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Volume 4(10);  October 2008
Perspective
Genetical Genomics: Spotlight on QTL Hotspots
Rainer Breitling, Yang Li, Bruno M. Tesson, Jingyuan Fu, Chunlei Wu, Tim Wiltshire, Alice Gerrits, Leonid V. Bystrykh, Gerald de Haan, Andrew I. Su, and Ritsert C. Jansen
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000232. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000232.
PMCID: PMC2563687
Leaving the Past Behind
E. Jean Finnegan and Emma Whitelaw
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000248. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000248.
PMCID: PMC2569149
Interview
Curling Up with a Story: An Interview with Sean Carroll
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000229. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000229.
PMCID: PMC2570611
Research Articles
Context-Dependent Requirement for dE2F during Oncogenic Proliferation
Brandon N. Nicolay and Maxim V. Frolov
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000205. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000205.
PMCID: PMC2542417
Zebrafish eda and edar Mutants Reveal Conserved and Ancestral Roles of Ectodysplasin Signaling in Vertebrates
Matthew P. Harris, Nicolas Rohner, Heinz Schwarz, Simon Perathoner, Peter Konstantinidis, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000206. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000206.
PMCID: PMC2542418
A Myo6 Mutation Destroys Coordination between the Myosin Heads, Revealing New Functions of Myosin VI in the Stereocilia of Mammalian Inner Ear Hair Cells
Ronna Hertzano, Ella Shalit, Agnieszka K. Rzadzinska, Amiel A. Dror, Lin Song, Uri Ron, Joshua T. Tan, Alina Starovolsky Shitrit, Helmut Fuchs, Tama Hasson, Nir Ben-Tal, H. Lee Sweeney, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Karen P. Steel, and Karen B. Avraham
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000207. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000207.
PMCID: PMC2543112
Mutability and Importance of a Hypermutable Cell Subpopulation that Produces Stress-Induced Mutants in Escherichia coli
Caleb Gonzalez, Lilach Hadany, Rebecca G. Ponder, Mellanie Price, P. J. Hastings, and Susan M. Rosenberg
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000208. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000208.
PMCID: PMC2543114
Mutation and Evolutionary Rates in Adélie Penguins from the Antarctic
Craig D. Millar, Andrew Dodd, Jennifer Anderson, Gillian C. Gibb, Peter A. Ritchie, Carlo Baroni, Michael D. Woodhams, Michael D. Hendy, and David M. Lambert
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000209. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000209.
PMCID: PMC2546446
High-Throughput Phenotypic Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Membrane Transport Genes
Daniel A. Johnson, Sasha G. Tetu, Katherine Phillippy, Joan Chen, Qinghu Ren, and Ian T. Paulsen
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000211. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000211.
PMCID: PMC2542419
Efficient and Accurate Construction of Genetic Linkage Maps from the Minimum Spanning Tree of a Graph
Yonghui Wu, Prasanna R. Bhat, Timothy J. Close, and Stefano Lonardi
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000212. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000212.
PMCID: PMC2556103
A TRPV Channel Modulates C. elegans Neurosecretion, Larval Starvation Survival, and Adult Lifespan
Brian H. Lee and Kaveh Ashrafi
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000213. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000213.
PMCID: PMC2556084
High-Resolution Mapping of Expression-QTLs Yields Insight into Human Gene Regulation
Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Su Yeon Kim, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Yoav Gilad, Matthew Stephens, and Jonathan K. Pritchard
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000214. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000214.
PMCID: PMC2556086
Cooperation of Sumoylated Chromosomal Proteins in rDNA Maintenance
Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Stanimir Dulev, Xianpeng Liu, Natalie Jasmin Hiller, Xiaolan Zhao, and Alexander Strunnikov
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000215. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000215.
PMCID: PMC2563031
A Position Effect on the Heritability of Epigenetic Silencing
Jaswinder Singh, Michael Freeling, and Damon Lisch
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000216. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000216.
PMCID: PMC2563033
Drosophila Kismet Regulates Histone H3 Lysine 27 Methylation and Early Elongation by RNA Polymerase II
Shrividhya Srinivasan, Kristel M. Dorighi, and John W. Tamkun
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000217. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000217.
PMCID: PMC2563034
Genetic Association and Expression Studies Indicate a Role of Toll-Like Receptor 8 in Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Sonia Davila, Martin L. Hibberd, Ranjeeta Hari Dass, Hazel E. E. Wong, Edhyana Sahiratmadja, Carine Bonnard, Bachti Alisjahbana, Jeffrey S. Szeszko, Yanina Balabanova, Francis Drobniewski, Reinout van Crevel, Esther van de Vosse, Sergey Nejentsev, Tom H. M. Ottenhoff, and Mark Seielstad
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000218. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000218.
