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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:32Sounding out the genetics of hearing loss
The identification of two quantitative trait loci (QTL) with frequency-specific effects on the hearing spectrum of NIH Swiss mice supports the hypothesis that frequency-specific hearing loss is the result of regionally specific gene activity in the cochlea.
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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:31Preferential methylation of proximal piRNA clusters
Significantly high densities of methylation-associated SNPs flanking clusters of RNAs that interact with regulatory PIWI genes (piRNAs), supports the hypothesis that the piRNA-PIWI system preferentially methylates sequences in close proximity to the piRNA clusters
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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:30Ancient DNA reveals Andean family values
Ancient DNA retrieved from 15-16th Century Andean burial mounds confirms historical and ethnographic evidence that communities were organized into social structures with extended family groups buried in a single grave.
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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:27Free range of tools for population genetics
EggLib (Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Library) is a new freely available software package providing a wide range of user-friendly computational tools for sequence data management and population genetic analyses on nucleotide sequence data.
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BMC Genetics 2012, 13:17Cytogenetics of Amazonian Anurans
Two different types of 5S rDNA sequences are identified from two species of Engystomops frog, differentiated by their non-transcribed spacer sizes and compositions, facilitating the identification of possible homeologous chromosomes in this genus
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