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Visscher, P. M. et al. 10 years of GWAS discovery: biology, function, and translation. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 101, 5–22 (2017). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Buniello, A. et al. The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019. Nucleic Acids Res. 47,…

NEW YORK – Using genetic data from the UK Biobank, a team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has documented various levels of recessiveness for variants previously implicated in Mendelian conditions. “With increasing exome sequencing of population biobank cohorts,…

Scientists have genetically edited tomatoes that are more nutritious in provitamin D3 — a precursor to vitamin D, and they’re as high as two whole eggs or a tablespoon full of tuna. Unsplash Also Read: Tomato Maestros At Heinz Mimicked Mars To Create Alien Ketchup They did so by disabling a…

Hughes, C. E. & Atchinson, G. W. The ubiquity of alpine plant radiations: from the Andes to the Hengduan Mountains. N. Phytol. 207, 275–282 (2015). Article  Google Scholar  Rahbek, C. et al. Humboldt’s enigma: what causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? Science 365, 1108–1113 (2019). ADS  CAS  PubMed  Article  Google…

NEW YORK – A team from Stanford University and other centers in the US and China have demonstrated that polygenic risk scores (PRS) based on common variants can be bolstered by incorporating clues from rare variants linked to significant gene expression shifts, dubbed expression outliers. “As individual PRS estimates are…

Wei, K. et al. Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology. Nature 582, 259–264 (2020). ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Article Google Scholar  Cembrowski, M. S. & Menon, V. Continuous variation within cell types of the nervous system. Trends Neurosci. 41, 337–348 (2018). CAS PubMed Article Google Scholar  Maurano, M. T. et al. Systematic localization of…

By Allison Proffitt May 4, 2022 | George Church opened the 20th Anniversary Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last night, speaking virtually to a packed room at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center while many more attendees tuned in online.  Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School, spoke about both…

Need some help In C++, thanks!! /*Class Hierarchy Design a Class “Hierarchy” of 4 derived classes representing 4 generations of a family tree as follow:Grandparent -> Parent -> Child -> Grandchild Add a unique “trait” data member of type integer to EACH CLASS in the hierarchy: A, B, C, DNote…

Data – com.andrewmccall.faker.Data trait Data extends AnyRef Abstract Value Members abstract def fetch(key: String, locale: Option[String] = None, defaultLocale: String = Faker.defaultLocale): Option[Entry] abstract def getKeys(): Iterable[String] Deprecated Value Members def finalize(): Unit Inherited from AnyRef Inherited from Any Read more here: Source link

image: The mechanism of boosting rice yield by overcoming a trait trade-off beteen tiller number and panicle size view more  Credit: IGDB Crop breeding is largely constrained by tradeoffs among different agronomic traits. Since many of these tradeoffs are caused by gene pleiotropy, reducing gene pleiotropy may make it easier to…

Introduction Endometriosis (EMS) is a chronic gynecological disease defined as implantation and periodic growth of the endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity, causing chronic pelvic pain, severe dysmenorrhea, and infertility in 10% reproductive-age women, among which the infertility rate is approximately 30–50%.1,2 Surgical excision is commonly used for…

Cattle are among the largest populations of domesticated animals and used as food resources for humans; therefore, their phenotypes and genetic structure have been shaped by artificial selection for human needs and natural adaptation to environmental changes. The phenotypic selection causes genomic changes in breeding traits within breeds, resulting in…

Advances in genomic technologies continue to expand the possibilities of PGT. In a preclinical research study recently published in Nature Medicine, scientists from Silicon Valley-based genetic testing companies have examined the potential of using PGT to predict complex polygenically inherited conditions in human embryos. While the authors present interesting data,…

News PhenDB now contains in the “Browse” section the trait precalculations for the reference genomes and representative genomes in NCBI RefSeq. The trait prediction results can be filtered by user-specific criteria for minimal prediction confidence and minimal balanced accuracy. Three figures demonstrate the number of positive and negative predictions for…

