The genetic variant identified to be associated with the brain aging rate at the TMEM106B locus is also extremely frequent: 80 percent of the population carries at least one copy
of the allele associated with increased aging rate in their genome, Rhinn said.
So every lab has these two pairs and when you breed two dogs they each pass on one
of the allele associated with their pair.
Not exact matches
For example, population processes
associated with colonization, periods
of geographic isolation, socially reinforced endogamy, and natural selection all have affected
allele frequencies in certain populations (Jorde et al. 2000b; Bamshad and Wooding 2003).
Until recently, half
of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic
alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic
alleles that are most frequently
associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?
(2) The prevalence
of the MTHFR A1298C
associated 3 genotypes and A / C
alleles in the recurrent miscarriage group did not differ significantly from the control.
Inherited Neanderthal genes come in
alleles that help fight off nasty viruses such as Epstein - Barr —
associated with several kinds
of cancer, says Stanford University immunologist Laurent Abi - Rached.
Within three weeks, they had collected the data that would fuel a series
of landmark papers showing that the APOE4
allele is
associated with a greatly increased risk
of Alzheimer's disease.
Additional analysis
of UK Biobank data from 112,338 people
of European ancestry revealed that a specific form
of rs9349379 known as the G
allele, which was present in 36 %
of these individuals, was
associated with an increased risk
of coronary artery disease.
Several variants, such as the HLA B * 5701
allele, have been
associated with the pace
of HIV disease progression in both controllers and «normals.»
Reviewing thousands
of genome wide
associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some
alleles (one
of a pair
of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk -
associated with disease than protective.
Again, the increased activity in these areas was
associated with the number
of copies
of the A
allele carried by individuals — people with two copies showed a larger increase in activity than those with just one.
The team looked for patterns
associated with two COLIA1
alleles, called S and s. Women who had one copy
of the s
allele had bone density in the thighbone and lower spine that was 2 % less than that
of women with no s
alleles.
The brain scans also showed that the A
allele was
associated with increased activity in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex, regions that belong to a network involved in the encoding
of emotional memories.
A forward genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) identified mutant copies, or
alleles,
of a gene called cacophony
associated with defects in autophagy and cellular homeostasis.
The
alleles associated with light pigmentation swept to near fixation outside
of Africa due to positive selection, and we show that these lineages coalesce ~ 60 ka, corresponding with the time
of migration
of modern humans out
of Africa.
Finally, in a group
of Hispanic children, the researchers found that the C
allele (CT, CC types) was
associated with a higher BMI score.
Pickrell also reported that the frequency
of the ApoE4
allele, which is
associated with Alzheimer's disease, drops in older people because carriers died early.
In addition, in two
of the datasets where researchers had age -
of - onset data for age - related diseases, they found that certain longevity
alleles also were significantly
associated with reduced risks for cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
I am the
Associate Director
of the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Director
of the BCM IDDRC and Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) Neurobehavioral Core Facilities, and am the Academic Lead for the behavioral phenotyping component
of BCM's Knock Out Mouse Project, an NIH Common Fund Research Program contributing to the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium's overall goal to create and characterize a null
allele of every protein - coding gene
of the mouse.
In the current study, the genotype and
allele frequency
of a SNP in exon 3
of the IL15RA gene were
associated with elite human endurance athletes stratified by sport.
A similar pattern has been observed in humans, where
alleles associated with lactase persistence in Europe did not rise to significant frequencies until at least the Bronze Age, that is, 3,000 years after the introduction
of pastoral livestock35.
Despite reduced levels
of mRNA expression, the homozygous lethal Xpd † XPCS
allele ameliorated multiple XpdTTD -
associated disease symptoms in compound heterozygous XpdTTD / † XPCS animals including the hallmark brittle hair and cutaneous features fully penetrant in homo - and hemizygous TTD mice (Figure 2A — 2C).
Box plots
of SF - 36 or DSQ symptom scores
associated with mtDNA
alleles.
We addressed the potential
of different recessive
alleles to contribute to the enigmatic pleiotropy
associated with XPD recessive disorders in compound heterozygous mouse models.
Here we report the generation
of additional mutant Xpd
alleles that fail to support viability on their own but nevertheless ameliorate TTD -
associated premature segmental ageing, cutaneous features, cellular DNA repair capacity, and UV survival when present in a compound heterozygote state.
Seventy mtDNA SNPs met our minimum minor
allele frequency threshold
of 5 %, and were included in association tests with demographic and symptomatic variables
associated with ME / CFS.
Additionally, we found that CGG10023 carried the alternative
allele at ACN9 homologue (S. cerevisiae; ACN9), CKM, and COX4 / 1, all
of which are
associated with increased winning performance in modern race horses (37, 38).
Exceptions included the ZFAT gene, which is
associated with variation in wither height (36), for which both ancient individuals carried a mixture
of reference and alternative
alleles.
ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies
of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department
of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically
associated with the silencing
of the nonexpressed
allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns
of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both
alleles are expressed.
Some
of the
associated variants were super rare (MAF < 1 %), suggesting that genotyping studies like this are well - powered to detect associations even at
allele frequencies below one percent.
At the same time, several studies have outlined the fine specificity
of different closely related
alleles, in some cases clearly
associated with predisposition to disease resistance or susceptibility.
Burger, J., Kirchner, M., Bramanti, B., Haak, W. & Thomas, M. G. Absence
of the lactase - persistence -
associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans.
The latter work addresses questions including whether infection with different serotypes is
associated with distinct types
of T cell responses, whether any HLA
alleles are
associated with pathogenesis or protection, and whether vaccination with a formulation in clinical trials is
associated with T cell responses similar to those following infection that might serve as correlates
of protection.
These mutant kinases are attractive therapeutic targets, as demonstrated by the efficacy
of imatinib in BCR - ABL — positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), 5 as well as in MPD
associated with activating
alleles involving PDGFRA or PDGFRB.2, 6,7 In addition, activating mutations in the FLT3 receptor tyrosine kinase are the most common genetic event in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and specific inhibitors
of the FMS - like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) have entered late - stage clinical trials.8 Although mutations in tyrosine kinases and in other genes have been identified in a subset
of MPD and AML, in many cases the genetic events that contribute to the molecular pathogenesis
of these diseases remain unknown.
A model will be discussed which proposes that such protein factors and
associated chromatin features regulate the
allele specificity
of DNA methylation at differentially methylated imprinting - control regions.
In contrast, more than 70 other common
alleles have been
associated with breast cancer susceptibility, most
of which confer only a mild to moderate increase in risk.
Analysis
of cancers in the pedigree
of the proband carrying the S98R variant and in two other pedigrees carrying clear loss -
of - function
alleles showed the presence
of BAP1 -
associated cancers such as renal cell carcinoma, mesothelioma and meningioma, but not uveal melanoma.
However, in subgroup analyses stratified by age, we found that the deletion
allele was
associated with increased risk for lung cancer among individuals < 50 years
of age (OR 2.17, CI 1.19 - 3.97), and that the association was gradually reduced with increasing age (p = 0.01).
Alleles associated with lower levels
of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL - C) have recently been
associated with an increased risk
of type 2 diabetes (T2D), highlighting the complex relationship between LDL - C and diabetes.
We imputed these variants into 104,220 individuals down to a minor
allele frequency
of 0.1 % and found a recessive frameshift mutation in MYL4 that causes early - onset atrial fibrillation, several mutations in ABCB4 that increase risk
of liver diseases and an intronic variant in GNAS
associating with increased thyroid - stimulating hormone levels when maternally inherited.
A striking example
of the use
of LoF
alleles to guide therapeutic development for CHD is PCSK9, for which LoF mutations were
associated with low levels
of LDL cholesterol and protection from CHD; this led to the development
of PCSK9 inhibitors.
The gain -
of - function sup - 10 (n983)
allele [51] confers a rubberband phenotype with focus
of action in body wall muscles [52]; the focus
of action
of daf - 6 is in the amphid and phasmid sheath cells that derive from ABp [53], and daf - 6 animals are defective in the dye - filling (Dyf phenotype)
of sensory neurons
associated with these structures.
Here we describe a multiplex PCR (MxPCR) approach for capturing 13 leukemia -
associated mutation hotspots followed by MiSeq sequencing that enables robust detection
of mutations with a variant
allele fraction (VAF) as low as 0.8 % (0.008) in blood DNA.
This observation begs the question whether LDL - C - raising
alleles are
associated with a decreased risk
of T2D.
Campbell, M.C.; Ranciaro, A.; Froment, A.; Hirbo, J.; Omar, S.; Bodo, J.M.; Nyambo, T.; Lema, G.; Zinshteyn, D.; Drayna, D.; Breslin, P.A.; Tishkoff, S.A. (2012) Evolution
of functionally diverse
alleles associated with PTC bitter taste sensitivity in Africa.
The benefit seemed to be particularly pronounced in individuals with the apolipoprotein E-e4
allele, a genetic marker
associated with late - onset Alzheimer's, which usually happens after the age
of 65, and is the most common type
of the disease
Per
Allele Association
of a Sexually Dimorphic Instrument Testing if Waist - to - Hip Ratio Adjusted for Body Mass Index
Associates With Type 2 Diabetes and / or Coronary Heart Disease
When participants were stratified by CYP1A2 genotype, the increased risk
of MI
associated with coffee intake was observed only among carriers
of the slow * 1F
allele (P =.04 for gene × coffee interaction).
With the advent
of micro-satellite markers in late 1990's Bedlington CT came to be
associated with the presence
of what is known as the 2 - 2 C04107
allele on a particular chromosome.
Frequency
of the mutant MDR1
allele associated with ivermectin sensitivity in a sample population
of collies from the northwestern United States.