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The extent of linkage disequilibrium in Arabidopsis thaliana. 总被引:20,自引:0,他引:20
Magnus Nordborg Justin O Borevitz Joy Bergelson Charles C Berry Joanne Chory Jenny Hagenblad Martin Kreitman Julin N Maloof Tina Noyes Peter J Oefner Eli A Stahl Detlef Weigel 《Nature genetics》2002,30(2):190-193
Linkage disequilibrium (LD), the nonrandom occurrence of alleles in haplotypes, has long been of interest to population geneticists. Recently, the rapidly increasing availability of genomic polymorphism data has fueled interest in LD as a tool for fine-scale mapping, in particular for human disease loci. The chromosomal extent of LD is crucial in this context, because it determines how dense a map must be for associations to be detected and, conversely, limits how finely loci may be mapped. Arabidopsis thaliana is expected to harbor unusually extensive LD because of its high degree of selfing. Several polymorphism studies have found very strong LD within individual loci, but also evidence of some recombination. Here we investigate the pattern of LD on a genomic scale and show that in global samples, LD decays within approximately 1 cM, or 250 kb. We also show that LD in local populations may be much stronger than that of global populations, presumably as a result of founder events. The combination of a relatively high level of polymorphism and extensive haplotype structure bodes well for developing a genome-wide LD map in A. thaliana. 相似文献
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Maturation trends indicative of rapid evolution preceded the collapse of northern cod 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Northern cod, comprising populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off southern Labrador and eastern Newfoundland, supported major fisheries for hundreds of years. But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, northern cod underwent one of the worst collapses in the history of fisheries. The Canadian government closed the directed fishing for northern cod in July 1992, but even after a decade-long offshore moratorium, population sizes remain historically low. Here we show that, up until the moratorium, the life history of northern cod continually shifted towards maturation at earlier ages and smaller sizes. Because confounding effects of mortality changes and growth-mediated phenotypic plasticity are accounted for in our analyses, this finding strongly suggests fisheries-induced evolution of maturation patterns in the direction predicted by theory. We propose that fisheries managers could use the method described here as a tool to provide warning signals about changes in life history before more overt evidence of population decline becomes manifest. 相似文献
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Biological and biomedical implications of the co-evolution of pathogens and their hosts 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to demonstrate rigorously in practice, and co-evolutionary thinking is only just beginning to inform medical or veterinary research in any meaningful way, even though it can have a major influence on how genetic variation in biomedically important traits is interpreted. Improving our understanding of the biomedical significance of co-evolution will require changing the way in which we look for it, complementing the phenomenological approach traditionally favored by evolutionary biologists with the exploitation of the extensive data becoming available on the molecular biology and molecular genetics of host-pathogen interactions. 相似文献
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Zusammenfassung Im Gegensatz zu der allgemeinen Auffassung, dass Arachidonsäure nur in Tieren und den niedrigsten Formen des Pflanzenreiches vorkomme, konnte diese Säure in mehreren Arten Farn und Moos nachgewiesen und identifiziert werden. Die relative Menge der Arachidonsäure beträgt in den bisherigen Beispielen zwischen 10 und 35% der Fettsäurekomponenten.
This work has been supported by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health (USPHS AM-05165) and by The Hormel Foundation. 相似文献
This work has been supported by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health (USPHS AM-05165) and by The Hormel Foundation. 相似文献
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Anderson BH Kasher PR Mayer J Szynkiewicz M Jenkinson EM Bhaskar SS Urquhart JE Daly SB Dickerson JE O'Sullivan J Leibundgut EO Muter J Abdel-Salem GM Babul-Hirji R Baxter P Berger A Bonafé L Brunstom-Hernandez JE Buckard JA Chitayat D Chong WK Cordelli DM Ferreira P Fluss J Forrest EH Franzoni E Garone C Hammans SR Houge G Hughes I Jacquemont S Jeannet PY Jefferson RJ Kumar R Kutschke G Lundberg S Lourenço CM Mehta R Naidu S Nischal KK Nunes L Ounap K Philippart M Prabhakar P Risen SR 《Nature genetics》2012,44(3):338-342
Coats plus is a highly pleiotropic disorder particularly affecting the eye, brain, bone and gastrointestinal tract. Here, we show that Coats plus results from mutations in CTC1, encoding conserved telomere maintenance component 1, a member of the mammalian homolog of the yeast heterotrimeric CST telomeric capping complex. Consistent with the observation of shortened telomeres in an Arabidopsis CTC1 mutant and the phenotypic overlap of Coats plus with the telomeric maintenance disorders comprising dyskeratosis congenita, we observed shortened telomeres in three individuals with Coats plus and an increase in spontaneous γH2AX-positive cells in cell lines derived from two affected individuals. CTC1 is also a subunit of the α-accessory factor (AAF) complex, stimulating the activity of DNA polymerase-α primase, the only enzyme known to initiate DNA replication in eukaryotic cells. Thus, CTC1 may have a function in DNA metabolism that is necessary for but not specific to telomeric integrity. 相似文献
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Purdue MP Johansson M Zelenika D Toro JR Scelo G Moore LE Prokhortchouk E Wu X Kiemeney LA Gaborieau V Jacobs KB Chow WH Zaridze D Matveev V Lubinski J Trubicka J Szeszenia-Dabrowska N Lissowska J Rudnai P Fabianova E Bucur A Bencko V Foretova L Janout V Boffetta P Colt JS Davis FG Schwartz KL Banks RE Selby PJ Harnden P Berg CD Hsing AW Grubb RL Boeing H Vineis P Clavel-Chapelon F Palli D Tumino R Krogh V Panico S Duell EJ Quirós JR Sanchez MJ Navarro C Ardanaz E Dorronsoro M Khaw KT Allen NE 《Nature genetics》2011,43(1):60-65
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Vitart V Rudan I Hayward C Gray NK Floyd J Palmer CN Knott SA Kolcic I Polasek O Graessler J Wilson JF Marinaki A Riches PL Shu X Janicijevic B Smolej-Narancic N Gorgoni B Morgan J Campbell S Biloglav Z Barac-Lauc L Pericic M Klaric IM Zgaga L Skaric-Juric T Wild SH Richardson WA Hohenstein P Kimber CH Tenesa A Donnelly LA Fairbanks LD Aringer M McKeigue PM Ralston SH Morris AD Rudan P Hastie ND Campbell H Wright AF 《Nature genetics》2008,40(4):437-442
Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism in humans and great apes, which have lost hepatic uricase activity, leading to uniquely high serum uric acid concentrations (200-500 microM) compared with other mammals (3-120 microM). About 70% of daily urate disposal occurs via the kidneys, and in 5-25% of the human population, impaired renal excretion leads to hyperuricemia. About 10% of people with hyperuricemia develop gout, an inflammatory arthritis that results from deposition of monosodium urate crystals in the joint. We have identified genetic variants within a transporter gene, SLC2A9, that explain 1.7-5.3% of the variance in serum uric acid concentrations, following a genome-wide association scan in a Croatian population sample. SLC2A9 variants were also associated with low fractional excretion of uric acid and/or gout in UK, Croatian and German population samples. SLC2A9 is a known fructose transporter, and we now show that it has strong uric acid transport activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes. 相似文献