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Volume 4(8);  August 2008
Perspective
A Tribute to Evgenii V. Ananiev, 1947–2008
Sergei M. Mirkin
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000122. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000122.
PMCID: PMC2478716
Rise of the Machines
David Gresham and Leonid Kruglyak
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000134. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000134.
PMCID: PMC2467494
Interview
Sweating the Details: An Interview with Jamie Thomson
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000182. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000182.
PMCID: PMC2517851
Research Articles
Genic and Global Functions for Paf1C in Chromatin Modification and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis
Sookyung Oh, Sunchung Park, and Steven van Nocker
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000077. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000077.
PMCID: PMC2515192
High-Precision, Whole-Genome Sequencing of Laboratory Strains Facilitates Genetic Studies
Anjana Srivatsan, Yi Han, Jianlan Peng, Ashley K. Tehranchi, Richard Gibbs, Jue D. Wang, and Rui Chen
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000139. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000139.
PMCID: PMC2474695
Efficient Genetic Method for Establishing Drosophila Cell Lines Unlocks the Potential to Create Lines of Specific Genotypes
Amanda Simcox, Sayan Mitra, Sharon Truesdell, Litty Paul, Ting Chen, Jonathan P. Butchar, and Steven Justiniano
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000142. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000142.
PMCID: PMC2474701
FHY1 Mediates Nuclear Import of the Light-Activated Phytochrome A Photoreceptor
Thierry Genoud, Fabian Schweizer, Anke Tscheuschler, Dimitry Debrieux, Jorge J. Casal, Eberhard Schäfer, Andreas Hiltbrunner, and Christian Fankhauser
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000143. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000143.
PMCID: PMC2483295
Patterns of Positive Selection in Six Mammalian Genomes
Carolin Kosiol, Tomáš Vinař, Rute R. da Fonseca, Melissa J. Hubisz, Carlos D. Bustamante, Rasmus Nielsen, and Adam Siepel
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000144. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000144.
PMCID: PMC2483296
Antagonism between DNA and H3K27 Methylation at the Imprinted Rasgrf1 Locus
Anders M. Lindroth, Yoon Jung Park, Chelsea M. McLean, Gregoriy A. Dokshin, Jenna M. Persson, Herry Herman, Diego Pasini, Xavier Miró, Mary E. Donohoe, Jeannie T. Lee, Kristian Helin, and Paul D. Soloway
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000145. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000145.
PMCID: PMC2475503
Unveiling Novel RecO Distant Orthologues Involved in Homologous Recombination
Stéphanie Marsin, Aurélie Mathieu, Thierry Kortulewski, Raphaël Guérois, and J. Pablo Radicella
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000146. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000146.
PMCID: PMC2475510
Linkage Disequilibrium-Based Quality Control for Large-Scale Genetic Studies
Paul Scheet and Matthew Stephens
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000147. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000147.
PMCID: PMC2475504
Evolutionary Convergence on Highly-Conserved 3′ Intron Structures in Intron-Poor Eukaryotes and Insights into the Ancestral Eukaryotic Genome
Manuel Irimia and Scott William Roy
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000148. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000148.
PMCID: PMC2483917
High-Resolution Mapping of Gene Expression Using Association in an Outbred Mouse Stock
Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Hyun Kang, Charles Farber, Ping-Zi Wen, Alec Brozell, Ruth Castellanos, Eleazar Eskin, Desmond J. Smith, Thomas A. Drake, and Aldons J. Lusis
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000149. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000149.
PMCID: PMC2483929
Mitochondrial Targeting Adaptation of the Hominoid-Specific Glutamate Dehydrogenase Driven by Positive Darwinian Selection
Lia Rosso, Ana C. Marques, Andreas S. Reichert, and Henrik Kaessmann
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000150. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000150.
PMCID: PMC2478720
Off-Target Effects of Psychoactive Drugs Revealed by Genome-Wide Assays in Yeast
Elke Ericson, Marinella Gebbia, Lawrence E. Heisler, Jan Wildenhain, Mike Tyers, Guri Giaever, and Corey Nislow
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000151. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000151.
