September 2008

The equine coat color dilution Champagne has frequently been confused for and confounded by other dilution phenotypes. The locus responsible for Champagne was mapped by a whole-genome scanning approach, and the causative mutation has subsequently been discovered (see Cook et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000195).

Image Credit: Photo is Tennessee Walking Horse "Champagne Watchout," submitted by Nathanael and Jenny Jackson.

Perspective

Chromosome Mechanics and Meiotic Engine Maintenance

Michael E. Dresser

PLOS Genetics: published September 26, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000210

Review

A Review of Family-Based Tests for Linkage Disequilibrium between a Quantitative Trait and a Genetic Marker

Warren J. Ewens, Mingyao Li, Richard S. Spielman

PLOS Genetics: published September 26, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000180

Research Articles

Heterokaryon-Based Reprogramming of Human B Lymphocytes for Pluripotency Requires Oct4 but Not Sox2

Carlos F. Pereira, Rémi Terranova, Natalie K. Ryan, Joana Santos, Kelly J. Morris, Wei Cui, Matthias Merkenschlager, Amanda G. Fisher

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000170

Identification of Neural Crest and Glial Enhancers at the Mouse Sox10 Locus through Transgenesis in Zebrafish

Anthony Antonellis, Jimmy L. Huynh, Shih-Queen Lee-Lin, Ryan M. Vinton, Gabriel Renaud, Stacie K. Loftus, Gene Elliot, Tyra G. Wolfsberg, Eric D. Green, Andrew S. McCallion, William J. Pavan

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000174

Segmental Duplications Arise from Pol32-Dependent Repair of Broken Forks through Two Alternative Replication-Based Mechanisms

Celia Payen, Romain Koszul, Bernard Dujon, Gilles Fischer

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000175

Somatic Pairing of Chromosome 19 in Renal Oncocytoma Is Associated with Deregulated ELGN2-Mediated Oxygen-Sensing Response

Julie M. Koeman, Ryan C. Russell, Min-Han Tan, David Petillo, Michael Westphal, Katherine Koelzer, Julie L. Metcalf, Zhongfa Zhang, Daisuke Matsuda, Karl J. Dykema, Heather L. Houseman, Eric J. Kort, Laura L. Furge, Richard J. Kahnoski, Stéphane Richard, Annick Vieillefond, Pamela J. Swiatek, Bin Tean Teh, Michael Ohh, Kyle A. Furge

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000176

A Sox10 Expression Screen Identifies an Amino Acid Essential for Erbb3 Function

Kristina Buac, Dawn E. Watkins-Chow, Stacie K. Loftus, Denise M. Larson, Arturo Incao, Gretchen Gibney, William J. Pavan

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000177

Stability and Dynamics of Polycomb Target Sites in Drosophila Development

Camilla Kwong, Boris Adryan, Ian Bell, Lisa Meadows, Steven Russell, J. Robert Manak, Robert White

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000178

Genetic Modifiers of MeCP2 Function in Drosophila

Holly N. Cukier, Alma M. Perez, Ann L. Collins, Zhaolan Zhou, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Juan Botas

PLOS Genetics: published September 5, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000179

Is Mate Choice in Humans MHC-Dependent?

Raphaëlle Chaix, Chen Cao, Peter Donnelly

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000184

The Genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the Agent of Deadly Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever, Is a Degraded Subset of Tick-Borne Borrelia duttonii

Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Thi Tien Nguyen, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J. Cutler, Patrick Wincker, Arnaud Couloux, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000185

MUS81 Generates a Subset of MLH1-MLH3–Independent Crossovers in Mammalian Meiosis

J. Kim Holloway, James Booth, Winfried Edelmann, Clare H. McGowan, Paula E. Cohen

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000186

The Genomic Distribution and Function of Histone Variant HTZ-1 during C. elegans Embryogenesis

Christina M. Whittle, Karissa N. McClinic, Sevinc Ercan, Xinmin Zhang, Roland D. Green, William G. Kelly, Jason D. Lieb

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000187

Human MLH1 Protein Participates in Genomic Damage Checkpoint Signaling in Response to DNA Interstrand Crosslinks, while MSH2 Functions in DNA Repair

Qi Wu, Karen M. Vasquez

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000189

The Histone H3K79 Methyltransferase Dot1L Is Essential for Mammalian Development and Heterochromatin Structure

Brendan Jones, Hui Su, Audesh Bhat, Hong Lei, Jeffrey Bajko, Sarah Hevi, Gretchen A. Baltus, Shilpa Kadam, Huili Zhai, Reginald Valdez, Susana Gonzalo, Yi Zhang, En Li, Taiping Chen

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000190

Evolution of a New Function by Degenerative Mutation in Cephalochordate Steroid Receptors

Jamie T. Bridgham, Justine E. Brown, Adriana Rodríguez-Marí, Julian M. Catchen, Joseph W. Thornton

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000191

A Mouse Model of Harlequin Ichthyosis Delineates a Key Role for Abca12 in Lipid Homeostasis

Ian Smyth, Douglas F. Hacking, Adrienne A. Hilton, Nigora Mukhamedova, Peter J. Meikle, Sarah Ellis, Keith Slattery, Janelle E. Collinge, Carolyn A. de Graaf, Melanie Bahlo, Dmitri Sviridov, Benjamin T. Kile, Douglas J. Hilton

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000192

Novel Mutations in TARDBP (TDP-43) in Patients with Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Nicola J. Rutherford, Yong-Jie Zhang, Matt Baker, Jennifer M. Gass, NiCole A. Finch, Ya-Fei Xu, Heather Stewart, Brendan J. Kelley, Karen Kuntz, Richard J. P. Crook, Jemeen Sreedharan, Caroline Vance, Eric Sorenson, Carol Lippa, Eileen H. Bigio, Daniel H. Geschwind, David S. Knopman, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Ronald C. Petersen, Neil R. Cashman, Mike Hutton, Christopher E. Shaw, Kevin B. Boylan, Bradley Boeve, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Richard J. Caselli, Dennis W. Dickson, Ian R. Mackenzie, Leonard Petrucelli, Rosa Rademakers

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000193

corona Is Required for Higher-Order Assembly of Transverse Filaments into Full-Length Synaptonemal Complex in Drosophila Oocytes

Scott L. Page, Radhika S. Khetani, Cathleen M. Lake, Rachel J. Nielsen, Jennifer K. Jeffress, William D. Warren, Sharon E. Bickel, R. Scott Hawley

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000194

Missense Mutation in Exon 2 of SLC36A1 Responsible for Champagne Dilution in Horses

Deborah Cook, Samantha Brooks, Rebecca Bellone, Ernest Bailey

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000195

Screening and Replication using the Same Data Set: Testing Strategies for Family-Based Studies in which All Probands Are Affected

Amy Murphy, Scott T. Weiss, Christoph Lange

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000197

An Approximate Bayesian Estimator Suggests Strong, Recurrent Selective Sweeps in Drosophila

Jeffrey D. Jensen, Kevin R. Thornton, Peter Andolfatto

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000198

Deletion of the Pluripotency-Associated Tex19.1 Gene Causes Activation of Endogenous Retroviruses and Defective Spermatogenesis in Mice

Rupert Öllinger, Andrew J. Childs, Hannah M. Burgess, Robert M. Speed, Pia R. Lundegaard, Nicola Reynolds, Nicola K. Gray, Howard J. Cooke, Ian R. Adams

PLOS Genetics: published September 19, 2008 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000199

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