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Zhu Z, Han C, Huang S. New insights shed light on the enigma of genetic diversity and species complexity. SCIENCE CHINA. LIFE SCIENCES 2024:10.1007/s11427-023-2610-2. [PMID: 39167323 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-023-2610-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Zuobin Zhu
- Xuzhou Engineering Research Center of Medical Genetics and Transformation, Key Laboratory of Genetic Foundation and Clinical Application, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, China.
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- Department of Urology, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, 221009, China.
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- Xuzhou Engineering Research Center of Medical Genetics and Transformation, Key Laboratory of Genetic Foundation and Clinical Application, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, China.
- Center for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, China.
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Li J, Min X, Luo K, Hamidou Abdoulaye A, Zhang X, Huang W, Zhang R, Chen Y. Molecular characterization of the GH3 family in alfalfa under abiotic stress. Gene X 2023; 851:146982. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Wang M, Wang D, Yu J, Huang S. Enrichment in conservative amino acid changes among fixed and standing missense variations in slowly evolving proteins. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9983. [PMID: 32995099 PMCID: PMC7501800 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The process of molecular evolution has many elements that are not yet fully understood. Evolutionary rates are known to vary among protein coding and noncoding DNAs, and most of the observed changes in amino acid or nucleotide sequences are assumed to be non-adaptive by the neutral theory of molecular evolution. However, it remains unclear whether fixed and standing missense changes in slowly evolving proteins are more or less neutral compared to those in fast evolving genes. Here, based on the evolutionary rates as inferred from identity scores between orthologs in human and Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta), we found that the fraction of conservative substitutions between species was significantly higher in their slowly evolving proteins. Similar results were obtained by using four different methods of scoring conservative substitutions, including three that remove the impact of substitution probability, where conservative changes require fewer mutations. We also examined the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) by using the 1000 Genomes Project data and found that missense SNPs in slowly evolving proteins also had a higher fraction of conservative changes, especially for common SNPs, consistent with more non-conservative substitutions and hence stronger natural selection for SNPs, particularly rare ones, in fast evolving proteins. These results suggest that fixed and standing missense variants in slowly evolving proteins are more likely to be neutral.
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- Mingrui Wang
- Center for Medical Genetics & Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China
- Current affiliation: LeedsOmics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Center for Medical Genetics & Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China
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Wang J, Shi J, Liu S, Sun X, Huang J, Qiao W, Cheng Y, Zhang L, Zheng X, Yang Q. Conservation recommendations for Oryza rufipogon Griff. in China based on genetic diversity analysis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14375. [PMID: 32873826 PMCID: PMC7462988 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70989-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Over the past 30 years, human disturbance and habitat fragmentation have severely endangered the survival of common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) in China. A better understanding of the genetic structure of O. rufipogon populations will therefore be useful for the development of conservation strategies. We examined the diversity and genetic structure of natural O. rufipogon populations at the national, provincial, and local levels using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Twenty representative populations from sites across China showed high levels of genetic variability, and approximately 44% of the total genetic variation was among populations. At the local level, we studied fourteen populations in Guangxi Province and four populations in Jiangxi Province. Populations from similar ecosystems showed less genetic differentiation, and local environmental conditions rather than geographic distance appeared to have influenced gene flow during population genetic evolution. We identified a triangular area, including northern Hainan, southern Guangdong, and southwestern Guangxi, as the genetic diversity center of O. rufipogon in China, and we proposed that this area should be given priority during the development of ex situ and in situ conservation strategies. Populations from less common ecosystem types should also be given priority for in situ conservation.
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- Junrui Wang
- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Rice Research, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program/Crop Germplasm Resources Preservation and Sharing Innovation Team, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program/Crop Germplasm Resources Preservation and Sharing Innovation Team, Beijing, China.
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program/Crop Germplasm Resources Preservation and Sharing Innovation Team, Beijing, China.