PMCID: PMC2483942
The Identification of Zebrafish Mutants Showing Alterations in Senescence-Associated Biomarkers
Shuji Kishi, Peter E. Bayliss, Junzo Uchiyama, Eriko Koshimizu, Jie Qi, Purushothama Nanjappa, Shintaro Imamura, Asiful Islam, Donna Neuberg, Adam Amsterdam, and Thomas M. Roberts
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000152. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000152.
PMCID: PMC2515337
E2F and p53 Induce Apoptosis Independently during Drosophila Development but Intersect in the Context of DNA Damage
Nam-Sung Moon, Luisa Di Stefano, Erick J. Morris, Reena Patel, Kristin White, and Nicholas J. Dyson
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000153. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000153.
PMCID: PMC2491587
Genetic Evidence of Serum Phosphate-Independent Functions of FGF-23 on Bone
Despina Sitara, Somi Kim, Mohammed S. Razzaque, Clemens Bergwitz, Takashi Taguchi, Christiane Schüler, Reinhold G. Erben, and Beate Lanske
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000154. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000154.
PMCID: PMC2483943
Double Strand Breaks Can Initiate Gene Silencing and SIRT1-Dependent Onset of DNA Methylation in an Exogenous Promoter CpG Island
Heather M. O'Hagan, Helai P. Mohammad, and Stephen B. Baylin
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000155. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000155.
PMCID: PMC2491723
Three SRA-Domain Methylcytosine-Binding Proteins Cooperate to Maintain Global CpG Methylation and Epigenetic Silencing in Arabidopsis
Hye Ryun Woo, Travis A. Dittmer, and Eric J. Richards
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000156. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000156.
PMCID: PMC2491724
Selective Constraints in Experimentally Defined Primate Regulatory Regions
Daniel J. Gaffney, Ran Blekhman, and Jacek Majewski
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000157. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000157.
PMCID: PMC2490716
Mutant Screen Distinguishes between Residues Necessary for Light-Signal Perception and Signal Transfer by Phytochrome B
Yoshito Oka, Tomonao Matsushita, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Peter H. Quail, and Akira Nagatani
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000158. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000158.
PMCID: PMC2494609
Context Differences Reveal Insulator and Activator Functions of a Su(Hw) Binding Region
Alexey A. Soshnev, Xingguo Li, Misty D. Wehling, and Pamela K. Geyer
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000159. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000159.
PMCID: PMC2493044
Genetic Variation in an Individual Human Exome
Pauline C. Ng, Samuel Levy, Jiaqi Huang, Timothy B. Stockwell, Brian P. Walenz, Kelvin Li, Nelson Axelrod, Dana A. Busam, Robert L. Strausberg, and J. Craig Venter
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000160. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000160.
PMCID: PMC2493042
Delayed and Accelerated Aging Share Common Longevity Assurance Mechanisms
Björn Schumacher, Ingrid van der Pluijm, Michael J. Moorhouse, Theodore Kosteas, Andria Rasile Robinson, Yousin Suh, Timo M. Breit, Harry van Steeg, Laura J. Niedernhofer, Wilfred van IJcken, Andrzej Bartke, Stephen R. Spindler, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst, and George A. Garinis
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000161. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000161.
PMCID: PMC2493043
An Sp1/Sp3 Binding Polymorphism Confers Methylation Protection
Yanis A. Boumber, Yutaka Kondo, Xuqi Chen, Lanlan Shen, Yi Guo, Carmen Tellez, Marcos R. H. Estécio, Saira Ahmed, and Jean-Pierre J. Issa
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000162. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000162.
PMCID: PMC2515197
Deep Sequencing Analysis of Small Noncoding RNA and mRNA Targets of the Global Post-Transcriptional Regulator, Hfq
Alexandra Sittka, Sacha Lucchini, Kai Papenfort, Cynthia M. Sharma, Katarzyna Rolle, Tim T. Binnewies, Jay C. D. Hinton, and Jörg Vogel
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000163. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000163.
