuka, Lauranell H. Burch, Lalith Perera, John R. Perfect, Gary Peltz, and David A. Schwartz
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000101. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000101.
PMCID: PMC2423485
A Novel Ecdysone Receptor Mediates Steroid-Regulated Developmental Events during the Mid-Third Instar of Drosophila
Benjamin F. B. Costantino, Daniel K. Bricker, Kelly Alexandre, Kate Shen, John R. Merriam, Christophe Antoniewski, Jenna L. Callender, Vincent C. Henrich, Asaf Presente, and Andrew J. Andres
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000102. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000102.
PMCID: PMC2413497
Incompatibilities Involving Yeast Mismatch Repair Genes: A Role for Genetic Modifiers and Implications for Disease Penetrance and Variation in Genomic Mutation Rates
Ann Demogines, Alex Wong, Charles Aquadro, and Eric Alani
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000103. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000103.
PMCID: PMC2413424
Noncanonical DNA Motifs as Transactivation Targets by Wild Type and Mutant p53
Jennifer J. Jordan, Daniel Menendez, Alberto Inga, Maher Nourredine, Douglas Bell, and Michael A. Resnick
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000104. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000104.
PMCID: PMC2518093
Low Levels of DNA Polymerase Alpha Induce Mitotic and Meiotic Instability in the Ribosomal DNA Gene Cluster of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Anne M. Casper, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Malgorzata Gawel, and Thomas D. Petes
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000105. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000105.
PMCID: PMC2430618
Sepsid even-skipped Enhancers Are Functionally Conserved in Drosophila Despite Lack of Sequence Conservation
Emily E. Hare, Brant K. Peterson, Venky N. Iyer, Rudolf Meier, and Michael B. Eisen
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000106. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000106.
PMCID: PMC2430619
A Large-Scale Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetic Study Identifies Association at Chromosome 9q33.2
Monica Chang, Charles M. Rowland, Veronica E. Garcia, Steven J. Schrodi, Joseph J. Catanese, Annette H. M. van der Helm-van Mil, Kristin G. Ardlie, Christopher I. Amos, Lindsey A. Criswell, Daniel L. Kastner, Peter K. Gregersen, Fina A. S. Kurreeman, Rene E. M. Toes, Tom W. J. Huizinga, Michael F. Seldin, and Ann B. Begovich
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000107. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000107.
PMCID: PMC2481282
Metabolic Actions of Estrogen Receptor Beta (ERβ) are Mediated by a Negative Cross-Talk with PPARγ
Anna Foryst-Ludwig, Markus Clemenz, Stephan Hohmann, Martin Hartge, Christiane Sprang, Nikolaj Frost, Maxim Krikov, Sanjay Bhanot, Rodrigo Barros, Andrea Morani, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Thomas Unger, and Ulrich Kintscher
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000108. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000108.
PMCID: PMC2432036
Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies
Ke Hao, Eric E. Schadt, and John D. Storey
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000109. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000109.
PMCID: PMC2432039
Alternative-NHEJ Is a Mechanistically Distinct Pathway of Mammalian Chromosome Break Repair
Nicole Bennardo, Anita Cheng, Nick Huang, and Jeremy M. Stark
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000110. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000110.
PMCID: PMC2430616
Global Mapping of DNA Methylation in Mouse Promoters Reveals Epigenetic Reprogramming of Pluripotency Genes
Cassandra R. Farthing, Gabriella Ficz, Ray Kit Ng, Chun-Fung Chan, Simon Andrews, Wendy Dean, Myriam Hemberger, and Wolf Reik
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000116. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000116.
PMCID: PMC2432031
Corrections
Correction: Global Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic and Transcriptional Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Whole Genome Tiling Arrays
Xu Zhang, Shin-Han Shiu, Andrew Cal, and Justin O. Borevitz
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/e21d3565-fec6-44d9-8fab-83da49c7c0b8. Published online 2008 June 10. doi: 10.1371/annotation/e21d3565-fec6-44d9-8fab-83da49c7c0b8.
PMCID: PMC2645276
Corrects: Xu Zhang, et al. Global Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic and Transcriptional Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Whole Genome Tiling Arrays. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000032.
Correction: Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using Selective Signatures
B. Jesse Shapiro and Eric J Alm
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/fced1166-1825-485c-88b9-d6ec950326c8. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1371/annotation/fced1166-1825-485c-88b9-d6ec950326c8.
PMCID: PMC2651599
Corrects: B. Jesse Shapiro, et al. Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using Selective Signatures . PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e23.
Correction: Functional Characterization of Variations on Regulatory Motifs
Michal Lapidot, Orna Mizrahi-Man, and Yitzhak Pilpel
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/99662172-8f18-4bfb-ad0f-79ed1d69fffd. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1371/annotation/99662172-8f18-4bfb-ad0f-79ed1d69fffd.
PMCID: PMC2637090
Corrects: Lapidot Michal, et al. Functional Characterization of Variations on Regulatory Motifs. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000018.
Correction: Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model
Garrett Hellenthal, Adam Auton, and Daniel Falush
PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/da6e20fe-f8eb-4e44-8669-6c20c7102b3d. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1371/annotation/da6e20fe-f8eb-4e44-8669-6c20c7102b3d.
PMCID: PMC2637091
Corrects: Garrett Hellenthal, et al. Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model. PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000078.
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