Question and Answer: An Anniversary Interview with Jane Gitschier

Jane Gitschier

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001018

Chromatin Remodeling in Development and Disease: Focus on CHD7

Donna M. Martin

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001010

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The Importance of Imprinting in the Human Placenta

Jennifer M. Frost, Gudrun E. Moore

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001015

Quantitative and Molecular Genetic Analyses of Mutations Increasing Drosophila Life Span

Michael M. Magwire, Akihiko Yamamoto, Mary Anna Carbone, Natalia V. Roshina, Alexander V. Symonenko, Elena G. Pasyukova, Tatiana V. Morozova, Trudy F. C. Mackay

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001037

A Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals No Nuclear Dobzhansky-Muller Pairs of Determinants of Speciation between S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus, but Suggests More Complex Incompatibilities

Katy C. Kao, Katja Schwartz, Gavin Sherlock

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001038

Association of Variants at UMOD with Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Stones—Role of Age and Comorbid Diseases

Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Hilma Holm, Olafur S. Indridason, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Vidar Edvardsson, Patrick Sulem, Femmie de Vegt, Frank C. H. d'Ancona, Martin den Heijer, Leifur Franzson, Thorunn Rafnar, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Unnur S. Bjornsdottir, Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Augustine Kong, Runolfur Palsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001039

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Calpain 8/nCL-2 and Calpain 9/nCL-4 Constitute an Active Protease Complex, G-Calpain, Involved in Gastric Mucosal Defense

Shoji Hata, Manabu Abe, Hidenori Suzuki, Fujiko Kitamura, Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi, Keiko Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Hiroyuki Sorimachi

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001040

Requirement of Male-Specific Dosage Compensation in Drosophila Females—Implications of Early X Chromosome Gene Expression

Natalie Gladstein, Meghan N. McKeon, Jamila I. Horabin

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001041

The Fitness Landscapes of cis-Acting Binding Sites in Different Promoter and Environmental Contexts

Ryan K. Shultzaberger, Daniel S. Malashock, Jack F. Kirsch, Michael B. Eisen

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001042

Breast Cancer DNA Methylation Profiles Are Associated with Tumor Size and Alcohol and Folate Intake

Brock C. Christensen, Karl T. Kelsey, Shichun Zheng, E. Andres Houseman, Carmen J. Marsit, Margaret R. Wrensch, Joseph L. Wiemels, Heather H. Nelson, Margaret R. Karagas, Lawrence H. Kushi, Marilyn L. Kwan, John K. Wiencke

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001043

Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Novel Genes Essential for Heme Homeostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Scott Severance, Abbhirami Rajagopal, Anita U. Rao, Gustavo C. Cerqueira, Makedonka Mitreva, Najib M. El-Sayed, Michael Krause, Iqbal Hamza

PLOS Genetics: published July 29, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001044

Reconstruction of the Core and Extended Regulons of Global Transcription Factors

Yann S. Dufour, Patricia J. Kiley, Timothy J. Donohue

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001027

Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) Proteins Promote Homolog-Independent Recombination Repair in Meiosis Crucial for Germ Cell Genomic Stability

Jeremy S. Bickel, Liting Chen, Jin Hayward, Szu Ling Yeap, Ashley E. Alkers, Raymond C. Chan

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001028

Ancestry-Shift Refinement Mapping of the C6orf97-ESR1 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus

Simon N. Stacey, Patrick Sulem, Carlo Zanon, Sigurjon A. Gudjonsson, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Agnar Helgason, Aslaug Jonasdottir, Soren Besenbacher, Jelena P. Kostic, James D. Fackenthal, Dezheng Huo, Clement Adebamowo, Temidayo Ogundiran, Janet E. Olson, Zachary S. Fredericksen, Xianshu Wang, Maxime P. Look, Anieta M. Sieuwerts, John W. M. Martens, Isabel Pajares, Maria D. Garcia-Prats, Jose M. Ramon-Cajal, Ana de Juan, Angeles Panadero, Eugenia Ortega, Katja K. H. Aben, Sita H. Vermeulen, Fatemeh Asadzadeh, K. C. Anton van Engelenburg, Sara Margolin, Chen-Yang Shen, Pei-Ei Wu, Asta Försti, Per Lenner, Roger Henriksson, Robert Johansson, Kerstin Enquist, Göran Hallmans, Thorvaldur Jonsson, Helgi Sigurdsson, Kristin Alexiusdottir, Julius Gudmundsson, Asgeir Sigurdsson, Michael L. Frigge, Larus Gudmundsson, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Bjarni V. Halldorsson, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Jeffrey R. Gulcher, Kari Hemminki, Annika Lindblom, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Jose I. Mayordomo, John A. Foekens, Fergus J. Couch, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Thorunn Rafnar, Oskar T. Johannsson, Kari Stefansson

