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Influenza Virus Drug Resistance: A Time-Sampled Population Genetics Perspective

Jeffrey David Jensen, Matthieu Foll, Claudia Bank, Hyunjin Shim, Gregory Bruce Ewing, Anna Ferrer Admetlla

Author Summary In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the evolution of drug resistance in the influenza A H1N1 strain. As a major annual cause of morbidity and mortality, combined with the rapid global spread of drug resistance, influenz ...

Public Library of Science2014

Parkin depletion delays motor decline dose-dependently without overtly affecting neuropathology in alpha-synuclein transgenic mice

Hilal Lashuel

Background: Mutations of the gene encoding the major component of Lewy bodies (LB), alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn), cause autosomal dominant forms of Parkinson's disease (PD), whereas loss-of-function mutations of the gene encoding the multifunctional E3 ubiq ...

BioMed Central2013

Contribution of Genetic Background, Traditional Risk Factors, and HIV-Related Factors to Coronary Artery Disease Events in HIV-Positive Persons

Jacques Fellay, Amalio Telenti, Xuan Li

Background. Persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have increased rates of coronary artery disease (CAD). The relative contribution of genetic background, HIV-related factors, antiretroviral medications, and traditional risk factors to CA ...

Oxford University Press2013

Evolution of uni- and bifactorial sexual compatibility systems in fungi

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Mating systems, that is, whether organisms give rise to progeny by selfing, inbreeding or outcrossing, strongly affect important ecological and evolutionary processes. Large variations in mating systems exist in fungi, allowing the study of their origin an ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Competing islands limit the rate of adaptation in structured populations

Cornelia Pokalyuk

Beneficial mutations can co-occur when population structure slows down adaptation. Here, we consider the process of adaptation in asexual populations distributed over several locations ("islands"). New beneficial mutations arise at constant rate u(b), and ...

Elsevier2013

Searching the coding region for microRNA targets

Jiri Vanicek, Ray Marcel Marin Florez, Miroslav Sulc

Finding microRNA targets in the coding region is difficult due to the overwhelming signal encoding the amino acid sequence. Here, we introduce an algorithm (called PACCMIT-CDS) that finds potential microRNA targets within coding sequences by searching for ...

2013

Alzheimer's Disease-Linked Mutations in Presenilin-1 Result in a Drastic Loss of Activity in Purified gamma-Secretase Complexes

Lorène Aeschbach, Patrick Fraering, Jemila Houacine

Background: Mutations linked to early onset, familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (FAD) are found most frequently in PSEN1, the gene encoding presenilin-1 (PS1). Together with nicastrin (NCT), anterior pharynx-defective protein 1 (APH1), and presenilin en ...

Public Library of Science2012

Evidence Of Adaptation From Ancestral Variation In Young Populations Of Beach Mice

Jeffrey David Jensen

To understand how organisms adapt to novel habitats, which involves both demographic and selective events, we require knowledge of the evolutionary history of populations and also selected alleles. There are still few cases in which the precise mutations ( ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Personal receptor repertoires: olfaction as a model

Sebastian Martin Waszak

Background: Information on nucleotide diversity along completely sequenced human genomes has increased tremendously over the last few years. This makes it possible to reassess the diversity status of distinct receptor proteins in different human individual ...

BioMed Central2012

The Connectome Mapper: an open-source processing pipeline to map connectomes with MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandra Griffa, Reto Meuli, Patric Hagmann, Alessandro Daducci, Leila Cammoun, Xavier Gigandet, Alia Lemkaddem

Researchers working in the field of global connectivity analysis using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can count on a wide selection of software packages for processing their data, with methods ranging from the reconstruction of the local intra- ...

Public Library of Science2012

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