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  1. DNA microarrays are used both for research and for diagnostics. In research, Affymetrix arrays are commonly used for genome wide association studies, resequencing, and for gene expression analysis. These array...

    Authors: Yasminka A Jakubek and David J Cutler
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:737
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  2. Trypanosoma cruzi, the causal agent of Chagas Disease, affects more than 16 million people in Latin America. The clinical outcome of the disease results from a complex interplay between environmental factors and ...

    Authors: Alejandro A Ackermann, Leonardo G Panunzi, Raul O Cosentino, Daniel O Sánchez and Fernán Agüero
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:736
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Rhizobium tropici CIAT 899 and Rhizobium sp. PRF 81 are α-Proteobacteria that establish nitrogen-fixing symbioses with a range of legume hosts. These strains are broadly used in commercial inoculants for applicat...

    Authors: Ernesto Ormeño-Orrillo, Pâmela Menna, Luiz Gonzaga P Almeida, Francisco Javier Ollero, Marisa Fabiana Nicolás, Elisete Pains Rodrigues, Andre Shigueyoshi Nakatani, Jesiane Stefânia Silva Batista, Ligia Maria Oliveira Chueire, Rangel Celso Souza, Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos, Manuel Megías, Mariangela Hungria and Esperanza Martínez-Romero
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:735
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  5. Sequence signatures, as defined by the frequencies of k-tuples (or k-mers, k-grams), have been used extensively to compare genomic sequences of individual organisms, to identify cis-regulatory modules, and to stu...

    Authors: Bai Jiang, Kai Song, Jie Ren, Minghua Deng, Fengzhu Sun and Xuegong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:730
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in a wide range of biological processes. The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), an oscine songbird with characteris...

    Authors: Guan-Zheng Luo, Markus Hafner, Zhimin Shi, Miguel Brown, Gui-Hai Feng, Thomas Tuschl, Xiu-Jie Wang and XiaoChing Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:727
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  8. Next Generation Sequencing has provided comprehensive, affordable and high-throughput DNA sequences for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery in Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium. Like other non-m...

    Authors: Melissa ML Wong, Charles H Cannon and Ratnam Wickneswari
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:726
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  9. Recent studies have shown that copy number variation (CNV) in mammalian genomes contributes to phenotypic diversity, including health and disease status. In domestic pigs, CNV has been catalogued by several re...

    Authors: Yan Li, Shuqi Mei, Xuying Zhang, Xianwen Peng, Gang Liu, Hu Tao, Huayu Wu, Siwen Jiang, Yuanzhu Xiong and Fenge Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:725
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  10. Salmonids are popular sport fishes, and as such have been subjected to widespread stocking throughout western North America. Historically, stocking was done with little regard for genetic variation among popul...

    Authors: Derek D Houston, David B Elzinga, Peter J Maughan, Scott M Smith, John SK Kauwe, R Paul Evans, Ryan B Stinger and Dennis K Shiozawa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:724
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  11. Thermacetogenium phaeum is a thermophilic strictly anaerobic bacterium oxidizing acetate to CO2 in syntrophic association with a methanogenic partner. It can also grow in pure culture, e.g., by fermentation of me...

    Authors: Dirk Oehler, Anja Poehlein, Andreas Leimbach, Nicolai Müller, Rolf Daniel, Gerhard Gottschalk and Bernhard Schink
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:723
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  12. Tandemly arranged nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA), encoding 18S, 5.8S and 26S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), exhibit concerted evolution, a pattern thought to result from the homogenisation of rDNA arrays. However rDNA ho...

    Authors: Roman Matyášek, Simon Renny-Byfield, Jaroslav Fulneček, Jiří Macas, Marie-Angele Grandbastien, Richard Nichols, Andrew Leitch and Aleš Kovařík
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:722
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  13. Cis- natural antisense transcripts (cis- NATs) are RNAs transcribed from the antisense strand of a gene locus, and are complementary to the RNA transcribed from the sense strand. Common techniques including micro...

