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BMC Genetics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of inheritance and variation in individuals and among populations.
BMC Genetics (ISSN 1471-2156) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :67
Large introns in the Drosophila Bru-3 gene promote both alternative splicing by exon skipping and exon turnover during evolution, suggesting that large introns could be a reservoir of genetic diversity.
BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :66
The successful design of universal conditions for direct sequencing of any gene allows automation and optimization of the detection of mutations and simplifes the screening of multiple candidate genes to find the defect underlying an inherited disease or trait.
BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :49
Turkic and Indo-Iranian populations show differences in paternal and maternally inherited genetic markers that suggest social boundaries to gene flow between ethnic groups have existed for a millennium, longer than expected from historical records.
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Hypermethylation of the DLC1 CpG island does not alter gene expression in canine lymphoma Jeffrey N Bryan, Mohamed Jabbes, Linda M Berent, Gerald L Arthur, Kristen H Taylor, Kerry C Rissetto, Carolyn J Henry, Farah Rahmatpanah, Wendi V Rankin, Jose A Villamil, Michael R Lewis, Charles W Caldwell BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :73 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Composite likelihood estimation of demographic parameters Daniel Garrigan BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :72 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Variation in genetic admixture and population structure among Latinos: the Los Angeles Latino eye study (LALES) Corina J Shtir, Paul Marjoram, Stanley Azen, David V Conti, Loic Le Marchand, Christopher A Haiman, Rohit Varma BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :71 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Optimization of selection contribution and mate allocations in monoecious tree breeding populations Jon Hallander, Patrik Waldmann BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :70 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Developing a set of ancestry-sensitive DNA markers reflecting continental origins of humans Paula Kersbergen, Kate van Duijn, Ate D Kloosterman, Johan T den Dunnen, Manfred Kayser, Peter de Knijff BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :69 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Microsatellite markers of water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis - development, characterisation and linkage disequilibrium studies Muniyandi Nagarajan, Niraj Kumar, Gopala Nishanth, Ramachandran Haribaskar, Karthikeyani Paranthaman, Jalaj Gupta, Manish Mishra, R Vaidhegi, Shantanu Kumar, Amresh K Ranjan, Satish Kumar BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :68 (21 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Large introns in relation to alternative splicing and gene evolution: a case study of Drosophila bruno-3 Nikolai P Kandul, Mohamed AF Noor BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :67 (19 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Automated DNA mutation detection using universal conditions direct sequencing: application to ten muscular dystrophy genes Richard R Bennett, Hal E Schneider, Elicia Estrella, Stephanie Burgess, Andrew S Cheng, Caitlin Barrett, Va Lip, Poh San Lai, Yiping Shen, Bai-Lin Wu, Basil T Darras, Alan H Beggs, Louis M Kunkel BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :66 (18 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Population genetics of the understory fishtail palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti in Belize: high genetic connectivity with local differentiation Ang BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :65 (9 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Molecular cloning and characterization of the porcine prostaglandin transporter (SLCO2A1 ): evaluation of its role in F4 mediated neonatal diarrhoea Mario Van Poucke, Vesna Melkebeek, Tim Erkens, Alex Van Zeveren, Eric Cox, Luc J Peelman BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :64 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A whole genome bayesian scan for adaptive genetic divergence in West African cattle Mathieu Gautier, Laurence Flori, Andrea Riebler, Florence Jaffrezic, Denis Laloe, Ivo Gut, Katayoun Moazami-Goudarzi, Jean-Louis Foulley BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :550 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Quantifying and resolving multiple vector transformants in S. cerevisiae plasmid libraries Thomas C Scanlon, Elizabeth C Gray, Karl E Griswold BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9 :95 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Partial loss of heterozygosity events at the mutated gene in tumors from MLH1/MSH2 large genomic rearrangement carriers Katarina Zavodna, Tomas Krivulcik, Maria Gerykova Bujalkova, Tomas Slamka, David Martinicky, Denisa Ilencikova, Zdena Bartosova BMC Cancer 2009, 9 :405 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Searching for SNPs with cloud computing Ben Langmead, Michael C Schatz, Jimmy Lin, Mihai Pop, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R134 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Ancestry-related assortative mating in latino populations Neil Risch, Shweta Choudhry, Marc Via, Analabha Basu, Ronnie Sebro, Celeste Eng, Kenneth Beckman, Shannon Thyne, Rocio Chapela, Jose R Rodriguez-Santana, William Rodriguez-Cintron, Pedro C Avila, Elad Ziv, Esteban Gonzalez Burchard Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R132 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Abnormalities in brain structure and behavior in GSK-3 mutant mice Oksana Kaidanovich-Beilin, Tatiana V Lipina, Keizo Takao, Matthijs van Eede, Satoko Hattori, Christine Laliberte, Mustafa Khan, Kenichi Okamoto, John W Chambers, Paul J Fletcher, Katrina MacAulay, Bradley W Doble, Mark Henkelman, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, John Roder, James R Woodgett Molecular Brain 2009, 2 :35 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Differentially expressed genes for aggressive pecking behaviour in laying hens Bart Buitenhuis, Jakob Hedgaard, Luc Janss, Peter Sorensen BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :544 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A novel study of Copy Number Variations in Hirschsprung disease using the Multiple Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) technique. Rocio Nunez-Torres, Raquel M Fernandez, Manuel Lopez-Alonso, Guillermo Antinolo, Salud Borrego BMC Medical Genetics 2009, 10 :119 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The expression of Gli3, regulated by HOXD13, may play a role in idiopathic congenital talipes equinovarus DongHua Cao, ChunLian Jin, MeiHong Ren, ChangKun Lin, Xuan Zhang, Ning Zhao BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009, 10 :142 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Population structure analyses and demographic history of the malaria vector Anopheles albimanus from the Caribbean and the Pacific regions of Colombia Lina A Gutierrez, Nelson J Naranjo, Astrid V Cienfuegos, Carlos E Muskus, Shirley Luckhart, Jan E Conn, Margarita M Correa Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :259 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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