| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Special Report Zebrafish VEGF Receptors: A Guideline to Nomenclature Jeroen Bussmann, Nathan Lawson, Leonard Zon, Stefan Schulte-Merker, and Zebrafish Nomenclature Committee PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000064. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000064.PMCID: PMC2367445 Review When Clocks Go Bad: Neurobehavioural Consequences of Disrupted Circadian Timing Alun R. Barnard and Patrick M. Nolan PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000040. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000040.PMCID: PMC2295261 Research Articles How To Perform Meaningful Estimates of Genetic Effects José M. Álvarez-Castro, Arnaud Le Rouzic, and Örjan Carlborg PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000062. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000062.PMCID: PMC2320976 The λ Red Proteins Promote Efficient Recombination between Diverged Sequences: Implications for Bacteriophage Genome Mosaicism Jann T. Martinsohn, Miroslav Radman, and Marie-Agnès Petit PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000065. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000065.PMCID: PMC2327257 SU(VAR)3-7 Links Heterochromatin and Dosage Compensation in Drosophila Anne Spierer, Flora Begeot, Pierre Spierer, and Marion Delattre PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000066. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000066.PMCID: PMC2320979 A Genetic Screen for Dihydropyridine (DHP)-Resistant Worms Reveals New Residues Required for DHP-Blockage of Mammalian Calcium Channels Trevor C. Y. Kwok, Kwokyin Hui, Wojciech Kostelecki, Nicole Ricker, Guillermo Selman, Zhong-Ping Feng, and Peter John Roy PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000067. Published online 2008 May 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000067.PMCID: PMC2362100 An Inducible and Reversible Mouse Genetic Rescue System Hongkui Zeng, Kyoji Horie, Linda Madisen, Maria N. Pavlova, Galina Gragerova, Alex D. Rohde, Brian A. Schimpf, Yuqiong Liang, Ethan Ojala, Farah Kramer, Patricia Roth, Olga Slobodskaya, Io Dolka, Eileen A. Southon, Lino Tessarollo, Karin E. Bornfeldt, Alexander Gragerov, George N. Pavlakis, and George A. Gaitanaris PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000069. Published online 2008 May 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000069.PMCID: PMC2346557 Gene Set Enrichment in eQTL Data Identifies Novel Annotations and Pathway Regulators Chunlei Wu, David L. Delano, Nico Mitro, Stephen V. Su, Jeff Janes, Phillip McClurg, Serge Batalov, Genevieve L. Welch, Jie Zhang, Anthony P. Orth, John R. Walker, Richard J. Glynne, Michael P. Cooke, Joseph S. Takahashi, Kazuhiro Shimomura, Akira Kohsaka, Joseph Bass, Enrique Saez, Tim Wiltshire, and Andrew I. Su PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000070. Published online 2008 May 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000070.PMCID: PMC2346558 The Impact of Recombination on Nucleotide Substitutions in the Human Genome Laurent Duret and Peter F. Arndt PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000071. Published online 2008 May 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000071.PMCID: PMC2346554 A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Protein Quantitative Trait Loci (pQTLs) David Melzer, John R. B. Perry, Dena Hernandez, Anna-Maria Corsi, Kara Stevens, Ian Rafferty, Fulvio Lauretani, Anna Murray, J. Raphael Gibbs, Giuseppe Paolisso, Sajjad Rafiq, Javier Simon-Sanchez, Hana Lango, Sonja Scholz, Michael N. Weedon, Sampath Arepalli, Neil Rice, Nicole Washecka, Alison Hurst, Angela Britton, William Henley, Joyce van de Leemput, Rongling Li, Anne B. Newman, Greg Tranah, Tamara Harris, Vijay Panicker, Colin Dayan, Amanda Bennett, Mark I. McCarthy, Aimo Ruokonen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Jack Guralnik, Stefania Bandinelli, Timothy M. Frayling, Andrew Singleton, and Luigi Ferrucci PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000072. Published online 2008 May 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000072.PMCID: PMC2362067 HOXA13 Is Essential for Placental Vascular Patterning and Labyrinth Endothelial Specification Carley A. E. Shaut, Douglas R. Keene, Lise K. Sorensen, Dean Y. Li, and H. Scott Stadler PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000073. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000073.PMCID: PMC2367452 A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Alleles Associated with Hair Color and Skin Pigmentation Jiali Han, Peter Kraft, Hongmei Nan, Qun Guo, Constance Chen, Abrar Qureshi, Susan E. Hankinson, Frank B. Hu, David L. Duffy, Zhen Zhen Zhao, Nicholas G. Martin, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas K. Hayward, Gilles Thomas, Robert N. Hoover, Stephen Chanock, and David J. Hunter PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000074. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000074.PMCID: PMC2367449 Demographic History of European Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana Olivier François, Michael G. B. Blum, Mattias Jakobsson, and Noah A. Rosenberg PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000075. