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Volume 4(7);  July 2008
Editorial
PLoS Genetics Turns Three: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Wayne N. Frankel and Gregory S. Barsh
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000135. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000135.
PMCID: PMC2444048
Interview
Stable in a Genome of Instability: An Interview with Evan Eichler
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000124. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000124.
PMCID: PMC2442658
Review
Pain Genes
Tom Foulkes and John N. Wood
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000086. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000086.
PMCID: PMC2432024
Research Articles
Identification of Neural Outgrowth Genes using Genome-Wide RNAi
Katharine J. Sepp, Pengyu Hong, Sofia B. Lizarraga, Judy S. Liu, Luis A. Mejia, Christopher A. Walsh, and Norbert Perrimon
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000111. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000111.
PMCID: PMC2435276
Genetic Interactions of MAF1 Identify a Role for Med20 in Transcriptional Repression of Ribosomal Protein Genes
Ian M. Willis, Gordon Chua, Amy H. Tong, Renee L. Brost, Timothy R. Hughes, Charles Boone, and Robyn D. Moir
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000112. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000112.
PMCID: PMC2435279
Pervasive and Persistent Redundancy among Duplicated Genes in Yeast
E. Jedediah Dean, Jerel C. Davis, Ronald W. Davis, and Dmitri A. Petrov
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000113. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000113.
PMCID: PMC2440806
Tracing Sub-Structure in the European American Population with PCA-Informative Markers
Peristera Paschou, Petros Drineas, Jamey Lewis, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Deborah A. Nickerson, Joshua D. Smith, Paul M. Ridker, Daniel I. Chasman, Ronald M. Krauss, and Elad Ziv
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000114. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000114.
PMCID: PMC2537989
An Integrated Approach for the Analysis of Biological Pathways using Mixed Models
Lily Wang, Bing Zhang, Russell D. Wolfinger, and Xi Chen
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000115. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000115.
PMCID: PMC2565842
Sensory Perception of Food and Insulin-Like Signals Influence Seizure Susceptibility
Todd R. Gruninger, Daisy G. Gualberto, and L. Rene Garcia
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000117. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000117.
PMCID: PMC2432499
Novel Association of ABO Histo-Blood Group Antigen with Soluble ICAM-1: Results of a Genome-Wide Association Study of 6,578 Women
Guillaume Paré, Daniel I. Chasman, Mark Kellogg, Robert Y. L. Zee, Nader Rifai, Sunita Badola, Joseph P. Miletich, and Paul M. Ridker
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000118. Published online 2008 July 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000118.
PMCID: PMC2432033
The Recombinational Anatomy of a Mouse Chromosome
Kenneth Paigen, Jin P. Szatkiewicz, Kathryn Sawyer, Nicole Leahy, Emil D. Parvanov, Siemon H. S. Ng, Joel H. Graber, Karl W. Broman, and Petko M. Petkov
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000119. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000119.
PMCID: PMC2440539
Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Control Revealed by a Systematic and Quantitative Overexpression Screen in S. cerevisiae
Wei Niu, Zhihua Li, Wenjing Zhan, Vishwanath R. Iyer, and Edward M. Marcotte
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000120. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000120.
PMCID: PMC2438615
Zebrafish Whole-Adult-Organism Chemogenomics for Large-Scale Predictive and Discovery Chemical Biology
Siew Hong Lam, Sinnakarupan Mathavan, Yan Tong, Haixia Li, R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi, Yilian Wu, Vinsensius B. Vega, Edison T. Liu, and Zhiyuan Gong
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000121. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000121.
PMCID: PMC2442223
Identification and Dissection of a Complex DNA Repair Sensitivity Phenotype in Baker's Yeast
Ann Demogines, Erin Smith, Leonid Kruglyak, and Eric Alani
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000123. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000123.
PMCID: PMC2440805
A Candidate Gene Approach Identifies the CHRNA5-A3-B4 Region as a Risk Factor for Age-Dependent Nicotine Addiction
Robert B. Weiss, Timothy B. Baker, Dale S. Cannon, Andrew von Niederhausern, Diane M. Dunn, Nori Matsunami, Nanda A. Singh, Lisa Baird, Hilary Coon, William M. McMahon, Megan E. Piper, Michael C. Fiore, Mary Beth Scholand, John E. Connett, Richard E. Kanner, Lorise C. Gahring, Scott W. Rogers, John R. Hoidal, and Mark F. Leppert
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000125. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000125.
PMCID: PMC2442220
Identification of Drosophila Mitotic Genes by Combining Co-Expression Analysis and RNA Interference
Maria Patrizia Somma, Francesca Ceprani, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Valeria Naim, Valeria De Arcangelis, Roberto Piergentili, Antonella Palena, Laura Ciapponi, Maria Grazia Giansanti, Claudia Pellacani, Romano Petrucci, Giovanni Cenci, Fiammetta Vernì, Barbara Fasulo, Michael L. Goldberg, Ferdinando Di Cunto, and Maurizio Gatti
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000126. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000126.
PMCID: PMC2537813
Genome-Wide Expression Patterns and the Genetic Architecture of a Fundamental Social Trait
John Wang, Kenneth G. Ross, and Laurent Keller
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000127. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000127.
PMCID: PMC2442221
Dynamics of Genome Rearrangement in Bacterial Populations
Aaron E. Darling, István Miklós, and Mark A. Ragan
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000128. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000128.