PMCID: PMC2515195
Identification and Functional Analysis of Light-Responsive Unique Genes and Gene Family Members in Rice
Ki-Hong Jung, Jinwon Lee, Chris Dardick, Young-Su Seo, Peijian Cao, Patrick Canlas, Jirapa Phetsom, Xia Xu, Shu Ouyang, Kyungsook An, Yun-Ja Cho, Geun-Cheol Lee, Yoosook Lee, Gynheung An, and Pamela C. Ronald
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000164. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000164.
PMCID: PMC2515340
Divergent Evolution of CHD3 Proteins Resulted in MOM1 Refining Epigenetic Control in Vascular Plants
Marian Čaikovski, Chotika Yokthongwattana, Yoshiki Habu, Taisuke Nishimura, Olivier Mathieu, and Jerzy Paszkowski
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000165. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000165.
PMCID: PMC2507757
Genome-Wide Scan on Total Serum IgE Levels Identifies FCER1A as Novel Susceptibility Locus
Stephan Weidinger, Christian Gieger, Elke Rodriguez, Hansjörg Baurecht, Martin Mempel, Norman Klopp, Henning Gohlke, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Markus Ollert, Johannes Ring, Heidrun Behrendt, Joachim Heinrich, Natalija Novak, Thomas Bieber, Ursula Krämer, Dietrich Berdel, Andrea von Berg, Carl Peter Bauer, Olf Herbarth, Sibylle Koletzko, Holger Prokisch, Divya Mehta, Thomas Meitinger, Martin Depner, Erika von Mutius, Liming Liang, Miriam Moffatt, William Cookson, Michael Kabesch, H.-Erich Wichmann, and Thomas Illig
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000166. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000166.
PMCID: PMC2565692
Resolving Individuals Contributing Trace Amounts of DNA to Highly Complex Mixtures Using High-Density SNP Genotyping Microarrays
Nils Homer, Szabolcs Szelinger, Margot Redman, David Duggan, Waibhav Tembe, Jill Muehling, John V. Pearson, Dietrich A. Stephan, Stanley F. Nelson, and David W. Craig
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000167. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000167.
PMCID: PMC2516199
Repeated Adaptive Introgression at a Gene under Multiallelic Balancing Selection
Vincent Castric, Jesper Bechsgaard, Mikkel H. Schierup, and Xavier Vekemans
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000168. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000168.
PMCID: PMC2517234
The Evolution of Epigenetic Regulators CTCF and BORIS/CTCFL in Amniotes
Timothy A. Hore, Janine E. Deakin, and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000169. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000169.
PMCID: PMC2515639
WDR55 Is a Nucleolar Modulator of Ribosomal RNA Synthesis, Cell Cycle Progression, and Teleost Organ Development
Norimasa Iwanami, Tomokazu Higuchi, Yumi Sasano, Toshinobu Fujiwara, Vu Q. Hoa, Minoru Okada, Sadiqur R. Talukder, Sanae Kunimatsu, Jie Li, Fumi Saito, Chitralekha Bhattacharya, Angabin Matin, Takashi Sasaki, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Hiroshi Mitani, Heinz Himmelbauer, Akihiro Momoi, Hisato Kondoh, Makoto Furutani-Seiki, and Yousuke Takahama
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000171. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000171.
PMCID: PMC2515640
Analysis of Transposon Interruptions Suggests Selection for L1 Elements on the X Chromosome
György Abrusán, Joti Giordano, and Peter E. Warburton
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000172. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000172.
PMCID: PMC2517846
The Challenge of Regulation in a Minimal Photoautotroph: Non-Coding RNAs in Prochlorococcus
Claudia Steglich, Matthias E. Futschik, Debbie Lindell, Bjoern Voss, Sallie W. Chisholm, and Wolfgang R. Hess
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000173. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000173.
PMCID: PMC2518516
C. elegans Nucleostemin Is Required for Larval Growth and Germline Stem Cell Division
Michelle M. Kudron and Valerie Reinke
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000181. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000181.
PMCID: PMC2515194
A Catalog of Neutral and Deleterious Polymorphism in Yeast
Scott W. Doniger, Hyun Seok Kim, Devjanee Swain, Daniella Corcuera, Morgan Williams, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, and Justin C. Fay
PLoS Genet. 2008 August; 4(8): e1000183. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000183.
PMCID: PMC2515631
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