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Jiang W, Yin J, Zhang H, He Y, Shuai S, Chen S, Cao S, Li W, Ma D, Chen H. Genome-wide identification, characterization analysis and expression profiling of auxin-responsive GH3 family genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Mol Biol Rep 2020; 47:3885-3907. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-020-05477-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Yuan D, Huang S. Genetic equidistance at nucleotide level. Genomics 2017; 109:192-195. [PMID: 28315383 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 03/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The genetic equidistance phenomenon shows complex taxa to be all approximately equidistant to a less complex species in amino acid percentage identity. The overlooked mystery was re-interpreted by the maximum genetic diversity hypothesis (MGD). Here, we studied 14 proteomes and their coding DNA sequences (CDS) to see if the equidistance phenomenon also holds at the CDS level. We found that the outgroup taxon was equidistant to the two more complex taxa species. When two sister taxa were compared to human as the outgroup, the more complex taxon was closer to human, confirming species complexity to be the primary determinant of MGD. Finally, we found the fraction of overlap sites to be inversely correlated with CDS conservation, indicating saturation to be more common in less conserved DNAs. These results establish the genetic equidistance phenomenon to be universal at the DNA level and provide additional evidence for the MGD theory.
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- Dejian Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, PR China
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Zhu Z, Lu X, Yuan D, Huang S. Close genetic relationships between a spousal pair with autism-affected children and high minor allele content in cases in autism-associated SNPs. Genomics 2016; 109:9-15. [PMID: 27940149 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2016.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Parents of children affected with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have mild forms of autistic-like characteristics. Past studies have focused on searching for individual genetic risk loci of ASD. Here we studied the overall properties of the genomes of ASD trios by using previously published genome-wide data for common SNPs. The pairwise genetic distance (PGD) between a spousal pair with ASD-affected children was found smaller than that of a random pair selected among the spouses in the ASD trios, and spousal relatedness correlated with severe forms of ASD. Furthermore, for a set of 970 ASD associated SNPs, cases showed higher homozygous minor allele content than parents. These results indicate new genetic elements in the broad phenotypes of parents with ASD-affected offspring and in ASD pathogenesis.
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- Zuobin Zhu
- Department of Genetics, Research Center for Neurobiology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221004, China; State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
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Long M, Hu T. Tripartite genome of all species. F1000Res 2016; 5:195. [PMID: 27366319 PMCID: PMC4911623 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8008.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Neutral theory has dominated the molecular evolution field for more than half a century, but it has been severely challenged by the recently emerged Maximum Genetic Diversity (MGD) theory. However, based on our recent work of tripartite human genome architecture, we found that MGD theory may have overlooked the regulatory but variable genomic regions that increase with species complexity. Here we propose a new molecular evolution theory named Increasing Functional Variation (IFV) hypothesis. According to the IFV hypothesis, the genome of all species is divided into three regions that are ‘functional and invariable’, ‘functional and variable’ and ‘non-functional and variable’. While the ‘non-functional and variable’ region decreases as species become more complex, the other two regions increase.
