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  1. Grape is one of the most valuable fruit crops and can serve for both fresh consumption and wine production. Grape cultivars have been selected and evolved to produce high-quality fruits during their domesticat...

    Authors: Chen Jiao, Min Gao, Xiping Wang and Zhangjun Fei
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:223
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  2. Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are an important model species in biomedical research and reliable knowledge about their evolutionary history is essential for biomedical inferences. Ten subspecies have...

    Authors: Rasmus Liedigk, Jakob Kolleck, Kai O Böker, Erik Meijaard, Badrul Munir Md-Zain, Muhammad Abu Bakar Abdul-Latiff, Ahmad Ampeng, Maklarin Lakim, Pazil Abdul-Patah, Anthony J Tosi, Markus Brameier, Dietmar Zinner and Christian Roos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:222
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  3. Prokaryotic microbes, the most abundant organisms in the ocean, are remarkably diverse. Despite numerous studies of marine prokaryotes, the zonation of their communities in pelagic zones has been poorly deline...

    Authors: Ching-Hung Tseng, Pei-Wen Chiang, Hung-Chun Lai, Fuh-Kwo Shiah, Ting-Chang Hsu, Yi-Lung Chen, Liang-Saw Wen, Chun-Mao Tseng, Wung-Yang Shieh, Isaam Saeed, Saman Halgamuge and Sen-Lin Tang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:219
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  4. Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates are consisted of several different lineages and the epidemiology analyses are usually assessed relative to a particular reference genome, M. tuberculosis H37Rv, which ...

    Authors: Kayo Okumura, Masako Kato, Teruo Kirikae, Mitsunori Kayano and Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:218
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  5. Soybean (Glycine max) is a photoperiod-sensitive and self-pollinated species. Days to flowering (DTF) and maturity (DTM), duration of flowering-to-maturity (DFTM) and plant height (PH) are crucial for soybean ada...

    Authors: Jiaoping Zhang, Qijian Song, Perry B Cregan, Randall L Nelson, Xianzhi Wang, Jixiang Wu and Guo-Liang Jiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:217
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  6. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) is a high-throughput genotyping approach that is starting to be used in several crop species, including bread wheat. Anchoring GBS tags on chromosomes is an important step toward...

    Authors: Huihui Li, Prashant Vikram, Ravi Prakash Singh, Andrzej Kilian, Jason Carling, Jie Song, Juan Andres Burgueno-Ferreira, Sridhar Bhavani, Julio Huerta-Espino, Thomas Payne, Deepmala Sehgal, Peter Wenzl and Sukhwinder Singh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:216
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  7. Large mammals are capable of thermoregulation shortly after birth due to the presence of brown adipose tissue (BAT). The majority of BAT disappears after birth and is replaced by white adipose tissue (WAT).

    Authors: Astrid L Basse, Karen Dixen, Rachita Yadav, Malin P Tygesen, Klaus Qvortrup, Karsten Kristiansen, Bjørn Quistorff, Ramneek Gupta, Jun Wang and Jacob B Hansen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:215
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  8. Generation of long (>5 Kb) DNA sequencing reads provides an approach for interrogation of complex regions in the human genome. Currently, large-insert whole genome sequencing (WGS) technologies from Pacific Bi...

    Authors: Min Wang, Christine R Beck, Adam C English, Qingchang Meng, Christian Buhay, Yi Han, Harsha V Doddapaneni, Fuli Yu, Eric Boerwinkle, James R Lupski, Donna M Muzny and Richard A Gibbs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:214
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  9. The editors of BMC Genomics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 14 (2014).

    Authors: Derek E Anane
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:213
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  10. Arsenic (As) exposure is a significant worldwide environmental health concern. Low dose, chronic arsenic exposure has been associated with a higher than normal risk of skin, lung, and bladder cancer, as well a...

    Authors: Caitlyn Riedmann, Ye Ma, Manana Melikishvili, Steven Grason Godfrey, Zhou Zhang, Kuey Chu Chen, Eric C Rouchka and Yvonne N Fondufe-Mittendorf
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:212
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  11. The pistillody mutant wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plant HTS-1 exhibits homeotic transformation of stamens into pistils or pistil-like structures. Unlike common wheat varieties, HTS-1 produces three to six pistil...

    Authors: Zaijun Yang, Zhengsong Peng, Shuhong Wei, Mingli Liao, Yan Yu and Zeyan Jang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:211
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  12. Whole and partial chromosome losses or gains and structural chromosome changes are hallmarks of human tumors. Guanine-rich DNA, which has a potential to form a G-quadruplex (G4) structure, is particularly vulnera...

