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Volume 4(5);  May 2008
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.
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