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- MengPing Long
- Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.,Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.,Applied Genomics Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.,Department of Oncology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Luo D, Huang S. The genetic equidistance phenomenon at the proteomic level. Genomics 2016; 108:25-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2016.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Revised: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Biswas K, Chakraborty S, Podder S, Ghosh TC. Insights into the dN/dS ratio heterogeneity between brain specific genes and widely expressed genes in species of different complexity. Genomics 2016; 108:11-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2016.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Revised: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Huang S. New thoughts on an old riddle: What determines genetic diversity within and between species? Genomics 2016; 108:3-10. [PMID: 26835965 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2016.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2015] [Revised: 01/28/2016] [Accepted: 01/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The question of what determines genetic diversity has long remained unsolved by the modern evolutionary theory (MET). However, it has not deterred researchers from producing interpretations of genetic diversity by using MET. We examine the two observations of genetic diversity made in the 1960s that contributed to the development of MET. The interpretations of these observations by MET are widely known to be inadequate. We review the recent progress of an alternative framework, the maximum genetic diversity (MGD) hypothesis, that uses axioms and natural selection to explain the vast majority of genetic diversity as being at equilibrium that is largely determined by organismal complexity. The MGD hypothesis absorbs the proven virtues of MET and considers its assumptions relevant only to a much more limited scope. This new synthesis has accounted for the overlooked phenomenon of progression towards higher complexity, and more importantly, been instrumental in directing productive research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shi Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
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Copy number variations play important roles in heredity of common diseases: a novel method to calculate heritability of a polymorphism. Sci Rep 2015; 5:17156. [PMID: 26599540 PMCID: PMC4657159 DOI: 10.1038/srep17156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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“Missing heritability” in genome wide association studies, the failure to account for a considerable fraction of heritability by the variants detected, is a current puzzle in human genetics. For solving this puzzle the involvement of genetic variants like rare single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number variations (CNVs) has been proposed. Many papers have published estimating the heritability of sets of polymorphisms, however, there has been no paper discussing the estimation of a heritability of a single polymorphism. Here I show a simple but rational method to calculate heritability of an individual polymorphism, hp2. Using this method, I carried out a trial calculation of hp2 of CNVs and SNPs using published data. It turned out that hp2 of some CNVs is quite large. Noteworthy examples were that about 25% of the heritability of type 2 diabetes mellitus and about 15% of the heritability of schizophrenia could be accounted for by one CNV and by four CNVs, respectively. The results suggest that a large part of missing heritability could be accounted for by re-evaluating the CNVs which have been already found and by searching novel CNVs with large hp2.
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Chakraborty S, Panda A, Ghosh TC. Exploring the evolutionary rate differences between human disease and non-disease genes. Genomics 2015; 108:18-24. [PMID: 26562439 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Revised: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Comparisons of evolutionary features between human disease and non-disease genes have a wide implication to understand the genetic basis of human disease genes. However, it has not yet been resolved whether disease genes evolve at slower or faster rate than the non-disease genes. To resolve this controversy, here we integrated human disease genes from several databases and compared their protein evolutionary rates with non-disease genes in both housekeeping and tissue-specific group. We noticed that in tissue specific group, disease genes evolve significantly at a slower rate than non-disease genes. However, we found no significant difference in evolutionary rates between disease and non-disease genes in housekeeping group. Tissue specific disease genes have a higher protein complex number, elevated gene expression level and are also associated with conserve biological processes. Finally, our regression analysis suggested that protein complex number followed by protein multifunctionality independently modulates the evolutionary rate of human disease genes.
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- Sandip Chakraborty
- Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII M, Kolkata 700 054, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII M, Kolkata 700 054, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII M, Kolkata 700 054, India.
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Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the aged population and thought to involve many genetic loci. While a number of individual single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been linked with PD, many remain to be found and no known markers or combinations of them have a useful predictive value for sporadic PD cases. The collective effects of genome wide minor alleles of common SNPs, or the minor allele content (MAC) in an individual, have recently been shown to be linked with quantitative variations of numerous complex traits in model organisms with higher MAC more likely linked with lower fitness. Here we found that PD cases had higher MAC than matched controls. A set of 37564 SNPs with MA (MAF < 0.4) more common in cases (P < 0.05) was found to have the best predictive accuracy. A weighted risk score calculated by using this set can predict 2% of PD cases (100% specificity), which is comparable to using familial PD genes to identify familial PD cases. These results suggest a novel genetic component in PD and provide a useful genetic method to identify a small fraction of PD cases.
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Collective effects of SNPs on transgenerational inheritance in Caenorhabditis elegans and budding yeast. Genomics 2015; 106:23-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Scoring the collective effects of SNPs: association of minor alleles with complex traits in model organisms. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2014; 57:876-88. [DOI: 10.1007/s11427-014-4704-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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