    Authors: Tingting Lu, Chuanrang Zhu, Guojun Lu, Yunli Guo, Yan Zhou, Zhiyong Zhang, Yan Zhao, Wenjun Li, Ying Lu, Weihua Tang, Qi Feng and Bin Han
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:721
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Mycosphaerella fijiensis is a ascomycete that causes Black Sigatoka in bananas. Recently, the M. fijiensis genome was sequenced. Repetitive sequences are ubiquitous components of fungal genomes. In most genomic a...

    Authors: Mateus F Santana, José CF Silva, Aline D Batista, Lílian E Ribeiro, Gilvan F da Silva, Elza F de Araújo and Marisa V de Queiroz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:720
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  15. It has recently emerged that common epithelial cancers such as breast cancers have fusion genes like those in leukaemias. In a representative breast cancer cell line, ZR-75-30, we searched for fusion genes, by...

    Authors: Ina Schulte, Elizabeth M Batty, Jessica CM Pole, Katherine A Blood, Steven Mo, Susanna L Cooke, Charlotte Ng, Kevin L Howe, Suet-Feung Chin, James D Brenton, Carlos Caldas, Karen D Howarth and Paul AW Edwards
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:719
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  16. The emergence of vertebrates is characterized by a strong increase in miRNA families. MicroRNAs interact broadly with many transcripts, and the evolution of such a system is intriguing. However, evolutionary q...

    Authors: Yan Zhu, Geir Skogerbø, Qianqian Ning, Zhen Wang, Biqing Li, Shuang Yang, Hong Sun and Yixue Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:718
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. New genes that originate from non-coding DNA rather than being duplicated from parent genes are called de novo genes. Their short evolution time and lack of parent genes provide a chance to study the evolution...

    Authors: Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai, Huai-Kuang Tsai, Jen-Hao Cheng, Chih-Hsu Lin, Yuan-Fan Tsai and Daryi Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:717
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. The complete sequences of chloroplast genomes provide wealthy information regarding the evolutionary history of species. With the advance of next-generation sequencing technology, the number of completely sequ...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Linchun Shi, Yingjie Zhu, Haimei Chen, Jianhui Zhang, Xiaohan Lin and Xiaojun Guan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:715
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  20. MicroRNAs play a vital role in the regulation of gene expression and have been identified in every animal with a sequenced genome examined thus far, except for the placozoan Trichoplax. The genomic repertoires of...

    Authors: Evan K Maxwell, Joseph F Ryan, Christine E Schnitzler, William E Browne and Andreas D Baxevanis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:714
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Phenotypic evolution in animals is thought to be driven in large part by differences in gene expression patterns, which can result from sequence changes in cis- regulatory elements (cis- changes) or from changes ...

    Authors: Ana Ariza-Cosano, Axel Visel, Len A Pennacchio, Hunter B Fraser, José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Manuel Irimia and José Bessa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:713
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  22. Secretoglobin 1A1 (SCGB 1A1), also called Clara cell secretory protein, is the most abundantly secreted protein of the airway. The SCGB1A1 gene has been characterized in mammals as a single copy in the genome. Ho...

    Authors: Olivier Côté, Brandon N Lillie, Michael Anthony Hayes, Mary Ellen Clark, Laura van den Bosch, Paula Katavolos, Laurent Viel and Dorothee Bienzle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:712
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  23. Traditional candidate gene approach has been widely used for the study of complex diseases including obesity. However, this approach is largely limited by its dependence on existing knowledge of presumed biolo...

    Authors: Jaemin Kim, Taeheon Lee, Tae-Hun Kim, Kyung-Tai Lee and Heebal Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:711
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  24. Cia5a is a locus on rat chromosome 10 that regulates disease severity and joint damage in two models of rheumatoid arthritis, collagen- and pristane-induced arthritis (PIA). In this study, we aimed to identify ce...

    Authors: Max Brenner and Pércio S Gulko
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:710
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  25. We have shown previously that pan-HDAC inhibitors (HDACIs) m-carboxycinnamic acid bis-hydroxamide (CBHA) and trichostatin A (TSA) attenuated cardiac hypertrophy in BALB/c mice by inducing hyper-acetylation of ...

