| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Interview Willing to Do the Math: An Interview with David Botstein Jane Gitschier PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e79. Published online 2006 May 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020079.PMCID: PMC1464829 Review The Jewels of Our Genome: The Search for the Genomic Changes Underlying the Evolutionarily Unique Capacities of the Human Brain James M Sikela PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e80. Published online 2006 May 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020080.PMCID: PMC1464830 Research Articles The Polycomb Group Protein EED Is Dispensable for the Initiation of Random X-Chromosome Inactivation Sundeep Kalantry and Terry Magnuson PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e66. Prepublished online 2006 March 17. Published online 2006 May 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020066.PMCID: PMC1456320 Coverage and Characteristics of the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 100K SNP Set Dan L Nicolae, Xiaoquan Wen, Benjamin F Voight, and Nancy J Cox PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e67. Prepublished online 2006 March 22. Published online 2006 May 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020067.PMCID: PMC1456318 Discordance of Species Trees with Their Most Likely Gene Trees James H Degnan and Noah A Rosenberg PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e68. Published online 2006 May 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020068.PMCID: PMC1464820 Risk Alleles of USF1 Gene Predict Cardiovascular Disease of Women in Two Prospective Studies Kati Komulainen, Mervi Alanne, Kirsi Auro, Riika Kilpikari, Päivi Pajukanta, Janna Saarela, Pekka Ellonen, Kaisa Salminen, Sangita Kulathinal, Kari Kuulasmaa, Kaisa Silander, Veikko Salomaa, Markus Perola, and Leena Peltonen PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e69. Prepublished online 2006 March 23. Published online 2006 May 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020069.PMCID: PMC1458962 High-Resolution Recombination Patterns in a Region of Human Chromosome 21 Measured by Sperm Typing Irene Tiemann-Boege, Peter Calabrese, David M Cochran, Rebecca Sokol, and Norman Arnheim PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e70. Prepublished online 2006 March 24. Published online 2006 May 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020070.PMCID: PMC1456319 Epigenetic Telomere Protection by Drosophila DNA Damage Response Pathways Sarah R Oikemus, Joana Queiroz-Machado, KuanJu Lai, Nadine McGinnis, Claudio Sunkel, and Michael H Brodsky PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e71. Prepublished online 2006 March 27. Published online 2006 May 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020071.PMCID: PMC1463044 Genome-Wide Mapping of Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Disease Identifies a Novel Replicated Locus on Chromosome 17 Martin Farrall, Fiona R Green, John F Peden, Per G Olsson, Robert Clarke, Mai-Lis Hellenius, Stephan Rust, Jacob Lagercrantz, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Helmut Schulte, Alisoun Carey, Gunnar Olsson, Gerd Assmann, Gianni Tognoni, Rory Collins, Anders Hamsten, and Hugh Watkins PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e72. Published online 2006 May 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020072.PMCID: PMC1463045 The Leukocyte Receptor Complex in Chicken Is Characterized by Massive Expansion and Diversification of Immunoglobulin-Like Loci Katja Laun, Penny Coggill, Sophie Palmer, Sarah Sims, Zemin Ning, Jiannis Ragoussis, Emanuela Volpi, Natalie Wilson, Stephan Beck, Andreas Ziegler, and Armin Volz PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e73. Prepublished online 2006 March 28. Published online 2006 May 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020073.PMCID: PMC1458963 Diverse Chromatin Remodeling Genes Antagonize the Rb-Involved SynMuv Pathways in C. elegans Mingxue Cui, E. Bridget Kim, and Min Han PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e74. Published online 2006 May 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020074.PMCID: PMC1463046 Genome Sequence of Rickettsia bellii Illuminates the Role of Amoebae in Gene Exchanges between Intracellular Pathogens Hiroyuki Ogata, Bernard La Scola, Stéphane Audic, Patricia Renesto, Guillaume Blanc, Catherine Robert, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Jean-Michel Claverie, and Didier Raoult PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e76. Prepublished online 2006 April 3. Published online 2006 May 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020076.PMCID: PMC1458961 Origination of an X-Linked Testes Chimeric Gene by Illegitimate Recombination in Drosophila J. Roman Arguello, Ying Chen, Shuang Yang, Wen Wang, and Manyuan Long PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e77. Published online 2006 May 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020077.PMCID: PMC1463047 Changes in Gene Expression Foreshadow Diet-Induced Obesity in Genetically Identical Mice Robert A Koza, Larissa Nikonova, Jessica Hogan, Jong-Seop Rim, Tamra Mendoza, Christopher Faulk, Jihad Skaf, and Leslie P Kozak PLoS Genet. 2006 May; 2(5): e81. Published online 2006 May 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020081.PMCID: PMC1464831 |