NEW YORK — Polygenic transcriptome risk scores may be better at gauging chronic obstructive pulmonary disease susceptibility across human ancestry groups than polygenic risk scores, a new study has found. COPD affects about 16 million people in the US and is typically diagnosed through two measures of lung function: forced…

Predict the usefulness of a cross. Multi-trait selection index mean and variance prediction based on parental haplotypes, a genetic map, and marker effects. Implement cross-validation procedures to estimate the accuracy predicting the performance (breeding value, total genetic value including dominance) of previously unobserved individuals as well as cross means and…

Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Aysu Okbay, Hyeokmoon Kweon & Philipp D. Koellinger Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Yeda Wu, Julia Sidorenko, Jian Yang, Loic Yengo & Peter M. Visscher National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Nancy Wang, Hariharan Jayashankar, Michael Bennett, Grant Goldman, Tamara Gjorgjieva, Steven…

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (eds). Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Rererences. researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. Electronic version, Accessed 15 October 2021. Nelson, J. S. Fishes of the World 4th edn, 372 (Wiley, 2006). Google Scholar  Chen, X. H., Lin, K. B. & Wang, X. W. Outbreaks…

Earlier this month, a type of short-haired cattle, called PRLR-SLICK, was added to a very short list of animals given a low-risk assessment by the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). What’s so special about these cattle is that they are the first intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in an animal…

Based on their genetics, some people don’t need as much sleep as others, which could also influence their risk for disease, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, have been studying people who only need four to six hours of sleep, less than the commonly…

Review doi: 10.3390/genes13020235. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Bioinformatics and Life Science, Soongsil University, 369 Sangdo-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06978, Korea. Free PMC article Item in Clipboard Review Chaeyoung Lee. Genes (Basel). 2022. Free PMC article Show details Display options Display options Format AbstractPubMedPMID doi: 10.3390/genes13020235. Affiliation 1 Department of…

Díaz, S. et al. Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019). Fisher, R. A. The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance. Earth Environ. Sci. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 52,…

Using information from allele-specific gene expression (ASE) can improve the power to map gene expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). However, such practice has been limited, partly due to computational challenges and lack of clarification on the size of power gain or new findings besides improved power. We have developed geoP,…

Blog Agriculture Biotechnology Though CRISPR-Cas enabled targeted genome engineering across a vast array of organisms, the system features major disadvantages. Frequent off-target mutagenesis, licensing restrictions and non-ideal economic license terms have inhibited commercial crop-science product upscaling, and, in many cases, entirely disqualified CRISPR’s use by many commercial crop developers. Seeking…

Cooper, G. S., Bynum, M. L. K. & Somers, E. C. Recent insights in the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases: improved prevalence estimates and understanding of clustering of diseases. J. Autoimmun. 33, 197–207 (2009). PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  El-Gabalawy, H., Guenther, L. C. & Bernstein, C. N. Epidemiology of immune-mediated…

Imagine Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1” played on a strand of DNA. This scenario is not as impossible as it seems. Too small to withstand a rhythmic strum or sliding bowstring, DNA is a powerhouse for storing audio files and all kinds of other media. “DNA is nature’s original data…

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The human genome is enormously complex. Before the first draft of the genome was completed in 2003, there was an optimism that knowing its sequence could smoothly translate into cures and treatments for various diseases. Unfortunately, the scientific community quickly discovered that having the DNA sequence is still many steps…

A Trait data representation represents a Tinkers’ Construct Trait’s Data and is ItemBound.You can get such an object from an existing Trait object by supplying an IItemStack to the getData method. It might be required for you to import the class if you encounter any issues (like casting an Array),…

1. Jansen, I. E. et al. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer’s disease risk. Nat. Genet. 51, 404–413 (2019). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  2. Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci. Nature 511, 421–427 (2014). PubMed…

Working Title Postdoctoral Fellow – Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics Position Location Fort Collins, CO Research Professional Position Yes Posting Number 202101543AP Position Type Admin Professional/ Research Professional Classification Title Postdoctoral Fellows Number of Vacancies Work Hours/Week 40 Proposed Annual Salary Range $50,000-$59,000. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. Employee…

