The emerging roles of TCF4 in disease and development

MP Forrest, MJ Hill, AJ Quantock… - Trends in molecular …, 2014 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified common variants in transcription factor 4
(TCF4) as susceptibility loci for schizophrenia, Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy, and …

Structural variation and genome complexity: is dispensable really dispensable?

F Marroni, S Pinosio, M Morgante - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Structural variants are the major components of dispensable genome.•Structural
variants might have important functional consequences.•Next generation sequencing is a …

MBASED: allele-specific expression detection in cancer tissues and cell lines

O Mayba, HN Gilbert, J Liu, PM Haverty… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Allele-specific gene expression, ASE, is an important aspect of gene regulation. We
developed a novel method MBASED, meta-analysis based allele-specific expression …

Using Galaxy-P to leverage RNA-Seq for the discovery of novel protein variations

GM Sheynkman, JE Johnson, PD Jagtap… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Current practice in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is to identify
peptides by comparison of experimental mass spectra with theoretical mass spectra derived …

[PDF][PDF] A common functional regulatory variant at a type 2 diabetes locus upregulates ARAP1 expression in the pancreatic beta cell

JR Kulzer, ML Stitzel, MA Morken, JR Huyghe… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 70 loci associated
with type 2 diabetes (T2D), but for most, the underlying causal variants, associated genes …

[HTML][HTML] Different yet similar: evolution of imprinting in flowering plants and mammals

ND Pires, U Grossniklaus - F1000prime reports, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic imprinting refers to a form of epigenetic gene regulation whereby alleles are
differentially expressed in a parent-of-origin-dependent manner. Imprinting evolved …

Extensive and coordinated control of allele-specific expression by both transcription and translation in Candida albicans

D Muzzey, G Sherlock, JS Weissman - Genome research, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Though sequence differences between alleles are often limited to a few polymorphisms,
these differences can cause large and widespread allelic variation at the expression level …

Functional interpretation of non‐coding sequence variation: concepts and challenges

DS Paul, N Soranzo, S Beck - Bioessays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the functional mechanisms underlying genetic signals associated with
complex traits and common diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, is …

Comprehensive analysis of the whole transcriptomes from two different pig breeds using RNA‐Seq method

K Ropka‐Molik, K Żukowski, R Eckert, A Gurgul… - Animal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation sequencing RNA‐Seq technology is a powerful tool that creates new
possibilities for whole‐transcriptome analysis. In our study, the RNA‐Seq method was …

Mutated tumor alleles are expressed according to their DNA frequency

JC Castle, M Loewer, S Boegel, AD Tadmor… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The transcription of tumor mutations from DNA into RNA has implications for biology,
epigenetics and clinical practice. It is not clear if mutations are in general transcribed and, if …