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Volume 2(5);  May 2006
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
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