    Authors: Gipsy Majumdar, Piyatilake Adris, Neha Bhargava, Hao Chen and Rajendra Raghow
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:709
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. In higher eukaryotes, gene expression is regulated at different levels. In particular, 3′UTRs play a central role in translation, stability and subcellular localization of transcripts. In recent years, the develo...

    Authors: Marcos Morgan, Alessandra Iaconcig and Andrés Fernando Muro
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:708
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  28. Rye is an important European crop used for food, feed, and bioenergy. Several quality and yield-related traits are of agronomic relevance for rye breeding programs. Profound knowledge of the genetic architectu...

    Authors: Thomas Miedaner, Marlen Hübner, Viktor Korzun, Brigitta Schmiedchen, Eva Bauer, Grit Haseneyer, Peer Wilde and Jochen C Reif
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:706
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  29. The transcription factor (TF) forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) is constitutively expressed at high levels in naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (nTregs). It is not only the most accepted marker for that cell...

    Authors: Andreas Jeron, Wiebke Hansen, Franziska Ewert, Jan Buer, Robert Geffers and Dunja Bruder
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:705
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  30. The discovery of molecular pathways is a challenging problem and its solution relies on the identification of causal molecular interactions in genomics data. Causal molecular interactions can be discovered usi...

    Authors: Alexander Statnikov, Mikael Henaff, Nikita I Lytkin and Constantin F Aliferis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S22
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  31. Answering questions such as "Which genes are related to breast cancer?" usually requires retrieving relevant publications through the PubMed search engine, reading these publications, and creating gene lists. ...

    Authors: Jérôme Jourquin, Dexter Duncan, Zhiao Shi and Bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S20
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  32. Detecting the borders between coding and non-coding regions is an essential step in the genome annotation. And information entropy measures are useful for describing the signals in genome sequence. However, th...

    Authors: Suping Deng, Yixiang Shi, Liyun Yuan, Yixue Li and Guohui Ding
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S19
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  33. Identifying the location of transcription factor bindings is crucial to understand transcriptional regulation. Currently, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation followed with high-throughput Sequencing (ChIP-seq) is ab...

    Authors: Yupeng He, Yizhe Zhang, Guangyong Zheng and Chaochun Wei
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S18
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  34. The application of next-generation sequencing to the study of the vaginal microbiome is revealing the spectrum of microbial communities that inhabit the human vagina. High-resolution identification of bacteria...

    Authors: Jennifer M Fettweis, Myrna G Serrano, Nihar U Sheth, Carly M Mayer, Abigail L Glascock, J Paul Brooks, Kimberly K Jefferson and Gregory A Buck
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S17
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  35. A variety of species and experimental designs have been used to study genetic influences on alcohol dependence, ethanol response, and related traits. Integration of these heterogeneous data can be used to prod...

    Authors: Zhongming Zhao, An-Yuan Guo, Edwin JCG van den Oord, Fazil Aliev, Peilin Jia, Howard J Edenberg, Brien P Riley, Danielle M Dick, Jill C Bettinger, Andrew G Davies, Michael S Grotewiel, Marc A Schuckit, Arpana Agrawal, John Kramer, John I Nurnberger Jr, Kenneth S Kendler…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S16
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  36. Since the initial annotation of microRNAs (miRNAs) in 2001, many studies have sought to identify additional miRNAs experimentally or computationally in various species. MiRNAs act with the Argonaut family of p...

    Authors: Linxia Wan, Jiandong Ding, Ting Jin, Jihong Guan and Shuigeng Zhou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S15
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  37. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most fatal cancers in the world, and metastasis is a significant cause to the high mortality in patients with HCC. However, the molecular mechanism behind HCC metas...

    Authors: Lingyao Zeng, Jian Yu, Tao Huang, Huliang Jia, Qiongzhu Dong, Fei He, Weilan Yuan, Lunxiu Qin, Yixue Li and Lu Xie
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S14
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  38. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 19-25 nucleotides non-coding RNAs known to have important post-transcriptional regulatory functions. The computational target prediction algorithm is vital to effective experimental test...

