| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archivePerspective Converging on the Origins of Axonal Ion Channel Clustering Matthew N. Rasband PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000340. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000340.PMCID: PMC2613034 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 Deletion Hotspots in AMACR Promoter CpG Island Are cis-Regulatory Elements Controlling the Gene Expression in the Colon Xiang Zhang, Irwin Leav, Monica P. Revelo, Ranjan Deka, Mario Medvedovic, Zhong Jiang, and Shuk-Mei Ho PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000334. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000334.PMCID: PMC2613032 Pervasive Hitchhiking at Coding and Regulatory Sites in Humans James J. Cai, J. Michael Macpherson, Guy Sella, and Dmitri A. Petrov PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000336. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000336.PMCID: PMC2613029 Genome-Wide Association Study of Plasma Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in the InCHIANTI Study Toshiko Tanaka, Jian Shen, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Aliaksei Kisialiou, Jose M. Ordovas, Jack M. Guralnik, Andrew Singleton, Stefania Bandinelli, Antonio Cherubini, Donna Arnett, Michael Y. Tsai, and Luigi Ferrucci PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000338. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000338.PMCID: PMC2613033 Yeast Genetic Analysis Reveals the Involvement of Chromatin Reassembly Factors in Repressing HIV-1 Basal Transcription Manuela Vanti, Edurne Gallastegui, Iñaki Respaldiza, Alfonso Rodríguez-Gil, Fernando Gómez-Herreros, Silvia Jimeno-González, Albert Jordan, and Sebastián Chávez PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000339. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000339.PMCID: PMC2613532 Contrasting Mode of Evolution at a Coat Color Locus in Wild and Domestic Pigs Meiying Fang, Greger Larson, Helena Soares Ribeiro, Ning Li, and Leif Andersson PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000341. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000341.PMCID: PMC2613536 Genetic Differences between the Determinants of Lipid Profile Phenotypes in African and European Americans: The Jackson Heart Study Rahul C. Deo, David Reich, Arti Tandon, Ermeg Akylbekova, Nick Patterson, Alicja Waliszewska, Sekar Kathiresan, Daniel Sarpong, Herman A. Taylor, Jr., and James G. Wilson PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000342. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000342.PMCID: PMC2613537 Sequences From First Settlers Reveal Rapid Evolution in Icelandic mtDNA Pool Agnar Helgason, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Shyamali Ghosh, Sigrún Sigurðardóttir, Maria Lourdes Sampietro, Elena Gigli, Adam Baker, Jaume Bertranpetit, Lilja Árnadóttir, Unnur Þorsteinsdottir, and Kári Stefánsson PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000343. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000343.PMCID: PMC2613751 TraR, a Homolog of a RNAP Secondary Channel Interactor, Modulates Transcription Matthew D. Blankschien, Katarzyna Potrykus, Elicia Grace, Abha Choudhary, Daniel Vinella, Michael Cashel, and Christophe Herman PLoS Genet. 2009 January; 5(1): e1000345. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000345.PMCID: PMC2613031 |