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001029

Tinkering Evolution of Post-Transcriptional RNA Regulons: Puf3p in Fungi as an Example

Huifeng Jiang, Wenjun Guan, Zhenglong Gu

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001030

A Collection of Target Mimics for Comprehensive Analysis of MicroRNA Function in Arabidopsis thaliana

Marco Todesco, Ignacio Rubio-Somoza, Javier Paz-Ares, Detlef Weigel

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001031

Rad3^ATR Decorates Critical Chromosomal Domains with γH2A to Protect Genome Integrity during S-Phase in Fission Yeast

Sophie Rozenzhak, Eva Mejía-Ramírez, Jessica S. Williams, Lana Schaffer, Jennifer A. Hammond, Steven R. Head, Paul Russell

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001032

Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in Allele-Specific DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Children Conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technology

Nahid Turan, Sunita Katari, Leigh F. Gerson, Raffi Chalian, Michael W. Foster, John P. Gaughan, Christos Coutifaris, Carmen Sapienza

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001033

Sex Reversal in Zebrafish fancl Mutants Is Caused by Tp53-Mediated Germ Cell Apoptosis

Adriana Rodríguez-Marí, Cristian Cañestro, Ruth A. BreMiller, Alexandria Nguyen-Johnson, Kazuhide Asakawa, Koichi Kawakami, John H. Postlethwait

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001034

Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis for Serum Calcium Identifies Significantly Associated SNPs near the Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CASR) Gene

Karen Kapur, Toby Johnson, Noam D. Beckmann, Joban Sehmi, Toshiko Tanaka, Zoltán Kutalik, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Weihua Zhang, Diana Marek, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Yuri Milaneschi, Hilma Holm, Angelo DiIorio, Dawn Waterworth, Yun Li, Andrew B. Singleton, Unnur S. Bjornsdottir, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Dena G. Hernandez, Ranil DeSilva, Paul Elliott, Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson, Jack M. Guralnik, James Scott, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Stefania Bandinelli, John Chambers, Kari Stefansson, Gérard Waeber, Luigi Ferrucci, Jaspal S. Kooner, Vincent Mooser, Peter Vollenweider, Jacques S. Beckmann, Murielle Bochud, Sven Bergmann

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001035

Microevolution of Helicobacter pylori during Prolonged Infection of Single Hosts and within Families

Giovanna Morelli, Xavier Didelot, Barica Kusecek, Sandra Schwarz, Christelle Bahlawane, Daniel Falush, Sebastian Suerbaum, Mark Achtman

PLOS Genetics: published July 22, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001036

Widespread Presence of Human BOULE Homologs among Animals and Conservation of Their Ancient Reproductive Function

Chirag Shah, Michael J. W. VanGompel, Villian Naeem, Yanmei Chen, Terrance Lee, Nicholas Angeloni, Yin Wang, Eugene Yujun Xu

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001022

CHD7 Targets Active Gene Enhancer Elements to Modulate ES Cell-Specific Gene Expression

Michael P. Schnetz, Lusy Handoko, Batool Akhtar-Zaidi, Cynthia F. Bartels, C. Filipe Pereira, Amanda G. Fisher, David J. Adams, Paul Flicek, Gregory E. Crawford, Thomas LaFramboise, Paul Tesar, Chia-Lin Wei, Peter C. Scacheri

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001023

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Genome-Wide Screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Identifies Vacuolar Protein Sorting, Autophagy, Biosynthetic, and tRNA Methylation Genes Involved in Life Span Regulation

Paola Fabrizio, Shawn Hoon, Mehrnaz Shamalnasab, Abdulaye Galbani, Min Wei, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow, Valter D. Longo

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001024

The Caenorhabditis elegans Homolog of Gen1/Yen1 Resolvases Links DNA Damage Signaling to DNA Double-Strand Break Repair

Aymeric P. Bailly, Alasdair Freeman, Julie Hall, Anne-Cécile Déclais, Arno Alpi, David M. J. Lilley, Shawn Ahmed, Anton Gartner

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001025

Lysosomal Dysfunction Promotes Cleavage and Neurotoxicity of Tau In Vivo

Vikram Khurana, Ilan Elson-Schwab, Tudor A. Fulga, Katherine A. Sharp, Carin A. Loewen, Erin Mulkearns, Jaana Tyynelä, Clemens R. Scherzer, Mel B. Feany

PLOS Genetics: published July 15, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001026

