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A Comparative Analysis of the Chloroplast Genomes of Four Polygonum Medicinal Plants

Shuai Guo, Shuai Guo, Xuejiao Liao, Xuejiao Liao et al. • Frontiers in Genetics (2022)

Polygonum is a generalized genus of the Polygonaceae family that includes various herbaceous plants. In order to provide aid in understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationship in Polygonum at the chloroplast (cp) genome-scale l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.764534

Epigenetic alterations in mesenchymal stem cells by osteosarcoma-derived extracellular vesicles

Bettina Mannerström, Roman Kornilov, Ahmed G. Abu-Shahba, Iftekhar M. Chowdhury et al. • Epigenetics (2019)

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are central to intercellular communication and play an important role in cancer progression and development. Osteosarcoma (OS) is an aggressive bone tumour, characterized by the presence of malignant mesenchymal...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2019.1585177

Functional annotation of the human retinal pigment epithelium transcriptome

Gorgels Theo GMF, van der Spek Peter J, Verkerk Annemieke JMH, Essing Anke HW et al. • BMC Genomics (2009)

Abstract Background To determine level, variability and functional annotation of gene expression of the human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the key tissue involved in retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration and retinitis ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-164

Genomic evolution and stability of the mcr-1-harboring IncI2 plasmid in the presence and absence of colistin

Cong Shen, Meina Wu, Minxuan Su, Hao Wu et al. • BMC Genomics (2025)

Abstract Background The emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance, primarily driven by the mcr-1 gene, represents a major global health threat. IncI2 plasmids, one of the leading carriers of mcr-1, have been frequently recovered fro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-12325-y

Monogenic obesity due to MC4R deficiency: lessons from a multigenerational case

Eleni Z. Giannopoulou, Stefanie Zorn, Melanie Schirmer, Stephanie Brandt-Heunemann et al. • Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics (2026)

Abstract Background Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is the most common monogenic cause of obesity, yet remains underdiagnosed. Patients with monogenic obesity often undergo a frustrating diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey of years...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40348-025-00214-z

Introduction to Conservation Genetics

Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2010)

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They con...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511809002

Genetics of MDS

Seishi Ogawa • Blood (2019)

Our knowledge about the genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related myeloid disorders has been dramatically improved during the past decade, in which revolutionized sequencing technologies have played a major role. Through inten...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-10-844621 PMC: 6587668

Genetics of Obesity

Claude Bouchard, Louis Përusse • Annual Review of Nutrition (1993)

Genetics of Human Obesities: Introductory Notes (C. Bouchard). Etiology and Prevalence of Obesity (G.A. Bray). Nongenetic Determinants of Obesity and Body Fat Topography (J.O. Hill, M.J. Pagliassotti, and J.C. Peters). Overview of the Adopt...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nu.13.070193.002005

Introduction to conservation genetics

Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe • Choice Reviews Online (2002)

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They con...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-1529

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

S. P.B. • Poultry Science (1963)

Falconer, D. S., Introduction to Quantitative Genetics , The Ronald Press Company, New York. 364 pp. $6.00. The author’s aim is, “to provide an introductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with emphasis on general principles rather than ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0420547

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

James R. Griesemer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527296.013

Advances in genetics

M. Demerec, Ernst W. Caspari, John Marion Thoday, John G. Scandalios et al. • Advances in genetics (1947)

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes im...

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Forest genetics

• CABI eBooks (2007)

Abstract This book, which contains 20 chapters, integrates the varied subdisciplines of genetics and their applications in gene conservation, tree improvement and biotechnology. Topics covered include: genetic variation in natural forests, ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845932855.0000

New Patterns in Genetics and Development

C. H. Waddington • Columbia University Press eBooks (1962)

Looks at the impact of advances in genetics on our understanding of the development of multi-cellular organisms and also the older problem of morphogenesis -the appearance of organized structure within a range of sizes from the cellular org...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/wadd92142

Landscape Genetics

Rolf Holderegger, Helene H. Wagner • BioScience (2008)

Landscape genetics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates approaches from population genetics and landscape ecology. In the context of habitat fragmentation, the current focus of landscape genetics is on assessing the...

OPENALEX other-oa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1641/b580306

The Genetics of Eating Disorders

Sara E. Trace, Jessica H. Baker, Eva Peñas‐Lledó, Cynthia Marie Bulik • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2013)

Over the past decade, considerable advances have been made in understanding genetic influences on eating pathology. Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185546

The Genetics of Psoriasis

William Watson • Archives of Dermatology (1972)

The genetics of psoriasis has been studied with a questionnaire requesting information on presence or absence of the disease in relatives of 698 probands and 104 controls (spouses of probands). A statistically significant familial concentra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.105.2.197

Genetics of populations

Philip W. Hedrick (1983)

The Fourth Edition of Genetics of Populations is the most current, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in genetics, evolution, conservation, and related f...

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