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BMC Genetics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of inheritance and variation in individuals and among populations.
BMC Genetics (ISSN 1471-2156) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :15
The generation of the first copy number variation (CNV) map in African Americans identified 1362 CNVs, two of which displayed a marked difference in frequency compared to White Americans.
BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :4
Wild rats from areas exposed to warfarin carry new polymorphisms that modify function in VKORC1, the coagulation enzyme targeted by the poison, confirming that VKORC1 gene evolution is still the key to resistance.
BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :3
Genotyping errors can lead to false positive results in genetic association studies, but simulations show that three commonly used statistical tests remain powerful, given a realistic genotyping error rate of 0.2% per locus.
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Research article
Genetic dissection of MHC-associated susceptibility to Lepeophtheirus salmonis in Atlantic salmon Karim Gharbi, Kevin A Glover, Louise C Stone, Elizabeth S MacDonald, Louise Matthews, Unni Grimholt, Michael J Stear BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :20 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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High-resolution haplotype block structure in the cattle genome Rafael Villa-Angulo, Lakshmi K Matukumalli, Clare A Gill, Jungwoo Choi, Curtis P Van Tassell, John J Grefenstette BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :19 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [Cited on BioMed Central ]
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A high density linkage map of the bovine genome Juan A Arias, Mike Keehan, Paul Fisher, Wouter Coppieters, Richard Spelman BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :18 (24 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [Cited on BioMed Central ]
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Big mountains but small barriers: Population genetic structure of the Chinese wood frog (Rana chensinensis) in the Tsinling and Daba Mountain region of northern China Aibin Zhan, Cheng Li, Jinzhong Fu BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :17 (9 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
Robust physical methods that enrich genomic regions identical by descent for linkage studies: confirmation of a locus for osteogenesis imperfecta Peter Brooks, Charles Marcaillou, Maud Vanpeene, Jean-Paul Saraiva, Daniel Stockholm, Stephan Francke, Reyna Favis, Nadine Cohen, Francis Rousseau, Fr BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :16 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Copy number variation in African Americans Joseph P McElroy, Matthew R Nelson, Stacy J Caillier, Jorge R Oksenberg BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :15 (24 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mutations in genes involved in nonsense mediated decay ameliorate the phenotype of sel-12 mutants with amber stop mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans Alisson M Gontijo, Sylvie Aubert, Ingele Roelens, Bernard Lakowski BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :14 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Monoallelic maternal expression of STAT5A affects embryonic survival in cattle Hasan Khatib, Christian Maltecca, Ricky L Monson, Valerie Schutzkus, Jack J Rutledge BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :13 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A mouse chromosome 4 balancer ENU-mutagenesis screen isolates eleven lethal lines Melissa K Boles, Bonney M Wilkinson, Andrea Maxwell, Lihua Lai, Alea A Mills, Ichiko Nishijima, Andrew P Salinger, Ivan Moskowitz, Karen K Hirschi, Bin Liu, Allan Bradley, Monica J Justice BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :12 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mitochondrial pseudogenes in the nuclear genome of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: implications for past and future population genetic studies Thaung Hlaing, Willoughby Tun-Lin, Pradya Somboon, Duong Socheat, To Setha, Sein Min, Moh Seng Chang, Catherine Walton BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :11 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Cold- and light-induced changes in the transcriptome of wheat leading to phase transition from vegetative to reproductive growth Mark O Winfield, Chungui Lu, Ian D Wilson, Jane A Coghill, Keith J Edwards BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :55 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology
Assessment of methods and analysis of outcomes for comprehensive optimization of nucleofection. Christopher Bradburne, Kelly Robertson, Dzung Thach Genetic Vaccines and Therapy 2009, 7 :6 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes from extinct and extant rhinoceroses reveals lack of phylogenetic resolution Eske Willerslev, Marcus Gilbert, Jonas Binladen, Simon Ho, Paula Campos, Aakrosh Ratan, Lynn Tomsho, Rute da Fonseca, Andrei Sher, Tatanya Kuznetsova, Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Terri Roth, Webb Miller, Stephan Schuster BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :95 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Analytic perspective
Can we apply the Mendelian randomization methodology without considering epigenetic effects?
Ikechukwu U Ogbuanu, Hongmei Zhang, Wilfried Karmaus Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2009, 6 :3 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Tracking the global dispersal of a cosmopolitan insect pest, the peach potato aphid. John T Margaritopoulos, Louise Kasprowicz, Gaynor L Malloch, Brian Fenton BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :13 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Thrombin induces Egr-1 expression in fibroblasts involving elevation of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration, phosphorylation of ERK and activation of ternary complex factor Oliver G Rossler, Gerald Thiel BMC Molecular Biology 2009, 10 :40 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Interactions between innexins UNC-7 and UNC-9 mediate electrical synapse specificity in the Caenorhabditis elegans locomotory nervous system Todd A Starich, Ji Xu, I. Martha Skerrett, Bruce J Nicholson, Jocelyn E Shaw Neural Development 2009, 4 :16 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Haplotype specific-sequencing reveals MBL2 association with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection Angelica BW Boldt, Iara J Messias-Reason, Bertrand Lell, Saadou Issifou, Maria Lucia Alves Pedroso, Peter G Kremsner, Jurgen FJ Kun Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :97 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Association between polymorphisms in RMI1, TOP3A, and BLM and risk of cancer: a case-control study Karin Broberg, Elizabeth Huynh, Karin Schlawicke Engstrom, Jonas Bjork, Maria Albin, Christian Ingvar, Hakan Olsson, Mattias Hoglund BMC Cancer 2009, 9 :140 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparative genomics of Toll-like receptor signalling in five species Oliver C Jann, Annemarie King, Nestor Lopez Corrales, Susan I Anderson, Kirsty Jensen, Tahar Ait-ali, Haizhou Tang, Chunhua Wu, Noelle E Cockett, Alan L Archibald, Elizabeth J Glass BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :216 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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