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  1. As precision medicine advances, polygenic scores (PGS) have become increasingly important for clinical risk assessment. Many methods have been developed to create polygenic models with increased accuracy for r...

    Authors: Jonathan P. Tyrer, Pei-Chen Peng, Amber A. DeVries, Simon A. Gayther, Michelle R. Jones and Paul D. Pharoah
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:878
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  2. Madhuca longifolia, the energy-producing and medicinal tropical tree originally from southern India, faces difficulties in adapting to the low temperatures of late autumn and early winter in subtropical southern ...

    Authors: Shuyu Wang, Haoyou Lin, Shuiyun Ye, Zhengli Jiao, Zhipeng Chen, Yifei Ma and Lu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:877
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  3. Begomoviruses are major constraint in the production of many crops. Upon infection, begomoviruses may substantially modulate plant biological processes. While how monopartite begomoviruses interact with their ...

    Authors: Wen-Ze He, Li Zhao, Kai Sun, Zhen Feng, Gen Zhou and Qiong Rao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:876
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  4. The widely adopted bulk RNA-seq measures the gene expression average of cells, masking cell type heterogeneity, which confounds downstream analyses. Therefore, identifying the cellular composition and cell typ...

    Authors: Chenqi Wang, Yifan Lin, Shuchao Li and Jinting Guan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:875
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  5. Goat milk is gaining popularity as a superior alternative to bovine milk due to its closer resemblance to human milk. Understanding the molecular processes underlying lactation is crucial for improving milk qu...

    Authors: Mahesh Shivanand Dige, Ankita Gurao, Lalit Pratap Singh, Meenakshi Chitkara, Manoj Kumar Singh, Gopal Dass, Arun Kumar Verma, Rakesh Kumar Pundir and Ranjit Singh Kataria
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:874
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  6. This study aimed to design and develop a 5K low-density liquid chip for Hainan cattle utilizing targeted capture sequencing technology. The chip incorporates a substantial number of functional single nucleotid...

    Authors: Huan Wang, Hui Wu, Wencan Zhang, Junming Jiang, Hejie Qian, Churiga Man, Hongyan Gao, Qiaoling Chen, Li Du, Si Chen and Fengyang Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:873
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  7. Carotenoid cleavage oxygenases (CCOs) are a group of enzymes that catalyze the oxidative cleavage of carotenoid molecules. These enzymes widely exist in plants, fungi, and certain bacteria, and are involved in...

    Authors: Jiajie Yu, Yiran Wang, Heming Bai, Xiang Zhang and Ruiqi Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:872
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  8. The family Batrachoididae are a group of ecologically important teleost fishes with unique life histories, behavior, and physiology that has made them popular model organisms. Batrachoididae remain understudie...

    Authors: Nicholas S. Kron, Benjamin D. Young, Melissa K. Drown and M. Danielle McDonald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:871
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  9. Aging is a complex, heterogeneous process that has multiple causes. Knowledge on genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic changes during the aging process shed light on understanding the aging mechanism. A recen...

    Authors: Xiaotian Wu, Yee Voan Teo, Nicola Neretti and Zhijin Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 23(Suppl 4):866
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 23 Supplement 4

  10. Cell type prediction is crucial to cell type identification of genomics, cancer diagnosis and drug development, and it can solve the time-consuming and difficult problem of cell classification in biological ex...

    Authors: Bing Zhou, Quanzhong Liu, Meili Wang and Hao Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 22(Suppl 5):922
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 5

  13. Myelocytomatosis (MYC) transcription factors are crucial mediators of the response of plants to environmental stresses through via binding to DNA regulatory regions. However, few systematic characterizations of M...

    Authors: Tao Liu, Yani Zheng, Jingyu Yang, Rourou Li, Huan Chang, Nanyang Li, Wang Suna, Liping Wang and Xing Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:867
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  15. Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a devastating disease of pine trees caused by the pine wood nematode (Bursapherenchus xylophilus, PWN). To study how Pinus tabulaeformis responds to PWD infection, we collected 3-year-o...