Nature Communications i>In a new empirical study published in, a gene drive designed to bias heredity, called an allelic drive, was applied without pesticide treatment to create natural-level insects that were balanced with pesticide susceptibility. Population that has been shown to be recoverable. Credits: Bier Lab, University of California, San…

Conflicting results suggest a missing variant In order to narrow down candidates for the causal genetic variant, we performed genome-wide association mapping separately in individual lake populations (previously, association mapping was only performed across the whole species flock5). Interestingly, despite clear association peaks in the crater lakes (Fig. 1a, b), the…

Horses have been considered one of our most prized possessions, used for travel, work, food, and pleasure for at least five and a half millennia17,18,19,20. Nevertheless, the ancestry of various horse breeds and their characteristic traits remains unclear21. In this paper, we describe the patterns and the origins of genetic…

1. Wang, J. & Jia, H. Metagenome-wide association studies: fine-mining the microbiome. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 14, 508–522 (2016). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  2. Moschen, A. R. et al. Lipocalin 2 protects from inflammation and tumorigenesis associated with gut microbiota alterations. Cell Host Microbe 19, 455–469 (2016). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar …

BACKGROUND: Exposure of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells to fractionated x irradiation in vitro has led to expression of a distinctive multiple-drug-resistant phenotype. This phenotype is characterized by overexpression of P-glycoprotein without an increase in P-glycoprotein messenger RNA or gene amplification; increased glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity; and resistance to vincristine,…

Background: Childhood wheeze represents a first symptom of asthma. Early identification of children at risk for wheeze related to 17q12-21 variants and their underlying immunological mechanisms remain unknown. We aimed to assess the influence of 17q12-21 variants and mRNA-expression at birth on development of wheeze. Methods: Children were classified as…

1. Sunagawa, S. et al. Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome. Science 348, 1261359 (2015). PubMed  Google Scholar  2. Zou, Y. et al. 1,520 reference genomes from cultivated human gut bacteria enable functional microbiome analyses. Nat. Biotechnol. 37, 179–185 (2019). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  3. Mohammad,…

Big genomic data visualization. DNA test, genom map. Graphic concept for your design A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS),  led by scientists from the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (GLGC) recently analyzed genomic data from nearly 1.65 million individuals to narrow down the number of genomic variants strongly associated with blood…

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Genetic approaches in model organisms have consistently demonstrated that molecular traits such as gene expression are under genetic regulation, similar to clinical traits. The resulting expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) have revolutionized our understanding of genetic regulation and identified numerous candidate genes for clinically relevant traits. More recently, these analyses…

Credit: CC0 public domain In a collaborative effort between EPFL, NTNU Norway, and CBMR Danish laboratories, researchers investigated the molecular effects of exercise on non-coding RNA genes in skeletal muscle. Scientific translation medicine.. In this study, they discovered the long non-coding RNA “CYTOR” and investigated its role in rodent, worm,…

Skeletal muscle displays remarkable plasticity upon exercise, but is at the same time one of our organs that is most affected by aging. Skeletal muscle aging is characterized by estimated yearly losses of ~1% muscle mass and ~3% muscle strength in the elderly, resulting in an accumulated net loss of…

Are there some methods can be used to do association analysis in a very small size group? 0 Sorry that I’m not native English speaker, so maybe I did not make myself clear somewhere. If so, please forgive me and welcome to ask. we foung a new trait in our…

Alexander DH, Novembre J, Lange K (2009) Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals. Genome Res 19:1655–1664 CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Article  Google Scholar  Alexander DH, Shringarpure SS, Novembre J, Lange K (2015) Admixture 1.3 software manual. UCLA Hum Genet Softw Distrib, Los Angeles Google Scholar  Angert AL, Bontrager…

This repo gathers all the input files and scripts related to our study entitled “Exploiting genomic surveillance to map the spatio-temporal dispersal of SARS-CoV-2 spike mutations in Belgium across 2020” (Bollen et al. submitted): R scripts to prepare, analyse, and visualise the phylogeographic analyses performed in this study, Geographic Information…

