| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Interview The Exception That Proves the Rule: An Interview with Jenny Graves Jane Gitschier PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000063. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000063.PMCID: PMC2377341 Research Articles CRA-1 Uncovers a Double-Strand Break-Dependent Pathway Promoting the Assembly of Central Region Proteins on Chromosome Axes During C. elegans Meiosis Sarit Smolikov, Kristina Schild-Prüfert, and Mónica P. Colaiácovo PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000088. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000088.PMCID: PMC2408554 Genetic Identification of a Network of Factors that Functionally Interact with the Nucleosome Remodeling ATPase ISWI Giosalba Burgio, Gaspare La Rocca, Anna Sala, Walter Arancio, Dario Di Gesù, Marianna Collesano, Adam S. Sperling, Jennifer A. Armstrong, Simon J. van Heeringen, Colin Logie, John W. Tamkun, and Davide F. V. Corona PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000089. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000089.PMCID: PMC2390755 Combined Analysis of Murine and Human Microarrays and ChIP Analysis Reveals Genes Associated with the Ability of MYC To Maintain Tumorigenesis Chi-Hwa Wu, Debashis Sahoo, Constadina Arvanitis, Nicole Bradon, David L. Dill, and Dean W. Felsher PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000090. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000090.PMCID: PMC2390767 Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals a Complex Pattern of Genomic Imprinting in Mice Jason B. Wolf, James M. Cheverud, Charles Roseman, and Reinmar Hager PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000091. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000091.PMCID: PMC2390766 Novel Roles for MLH3 Deficiency and TLE6-Like Amplification in DNA Mismatch Repair-Deficient Gastrointestinal Tumorigenesis and Progression Peng-Chieh Chen, Mari Kuraguchi, John Velasquez, Yuxun Wang, Kan Yang, Robert Edwards, Dan Gillen, Winfried Edelmann, Raju Kucherlapati, and Steven M. Lipkin PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000092. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000092.PMCID: PMC2410297 Regulation and Role of Arabidopsis CUL4-DDB1A-DDB2 in Maintaining Genome Integrity upon UV Stress Jean Molinier, Esther Lechner, Eva Dumbliauskas, and Pascal Genschik PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000093. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000093.PMCID: PMC2396500 Overlapping Protein-Encoding Genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 Mark W. Silby and Stuart B. Levy PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000094. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000094.PMCID: PMC2396522 Trends in Selenium Utilization in Marine Microbial World Revealed through the Analysis of the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Project Yan Zhang and Vadim N. Gladyshev PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000095. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000095.PMCID: PMC2398784 SINE RNA Induces Severe Developmental Defects in Arabidopsis thaliana and Interacts with HYL1 (DRB1), a Key Member of the DCL1 Complex Marie-Noëlle Pouch-Pélissier, Thierry Pélissier, Taline Elmayan, Hervé Vaucheret, Drasko Boko, Michael F. Jantsch, and Jean-Marc Deragon PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000096. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000096.PMCID: PMC2408557 Mitochondrial Morphogenesis, Dendrite Development, and Synapse Formation in Cerebellum Require both Bcl-w and the Glutamate Receptor δ2 Qiong A. Liu and Helen Shio PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000097. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000097.PMCID: PMC2405952 Evaluating Statistical Methods Using Plasmode Data Sets in the Age of Massive Public Databases: An Illustration Using False Discovery Rates Gary L. Gadbury, Qinfang Xiang, Lin Yang, Stephen Barnes, Grier P. Page, and David B. Allison PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000098. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000098.PMCID: PMC2409977 A Drastic Reduction in the Life Span of Cystatin C L68Q Carriers Due to Life-Style Changes during the Last Two Centuries Astridur Palsdottir, Agnar Helgason, Snaebjorn Palsson, Hans Tomas Bjornsson, Birkir Thor Bragason, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Elias Olafsson, and Kari Stefansson PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000099. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000099.PMCID: PMC2409978 An Evolutionarily Conserved Sexual Signature in the Primate Brain Björn Reinius, Peter Saetre, Jennifer A. Leonard, Ran Blekhman, Roxana Merino-Martinez, Yoav Gilad, and Elena Jazin PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000100. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000100.PMCID: PMC2413013 Plasminogen Alleles Influence Susceptibility to Invasive Aspergillosis Aimee K. Zaas, Guochun Liao, Jason W. Chien, Clarice Weinberg, David Shore, Steven S. Giles, Kieren A. Marr, Jonathan Usuka, Lauranell H. Burch, Lalith Perera, John R. Perfect, Gary Peltz, and David A. Schwartz PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000101. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000101.PMCID: PMC2423485 A Novel Ecdysone Receptor Mediates Steroid-Regulated Developmental Events during the Mid-Third Instar of Drosophila Benjamin F. B. Costantino, Daniel K. Bricker, Kelly Alexandre, Kate Shen, John R. Merriam, Christophe Antoniewski, Jenna L. Callender, Vincent C. Henrich, Asaf Presente, and Andrew J. Andres PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000102. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000102.PMCID: PMC2413497 Incompatibilities Involving Yeast Mismatch Repair Genes: A Role for Genetic Modifiers and Implications for Disease Penetrance and Variation in Genomic Mutation Rates Ann Demogines, Alex Wong, Charles Aquadro, and Eric Alani PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000103. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000103.PMCID: PMC2413424 Noncanonical DNA Motifs as Transactivation Targets by Wild Type and Mutant p53 Jennifer J. Jordan, Daniel Menendez, Alberto Inga, Maher Nourredine, Douglas Bell, and Michael A. Resnick PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000104. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000104.PMCID: PMC2518093 Low Levels of DNA Polymerase Alpha Induce Mitotic and Meiotic Instability in the Ribosomal DNA Gene Cluster of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Anne M. Casper, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Malgorzata Gawel, and Thomas D. Petes PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000105. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000105.PMCID: PMC2430618 Sepsid even-skipped Enhancers Are Functionally Conserved in Drosophila Despite Lack of Sequence Conservation Emily E. Hare, Brant K. Peterson, Venky N. Iyer, Rudolf Meier, and Michael B. Eisen PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000106. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000106.PMCID: PMC2430619 A Large-Scale Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetic Study Identifies Association at Chromosome 9q33.2 Monica Chang, Charles M. Rowland, Veronica E. Garcia, Steven J. Schrodi, Joseph J. Catanese, Annette H. M. van der Helm-van Mil, Kristin G. Ardlie, Christopher I. Amos, Lindsey A. Criswell, Daniel L. Kastner, Peter K. Gregersen, Fina A. S. Kurreeman, Rene E. M. Toes, Tom W. J. Huizinga, Michael F. Seldin, and Ann B. Begovich PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000107. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000107.PMCID: PMC2481282 Metabolic Actions of Estrogen Receptor Beta (ERβ) are Mediated by a Negative Cross-Talk with PPARγ Anna Foryst-Ludwig, Markus Clemenz, Stephan Hohmann, Martin Hartge, Christiane Sprang, Nikolaj Frost, Maxim Krikov, Sanjay Bhanot, Rodrigo Barros, Andrea Morani, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Thomas Unger, and Ulrich Kintscher PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000108. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000108.PMCID: PMC2432036 Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies Ke Hao, Eric E. Schadt, and John D. Storey PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000109. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000109.PMCID: PMC2432039 Alternative-NHEJ Is a Mechanistically Distinct Pathway of Mammalian Chromosome Break Repair Nicole Bennardo, Anita Cheng, Nick Huang, and Jeremy M. Stark PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000110. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000110.PMCID: PMC2430616 Global Mapping of DNA Methylation in Mouse Promoters Reveals Epigenetic Reprogramming of Pluripotency Genes Cassandra R. Farthing, Gabriella Ficz, Ray Kit Ng, Chun-Fung Chan, Simon Andrews, Wendy Dean, Myriam Hemberger, and Wolf Reik PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): e1000116. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000116.PMCID: PMC2432031 Corrections Correction: Global Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic and Transcriptional Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Whole Genome Tiling Arrays Xu Zhang, Shin-Han Shiu, Andrew Cal, and Justin O. Borevitz PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/e21d3565-fec6-44d9-8fab-83da49c7c0b8. Published online 2008 June 10. doi: 10.1371/annotation/e21d3565-fec6-44d9-8fab-83da49c7c0b8.PMCID: PMC2645276 Corrects: Xu Zhang, et al. Global Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic and Transcriptional Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Whole Genome Tiling Arrays. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000032. Correction: Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using Selective Signatures B. Jesse Shapiro and Eric J Alm PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/fced1166-1825-485c-88b9-d6ec950326c8. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1371/annotation/fced1166-1825-485c-88b9-d6ec950326c8.PMCID: PMC2651599 Corrects: B. Jesse Shapiro, et al. Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using Selective Signatures . PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e23. Correction: Functional Characterization of Variations on Regulatory Motifs Michal Lapidot, Orna Mizrahi-Man, and Yitzhak Pilpel PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/99662172-8f18-4bfb-ad0f-79ed1d69fffd. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1371/annotation/99662172-8f18-4bfb-ad0f-79ed1d69fffd.PMCID: PMC2637090 Corrects: Lapidot Michal, et al. Functional Characterization of Variations on Regulatory Motifs. PLoS Genet. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000018. Correction: Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model Garrett Hellenthal, Adam Auton, and Daniel Falush PLoS Genet. 2008 June; 4(6): 10.1371/annotation/da6e20fe-f8eb-4e44-8669-6c20c7102b3d. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1371/annotation/da6e20fe-f8eb-4e44-8669-6c20c7102b3d.PMCID: PMC2637091 Corrects: Garrett Hellenthal, et al. Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model. PLoS Genet. 2008 May; 4(5): e1000078. |