    Authors: Maja Tarailo-Graovac, Tammy Wong, Zhaozhao Qin, Stephane Flibotte, Jon Taylor, Donald G Moerman, Ann M Rose and Nansheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:210
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  13. The Bacillus subtilis genome (BGM) vector is a novel cloning system based on the natural competence that enables B. subtilis to import extracellular DNA fragments into the cell and incorporate the recombinogenic ...

    Authors: Takafumi Ogawa, Tetsuo Iwata, Shinya Kaneko, Mitsuhiro Itaya and Junji Hirota
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:209
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  14. Tree peony (Paeonia section Moutan DC.) is known for its excellent ornamental and medicinal values. In 2011, seeds from P. ostii have been identified as novel resource of α-linolenic acid (ALA) for seed oil produ...

    Authors: Shan-Shan Li, Liang-Sheng Wang, Qing-Yan Shu, Jie Wu, Li-Guang Chen, Shuai Shao and Dan-Dan Yin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:208
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  15. Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common malignant cancer of the Endocrine System. Histologically, there are three main subtypes of TC: follicular, papillary and anaplastic. Diagnosing a thyroid tumor subtype wi...

    Authors: Jesús Espinal-Enríquez, Said Muñoz-Montero, Ivan Imaz-Rosshandler, Aldo Huerta-Verde, Carmen Mejía and Enrique Hernández-Lemus
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:207
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  16. Chemical hybridization agents (CHAs) are often used to induce male sterility for the production of hybrid seeds. We previously discovered that monosulfuron ester sodium (MES), an acetolactate synthase (ALS) in...

    Authors: Zhanjie Li, Yufeng Cheng, Jianmin Cui, Peipei Zhang, Huixian Zhao and Shengwu Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:206
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  17. Soil salinity is a significant factor that impairs plant growth and agricultural productivity, and numerous efforts are underway to enhance salt tolerance of economically important plants. Populus species are wid...

    Authors: Yazhen Ma, Ting Xu, Dongshi Wan, Tao Ma, Sheng Shi, Jianquan Liu and Quanjun Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:205
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  18. Species of Bryopsidales form ecologically important components of seaweed communities worldwide. These siphonous macroalgae are composed of a single giant tubular cell containing millions of nuclei and chlorop...

    Authors: Frederik Leliaert and Juan M Lopez-Bautista
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:204
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  19. Silk has numerous unique properties that make it a staple of textile manufacturing for several thousand years. However, wider applications of silk in modern have been stalled due to limitations of traditional ...

    Authors: Yang Dong, Fangyin Dai, Yandong Ren, Hui Liu, Lei Chen, Pengcheng Yang, Yanqun Liu, Xin Li, Wen Wang and Hui Xiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:203
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2017 18:548

  20. The flower colour of agricultural products is very important for their commercial value, which is mainly attributed to the accumulation of anthocyanins. Light is one of the key environmental factors that affec...

    Authors: Yan Hong, Xingjiao Tang, He Huang, Yuan Zhang and Silan Dai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:202
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  21. Egg quality is an important aspect in rainbow trout farming. Post-ovulatory aging is one of the most important factors affecting egg quality. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are the major regulators in various biological p...

    Authors: Hao Ma, Gregory M Weber, Mark A Hostuttler, Hairong Wei, Lei Wang and Jianbo Yao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:201
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  23. Strains of Escherichia coli that are non-typeable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) due to in-gel degradation can influence their molecular epidemiological data. The DNA degradation phenotype (Dnd+) is m...

    Authors: Wing Sze Ho, Hong-Yu Ou, Chew Chieng Yeo and Kwai Lin Thong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:199
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  24. Variation within splicing regulatory sequences often leads to differences in gene models among individuals within a species. Two alleles of the same gene may express transcripts with different exon/intron stru...

    Authors: Yerbol Z Kurmangaliyev, Alexander V Favorov, Noha M Osman, Kjong-Van Lehmann, Daniel Campo, Matthew P Salomon, John Tower, Mikhail S Gelfand and Sergey V Nuzhdin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:198
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  25. Salt stress is one of the most representative abiotic stresses that severely affect plant growth and development. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are well known for their significant involvement in plant responses to abiot...

    Authors: Xiaochuan Sun, Liang Xu, Yan Wang, Rugang Yu, Xianwen Zhu, Xiaobo Luo, Yiqin Gong, Ronghua Wang, Cecilia Limera, Keyun Zhang and Liwang Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:197
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  26. Columnaris causes severe mortalities among many different wild and cultured freshwater fish species, but understanding of host resistance is lacking. Catfish, the primary aquaculture species in the United Stat...