As a validation experiment, I have run the same GWAS of a quantitative phenotype derived from the UKBiobank, alongside the genomic data from the UKBiobank, once using the program BOLT-LMM and once using SAIGE linear mixed model (with selected quantitative trait tag). I wanted to see if the results would…

Whether you’re picking stocks or managing a professional sports franchise, investing in data analysis is critical to success in today’s world. Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research is no different! Since I joined NIA two years ago, I’ve been proud to apply my previous experience in the genomics of infectious…

Significance A great challenge for humanity is feeding its growing population while minimizing ecosystem damage and climate change. Here, we uncover the global benefits arising from the introduction of one wild species accession to peanut-breeding programs decades ago. This work emphasizes the importance of biodiversity to crop improvement: peanut cultivars…

GWAS Power Calculation for Quantitative Trait 0 Hi All, I’m fairly new to computational genetics and I am planning on conducting a GWAS of general cognitive ability. I’m planning on using summary statistics so the data are already collected. I am struggling with post-hoc power calculations for a quantitative trait….

After 90 years of taxonomic uncertainties, using phenotypic, phylogenetic, and population genetics analyses, the two uncultivated fungi causing skin disease in humans and dolphins, long known as Lacazia loboi8, are now placed as separate species within the genus Paracoccidioides. Early studies using phenotypic or phylogenetic data alone erroneously placed these two…

The interesting recent Report, “A mouse model of mitochondrial disease reveals germline selection against severe mtDNA mutations” by W. Fan et al. (15 February 2008, p. 958) provides convincing evidence that mitochondrial mutations with severe effects are eliminated from the female germ line by selection within the ovary. We agree…

Kayla Bertholf Science and Environment Editor   Sobika Thapa ‘23, Computer Science What was your summer experience/internship called? I interned as an user interface design (UI/UX) intern for a software company in Nepal. Give a summary of your experience. During my internship, I participated in user research and interaction studies,…

GWAS with phenotype adjusted for covariate (age, sex, PC, batch, centre) using PLINK or external linear model and take residual? 0 Hi everyone, I am conducting GWAS analysis using PLINK but I wonder should I use PLINK to adjust the phenotype for fix effect (age, sex, PC, batch, centre) or…

Florida growers produced 606 million pounds of fresh-market tomatoes last year, which brought in $463 million in revenue. But with competition from places like Mexico, farmers are always looking for an edge – to grow more and bigger fruit. That’s why University of Florida scientist Tong Geon Lee spends countless…

How to estimate polygenic risk score (PRSs) using the scoring files from PGSCatalog for one individual? 2 Hi all, I have an annotated vcf file for one individual which I want to estimate his polygenic risk score (PRS) for a certain trait, using the scoring files from the PGSCatalog. The…

A healthy soil nourishes plants and animals, purifies water and air, and promotes sustainable agriculture. Characteristic for highly complex and competitive soil ecosystems are the frequent and direct interactions between all soil-dwelling microorganisms, animals, and plants (1, 2), all of which need to be provided with minerals and carbon sources….

Weird PCA plot based on WGCNA results 0 Dear all, I used WGCNA to find the associated gene modules with the different subtypes of a given cancer as trait. I obtained multiple modules associated with some of the cancer subtypes as shown in . Next, I plotted PCA to visualize…

Significance Some of the most spectacular adaptive radiations of plants and animals occur on remote oceanic islands, yet such radiations are preceded by founding events that severely limit genetic variation. How genetically depauperate founder populations give rise to the spectacular phenotypic and ecological diversity characteristic of island adaptive radiations is…

Xia-Gibbs Syndrome (XGS) is a rare genetic disorder that results in severe developmental delay, sleep apnea, delayed speech and upper body weakness. Image courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute In 2014, a team led by Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center and Wofford Cain Chair and…

1. Sandler, L. & Novitski, E. Meiotic drive as an evolutionary force. Am. Nat. 91, 105–110 (1957). Article  Google Scholar  2. Lindholm, A. K. et al. The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends Ecol. Evol. 31, 315–326 (2016). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  3. Lyttle, T. W. Segregation distorters….

