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NCC Collaborator - New England Genetics Collaborative

... system evaluation framework established in the current funding cycle with the same evaluation measures through 2017. – NCC will bridge between public health long-term follow-up and the NBSTRN LTFU work through facilitating pilots of the public health common data elements (CDEs) in the longitudinal p ...
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... ‘autistic spectrum’ used for Kanner (infantile) autism, Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, and some other conditions (Table 1). I thus refer to ‘psychosis’ throughout this paper in a general sense as disordered cognition, emotionality, or both, commonly involving some component of positive symptoms s ...
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... a recombinant genotype. On the other hand, if no recombination occurs during meiosis, the products have their original combinations and are said to have a nonrecombinant, or parental genotype. Recombination is important because it contributes to the genetic variation that may be observed between ind ...
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... homologs of Arabidopsis thaliana genes functional in defense signaling Identification, genetic mapping, and molecular cloning Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18 : 1107-1119 Park, TH et al 2007. Genetic positioning of centromeres using half-tetrad analysis in a 4x-2x cross population of potato. ...
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... due to multilocus interactions should develop slowly in the beginning, but at accelerated speed as populations become increasingly differentiated (Orr and Turelli 2001). Consistent with the expectation, many empirical studies have found an intermediate optimum or a negative relationship between pare ...
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... Table 1). Whole genome sequencing has been performed on this cell line and on LCLs derived from both of her parents (The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium 2010), and we aligned sequence reads to both the maternal and paternal versions of the genome (see Methods; Figure 1A). We identified 157,586 high- ...
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... each other codon that can be reached by a single-base substitution (see Materials and methods). The standard genetic code and all known variants resist error better (have a lower error value) than do random codes for a wide range of different amino-acid properties and models of random code generatio ...
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... were used to detect QTLs for stem resistance to ascochyta blight at the seedling stage using three methods: single-point analysis, simple interval mapping and composite interval mapping. Each method was performed using MapManager QTX. The significance of each potential association between a marker an ...
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... on the stochastic nature of evolution in small populations. In infinitely large populations, every genotype already exists; thus, as long as there is no epistasis and no initial linkage disequilibrium, genes that modify recombination rates experience no selection (Maynard Smith 1968). Intuitively, o ...
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... the same yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) (920g2).12 The exact position of D12S129 in relation to D12S809 is not known.11 No other markers were available for a more precise mapping of the crossover. Another crossover was observed in an unaffected individual (III1) between the NS/CFC locus and marke ...
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... and Japanese populations. (GCC)9 was almost as common as (GCC)11 in Chinese and Japanese populations, whereas its frequency was <10% in Yoruba and CEPH populations. The Yoruba population had the highest frequency of the largest alleles [(GCC)12 and (GCC)13], which were almost absent in the other gro ...
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Human genetic variation



Human genetic variation is the genetic differences both within and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population (genes), leading to polymorphism. Many genes are not polymorphic, meaning that only a single allele is present in the population: the gene is then said to be fixed. On average, in terms of DNA sequence all humans are 99.9% similar to any other humans.No two humans are genetically identical. Even monozygotic twins, who develop from one zygote, have infrequent genetic differences due to mutations occurring during development and gene copy-number variation. Differences between individuals, even closely related individuals, are the key to techniques such as genetic fingerprinting. Alleles occur at different frequencies in different human populations, with populations that are more geographically and ancestrally remote tending to differ more.Causes of differences between individuals include the exchange of genes during meiosis and various mutational events. There are at least two reasons why genetic variation exists between populations. Natural selection may confer an adaptive advantage to individuals in a specific environment if an allele provides a competitive advantage. Alleles under selection are likely to occur only in those geographic regions where they confer an advantage. The second main cause of genetic variation is due to the high degree of neutrality of most mutations. Most mutations do not appear to have any selective effect one way or the other on the organism. The main cause is genetic drift, this is the effect of random changes in the gene pool. In humans, founder effect and past small population size (increasing the likelihood of genetic drift) may have had an important influence in neutral differences between populations. The theory that humans recently migrated out of Africa supports this.The study of human genetic variation has both evolutionary significance and medical applications. It can help scientists understand ancient human population migrations as well as how different human groups are biologically related to one another. For medicine, study of human genetic variation may be important because some disease-causing alleles occur more often in people from specific geographic regions. New findings show that each human has on average 60 new mutations compared to their parents.Apart from mutations, many genes that may have aided humans in ancient times plague humans today. For example, it is suspected that genes that allow humans to more efficiently process food are those that make people susceptible to obesity and diabetes today.
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