    Authors: Xin Geng, Jin Sha, Shikai Liu, Lisui Bao, Jiaren Zhang, Ruijia Wang, Jun Yao, Chao Li, Jianbin Feng, Fanyue Sun, Luyang Sun, Chen Jiang, Yu Zhang, Ailu Chen, Rex Dunham, Degui Zhi…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:196
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  27. Advanced selection technologies have been developed and continually optimized to improve traits of agricultural importance; however, these methods have been primarily applied without knowledge of underlying bi...

    Authors: Nan Zhou, William R Lee and Behnam Abasht
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:195
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  28. Traditionally, Chinese indigenous sheep were classified geographically and morphologically into three groups: Mongolian, Kazakh and Tibetan. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the population structure and genome sel...

    Authors: Caihong Wei, Huihua Wang, Gang Liu, Mingming Wu, Jiaxve Cao, Zhen Liu, Ruizao Liu, Fuping Zhao, Li Zhang, Jian Lu, Chousheng Liu and Lixin Du
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:194
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  29. Insertion sequences (ISs) are approximately 1 kbp long “jumping” genes found in prokaryotes. ISs encode the protein Transposase, which facilitates the excision and reinsertion of ISs in genomes, making these s...

    Authors: Theoden Vigil-Stenman, John Larsson, Johan A A Nylander and Birgitta Bergman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:193
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  30. Methylation at arginine residues (R) is an important post-translational modification that regulates a myriad of essential cellular processes in eukaryotes, such as transcriptional regulation, RNA processing, s...

    Authors: Carlos E Hernando, Sabrina E Sanchez, Estefanía Mancini and Marcelo J Yanovsky
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:192
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  31. Linguistic, cultural and genetic characteristics of the Malagasy suggest that both Africans and Island Southeast Asians were involved in the colonization of Madagascar. Populations from the Indonesian archipel...

    Authors: Pradiptajati Kusuma, Murray P Cox, Denis Pierron, Harilanto Razafindrazaka, Nicolas Brucato, Laure Tonasso, Helena Loa Suryadi, Thierry Letellier, Herawati Sudoyo and François-Xavier Ricaut
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:191
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  32. Cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz, is one of the most important crops world-wide representing the staple security for more than one billion of people. The development of dense genetic and physical maps, as the ba...

    Authors: Johana Carolina Soto, Juan Felipe Ortiz, Laura Perlaza-Jiménez, Andrea Ximena Vásquez, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Boby Mathew, Jens Léon, Adriana Jimena Bernal, Agim Ballvora and Camilo Ernesto López
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:190
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  33. Kelp (Saccharina japonica) has been intensively cultured in China for almost a century. Its genetic improvement is comparable with that of rice. However, the development of its molecular tools is extremely limite...

    Authors: Ning Zhang, Linan Zhang, Ye Tao, Li Guo, Juan Sun, Xia Li, Nan Zhao, Jie Peng, Xiaojie Li, Liang Zeng, Jinsa Chen and Guanpin Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:189
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  34. Comparative genomics provides insights into the diversification of bacterial species. Bacterial speciation usually takes place with lasting homologous recombination, which not only acts as a cohering force bet...

    Authors: Chao-Li Huang, Pei-Hua Pu, Hao-Jen Huang, Huang-Mo Sung, Hung-Jiun Liaw, Yi-Min Chen, Chien-Ming Chen, Ming-Ban Huang, Naoki Osada, Takashi Gojobori, Tun-Wen Pai, Yu-Tin Chen, Chi-Chuan Hwang and Tzen-Yuh Chiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:188
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  35. Dairy cattle breeding objectives are in general similar across countries, but environment and management conditions may vary, giving rise to slightly different selection pressures applied to a given trait. Thi...

    Authors: Jeremy T Howard, Christian Maltecca, Mekonnen Haile-Mariam, Ben J Hayes and Jennie E Pryce
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:187
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  36. The cladoceran crustacean Daphnia pulex produces female offspring by parthenogenesis under favorable conditions, but in response to various unfavorable external stimuli, it produces male offspring (environmental ...

    Authors: Kenji Toyota, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Yukiko Ogino, Norihisa Tatarazako, Shinichi Miyagawa and Taisen Iguchi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:186
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  37. Mycoheterotrophic orchids are achlorophyllous plants that obtain carbon and nutrients from their mycorrhizal fungi. They often show strong preferential association with certain fungi and may obtain nutrients f...

    Authors: Tsunglin Liu, Ching-Min Li, Yue-Lun Han, Tzen-Yuh Chiang, Yu-Chung Chiang and Huang-Mo Sung
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:185
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  38. Compensatory growth is accelerated compared with normal growth and occurs when growth-limiting conditions are overcome. Most animals, especially fish, are capable of compensatory growth, but the mechanisms rem...