Scientists from Agriculture Victoria, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, have developed a world-first customised single nucleotide polymorphism chip designed with the latest known genes that affect dairy cattle traits. The work involves the customisation of a small piece of plastic — an SNP chip — with 50,000 small…

  Position Overview: We seek an experienced computational biologist / data scientist to identify and advance new immuno-oncology therapies for solid tumors and hematological malignancies. In this hands-on role, you will work as an integral part of project teams to identify targets, advance programs, and develop and test actionable biomarker strategies for…

The National Association of Plant Breeders 2021 virtual meeting highlighted the need to reach out and form new collaborations to advance plant breeding for the 21st century. Fabian Leon was born in Bakersfield, Calif., where his parents were migrant farm workers. He grew up in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where his chance at…

CRISPR systems that rely on inactivated Cas enzymes—that is, dead Cas (dCas) enzymes—never looked more alive. They harness the targeting power associated with CRISPR—but not the double-strand cuts. As such, they give researchers new ways to interrogate and manipulate gene function. Possibilities include CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR activation (CRISPRa)…

GMO tomato. [Courtesy: iStockphoto] The ageless debate on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is getting a new twist as scientists make fresh discoveries. Experts from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are now keen to extinguish a lingering assumption that genetic modification, and gene editing, are more or less the…

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normality assumption for GWAS QT 0 Hi Planning to perform GWAS on quantitative trait using linear reg in plink. From my basic knowledge of statistics, i know that the assumption of normality (residuals) should be only approximately true. But i have seen so many papers on GWAS transforming the data…

Regarding finding hub genes using WGCNA 1 Dear all, I have got the gene expression microarray dataset (about 17000 genes) of about 400 cancer samples with different cancer subtypes. I considered subtypes as traits (binary traits) and used WGCNA to find the possible modules associated with traits and to identify…

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WGCNA (TRAIT DATA) 0 I had already obtained a group of significant proteins after performing analysis on data obtained from LC-MS. I would like to perform network analysis on selected proteins using WGCNA package in R. Network analysis using WGCNA:- Removed outlier samples and Genes. Identified softpower (Beta) for singed…

GWASpower calculation 0 Dear All, Sorry , sounds like a stupid question but been struggling with this for a while. I am trying to do post-hoc power calculation for my GWAS using GWASpower software for quantitative trait (i know many don’t prefer post-hoc power calculation, but reviewer asked me despite…

I hope any of this is of use to you: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs121434448?horizontal_tab=true#frequency_tab There is only one publication associated with this area and it is linked on that site – but here is the full version: academic.oup.com/hmg/article/7/11/1671/2355991 & CORRECTION: academic.oup.com/hmg/article/7/12/1987/581729 It’s rather unfortunate that there have been no more recent studies into…

Hi, I am using WGCNA to construct a network and find significant genes for a trait of interest. After making the network, I chose a module based on the pvalue and correlation value. Then I calculated gene significance values for all genes in that module. trait_x <- as.data.frame(datTraits[, “trait_x”, drop…

© Olena Danileiko Experts Leena Tripathi, Jaindra Nath Tripathi and Richard Goodman, provide a compelling analysis of controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt Disease in East Africa By way of an introduction, banana (Musa spp.) is one of the most common fruits worldwide. However, it is an important staple crop in the…

  Not Python but using EntrezDirect you can get: $ esearch -db bioproject -query “GSE118723” | esummary | xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -element Project_Description Quantification of gene expression levels at the single cell level has revealed that gene expression can vary substantially even across a population of homogeneous cells. However, it…

Mixed model analysis using lme4 0 Hi all, I am a novice in using mixed models. I am not sure how to set up the fixed and random effects in mixed model. Your expertise would be much appreciated. My experimental set up is as follows: Three years of experiment (Experiment),…