Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

J Weischenfeldt, O Symmons, F Spitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic structural variants have long been implicated in phenotypic diversity and human
disease, but dissecting the mechanisms by which they exert their functional impact has …

Aging and the rise of somatic cancer-associated mutations in normal tissues

RA Risques, SR Kennedy - PLoS genetics, 2018 - journals.plos.org
DNA mutations are inevitable. Despite proficient DNA repair mechanisms, somatic cells
accumulate mutations during development and aging, generating cells with different …

Heterosis

JA Birchler, H Yao, S Chudalayandi, D Vaiman… - The Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Heterosis refers to the phenomenon that progeny of diverse varieties of a species or crosses
between species exhibit greater biomass, speed of development, and fertility than both …

The flowering gene SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS drives heterosis for yield in tomato

U Krieger, ZB Lippman, D Zamir - Nature genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Intercrossing different varieties of plants frequently produces hybrid offspring with superior
vigor and increased yields, in a poorly understood phenomenon known as heterosis,. One …

Progress toward understanding heterosis in crop plants

PS Schnable, NM Springer - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Although heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is widely exploited in agriculture, a complete description
of its molecular underpinnings has remained elusive despite extensive investigation. It …

A consensus yeast metabolic network reconstruction obtained from a community approach to systems biology

MJ Herrgård, N Swainston, P Dobson, WB Dunn… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Genomic data allow the large-scale manual or semi-automated assembly of metabolic
network reconstructions, which provide highly curated organism-specific knowledge bases …

The repertoire and dynamics of evolutionary adaptations to controlled nutrient-limited environments in yeast

D Gresham, MM Desai, CM Tucker, HT Jenq… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
The experimental evolution of laboratory populations of microbes provides an opportunity to
observe the evolutionary dynamics of adaptation in real time. Until very recently, however …

Somatic mutations in aging, cancer and neurodegeneration

SR Kennedy, LA Loeb, AJ Herr - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2012 - Elsevier
The somatic mutation theory of aging posits that the accumulation of mutations in the genetic
material of somatic cells as a function of time results in a decrease in cellular function. In …

Genome-wide analysis of yeast stress survival and tolerance acquisition to analyze the central trade-off between growth rate and cellular robustness

A Zakrzewska, G Van Eikenhorst… - Molecular biology of …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
All organisms have evolved to cope with changes in environmental conditions, ensuring the
optimal combination of proliferation and survival. In yeast, exposure to a mild stress leads to …

The promiscuous binding of pharmaceutical drugs and their transporter-mediated uptake into cells: what we (need to) know and how we can do so

DB Kell, PD Dobson, E Bilsland, SG Oliver - Drug discovery today, 2013 - Elsevier
A recent paper in this journal sought to counter evidence for the role of transport proteins in
effecting drug uptake into cells, and questions that transporters can recognize drug …