PMCID: PMC2483231
A Precisely Regulated Gene Expression Cassette Potently Modulates Metastasis and Survival in Multiple Solid Cancers
Kun Yu, Kumaresan Ganesan, Lay Keng Tan, Mirtha Laban, Jeanie Wu, Xiao Dong Zhao, Hongmin Li, Carol Ho Wing Leung, Yansong Zhu, Chia Lin Wei, Shing Chuan Hooi, Lance Miller, and Patrick Tan
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000129. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000129.
PMCID: PMC2444049
Simultaneous Analysis of All SNPs in Genome-Wide and Re-Sequencing Association Studies
Clive J. Hoggart, John C. Whittaker, Maria De Iorio, and David J. Balding
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000130. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000130.
PMCID: PMC2464715
E1 Ubiquitin-Activating Enzyme UBA-1 Plays Multiple Roles throughout C. elegans Development
Madhura Kulkarni and Harold E. Smith
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000131. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000131.
PMCID: PMC2443343
Myc Oncogene-Induced Genomic Instability: DNA Palindromes in Bursal Lymphomagenesis
Paul E. Neiman, Katrina Elsaesser, Gilbert Loring, and Robert Kimmel
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000132. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000132.
PMCID: PMC2444050
Genome-Wide Occupancy of SREBP1 and Its Partners NFY and SP1 Reveals Novel Functional Roles and Combinatorial Regulation of Distinct Classes of Genes
Brian D. Reed, Alexandra E. Charos, Anna M. Szekely, Sherman M. Weissman, and Michael Snyder
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000133. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000133.
PMCID: PMC2478640
Regulation of Zebrafish Skeletogenesis by ext2/dackel and papst1/pinscher
Aurélie Clément, Malgorzata Wiweger, Sophia von der Hardt, Melissa A. Rusch, Scott B. Selleck, Chi-Bin Chien, and Henry H. Roehl
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000136. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000136.
PMCID: PMC2453328
Positional Cloning of “Lisch-like”, a Candidate Modifier of Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes in Mice
Marija Dokmanovic-Chouinard, Wendy K. Chung, Jean-Claude Chevre, Elizabeth Watson, Jason Yonan, Beebe Wiegand, Yana Bromberg, Nao Wakae, Chris V. Wright, John Overton, Sujoy Ghosh, Ganesh M. Sathe, Carina E. Ammala, Kathleen K. Brown, Rokuro Ito, Charles LeDuc, Keely Solomon, Stuart G. Fischer, and Rudolph L. Leibel
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000137. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000137.
PMCID: PMC2464733
The Insulator Binding Protein CTCF Positions 20 Nucleosomes around Its Binding Sites across the Human Genome
Yutao Fu, Manisha Sinha, Craig L. Peterson, and Zhiping Weng
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000138. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000138.
PMCID: PMC2453330
The Status of Dosage Compensation in the Multiple X Chromosomes of the Platypus
Janine E. Deakin, Timothy A. Hore, Edda Koina, and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000140. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000140.
PMCID: PMC2453332
Complete Genome Sequence of the N2-Fixing Broad Host Range Endophyte Klebsiella pneumoniae 342 and Virulence Predictions Verified in Mice
Derrick E. Fouts, Heather L. Tyler, Robert T. DeBoy, Sean Daugherty, Qinghu Ren, Jonathan H. Badger, Anthony S. Durkin, Heather Huot, Susmita Shrivastava, Sagar Kothari, Robert J. Dodson, Yasmin Mohamoud, Hoda Khouri, Luiz F. W. Roesch, Karen A. Krogfelt, Carsten Struve, Eric W. Triplett, and Barbara A. Methé
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): e1000141. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000141.
PMCID: PMC2453333
Corrections
Correction: 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 July; 4(7): 10.1371/annotation/7989839d-0677-4f59-a218-f4ebb6fd0b66. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1371/annotation/7989839d-0677-4f59-a218-f4ebb6fd0b66.
PMCID: PMC2648617
Corrects: Christine T. Ferrara, et al. Genetic Networks of Liver Metabolism Revealed by Integration of Metabolic and Transcriptional Profiling. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000034.
Correction: Noncanonical DNA Motifs as Transactivation Targets by Wild Type and Mutant p53
Jennifer J. Jordan, Daniel Menendez, Alberto Inga, Maher Noureddine, Douglas A. Bell, and Michael A. Resnick
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): 10.1371/annotation/13bc83be-2345-401d-b953-f1886e9fbdff. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/annotation/13bc83be-2345-401d-b953-f1886e9fbdff.
PMCID: PMC2648616
Corrects: Jennifer J. Jordan, et al. Noncanonical DNA Motifs as Transactivation Targets by Wild Type and Mutant p53. PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000104.
Correction: The Inexorable Spread of a Newly Arisen Neo-Y Chromosome
Paris Veltsos, Irene Keller, and Richard A. Nichols
PLoS Genet. 2008 July; 4(7): 10.1371/annotation/1b49686f-761d-4920-aba3-c8842d59b43a. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/annotation/1b49686f-761d-4920-aba3-c8842d59b43a.
PMCID: PMC2655752
Corrects: Paris Veltsos, et al. The Inexorable Spread of a Newly Arisen Neo-Y Chromosome. PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000082.
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