The evolution of gene expression in cis and trans

SA Signor, SV Nuzhdin - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
There is abundant variation in gene expression between individuals, populations, and
species. The evolution of gene regulation and expression within and between species is …

Genetics of complex traits: prediction of phenotype, identification of causal polymorphisms and genetic architecture

ME Goddard, KE Kemper… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Complex or quantitative traits are important in medicine, agriculture and evolution, yet, until
recently, few of the polymorphisms that cause variation in these traits were known. Genome …

[PDF][PDF] Cigarette smoke exposure and inflammatory signaling increase the expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the respiratory tract

JC Smith, EL Sausville, V Girish, ML Yuan… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show
that cigarette smoke causes a dose-dependent upregulation of angiotensin converting …

Sex-and age-dependent genetics of longevity in a heterogeneous mouse population

M Bou Sleiman, S Roy, AW Gao, MC Sadler… - Science, 2022 - science.org
DNA variants that modulate life span provide insight into determinants of health, disease,
and aging. Through analyses in the UM-HET3 mice of the Interventions Testing Program …

Genomes of the mouse collaborative cross

A Srivastava, AP Morgan, ML Najarian, VK Sarsani… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a multiparent panel of recombinant inbred (RI)
mouse strains derived from eight founder laboratory strains. RI panels are popular because …

The landscape of genomic imprinting across diverse adult human tissues

Y Baran, M Subramaniam, A Biton, T Tukiainen… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Genomic imprinting is an important regulatory mechanism that silences one of the parental
copies of a gene. To systematically characterize this phenomenon, we analyze tissue …

The mouse universal genotyping array: from substrains to subspecies

AP Morgan, CP Fu, CY Kao, CE Welsh… - G3: Genes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genotyping microarrays are an important resource for genetic mapping, population genetics,
and monitoring of the genetic integrity of laboratory stocks. We have developed the third …

[HTML][HTML] SNPsplit: Allele-specific splitting of alignments between genomes with known SNP genotypes

F Krueger, SR Andrews - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sequencing reads overlapping polymorphic sites in diploid mammalian genomes may be
assigned to one allele or the other. This holds the potential to detect gene expression …

Epigenetic regulation in development: is the mouse a good model for the human?

CW Hanna, H Demond, G Kelsey - Human reproduction update, 2018 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Over the past few years, advances in molecular technologies have allowed
unprecedented mapping of epigenetic modifications in gametes and during early embryonic …

[PDF][PDF] The transcription factor Foxp3 shapes regulatory T cell identity by tuning the activity of trans-acting intermediaries

J van der Veeken, A Glasner, Y Zhong, W Hu… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cell identity is defined by the lineage-specifying transcription factor (TF)
Foxp3. Here we examined mechanisms of Foxp3 function by leveraging naturally occurring …