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Volume 4(2);  February 2008
Interview
Ready for Her Close-Up: An Interview with Elaine Strass
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000002. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000002.
PMCID: PMC2265527
Review
What Can Genome-Wide Association Studies Tell Us about the Genetics of Common Disease
Mark M Iles
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e33. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040033.
PMCID: PMC2323402
Research Articles
ER Stress-Mediated Apoptosis in a New Mouse Model of Osteogenesis imperfecta
Thomas S Lisse, Frank Thiele, Helmut Fuchs, Wolfgang Hans, Gerhard K. H Przemeck, Koichiro Abe, Birgit Rathkolb, Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Gabriele Hoelzlwimmer, Miep Helfrich, Eckhard Wolf, Stuart H Ralston, and Martin Hrabé de Angelis
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e7. Prepublished online 2007 December 3. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040007.
PMCID: PMC2222924
Network Discovery Pipeline Elucidates Conserved Time-of-Day–Specific cis-Regulatory Modules
Todd P Michael, Todd C Mockler, Ghislain Breton, Connor McEntee, Amanda Byer, Jonathan D Trout, Samuel P Hazen, Rongkun Shen, Henry D Priest, Christopher M Sullivan, Scott A Givan, Marcelo Yanovsky, Fangxin Hong, Steve A Kay, and Joanne Chory
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e14. Prepublished online 2007 December 13. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040014.
PMCID: PMC2222925
Notch Signalling Synchronizes the Zebrafish Segmentation Clock but Is Not Needed To Create Somite Boundaries
Ertuğrul M Özbudak and Julian Lewis
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e15. Prepublished online 2007 December 13. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040015.
PMCID: PMC2222926
Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection across Species Using Selective Signatures
B. Jesse Shapiro and Eric J Alm
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e23. Prepublished online 2008 January 2. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040023.
PMCID: PMC2233676
A Role for Autophagy in the Extension of Lifespan by Dietary Restriction in C. elegans
Malene Hansen, Abha Chandra, Laura L Mitic, Brian Onken, Monica Driscoll, and Cynthia Kenyon
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e24. Prepublished online 2008 January 2. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040024.
PMCID: PMC2242811
The Evolution of Spinnable Cotton Fiber Entailed Prolonged Development and a Novel Metabolism
Ran Hovav, Joshua A Udall, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Einat Hovav, Lex Flagel, Guanjing Hu, and Jonathan F Wendel
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e25. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040025.
PMCID: PMC2222923
Genome-Wide Expression of Azoospermia Testes Demonstrates a Specific Profile and Implicates ART3 in Genetic Susceptibility
Hiroyuki Okada, Atsushi Tajima, Kazuyoshi Shichiri, Atsushi Tanaka, Kenichi Tanaka, and Ituro Inoue
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e26. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040026.
PMCID: PMC2233677
Dynamic Regulation of ARGONAUTE4 within Multiple Nuclear Bodies in Arabidopsis thaliana
Carey F Li, Ian R Henderson, Liang Song, Nina Fedoroff, Thierry Lagrange, and Steven E Jacobsen
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e27. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040027.
PMCID: PMC2233678
Genome-Wide Association Identifies a Common Variant in the Reelin Gene That Increases the Risk of Schizophrenia Only in Women
Sagiv Shifman, Martina Johannesson, Michal Bronstein, Sam X Chen, David A Collier, Nicholas J Craddock, Kenneth S Kendler, Tao Li, Michael O'Donovan, F. Anthony O'Neill, Michael J Owen, Dermot Walsh, Daniel R Weinberger, Cuie Sun, Jonathan Flint, and Ariel Darvasi
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e28. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040028.
PMCID: PMC2242812
Subfunctionalization of Duplicated Zebrafish pax6 Genes by cis-Regulatory Divergence
Dirk A Kleinjan, Ruth M Bancewicz, Philippe Gautier, Ralf Dahm, Helia B Schonthaler, Giuseppe Damante, Anne Seawright, Ann M Hever, Patricia L Yeyati, Veronica van Heyningen, and Pedro Coutinho
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e29. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040029.
PMCID: PMC2242813
X Chromosome Activity in Mouse XX Primordial Germ Cells
Susana M Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tanya C Shovlin, Will Mifsud, M. Azim Surani, and Anne McLaren††
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e30. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040030.
PMCID: PMC2233679
Drosophila brca2 Is Required for Mitotic and Meiotic DNA Repair and Efficient Activation of the Meiotic Recombination Checkpoint
Martha Klovstad, Uri Abdu, and Trudi Schüpbach
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e31. Prepublished online 2008 January 8. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040031.
PMCID: PMC2233675
Adaptations to Climate in Candidate Genes for Common Metabolic Disorders
Angela M Hancock, David B Witonsky, Adam S Gordon, Gidon Eshel, Jonathan K Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e32. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040032.
PMCID: PMC2242814
Unintentional miRNA Ablation Is a Risk Factor in Gene Knockout Studies: A Short Report
Ivan Osokine, Ruby Hsu, Gabriel B Loeb, and Michael T McManus
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e34. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040034.
PMCID: PMC2242815
Expression Profiles Reveal Parallel Evolution of Epistatic Interactions Involving the CRP Regulon in Escherichia coli
Tim F Cooper, Susanna K Remold, Richard E Lenski, and Dominique Schneider
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e35. Prepublished online 2008 January 9. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040035.
PMCID: PMC2242816
Motility Screen Identifies Drosophila IGF-II mRNA-Binding Protein—Zipcode-Binding Protein Acting in Oogenesis and Synaptogenesis
Kristin L. M Boylan, Sarah Mische, Mingang Li, Guillermo Marqués, Xavier Morin, William Chia, and Thomas S Hays
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e36. Prepublished online 2008 January 9. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040036.