    Authors: Baoyue Xing, Shuo Li, Jinyu Qi, Liyuan Yang, Dachuan Yin and Shouhui Sun
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:865
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  16. Greater yam is a key staple crop grown in tropical and subtropical regions, while its asexual propagation mode had led to non-flowering mutations. How transposable elements contribute to its genetic variations...

    Authors: Sajjad Ali Panhwar, Dandan Wang, Fanhui Lin, Ying Wang, Mengli Liu, Runan Chen, Yonglan Huang, Wenqiang Wu, Dongyi Huang, Yong Xiao and Wei Xia
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:864
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  17. The Domain of unknown function 679 membrane protein (DMP) family, which is unique to plants, plays a crucial role in reproductive development, stress response and aging. A comprehensive study was conducted to ...

    Authors: Yuan Ma, Huan Liu, Jinglong Wang, Guiqin Zhao, Kuiju Niu, Xiangrui Zhou, Ran Zhang and Ruirui Yao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:863
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  18. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) occupies a relatively narrow ecological niche, with many traits adapted for cold temperatures, movement across snow, ice and open water, and for consuming highly lipid-dense prey ...

    Authors: Yulin Sun, Eline D. Lorenzen and Michael V. Westbury
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:826
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  19. The Bucephalidae is a large family of digenean trematodes but most previous analyses of its phylogenetic position have relied on a single mitochondrial gene or morphological features. Mitochondrial genomes (mi...

    Authors: Ye Hu, Tong Ye, Hong Zou, Gui-Tang Wang, Wen-Xiang Li and Dong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:862
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  20. Black spot disease in tree peony caused by the fungal necrotroph A. alternata, is a primary limiting factor in the production of the tree peony. The intricate molecular mechanisms underlying the tree peony resist...

    Authors: Huiyun Li, Yifan Lu, Zixin Liu, Qing Ren, Zhongyan Liu, Sibing Liu, Ruili Ren, Fei Wang, Yi Liu and Yanzhao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:861
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  21. Organellar transcriptomes are relatively under-studied systems, with data related to full-length transcripts and posttranscriptional modifications remaining sparse. Direct RNA sequencing presents the possibili...

    Authors: Jakub Piątkowski, Kacper Koźluk and Paweł Golik
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:860
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  22. Milk is essential for mammalian nutrition because it provides vital nutrients for growth and development. Milk composition, which is influenced by genetic and environmental factors, supports lactation, a compl...

    Authors: Filippo Cendron, Umberto Rosani, Marco Franzoi, Carlo Boselli, Flavio Maggi, Massimo De Marchi and Mauro Penasa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:859
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  23. Melanin in the black-bone chicken’s body is considered the material basis for its medicinal effects and is an economically important trait. Therefore, improving the melanin content is a crucial focus in the br...

    Authors: Chuwen Chen, Jie Li, Zhiyi Li, Yi Nong, Jiayan Wang, Zi Wang and Zhixiong Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:858
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  24. Asparagus L., widely distributed in the old world is a genus under Asparagaceae, Asparagales. The species of the genus were mainly used as vegetables, traditional medicines as well as ornamental plants. However, ...

    Authors: He Wu, Wenhua Dongchen, Yunbin Li, Sylvia E. Brown, Shugu Wei, Chun Lin, Zichao Mao and Zhengjie Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:857
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  25. The expansion of sequencing technologies as a result of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic enabled pathogen (meta)genomics to be deployed as a routine component of surveillance in many countries. Scaling ge...

    Authors: Pedro Milet Meirelles, Pablo Alessandro B Viana, Diogo Antonio Tschoeke, Laise de Moraes, Luciane Amorim Santos, Manoel Barral-Netto, Ricardo Khouri and Pablo Ivan P Ramos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:856
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  27. Endemic plants are key to understanding the evolutionary history and enhancing biodiversity within their unique regions, while also offering significant economic potential. The East Asian endemic genus Corchorops...

    Authors: Joonhyung Jung, Tao Deng, Yu Gyeom Kim, Changkyun Kim, Hang Sun and Joo-Hwan Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:854
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  28. Terniopsis yongtaiensis, a member of the Podostemaceae family, is an aquatic flowering plant displaying remarkable adaptive traits that enable survival in submerged, turbulent habitats. Despite the progressive ex...