Extensive DNA End Processing by Exo1 and Sgs1 Inhibits Break-Induced Replication

Vanessa A. Marrero, Lorraine S. Symington

PLOS Genetics: published July 8, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001007

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Evaluation of Candidate Stromal Epithelial Cross-Talk Genes Identifies Association between Risk of Serous Ovarian Cancer and TERT, a Cancer Susceptibility “Hot-Spot”

Sharon E. Johnatty, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Stuart Macgregor, David L. Duffy, Amanda B. Spurdle, Anna deFazio, Natalie Gava, Penelope M. Webb, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Australian Cancer Study (Ovarian Cancer), Mary Anne Rossing, Jennifer Anne Doherty, Marc T. Goodman, Galina Lurie, Pamela J. Thompson, Lynne R. Wilkens, Roberta B. Ness, Kirsten B. Moysich, Jenny Chang-Claude, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Daniel W. Cramer, Kathryn L. Terry, Susan E. Hankinson, Shelley S. Tworoger, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Hannah Yang, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Paul D. Pharoah, Honglin Song, Alice S. Whitemore, Celeste L. Pearce, Daniel O. Stram, Anna H. Wu, Malcolm C. Pike, Simon A. Gayther, Susan J. Ramus, Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Estrid Hogdall, Susanne K. Kjaer, Claus Hogdall, Andrew Berchuck, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Edwin S. Iversen, Patricia G. Moorman, Catherine M. Phelan, Thomas A. Sellers, Julie M. Cunningham, Robert A. Vierkant, David N. Rider, Ellen L. Goode, Izhak Haviv, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

PLOS Genetics: published July 8, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001016

A Forward-Genetic Screen and Dynamic Analysis of Lambda Phage Host-Dependencies Reveals an Extensive Interaction Network and a New Anti-Viral Strategy

Nathaniel D. Maynard, Elsa W. Birch, Jayodita C. Sanghvi, Lu Chen, Miriam V. Gutschow, Markus W. Covert

PLOS Genetics: published July 8, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001017

Id4, a New Candidate Gene for Senile Osteoporosis, Acts as a Molecular Switch Promoting Osteoblast Differentiation

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PLOS Genetics: published July 8, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001019

Regulator of G Protein Signaling 3 Modulates Wnt5b Calcium Dynamics and Somite Patterning

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PLOS Genetics: published July 8, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001020

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Partial Loss of Ataxin-1 Function Contributes to Transcriptional Dysregulation in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 Pathogenesis

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Dual Roles for DNA Polymerase Theta in Alternative End-Joining Repair of Double-Strand Breaks in Drosophila

Sze Ham Chan, Amy Marie Yu, Mitch McVey

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001005

Cohesin Is Limiting for the Suppression of DNA Damage–Induced Recombination between Homologous Chromosomes

Shay Covo, James W. Westmoreland, Dmitry A. Gordenin, Michael A. Resnick

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001006

Elevated Oxidative Membrane Damage Associated with Genetic Modifiers of Lyst-Mutant Phenotypes

Colleen M. Trantow, Adam Hedberg-Buenz, Sachiyo Iwashita, Steven A. Moore, Michael G. Anderson

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001008

Activation of the Cell Wall Integrity Pathway Promotes Escape from G2 in the Fungus Ustilago maydis

Natalia Carbó, José Pérez-Martín

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001009

Comparative Analysis of DNA Replication Timing Reveals Conserved Large-Scale Chromosomal Architecture

Eitan Yaffe, Shlomit Farkash-Amar, Andreas Polten, Zohar Yakhini, Amos Tanay, Itamar Simon

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001011

Multi-Variant Pathway Association Analysis Reveals the Importance of Genetic Determinants of Estrogen Metabolism in Breast and Endometrial Cancer Susceptibility

Yen Ling Low, Yuqing Li, Keith Humphreys, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Yi Li, Hatef Darabi, Sara Wedrén, Carine Bonnard, Kamila Czene, Mark M. Iles, Tuomas Heikkinen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Carl Blomqvist, Heli Nevanlinna, Per Hall, Edison T. Liu, Jianjun Liu

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001012

Variation, Sex, and Social Cooperation: Molecular Population Genetics of the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Jonathan M. Flowers, Si I. Li, Angela Stathos, Gerda Saxer, Elizabeth A. Ostrowski, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, Michael D. Purugganan

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001013

Combinatorial Binding Leads to Diverse Regulatory Responses: Lmd Is a Tissue-Specific Modulator of Mef2 Activity

Paulo M. F. Cunha, Thomas Sandmann, E. Hilary Gustafson, Lucia Ciglar, Michael P. Eichenlaub, Eileen E. M. Furlong

PLOS Genetics: published July 1, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001014