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Volume 11 Issue 11
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Every dog has his day in court
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:139 (30 November 2010)
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The dog days of stem cell funding.
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Metastasis suppression: a role of the Dice(r)
Scott Valastyan, Robert A Weinberg Genome Biology 2010, 11:141 (30 November 2010)
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Somatic signals counteract reproductive aging in females
Ronald E Ellis, Qing Wei Genome Biology 2010, 11:142 (30 November 2010)
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The signaling pathways involved in the decline in oocyte quality with age in nematodes are also conserved in humans.
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Contribution of histone sequence preferences to nucleosome organization: proposed definitions and methodology
Noam Kaplan, Timothy R Hughes, Jason D Lieb, Jonathan Widom, Eran Segal Genome Biology 2010, 11:140 (30 November 2010)
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There is less controversy over whether the preferences of histones for particular sequences determine nucleosome position than has been thought.
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Beyond the Genome: genomics research ten years after the human genome sequence
Amanda M Casto, Clara Amid Genome Biology 2010, 11:309 (30 November 2010)
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A report on the meeting 'Beyond the Genome', Boston, USA, 11-13 October 2010.
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A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Simon R Ellwood, Zhaohui Liu, Rob A Syme, Zhibing Lai, James K Hane, Felicity Keiper, Caroline S Moffat, Richard P Oliver, Timothy L Friesen Genome Biology 2010, 11:R109 (10 November 2010)
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Characterization of barley filamentous fungal pathogen genome by paired-end Solexa sequencing, genome assembly and karyotyping, with insights into pathogenicity.
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Immunostaining of modified histones defines high-level features of the human metaphase epigenome
Edith Terrenoire, Fiona McRonald, John A Halsall, Paula Page, Robert S Illingworth, A Malcolm R Taylor, Val Davison, Laura P O'Neill, Bryan M Turner Genome Biology 2010, 11:R110 (15 November 2010)
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Immunofluorescent mapping of histone modifications in single cells at metaphase demonstrates both stable and altered patterns through mitosis
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Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic noise
Nadia C Whitelaw, Suyinn Chong, Daniel K Morgan, Colm Nestor, Timothy J Bruxner, Alyson Ashe, Eleanore Lambley, Richard Meehan, Emma Whitelaw Genome Biology 2010, 11:R111 (19 November 2010)
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Mutants for two epigenetic modifiers are found to be associated with increased intangible variation in phenotypes and in gene expression levels.
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Genetic diversity in India and the inference of Eurasian population expansion
Jinchuan Xing, W Scott Watkins, Ya Hu, Chad D Huff, Aniko Sabo, Donna M Muzny, Michael J Bamshad, Richard A Gibbs, Lynn B Jorde, Fuli Yu Genome Biology 2010, 11:R113 (24 November 2010)
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SNP study demonstrates a high degree of Indian genetic diversity and suggests a significant isolation period between Out-of-Africa and Eurasian expansion.
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Systematic detection of putative tumor suppressor genes through the combined use of exome and transcriptome sequencing
Qi Zhao, Ewen F Kirkness, Otavia L Caballero, Pedro A Galante, Raphael B Parmigiani, Lee Edsall, Samantha Kuan, Zhen Ye, Samuel Levy, Ana Tereza R Vasconcelos, Bing Ren, Sandro J de Souza, Anamaria A Camargo, Andrew JG Simpson, Robert L Strausberg Genome Biology 2010, 11:R114 (25 November 2010)
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Sequencing of the exome and transcriptome of a breast cancer cell line allows discovery of potentially tumorigenic loss of heterozygosity events.
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Comparative genomics reveals birth and death of fragile regions in mammalian evolution
Max A Alekseyev, Pavel A Pevzner Genome Biology 2010, 11:R117 (30 November 2010)
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A new model explains the frequencies of breakpoints at genomic rearrangement hotspots by demonstrating that fragile sites undergo birth and death.
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Population sequencing of two endocannabinoid metabolic genes identifies rare and common regulatory variants associated with extreme obesity and metabolite level
Olivier Harismendy, Vikas Bansal, Gaurav Bhatia, Masakazu Nakano, Michael Scott, Xiaoyun Wang, Colette Dib, Edouard Turlotte, Jack C Sipe, Sarah S Murray, Jean Deleuze, Vineet Bafna, Eric J Topol, Kelly A Frazer Genome Biology 2010, 11:R118 (30 November 2010)
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Re-sequencing of human endocannabinoid metabolic genes from a large population reveals rare variants associated with extreme obesity.
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Patient-oriented gene set analysis for cancer mutation data
Simina M Boca, Kenneth W Kinzler, Victor E Velculescu, Bert Vogelstein, Giovanni Parmigiani Genome Biology 2010, 11:R112 (23 November 2010)
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A novel patient-orientated gene set analysis method is presented and applied to a glioblastoma multiforme dataset
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Constructing a fish metabolic network model
Shuzhao Li, Alexander Pozhitkov, Rachel A Ryan, Charles S Manning, Nancy Brown-Peterson, Marius Brouwer Genome Biology 2010, 11:R115 (29 November 2010)
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The first genome-wide fish metabolic model, MetaFishNet, is presented.
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Quake: quality-aware detection and correction of sequencing errors
David R Kelley, Michael C Schatz, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2010, 11:R116 (29 November 2010)
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Quake employs a sophisticated approach to error identification and correction in next generation sequencing data.
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