    Authors: Miao Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Yinglin Huang, Zhangxue Chen and Binghua Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:853
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  29. Low levels of the essential amino acid lysine in maize endosperm is considered to be a major problem regarding the nutritional quality of food and feed. Increasing the lysine content of maize is important to i...

    Authors: Xiaolei Zhang, Hongtao Wen, Jing Wang, Lin Zhao, Lei Chen, Jialei Li, Haitao Guan, Zhenhai Cui and Baohai Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:852
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  30. The WD40 domain, one of the most abundant in eukaryotic genomes, is widely involved in plant growth and development, secondary metabolic biosynthesis, and mediating responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. WD...

    Authors: Peng Tang, Jingcai Huang, Jin Wang, Meiqi Wang, Qing Huang, Luzhao Pan and Feng Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:851
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  31. Adipose tissue affects not only the meat quality of domestic animals, but also human health. Adipocyte differentiation is regulated by a series of regulatory genes and cyclins. Four and half-LIM protein (FHL2)...

    Authors: An Li, Youli Wang, Yong Wang, Yan Xiong, Yanyan Li, Wei Liu, Jiangjiang Zhu and Yaqiu Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:850
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  32. Research into the genetic diversity of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) populations has become increasingly significant in recent decades, primarily due to population declines attributed to human activities and clim...

    Authors: Boris Lukic, Nikola Raguz, Marin Kovačić, Ino Curik, Jana Obšteter, Janez Prešern, Jernej Bubnič, Ras Lužaić, Ivan Pihler, Goran Mirjanić, Marco Pietropaoli and Zlatko Puškadija
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:849
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  33. Temperature is a crucial environmental determinant for the vitality and development of teleost fish, yet the underlying mechanisms by which they sense temperature fluctuations remain largely unexplored. Transi...

    Authors: Chuanrui Li, Xiaowei Qin, Mincong Liang, Zhiyong Luo, Zhipeng Zhan, Shaoping Weng, Changjun Guo and Jianguo He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:848
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  34. The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a marine bivalve distributed along the U.S. eastern seaboard, supports a significant shellfish industry. Overharvest in the 1970s and 1980s led to a reduction in landings. W...

    Authors: Denis Grouzdev, Sarah Farhat, Ximing Guo, Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa, Kimberly Reece, Jan McDowell, Huiping Yang, Gregg Rivara, Joshua Reitsma, Antoinette Clemetson, Arnaud Tanguy and Bassem Allam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:847
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  35. Squamosa promoter-binding protein-like (SPL) is a plant-specific transcription factor that is widely involved in the regulation of plant growth and development, including flower and grain development, stress r...

    Authors: Ailing He, Hui Zhou, Chao Ma, Qing Bai, Haizhu Yang, Xin Yao, Weijiao Wu, Guoxing Xue and Jingjun Ruan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:846
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  36. Lanping black-boned sheep (LPB) represent a distinctive mammalian species characterized by hyperpigmentation, resulting in black bone and muscle features, in contrast to their conventional counterparts exhibit...

    Authors: Yuqing Chong, Heli Xiong, Zhendong Gao, Ying Lu, Jieyun Hong, Jiao Wu, Xiaoming He, Dongmei Xi, Xiaolong Tu and Weidong Deng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:845
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  37. Oculocutaneous albinism type1 (OCA1) is caused by the TYR gene's homozygous and compound heterozygous variants. TKFC gene variants cause triokinase & FMN cyclase deficiency syndrome with variable multisystemic di...

    Authors: Engy A. Ashaat, Nora N. Esmaiel, Sonia A. El-Saiedi, Neveen A. Ashaat, Dalia Farouk Hussen, Abeer Ramadan, Mohamed Ahmed Al Kersh, Nirvana S. AbdelHakim, Ibrahim Said, Ammal M. Metwally and Alaaeldin Fayez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:844
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  38. Helicobacter pylori infects the stomach and/or small intestines in more than half of the human population. Infection with H. pylori is the most common cause of chronic gastritis, which can lead to more severe gas...