PMCID: PMC2568981
Time-Lapse Analysis and Mathematical Characterization Elucidate Novel Mechanisms Underlying Muscle Morphogenesis
Chelsi J. Snow, Michelle Goody, Meghan W. Kelly, Emma C. Oster, Robert Jones, Andre Khalil, and Clarissa A. Henry
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000219. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000219.
PMCID: PMC2543113
Identification and Replication of Three Novel Myopia Common Susceptibility Gene Loci on Chromosome 3q26 using Linkage and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping
Toby Andrew, Nikolas Maniatis, Francis Carbonaro, S. H. Melissa Liew, Winston Lau, Tim D. Spector, and Christopher J. Hammond
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000220. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000220.
PMCID: PMC2556391
Mechanisms Underlying Hypoxia Tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: hairy as a Metabolic Switch
Dan Zhou, Jin Xue, James C. K. Lai, Nicholas J. Schork, Kevin P. White, and Gabriel G. Haddad
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000221. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000221.
PMCID: PMC2556400
The HLH-6 Transcription Factor Regulates C. elegans Pharyngeal Gland Development and Function
Ryan B. Smit, Ralf Schnabel, and Jeb Gaudet
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000222. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000222.
PMCID: PMC2563036
Variations in Stress Sensitivity and Genomic Expression in Diverse S. cerevisiae Isolates
Daniel J. Kvitek, Jessica L. Will, and Audrey P. Gasch
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000223. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000223.
PMCID: PMC2562515
Regulatory Network Analyses Reveal Genome-Wide Potentiation of LIF Signaling by Glucocorticoids and Define an Innate Cell Defense Response
David Langlais, Catherine Couture, Aurélio Balsalobre, and Jacques Drouin
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000224. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000224.
PMCID: PMC2562516
Diverse Splicing Patterns of Exonized Alu Elements in Human Tissues
Lan Lin, Shihao Shen, Anne Tye, James J. Cai, Peng Jiang, Beverly L. Davidson, and Yi Xing
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000225. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000225.
PMCID: PMC2562518
Effects of Aneuploidy on Genome Structure, Expression, and Interphase Organization in Arabidopsis thaliana
Bruno Huettel, David P. Kreil, Marjori Matzke, and Antonius J. M. Matzke
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000226. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000226.
PMCID: PMC2562519
Depletion of Human Histone H1 Variants Uncovers Specific Roles in Gene Expression and Cell Growth
Mónica Sancho, Erika Diani, Miguel Beato, and Albert Jordan
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000227. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000227.
PMCID: PMC2563032
Condensin II Resolves Chromosomal Associations to Enable Anaphase I Segregation in Drosophila Male Meiosis
Tom A. Hartl, Sarah J. Sweeney, Peter J. Knepler, and Giovanni Bosco
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000228. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000228.
PMCID: PMC2562520
The Anticonvulsant Ethosuximide Disrupts Sensory Function to Extend C. elegans Lifespan
James J. Collins, Kimberley Evason, Christopher L. Pickett, Daniel L. Schneider, and Kerry Kornfeld
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000230. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000230.
PMCID: PMC2565500
Predicting Unobserved Phenotypes for Complex Traits from Whole-Genome SNP Data
Sang Hong Lee, Julius H. J. van der Werf, Ben J. Hayes, Michael E. Goddard, and Peter M. Visscher
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000231. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000231.
PMCID: PMC2565502
Evolution and Dynamics of Regulatory Architectures Controlling Polymyxin B Resistance in Enteric Bacteria
Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Mollie W. Jewett, Tricia J. Hadley, and Eduardo A. Groisman
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000233. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000233.
PMCID: PMC2565834
Genetic Networks Controlling Structural Outcome of Glucosinolate Activation across Development
Adam M. Wentzell, Ian Boeye, Zhiyong Zhang, and Daniel J. Kliebenstein
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000234. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000234.
PMCID: PMC2565841
ZHP-3 Acts at Crossovers to Couple Meiotic Recombination with Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly and Bivalent Formation in C. elegans
Needhi Bhalla, David J. Wynne, Verena Jantsch, and Abby F. Dernburg
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000235. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000235.
PMCID: PMC2567099
Two Pathways Recruit Telomerase to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Telomeres
Angela Chan, Jean-Baptiste Boulé, and Virginia A. Zakian
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000236. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000236.
PMCID: PMC2567097
Numt-Mediated Double-Strand Break Repair Mitigates Deletions during Primate Genome Evolution
Einat Hazkani-Covo and Shay Covo
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000237. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000237.
PMCID: PMC2567098
The Novel Mouse Mutation Oblivion Inactivates the PMCA2 Pump and Causes Progressive Hearing Loss
Sarah L. Spiden, Mario Bortolozzi, Francesca Di Leva, Martin Hrabé de Angelis, Helmut Fuchs, Dmitry Lim, Saida Ortolano, Neil J. Ingham, Marisa Brini, Ernesto Carafoli, Fabio Mammano, and Karen P. Steel
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000238. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000238.
PMCID: PMC2568954
Genetic and Linguistic Coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia
Keith Hunley, Michael Dunn, Eva Lindström, Ger Reesink, Angela Terrill, Meghan E. Healy, George Koki, Françoise R. Friedlaender, and Jonathan S. Friedlaender
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000239. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000239.
PMCID: PMC2570610
Mutation of the Zebrafish Nucleoporin elys Sensitizes Tissue Progenitors to Replication Stress
Gangarao Davuluri, Weilong Gong, Shamila Yusuff, Kristin Lorent, Manimegalai Muthumani, Amy C. Dolan, and Michael Pack
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000240. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000240.
PMCID: PMC2570612
Essential Role of Chromatin Remodeling Protein Bptf in Early Mouse Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cells
Joseph Landry, Alexei A. Sharov, Yulan Piao, Lioudmila V. Sharova, Hua Xiao, Eileen Southon, Jennifer Matta, Lino Tessarollo, Ying E. Zhang, Minoru S. H. Ko, Michael R. Kuehn, Terry P. Yamaguchi, and Carl Wu
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000241. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000241.
PMCID: PMC2570622
Genomewide Analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 Occupancy Identifies Two Classes of Bivalent Domains
Manching Ku, Richard P. Koche, Esther Rheinbay, Eric M. Mendenhall, Mitsuhiro Endoh, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Aviva Presser, Chad Nusbaum, Xiaohui Xie, Andrew S. Chi, Mazhar Adli, Simon Kasif, Leon M. Ptaszek, Chad A. Cowan, Eric S. Lander, Haruhiko Koseki, and Bradley E. Bernstein
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000242. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000242.
PMCID: PMC2567431
Adaptive Copy Number Evolution in Malaria Parasites
Shalini Nair, Becky Miller, Marion Barends, Anchalee Jaidee, Jigar Patel, Mayfong Mayxay, Paul Newton, François Nosten, Michael T. Ferdig, and Tim J. C. Anderson
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000243. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000243.
PMCID: PMC2570623
Modifier Effects between Regulatory and Protein-Coding Variation
Antigone S. Dimas, Barbara E. Stranger, Claude Beazley, Robert D. Finn, Catherine E. Ingle, Matthew S. Forrest, Matthew E. Ritchie, Panos Deloukas, Simon Tavaré, and Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): e1000244. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000244.
PMCID: PMC2570624
Corrections
Correction: A Mouse Model of Harlequin Ichthyosis Delineates a Key Role for Abca12 in Lipid Homeostasis
Ian Smyth, Douglas F. Hacking, Adrienne A. Hilton, Nigora Mukhamedova, Peter J. Meikle, Sarah Ellis, Keith Slatterley, Janelle E. Collinge, Carolyn A. de Graaf, Melanie Bahlo, Dmitri Sviridov, Benjamin T. Kile, and Douglas J. Hilton
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): 10.1371/annotation/02a793a0-160f-46b9-abaa-4a3d3eecdde2. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1371/annotation/02a793a0-160f-46b9-abaa-4a3d3eecdde2.
PMCID: PMC2597898
Corrects: Ian Smyth, et al. A Mouse Model of Harlequin Ichthyosis Delineates a Key Role for Abca12 in Lipid Homeostasis. PLoS Genet. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000192.
Correction: Adaptive Stress Response in Segmental Progeria Resembles Long-Lived Dwarfism and Calorie Restriction in Mice
Marieke van de Ven, Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Valerie B Holcomb, Marieke von Lindern, Willeke M. C Jong, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Yousin Suh, Paul Hasty, Jan H. J Hoeijmakers, Gijsbertus T. J van der Horst, and James R Mitchell
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): 10.1371/annotation/31502636-9bdf-4cb1-b995-4a30a607e316. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1371/annotation/31502636-9bdf-4cb1-b995-4a30a607e316.
PMCID: PMC2645274
Corrects: Marieke van de Ven, et al. Adaptive Stress Response in Segmental Progeria Resembles Long-Lived Dwarfism and Calorie Restriction in Mice. PLoS Genet. 2006 December; 2(12): e192.
Correction: Motility Screen Identifies Drosophila IGF-II mRNA-Binding Protein, a Zipcode-Binding Protein Acting in Oogenesis and Synaptogenesis
Jennifer J. Jordan, Daniel Menendez, Alberto Inga, Maher Noureddine, Douglas A. Bell, and Michael A. Resnick
PLoS Genet. 2008 October; 4(10): 10.1371/annotation/f7fc9c28-14ae-480d-a69e-ee9cc4fba9a7. Published online 2008 October 20. doi: 10.1371/annotation/6511440c-6130-490d-8fc3-d53037da83ff .
PMCID: PMC2553204
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.
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