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000075.PMCID: PMC2364639 ATM Promotes the Obligate XY Crossover and both Crossover Control and Chromosome Axis Integrity on Autosomes Marco Barchi, Ignasi Roig, Monica Di Giacomo, Dirk G. de Rooij, Scott Keeney, and Maria Jasin PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000076. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000076.PMCID: PMC2374915 Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model Garrett Hellenthal, Adam Auton, and Daniel Falush PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000078. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000078.PMCID: PMC2367454 Targeted Deficiency of the Transcriptional Activator Hnf1α Alters Subnuclear Positioning of Its Genomic Targets Reini F. Luco, Miguel A. Maestro, Nicolas Sadoni, Daniele Zink, and Jorge Ferrer PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000079. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000079.PMCID: PMC2375116 BRCA1 and BRCA2 Missense Variants of High and Low Clinical Significance Influence Lymphoblastoid Cell Line Post-Irradiation Gene Expression Nic Waddell, Anette Ten Haaf, Anna Marsh, Julie Johnson, Logan C. Walker, kConFab Investigators, Milena Gongora, Melissa Brown, Piyush Grover, Mark Girolami, Sean Grimmond, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, and Amanda B. Spurdle PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000080. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000080.PMCID: PMC2375115 Genomic Profiling Identifies GATA6 as a Candidate Oncogene Amplified in Pancreatobiliary Cancer Kevin A. Kwei, Murali D. Bashyam, Jessica Kao, Raman Ratheesh, Edumakanti C. Reddy, Young H. Kim, Kelli Montgomery, Craig P. Giacomini, Yoon-La Choi, Sreejata Chatterjee, Collins A. Karikari, Keyan Salari, Pei Wang, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Gowrishankar Swarnalata, Matt van de Rijn, Anirban Maitra, and Jonathan R. Pollack PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000081. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000081.PMCID: PMC2413204 The Inexorable Spread of a Newly Arisen Neo-Y Chromosome Paris Veltsos, Irene Keller, and Richard A. Nichols PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000082. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000082.PMCID: PMC2435400 Assessing the Evolutionary Impact of Amino Acid Mutations in the Human Genome Adam R. Boyko, Scott H. Williamson, Amit R. Indap, Jeremiah D. Degenhardt, Ryan D. Hernandez, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Mark D. Adams, Steffen Schmidt, John J. Sninsky, Shamil R. Sunyaev, Thomas J. White, Rasmus Nielsen, Andrew G. Clark, and Carlos D. Bustamante PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000083. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000083.PMCID: PMC2377339 Specificity of the STAT4 Genetic Association for Severe Disease Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Kimberly E. Taylor, Elaine F. Remmers, Annette T. Lee, Ward A. Ortmann, Robert M. Plenge, Chao Tian, Sharon A. Chung, Joanne Nititham, Geoffrey Hom, Amy H. Kao, F. Yesim Demirci, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Michelle Petri, Susan Manzi, Daniel L. Kastner, Michael F. Seldin, Peter K. Gregersen, Timothy W. Behrens, and Lindsey A. Criswell PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000084. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000084.PMCID: PMC2377340 Systematic Identification of Genes that Regulate Neuronal Wiring in the Drosophila Visual System Jürg Berger, Kirsten-André Senti, Gabriele Senti, Timothy P. Newsome, Bengt Åsling, Barry J. Dickson, and Takashi Suzuki PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000085. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000085.PMCID: PMC2377342 Complete Genome Sequence of the Complex Carbohydrate-Degrading Marine Bacterium, Saccharophagus degradans Strain 2-40T Ronald M. Weiner, Larry E. Taylor, II, Bernard Henrissat, Loren Hauser, Miriam Land, Pedro M. Coutinho, Corinne Rancurel, Elizabeth H. Saunders, Atkinson G. Longmire, Haitao Zhang, Edward A. Bayer, Harry J. Gilbert, Frank Larimer, Igor B. Zhulin, Nathan A. Ekborg, Raphael Lamed, Paul M. Richardson, Ilya Borovok, and Steven Hutcheson PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000087. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000087.PMCID: PMC2386152 Corrections Correction: From Classical Genetics to Quantitative Genetics to Systems Biology: Modeling Epistasis David L. Aylor and Zhao-Bang Zeng PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): 10.1371/annotation/ff93eba8-9567-4f41-b90d-9cdfdf65f747. Published online 2008 May 19. doi: 10.1371/annotation/ff93eba8-9567-4f41-b90d-9cdfdf65f747.PMCID: PMC2651600 Corrects: David L. Aylor, et al. From Classical Genetics to Quantitative Genetics to Systems Biology: Modeling Epistasis. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000029. Correction: An Increase in Mitochondrial DNA Promotes Nuclear DNA Replication in Yeast Heidi M. Blank, Chonghua Li, John E. Mueller, Lydia M. Bogomolnaya, Mary Bryk, and Michael Polymenis PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): 10.1371/annotation/89355dbd-390e-463f-b804-c6cf1296402e. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/annotation/89355dbd-390e-463f-b804-c6cf1296402e.PMCID: PMC2637089 Corrects: Heidi M. Blank, et al. An Increase in Mitochondrial DNA Promotes Nuclear DNA Replication in Yeast. PLoS Genet. 2008 April; 4(4): e1000047. |