    Authors: Adalucy Alvarez-Aldana, Odion O. Ikhimiukor, Yina Marcela Guaca-González, Manuela Montoya-Giraldo, Stephanie S. R. Souza, Ana Beatriz Garcez Buiatte and Cheryl P. Andam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:843
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  39. DNA metabarcoding applies high-throughput sequencing approaches to generate numerous DNA barcodes from mixed sample pools for mass species identification and community characterisation. To date, however, most ...

    Authors: Jia Jin Marc Chang, Yin Cheong Aden Ip, Wan Lin Neo, Maxine A. D. Mowe, Zeehan Jaafar and Danwei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:842
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  40. In forensic genetics, utilizing massively parallel sequencing (MPS) to analyze short tandem repeats (STRs) has demonstrated several advantages compared to conventional capillary electrophoresis (CE). Due to th...

    Authors: Hui Li, Beixu Li, Yanan Liu, Fan Yang, Yu Cao, Jianhui Xie, Xiling Liu, Zhenmin Zhao and Chengtao Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:841
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  41. Coral reefs experience frequent and severe disturbances that can overwhelm their natural resilience. In such cases, ecological restoration is essential for coral reef recovery. Sexual reproduction has been rep...

    Authors: Yanying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xiaoyu Tang, Xiangrui Guo, Qingsong Yang, Hao Sun, Hanzhang Wang, Juan Ling and Junde Dong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:840
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  42. The postharvest rot of kiwifruit is one of the most devastating diseases affecting kiwifruit quality worldwide. However, the genomic basis and pathogenicity mechanisms of kiwifruit rot pathogens are lacking. H...

    Authors: Lei Deng, Xufang Qiu, Qiya Su, Hui Pan, Zupeng Wang, Guoliang Qian, Pu Liu, Dejiang Liu, Xiujun Zhang, Caihong Zhong and Li Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:839
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  43. Fishmeal and fish oil have been the main sources of protein and fatty acid for aquaculture fish. However, their increasing price and low sustainability have led the aquafeed industry to seek sustainable altern...

    Authors: Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez, Miguel Rabelo-Ruiz, Antonio Manuel Martín-Platero, Antonio Jesús Vizcaíno, Sara Flores-Moreno, Judit Macías-Vidal, Juan Antonio Martos-Sitcha, Francisco Javier Alarcón-López, Alberto Baños, Eva Valdivia and Manuel Martínez-Bueno
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:838
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  44. Growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) is a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily that has gained considerable attention over the last decade for its observed ability to reverse age-...

    Authors: Jessica Strosahl, Kaixiong Ye and Robert Pazdro
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:837
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  45. The KT/HAK/KUP is the largest K+ transporter family in plants, playing crucial roles in K+ absorption, transport, and defense against environmental stress. Sweet watermelon is an economically significant horticul...

    Authors: Rui Cheng, Zhengxiang Zhao, Yan Tang, Yan Gu, Guodong Chen, Yudong Sun and Xuezheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:836
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  46. Authors: Melina Vieiros, Elisabet Navarro-Tapia, Anna Ramos-Triguero, Àgueda García-Meseguer, Leopoldo Martínez, Óscar García-Algar and Vicente Andreu-Fernández
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:835
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    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2024 25:610

  47. Novel protein-coding genes were considered to be born by re-organization of pre-existing genes, such as gene duplication and gene fusion. However, recent progress of genome research revealed that more protein-...

    Authors: Tetsushi Yada and Takeaki Taniguchi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25(Suppl 3):834
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 25 Supplement 3

  48. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) is the world’s largest and heaviest fruit and adapts to hot, humid tropical climates. Low-temperature injury in winter is a primary abiotic stress, which affects jackfrui...

    Authors: Xiangwei Ma, Pengjin Zhu, Yingjun Du, Qiqi Song, Weiyan Ye, Xiuguan Tang, Jiang He, Yunjie Zhong, Jingli Ou and Xinhua Pang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:833
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  49. Exploring the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying goat sexual maturation can enhance breeding practices and optimize reproductive efficiency and is therefore substantially important for practical...

    Authors: Qing Li, Tianle Chao, Yanyan Wang, Rong Xuan, Yanfei Guo, Peipei He, Lu Zhang and Jianmin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:832
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