metabolism

Pharmacogenomics

“The gene, cell, tissue, organ, organ-system pathway is a neuroscientifically established link between sensory input and behavior. Marts and Resnick (2007) stress the importance of this pathway in the context of a systems biology approach to pharmacogenomics.” (Kohl, 2012) “Naftolin (1981) stressed its importance to the understanding of sex differences. This pathway is sensitive to Pharmacogenomics

A model of MHC 'evolution'

Sexual selection and the evolutionary dynamics of the major histocompatibility complex Excerpt: “Here, we present the results of the first model of MHC evolution incorporating both survival and reproduction, modelling the combined effects of natural selection and MHC-based disassortative mating on patterns of MHC allelic diversity.” My comment: Results from their first mathematical model can A model of MHC 'evolution'

ALPHA GENOMIX

ALPHA GENOMIX LABORATORIES INC Alpha genomics (for those unfamiliar with their spelling) Re: On this team, Dr. Hani El Shawa, is also first author of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure Disrupts Intraneocortical Circuitry, Cortical Gene Expression, and Behavior in a Mouse Model of FASD. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27 November 2013, 33(48): 18893-18905. Excerpt: “Changes in gene ALPHA GENOMIX

Nutrient-dependent gene duplication in plants (but not animals?)

Divergence of Gene Body DNA Methylation and Evolution of Plant Duplicate Genes Excerpt 1) “A recent study demonstrated that the DNA methylation in promoter may play a significant role for functional divergence of duplicated genes in human [48].” Excerpt 1 from the cited work [48]: “For 73% of gene pairs, one copy is always hypomethylated Nutrient-dependent gene duplication in plants (but not animals?)

Different physical locations and different molecular mechanisms of health and disease

Reappraisal of known malaria resistance loci in a large multicenter study Abstract excerpt: “The finding that G6PD deficiency has opposing effects on different fatal complications of P. falciparum infection indicates that the evolutionary origins of this common human genetic disorder are more complex than previously supposed.” Reported as: Long term genetic study finds geographical differences Different physical locations and different molecular mechanisms of health and disease

Metabolism, fixation, health or neurodegerative disorder

“Shown is the location of the conserved regions encoding for the N-terminal chromo domain and the C-terminal MYST functional domain. An arrow denotes the position site of amino acid substitution E431Q.” Microarray Analysis Uncovers a Role for Tip60 in Nervous System Function and General Metabolism My comment: The article links a nutrient-dependent amino acid substitution Metabolism, fixation, health or neurodegerative disorder

Epigenetically-effected metabolic shifts and ecological adaptations

Epigenetics of Trained Innate Immunity: Documenting the epigenetic landscape of human innate immune cells reveals pathways essential for training macrophages. By Ruth Williams | September 25, 2014 [open access] Excerpt: “…they then analyzed genome-wide distributions of four epigenetic indicators of gene activity: DNAse hypersensitivity and three different histone modifications—trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 4, Epigenetically-effected metabolic shifts and ecological adaptations