    Authors: Libo He, Yongyan Pei, Yao Jiang, Yongming Li, Lanjie Liao, Zuoyan Zhu and Yaping Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:184
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  39. The biological and clinical consequences of the tight interactions between host and microbiota are rapidly being unraveled by next generation sequencing technologies and sophisticated bioinformatics, also refe...

    Authors: Florian Plaza Onate, Jean-Michel Batto, Catherine Juste, Jehane Fadlallah, Cyrielle Fougeroux, Doriane Gouas, Nicolas Pons, Sean Kennedy, Florence Levenez, Joel Dore, S Dusko Ehrlich, Guy Gorochov and Martin Larsen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:183
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  40. The Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) is a member of the Characiform family native to the Prata Basin (South America) and a target for the aquaculture industry. A limitation for the development of a selective breedi...

    Authors: Edson A Mareco, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana, Ian A Johnston and Maeli Dal-Pai-Silva
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:182
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  41. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones that are involved in many normal cellular processes and stress responses, and heat shock factors (Hsfs) are the transcriptional activators of Hsps. Hsfs and Hsp...

    Authors: Jin Zhang, Bobin Liu, Jianbo Li, Li Zhang, Yan Wang, Huanquan Zheng, Mengzhu Lu and Jun Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:181
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  43. Changes in DNA methylation are among the mechanisms contributing to the ageing process. We sought to identify ageing-associated DNA methylation changes at single-CpG-site resolution in blood leukocytes and to ...

    Authors: Saara Marttila, Laura Kananen, Sergei Häyrynen, Juulia Jylhävä, Tapio Nevalainen, Antti Hervonen, Marja Jylhä, Matti Nykter and Mikko Hurme
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:179
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  44. MADS-box transcription factors (TFs) are important in floral organ specification as well as several other aspects of plant growth and development. Studies on stress resistance-related functions of MADS-box gen...

    Authors: Gopal Saha, Jong-In Park, Hee-Jeong Jung, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Md. Abdul Kayum, Mi-Young Chung, Yoonkang Hur, Yong-Gu Cho, Masao Watanabe and Ill-Sup Nou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:178
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  45. This study aimed to identify markers for muscle growth rate and the different cellular contributors to cattle muscle and to link the muscle growth rate markers to specific cell types.

    Authors: Bing Guo, Paul L Greenwood, Linda M Cafe, Guanghong Zhou, Wangang Zhang and Brian P Dalrymple
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:177
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  46. New strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that cause diarrhea in humans by seafood ingestion periodically emerge through continuous evolution in the ocean. Influx and expansion in the Southern Chilean ocean of a hig...

    Authors: David E Loyola, Cristell Navarro, Paulina Uribe, Katherine García, Claudia Mella, Diego Díaz, Natalia Valdes, Jaime Martínez-Urtaza and Romilio T Espejo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:176
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  47. Enterococcus faecalis is a multifaceted microorganism known to act as a beneficial intestinal commensal bacterium. It is also a dreaded nosocomial pathogen causing life-threatening infections i...

    Authors: Melanie Zischka, Carsten T Künne, Jochen Blom, Dominique Wobser, Türkân Sakιnç, Kerstin Schmidt-Hohagen, P Wojtek Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Johannes Hübner, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty, Burkhard Linke, Alexander Goesmann, Sonja Voget, Rolf Daniel, Dietmar Schomburg…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:175
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  48. The animal gastrointestinal tract contains a complex community of microbes, whose composition ultimately reflects the co-evolution of microorganisms with their animal host and the diet adopted by the host. Alt...

    Authors: Bo Xu, Weijiang Xu, Junjun Li, Liming Dai, Caiyun Xiong, Xianghua Tang, Yunjuan Yang, Yuelin Mu, Junpei Zhou, Junmei Ding, Qian Wu and Zunxi Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:174
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  49. Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée), is the major insect pest of maize in China and countries of East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Australasia. ACB can develop strong resistance to the tra...

    Authors: Li-Na Xu, Yue-Qin Wang, Zhen-Ying Wang, Ben-Jin Hu, Ying-Hui Ling and Kang-Lai He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:173
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  50. Pakistan covers a key geographic area in human history, being both part of the Indus River region that acted as one of the cradles of civilization and as a link between Western Eurasia and Eastern Asia. This r...

    Authors: Muhammad Ilyas, Jong-Soo Kim, Jesse Cooper, Young-Ah Shin, Hak-Min Kim, Yun Sung Cho, Seungwoo Hwang, Hyunho Kim, Jaewoo Moon, Oksung Chung, JeHoon Jun, Achal Rastogi, Sanghoon Song, Junsu Ko, Andrea Manica, Ziaur Rahman…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:172
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