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CARE1, a TY3-gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposon in the food legume chickpea (Cicer arietinum L)
We report a novel Ty3-gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposon CARE1 (Cicer arietinum retro-element 1) in chickpea. This 5920-bp AT-rich (63%) element carries 723-bp 5’ and 897-bp 3’ LTRs respe…
Received 24 August 2007 11:20 UTC; Posted 24 August 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Plant Biology
Metastasis as a faulty recapitulation of ontogeny
RAF oncogenes are involved in a variety of phenotypic switch phenomena. If for example oncogenic RAF is expressed together with Myc in B lineage cells, a lineage switch to macrophages occurs at low…
Received 23 August 2007 09:49 UTC; Posted 23 August 2007
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics
Precise Similarity of Many Human Proteins to Proteins of Prokarya
Proteins originated in early forms of life and have long survived, because they have always been required. Some recognizably similar proteins are found in all sequence comparisons between species…
Received 22 August 2007 22:00 UTC; Posted 23 August 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Heterogeneity in Ty1-copia group of retroelements in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) genome
Retrotransposons constitute a major fraction of plant genomes and these elements may have played a significant role in evolution and sequence organization of genomes. In order to access the diversi…
Received 13 August 2007 12:32 UTC; Posted 13 August 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Picturing the genetic code
The 64 codons of the genetic code are arranged on a six-set Edwards-Venn diagram in such a way that the amino-acids are advantageously displayed.
Received 10 August 2007 22:06 UTC; Posted 24 August 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
H5N1 Clade 2.2 Polymorphism Tracing Identifies Influenza Recombination and Potential Vaccine Targets
Highly pathogenic Influenza A H5N1 was first identified in Guangdong Province in 1996, followed by human cases in Hong Kong in 1997 1. The number of confirmed human cases now exceeds 300 and the as…
Received 07 August 2007 17:32 UTC; Posted 07 August 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
The saltational model for the dawn of H. sapiens, chin, adolescence phase, complex language and modern behavior
A new model may contribute to resolve the origin problem of H. sapiens. According to our new viewpoint, Neandertals were neither one of our direct ancestors nor a different species. Their origin …
Received 01 August 2007 10:23 UTC; Posted 09 August 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics
Biological networks and epistasis in genome-wide association studies
Over the last few years, technological improvements have made possible the genotyping of hundreds of thousands of SNPs, enabling whole-genome association studies. The first genome-wide association …
Received 16 July 2007 12:12 UTC; Posted 16 July 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
A periodic pattern of SNPs in the human genome
By surveying all validated SNPs in the human genome we have found that SNPs positioned 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 bp apart are more frequent than SNPs 3, 5, 7 or 9 bp apart. This holds even when we correct fo…
Received 12 July 2007 07:49 UTC; Posted 13 July 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
Effective Sample Size: Quick Estimation of the Effect of Related Samples in Genetic Case-Control Association Analyses
Correlated samples have been frequently avoided in case-controlgenetic association studies in part because the methods for handling them are either noteasily implemented or not widely known….
Received 09 July 2007 21:41 UTC; Posted 10 July 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology
