June 6, 2022
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06/02/2022
Research Article
Pirastu et al. use genetic variants directly associated with food and drink consumption in Mendelian randomization analyses to find consistent evidence of causal associations of food and drink consumption with obesity, blood lipid status, and several other risk factors and health outcomes.
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Current Issue July 2022
06/02/2022
Research Article
Alikhan et al. suggest that introduction of the Salmonella Enteritidis vaccine, in addition to increasing antimicrobial use, could have resulted in replacement of salmonellae in Brazilian poultry flocks with serovars that are more drug resistant, but less associated with disease in humans in the UK.
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06/02/2022
Research Article
Raghavan et al. use data from the VA Million Veteran Program to find 127 traits associated with genetically-predicted height in non-Hispanic White individuals, with evidence for consistent directions of effect for associations in Black individuals. They suggest that height may be an unrecognized non-modifiable risk factor for several common conditions in adults.
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06/03/2022
Research Article
de la Fuente et al. present a new multivariate method for recovering unbiased estimates of heritability from GWAS data and use it to obtain much larger estimates of liability-scale SNP heritability of Alzheimer’s disease outside the APOE region versus recent estimates.
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06/08/2022
Research Article
Donnard et al. show how the loss of FMRP affects the intricate interactions between different brain cell types, which could provide new perspectives to the development of therapeutic interventions.
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06/02/2022
Research Article
Djahanschiri et al. determine the genetic make-up that distinguishes A. baumannii and its pathogenic next relatives from other and mostly apathogenic Acinetobacter species.
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07/21/2022
Viewpoints
Rangarajan & Waters explain how Lowry et al. (pgen.1010164) expand our understanding of cyclic di-nucleotide signaling.
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05/10/2022
Opinion Piece
Gibson offers perspectives on five areas where the robustness of inference can be improved for the bioinformatics of single cell genomics.
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02/14/2022
Editorial
The former Natural Variation section at PLOS Genetics relaunches as Human Genetic Variation and Disease. Read the editors' reasoning behind this change.
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10/19/2021
Collection
Curated by and introduced with an Editorial from Associate Editor Tosso Leeb, the collection presents a selection of PLOS Genetics research that exemplifies recent progress in domestic animal genetics and areas for future development.
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Five new journals unified in addressing global health and environmental challenges are now ready to receive submissions: PLOS Climate, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, PLOS Water, PLOS Digital Health, and PLOS Global Public Health
The COVID-19 Collection highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLOS ONE is now accepting submissions of Lab Protocols, a peer-reviewed article collaboration with protocols.io, and Study Protocols, an article that credits the work done prior to producing and publishing results.
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Quanjiang Ji (ShanghaiTech University) joined the editorial board and Xiaofeng Zhu (Case Western Reserve University) was promoted as new Section Editors for the PLOS Genetics Methods section.
Congratulations to Associate Editor Michael Lichten and Consulting Editor Nicole King, who are newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
PLOS Genetics welcomes several new Associate Editors to our board: Melissa Wasserstein, Sudha Iyengar, Martien Groenen, Lynn M. Riddiford, Karen Avraham, Anne O'Donnell Luria, Neil Hanchard, Aimee Shen, Jan-Willem Veening, Susana Campino, & Nicolas Bierne
Congratulations to Associate Editor Harmit Malik, who was awarded the Edward Novitski Prize by the Genetics Society of America for his work on genetic conflict. Harmit has also been elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
PLOS Genetics announces a new collection on Human Genetic Admixture, introduced by a review from Korunes and Goldberg that discusses recent advances and future directions for the field.
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