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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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This article investigates care provided to parents and parents-in-law by mid-life adults with dependent children at home. Data from the General Household Survey are used first to estimate the prevalence of this 'two-way' care over the past decade, and second to develop forecasts of two-way care for a generation of women who have just finished their childbearing years. Having a higher education qualification is associated with later ages both of caring for parents and of having children at home. Increasingly late first childbearing, however, points towards a potentially greater caring 'squeeze' for higher-qualified women, with a little over 1 in 10 at age 45 projected to be caring for a parent while still having a child under 18 in the household. 相似文献
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The CD4 (T4) antigen is an essential component of the receptor for the AIDS retrovirus 总被引:49,自引:0,他引:49
A G Dalgleish P C Beverley P R Clapham D H Crawford M F Greaves R A Weiss 《Nature》1984,312(5996):763-767
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is characterized by opportunistic infections and by 'opportunistic neoplasms' (for example, Kaposi's sarcoma). Persistent generalized lymphadenopathy (PGL) is epidemiologically associated with AIDS, especially in male homosexuals. A subset of T lymphocytes positive for the CD4 antigen (also termed T4 antigen), is depleted in AIDS and PGL patients. A retrovirus found in T-cell cultures from these patients is strongly implicated in the aetiology of AIDS because of the high frequency of isolation and the prevalence of specific antibodies in the patients. Here we have detected cell-surface receptors for the AIDS retrovirus (human T-cell leukaemia virus-III (HTLV-III) and lymphadenopathy-associated virus-1 (LAV-1) isolates) by testing the susceptibility of cells to infection with pseudotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus bearing retroviral envelope antigens, and by the formation of multinucleated syncytia on mixing virus-producing cells with receptor-bearing cells. Receptors were present only on cells expressing CD4 antigen; among 155 monoclonal antibodies tested, each of the 14 anti-CD4 antibodies inhibited formation of syncytia and blocked pseudotypes. Productive infection of CD4+ cells with HTLV-III or LAV-1 markedly reduced cell-surface expression of CD4. In contrast, receptors for HTLV-I and HTLV-II were not restricted to CD4+ cells, were not blocked by anti-CD4 antibodies; cells productively infected with HTLV-I and HTLV-II expressed surface CD4. Hence, we conclude that the CD4 antigen is an essential and specific component of the receptor for the causative agent of AIDS. 相似文献
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Ly antigens as markers for functionally distinct subpopulations of thymus-derived lymphocytes of the mouse. 总被引:20,自引:0,他引:20
P Kisielow J A Hirst H Shiku P C Beverley M K Hoffman E A Boyse H F Oettgen 《Nature》1975,253(5488):219-220
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Separation of suppressor and killer T cells by surgace phenotype. 总被引:18,自引:0,他引:18
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Floral colour signals are used by pollinators as predictors of nutritional rewards, such as nectar. But as insect pollinators often need to invest energy to maintain their body temperature above the ambient temperature, floral heat might also be perceived as a reward. Here we show that bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) prefer to visit warmer flowers and that they can learn to use colour to predict floral temperature before landing. In what could be a widespread floral adaptation, plants may modulate their temperature to encourage pollinators to visit. 相似文献
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Dina C Meyre D Gallina S Durand E Körner A Jacobson P Carlsson LM Kiess W Vatin V Lecoeur C Delplanque J Vaillant E Pattou F Ruiz J Weill J Levy-Marchal C Horber F Potoczna N Hercberg S Le Stunff C Bougnères P Kovacs P Marre M Balkau B Cauchi S Chèvre JC Froguel P 《Nature genetics》2007,39(6):724-726
We identified a set of SNPs in the first intron of the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene on chromosome 16q12.2 that is consistently strongly associated with early-onset and severe obesity in both adults and children of European ancestry with an experiment-wise P value of 1.67 x 10(-26) in 2,900 affected individuals and 5,100 controls. The at-risk haplotype yields a proportion of attributable risk of 22% for common obesity. We conclude that FTO contributes to human obesity and hence may be a target for subsequent functional analyses. 相似文献
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Weedon MN Lettre G Freathy RM Lindgren CM Voight BF Perry JR Elliott KS Hackett R Guiducci C Shields B Zeggini E Lango H Lyssenko V Timpson NJ Burtt NP Rayner NW Saxena R Ardlie K Tobias JH Ness AR Ring SM Palmer CN Morris AD Peltonen L Salomaa V;Diabetes Genetics Initiative;Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Davey Smith G Groop LC Hattersley AT McCarthy MI Hirschhorn JN Frayling TM 《Nature genetics》2007,39(10):1245-1250
Human height is a classic, highly heritable quantitative trait. To begin to identify genetic variants influencing height, we examined genome-wide association data from 4,921 individuals. Common variants in the HMGA2 oncogene, exemplified by rs1042725, were associated with height (P = 4 x 10(-8)). HMGA2 is also a strong biological candidate for height, as rare, severe mutations in this gene alter body size in mice and humans, so we tested rs1042725 in additional samples. We confirmed the association in 19,064 adults from four further studies (P = 3 x 10(-11), overall P = 4 x 10(-16), including the genome-wide association data). We also observed the association in children (P = 1 x 10(-6), N = 6,827) and a tall/short case-control study (P = 4 x 10(-6), N = 3,207). We estimate that rs1042725 explains approximately 0.3% of population variation in height (approximately 0.4 cm increased adult height per C allele). There are few examples of common genetic variants reproducibly associated with human quantitativetraits; these results represent, to our knowledge, the first consistently replicated association with adult and childhood height. 相似文献
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M O McClure Q J Sattentau P C Beverley J P Hearn A K Fitzgerald A J Zuckerman R A Weiss 《Nature》1987,330(6147):487-489
The CD4 T-lymphocyte differentiation antigen is an essential component of the cell surface receptor for human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) causing AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) (refs 1-3). Peripheral blood lymphocytes of apes, New World and Old World monkeys express cell surface antigens homologous to CD4 of human T-helper lymphocytes. The cells of several of these species can be infected in short term culture with diverse strains of the type-1 or type-2 human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1 and HIV-2). HIV-1 is the prototype AIDS virus, and HIV-2 is the second type of AIDS virus, prevalent in West Africa. Infection of the primate cells correlates with evolutionary conservation on CD4 of one particular epitope cluster, and is inhibited by treatment of the cells with monoclonal antibodies to this epitope. The capacity of HIV to replicate in simian cells may provide a means for evaluating antiviral drugs and vaccines. 相似文献