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Volume 12 Issue 6
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Risky business
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2011, 12:119 (30 June 2011)
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Greater risk in funding scientific research could lead to better results
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Genome-wide mapping of the sixth base
Dinh Diep, Kun Zhang Genome Biology 2011, 12:116 (20 June 2011)
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Mapping of 5-hydroxylmethylcytosine in mammalian genomes has unveiled its unique role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression
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Genomes of uncultured eukaryotes: sorting FACS from fiction
Alexandra Z Worden, Christopher Dupont, Andrew E Allen Genome Biology 2011, 12:117 (27 June 2011)
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Direct genome sequencing of biliphytes, uncultured marine eukaryotes, from the environment shows the difficulties in separating out the signals from different genomes with this technique
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The jigsaw puzzle of our African ancestry: unsolved, or unsolvable?
Chiara Batini, Mark A Jobling Genome Biology 2011, 12:118 (28 June 2011)
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Mark Jobling highlights a new Y chromosome phylogeny and discusses how it further fragments the puzzle of our African ancestry
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The mouse genetics toolkit: revealing function and mechanism
Louise van der Weyden, Jacqueline K White, David J Adams, Darren W Logan Genome Biology 2011, 12:224 (24 June 2011)
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Many tools and technologies are now available for discovering disease genes, manipulating their function and understanding genetic variation in mice
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The tubby family proteins
Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Peter K Jackson Genome Biology 2011, 12:225 (28 June 2011)
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Tubby family proteins act as cellular bridges between phosphoinositides to other cellular structures and have roles in obesity and retinal disease
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Report |
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Grand network convergence
Joel S Bader Genome Biology 2011, 12:306 (17 June 2011)
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A report of the Systems Biology: Networks meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, 22-26 March, 2011
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Deep sequencing on genome-wide scale reveals the unique composition and expression patterns of microRNAs in developing pollen of Oryza sativa
Li Wei, Long Yan, Tai Wang Genome Biology 2011, 12:R53 (16 June 2011)
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Deep sequencing reveals miRNAs expressed during rice pollen development
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5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with enhancers and gene bodies in human embryonic stem cells
Hume Stroud, Suhua Feng, Shannon Morey Kinney, Sriharsa Pradhan, Steven E Jacobsen Genome Biology 2011, 12:R54 (20 June 2011)
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A genome-wide study in hESCs finds that the modified base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is enriched in enhancer regions and gene bodies
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A global transcriptional analysis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria reveals a novel family of telomere-associated lncRNAs
Kate M Broadbent, Daniel Park, Ashley R Wolf, Daria Van Tyne, Jennifer S Sims, Ulf Ribacke, Sarah Volkman, Manoj Duraisingh, Dyann Wirth, Pardis C Sabeti, John L Rinn Genome Biology 2011, 12:R56 (20 June 2011)
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Transcriptional analysis of Plasmodium falciparum reveals developmentally regulated telomere-associated lncRNAs
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Substitution rate variation at human CpG sites correlates with non-CpG divergence, methylation level and GC content
Carina F Mugal, Hans Ellegren Genome Biology 2011, 12:R58 (22 June 2011)
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CpG mutation rate variation in the human germline correlates with DNA methylation, GC content and the mutation rate of other nucleotides
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Dynamics of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in three families investigated via a repeatable re-sequencing study
Hiroki Goto, Benjamin Dickins, Enis Afgan, Ian M Paul, James Taylor, Kateryna D Makova, Anton Nekrutenko Genome Biology 2011, 12:R59 (23 June 2011)
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Analysis of 3 families with a Galaxy-based method for heteroplasmy identification suggests that within-individual mtDNA variation is infrequent
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Large-scale analysis of chromosomal aberrations in cancer karyotypes reveals two distinct paths to aneuploidy
Michal Ozery-Flato, Chaim Linhart, Luba Trakhtenbrot, Shai Izraeli, Ron Shamir Genome Biology 2011, 12:R61 (29 June 2011)
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A statistical analysis of the Mitelman database reveals an unexpected co-occurrence of chromosome gains and, similarly, of chromosome losses
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Sniper: improved SNP discovery by multiply mapping deep sequenced reads
Daniel F Simola, Junhyong Kim Genome Biology 2011, 12:R55 (20 June 2011)
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A method for improved SNP discovery in next-generation sequencing data
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Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation
Nicola Segata, Jacques Izard, Levi Waldron, Dirk Gevers, Larisa Miropolsky, Wendy S Garrett, Curtis Huttenhower Genome Biology 2011, 12:R60 (24 June 2011)
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A method for distinguishing microbial populations from metagenomic data is presented
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BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation
Anthony ML Liekens, Jeroen De Knijf, Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Peter De Rijk, Jurgen Del-Favero Genome Biology 2011, 12:R57 (22 June 2011)
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Software for data integration and mining of biomedical data
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Correction: DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines
Jordana T Bell, Athma A Pai, Joseph K Pickrell, Daniel J Gaffney, Roger Pique-Regi, Jacob F Degner, Yoav Gilad, Jonathan K Pritchard Genome Biology 2011, 12:405 (3 July 2011)
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Profiling lymphoblastoid cell lines from HapMap individuals reveals a significant genetic component for inter-individual DNA methylation and gene expression
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