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Volume 5(1);  January 2009
Research Articles
Neuropeptide Y Gene Polymorphisms Confer Risk of Early-Onset Atherosclerosis
Svati H. Shah, Neil J. Freedman, Lisheng Zhang, David R. Crosslin, David H. Stone, Carol Haynes, Jessica Johnson, Sarah Nelson, Liyong Wang, Jessica J. Connelly, Michael Muehlbauer, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, David C. Crossman, Christopher J. H. Jones, Jeffery Vance, Michael H. Sketch, Jr, Christopher B. Granger, Christopher B. Newgard, Simon G. Gregory, Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont, William E. Kraus, and Elizabeth R. Hauser
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000318. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000318.
PMCID: PMC2602734
A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel and Functionally Related Susceptibility Loci for Kawasaki Disease
David Burgner, Sonia Davila, Willemijn B. Breunis, Sarah B. Ng, Yi Li, Carine Bonnard, Ling Ling, Victoria J. Wright, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Miranda Odam, Chisato Shimizu, Jane C. Burns, Michael Levin, Taco W. Kuijpers, Martin L. Hibberd, and International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000319. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000319.
PMCID: PMC2607021
Regulation of Small RNA Accumulation in the Maize Shoot Apex
Fabio T. S. Nogueira, Daniel H. Chitwood, Shahinez Madi, Kazuhiro Ohtsu, Patrick S. Schnable, Michael J. Scanlon, and Marja C. P. Timmermans
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000320. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000320.
PMCID: PMC2602737
Non-Coding RNA Prediction and Verification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Laura A. Kavanaugh and Fred S. Dietrich
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000321. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000321.
PMCID: PMC2603021
IL2RA Genetic Heterogeneity in Multiple Sclerosis and Type 1 Diabetes Susceptibility and Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Production
Lisa M. Maier, Christopher E. Lowe, Jason Cooper, Kate Downes, David E. Anderson, Christopher Severson, Pamela M. Clark, Brian Healy, Neil Walker, Cristin Aubin, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Stephen L. Hauser, Alistair Compston, Stephen Sawcer, The International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium, Philip L. De Jager, Linda S. Wicker, John A. Todd, and David A. Hafler
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000322. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000322.
PMCID: PMC2602853
Instability of Plastid DNA in the Nuclear Genome
Anna E. Sheppard and Jeremy N. Timmis
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000323. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000323.
PMCID: PMC2602989
ATR and Chk1 Suppress a Caspase-3–Dependent Apoptotic Response Following DNA Replication Stress
Katie Myers, Mary E. Gagou, Pedro Zuazua-Villar, Rene Rodriguez, and Mark Meuth
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000324. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000324.
PMCID: PMC2607051
Adaptive Evolution in Zinc Finger Transcription Factors
Ryan O. Emerson and James H. Thomas
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000325. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000325.
PMCID: PMC2604467
A Novel Role for Mc1r in the Parallel Evolution of Depigmentation in Independent Populations of the Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus
Joshua B. Gross, Richard Borowsky, and Clifford J. Tabin
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000326. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000326.
PMCID: PMC2603666
Arabidopsis CULLIN3 Genes Regulate Primary Root Growth and Patterning by Ethylene-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms
Alexis Thomann, Esther Lechner, Maureen Hansen, Eva Dumbliauskas, Yves Parmentier, Joe Kieber, Ben Scheres, and Pascal Genschik
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000328. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000328.
PMCID: PMC2607017
Why Is the Correlation between Gene Importance and Gene Evolutionary Rate So Weak?
Zhi Wang and Jianzhi Zhang
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000329. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000329.
PMCID: PMC2605560
Evolution of Regulatory Sequences in 12 Drosophila Species
Jaebum Kim, Xin He, and Saurabh Sinha
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000330. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000330.
PMCID: PMC2607023
Mouse Genome-Wide Association Mapping Needs Linkage Analysis to Avoid False-Positive Loci
Giacomo Manenti, Antonella Galvan, Angela Pettinicchio, Gaia Trincucci, Elena Spada, Anna Zolin, Silvano Milani, Anna Gonzalez-Neira, and Tommaso A. Dragani
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000331. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000331.
PMCID: PMC2614123
A cis-Acting Diversification Activator Both Necessary and Sufficient for AID-Mediated Hypermutation
Artem Blagodatski, Vera Batrak, Sabine Schmidl, Ulrike Schoetz, Randolph B. Caldwell, Hiroshi Arakawa, and Jean-Marie Buerstedde
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000332. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000332.
PMCID: PMC2607555
Gγ1, a Downstream Target for the hmgcr-Isoprenoid Biosynthetic Pathway, Is Required for Releasing the Hedgehog Ligand and Directing Germ Cell Migration
Girish Deshpande, Anuradha Godishala, and Paul Schedl
PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000333. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000333.
PMCID: PMC2607556
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