PMCID: PMC2242817
Offspring's Leukocyte Telomere Length, Paternal Age, and Telomere Elongation in Sperm
Masayuki Kimura, Lynn F Cherkas, Bernet S Kato, Serkalem Demissie, Jacob B Hjelmborg, Michael Brimacombe, Adrienne Cupples, Janice L Hunkin, Jefferey P Gardner, Xiaobin Lu, Xiaojian Cao, Malinee Sastrasinh, Michael A Province, Steven C Hunt, Kaare Christensen, Daniel Levy, Tim D Spector, and Abraham Aviv
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e37. Prepublished online 2008 January 10. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040037.
PMCID: PMC2242810
Alternative Splicing Regulation During C. elegans Development: Splicing Factors as Regulated Targets
Sergio Barberan-Soler and Alan M. Zahler
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000001. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000001.
PMCID: PMC2265522
The Secreted Metalloprotease ADAMTS20 Is Required for Melanoblast Survival
Debra L. Silver, Ling Hou, Robert Somerville, Mary E. Young, Suneel S. Apte, and William J. Pavan
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000003. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000003.
PMCID: PMC2265537
Variation in Molybdenum Content Across Broadly Distributed Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana Is Controlled by a Mitochondrial Molybdenum Transporter (MOT1)
Ivan Baxter, Balasubramaniam Muthukumar, Hyeong Cheol Park, Peter Buchner, Brett Lahner, John Danku, Keyan Zhao, Joohyun Lee, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Mary Lou Guerinot, and David E. Salt
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000004. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000004.
PMCID: PMC2265440
Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exoenzyme S Using a Yeast Phenotypic Screen
Anthony Arnoldo, Jasna Curak, Saranya Kittanakom, Igor Chevelev, Vincent T. Lee, Mehdi Sahebol-Amri, Becky Koscik, Lana Ljuma, Peter J. Roy, Antonio Bedalov, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow, Rod A. Merrill, Stephen Lory, and Igor Stagljar
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000005. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000005.
PMCID: PMC2265467
Differential Allelic Expression in the Human Genome: A Robust Approach To Identify Genetic and Epigenetic Cis-Acting Mechanisms Regulating Gene Expression
David Serre, Scott Gurd, Bing Ge, Robert Sladek, Donna Sinnett, Eef Harmsen, Marina Bibikova, Eugene Chudin, David L. Barker, Todd Dickinson, Jian-Bing Fan, and Thomas J. Hudson
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000006. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000006.
PMCID: PMC2265535
Genome-Wide Assessments Reveal Extremely High Levels of Polymorphism of Two Active Families of Mouse Endogenous Retroviral Elements
Ying Zhang, Irina A. Maksakova, Liane Gagnier, Louie N. van de Lagemaat, and Dixie L. Mager
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000007. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000007.
PMCID: PMC2265474
Data and Theory Point to Mainly Additive Genetic Variance for Complex Traits
William G. Hill, Michael E. Goddard, and Peter M. Visscher
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000008. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000008.
PMCID: PMC2265475
Drosophila Histone Deacetylase-3 Controls Imaginal Disc Size through Suppression of Apoptosis
Changqi C. Zhu, Douglas J. Bornemann, David Zhitomirsky, Ellen L. Miller, Michael B. O'Connor, and Jeffrey A. Simon
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000009. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000009.
PMCID: PMC2265479
Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken
Jonas Eriksson, Greger Larson, Ulrika Gunnarsson, Bertrand Bed'hom, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Lina Strömstedt, Dominic Wright, Annemieke Jungerius, Addie Vereijken, Ettore Randi, Per Jensen, and Leif Andersson
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000010. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000010.
PMCID: PMC2265484
RSF Governs Silent Chromatin Formation via Histone H2Av Replacement
Kazuma Hanai, Hirofumi Furuhashi, Takashi Yamamoto, Koji Akasaka, and Susumu Hirose
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000011. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000011.
PMCID: PMC2265536
DNA Damage Activates the SAC in an ATM/ATR-Dependent Manner, Independently of the Kinetochore
Eun Mi Kim and Daniel J. Burke
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000015. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000015.
PMCID: PMC2265443
Identification of Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Zebrafish Mechanosensory Hair Cell Death
Kelly N. Owens, Felipe Santos, Brock Roberts, Tor Linbo, Allison B. Coffin, Anna J. Knisely, Julian A. Simon, Edwin W. Rubel, and David W. Raible
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000020. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000020.
PMCID: PMC2265478
The Mediator Subunit MDT-15 Confers Metabolic Adaptation to Ingested Material
Stefan Taubert, Malene Hansen, Marc R. Van Gilst, Samantha B. Cooper, and Keith R. Yamamoto
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000021. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000021.
PMCID: PMC2265483
The C. elegans Opa1 Homologue EAT-3 Is Essential for Resistance to Free Radicals
Takayuki Kanazawa, Mauro D. Zappaterra, Ayako Hasegawa, Ashley P. Wright, Erin D. Newman-Smith, Karolyn F. Buttle, Kent McDonald, Carmen A. Mannella, and Alexander M. van der Bliek
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000022. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000022.
PMCID: PMC2265488
Redundant Function of REV-ERBα and β and Non-Essential Role for Bmal1 Cycling in Transcriptional Regulation of Intracellular Circadian Rhythms
Andrew C. Liu, Hien G. Tran, Eric E. Zhang, Aaron A. Priest, David K. Welsh, and Steve A. Kay
PLoS Genet. 2008 February; 4(2): e1000023. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000023.
PMCID: PMC2265523
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