    Authors: Dong Yue, Maozu Guo, Yidong Chen and Yufei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S13
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  39. Due to the recent rapid development in ChIP-seq technologies, which uses high-throughput next-generation DNA sequencing to identify the targets of Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, there is an increasing amount o...

    Authors: Christina Schweikert, Stuart Brown, Zuojian Tang, Phillip R Smith and D Frank Hsu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S12
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  40. Differential expression detection for RNA-seq experiments is often biased by normalization algorithms due to their sensitivity to parametric assumptions on the gene count distributions, extreme values of gene ...

    Authors: Hatice Gulcin Ozer, Jeffrey D Parvin and Kun Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S11
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  41. Alternative splicing increases proteome diversity by expressing multiple gene isoforms that often differ in function. Identifying alternative splicing events from RNA-seq experiments is important for understan...

    Authors: Ao Zhou, Marcus R Breese, Yangyang Hao, Howard J Edenberg, Lang Li, Todd C Skaar and Yunlong Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S10
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  42. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become a major tool for biomedical research. A key step in analyzing RNA-seq data is to infer the origin of short reads in the source genome, and for this purpose, many read alignm...

    Authors: Yuan Yuan, Clift Norris, Yanxun Xu, Kam-Wah Tsui, Yuan Ji and Han Liang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S9
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  43. Accurate calling of SNPs and genotypes from next-generation sequencing data is an essential prerequisite for most human genetics studies. A number of computational steps are required or recommended when transl...

    Authors: Qi Liu, Yan Guo, Jiang Li, Jirong Long, Bing Zhang and Yu Shyr
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S8
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  44. DNA methylation, which mainly occurs at CpG dinucleotides, is a dynamic epigenetic regulation mechanism in most eukaryotic genomes. It is already known that methylated CpG dinucleotides can lead to a high rate...

    Authors: Junfeng Xia, Leng Han and Zhongming Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S7
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  45. DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark and dysregulation of DNA methylation is associated with many diseases including cancer. Advances in next-generation sequencing now allow unbiased methylome profi...

    Authors: Michael P Trimarchi, Mark Murphy, David Frankhouser, Benjamin AT Rodriguez, John Curfman, Guido Marcucci, Pearlly Yan and Ralf Bundschuh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S6
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  46. Histone modification plays an important role in cell differentiation and tissue development. A recent study has shown that the dimethylation of lysine 4 residue on histone 3 (H3K4me2) marks the gene body area ...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Jeffrey Parvin and Kun Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S5
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  47. Bacteria of the genus Sneathia are emerging as potential pathogens of the female reproductive tract. Species of Sneathia, which were formerly grouped with Leptotrichia, can be part of the normal microbiota of the...

    Authors: Michael D Harwich Jr, Myrna G Serrano, Jennifer M Fettweis, João MP Alves, Mark A Reimers, Gregory A Buck and Kimberly K Jefferson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S4
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  48. High-throughput RNA interference (RNAi) screens have been used to find genes that, when silenced, result in sensitivity to certain chemotherapy drugs. Researchers therefore can further identify drug-sensitive ...

    Authors: Fei Ye, Joshua A Bauer, Jennifer A Pietenpol and Yu Shyr
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S3
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  49. While genome-wide association studies identified some promising candidates for schizophrenia, the majority of risk genes remained unknown. We were interested in testing whether integration gene expression and ...

    Authors: Junzhe Xu, Jingchun Sun, Jingchun Chen, Lily Wang, Anna Li, Matthew Helm, Steven L Dubovsky, Silviu-Alin Bacanu, Zhongming Zhao and Xiangning Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S2
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  50. We present a report of the 2012 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2012) and the editorial report of the supplement to BMC Genomics that includes 22 research papers selected from ...

    Authors: Zhongming Zhao, Yufei Huang, Bing Zhang, Yu Shyr and Hua Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13(Suppl 8):S1
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

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