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January 2017

Pictured is an artist's interpretation of how a couple might experience 'social genetic effects', and how research could help improve health. Two individuals have conflicting sleeping preferences—one is a 'morning person' and the other a 'night owl'. The morning person has an illness, but their doctor does not think about probing their sleeping habits when reviewing potential contributing factors. The doctor could be prompted to do so if there was a clear relationship between the patient's disease and genotypes of his or her partner that are known to control sleeping patterns. Armed with the right advice, the couple could make changes to allow the morning person to get the sleep they need to heal. See Baud et al.

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Image Credit: Illustration by Spencer Phillips, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

Research Articles

Recruitment of Fkh1 to replication origins requires precisely positioned Fkh1/2 binding sites and concurrent assembly of the pre-replicative complex

Allan Reinapae, Kristiina Jalakas, Nikita Avvakumov, Marko Lõoke, Kersti Kristjuhan, Arnold Kristjuhan

β-Integrin de-phosphorylation by the Density-Enhanced Phosphatase DEP-1 attenuates EGFR signaling in C. elegans

Michael Walser, Christoph Alois Umbricht, Erika Fröhli, Paolo Nanni, Alex Hajnal

Re-wiring of energy metabolism promotes viability during hyperreplication stress in E. coli

Godefroid Charbon, Christopher Campion, Siu Hung Joshua Chan, Louise Bjørn, Allan Weimann, Luís Cláudio Nascimento da Silva, Peter Ruhdal Jensen, Anders Løbner-Olesen

High-Throughput Characterization of Blood Serum Proteomics of IBD Patients with Respect to Aging and Genetic Factors

Antonio F. Di Narzo, Shannon E. Telesco, Carrie Brodmerkel, Carmen Argmann, Lauren A. Peters, Katherine Li, Brian Kidd, Joel Dudley, Judy Cho, Eric E. Schadt, Andrew Kasarskis, Radu Dobrin, Ke Hao

Post-Translational Dosage Compensation Buffers Genetic Perturbations to Stoichiometry of Protein Complexes

Koji Ishikawa, Koji Makanae, Shintaro Iwasaki, Nicholas T. Ingolia, Hisao Moriya

Genetic Variation in the Social Environment Contributes to Health and Disease

Amelie Baud, Megan K. Mulligan, Francesco Paolo Casale, Jesse F. Ingels, Casey J. Bohl, Jacques Callebert, Jean-Marie Launay, Jon Krohn, Andres Legarra, Robert W. Williams, Oliver Stegle

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