Selected articles from Belyaev Conference 2017: genetics

Genetics at Belyaev Conference – 2017: introductory note

Authors: Yuriy L. Orlov, Ancha V. Baranova, Tatiana V. Tatarinova and Nikolay A. Kolchanov

Between Lake Baikal and the Baltic Sea: genomic history of the gateway to Europe

The history of human populations occupying the plains and mountain ridges separating Europe from Asia has been eventful, as these natural obstacles were crossed westward by multiple waves of Turkic and Uralic-...

Authors: Petr Triska, Nikolay Chekanov, Vadim Stepanov, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Ganesh Prasad Arun Kumar, Vita Akhmetova, Konstantin Babalyan, Eugenia Boulygina, Vladimir Kharkov, Marina Gubina, Irina Khidiyatova, Irina Khitrinskaya, Ekaterina E. Khrameeva, Rita Khusainova, Natalia Konovalova, Sergey Litvinov…

Application of geographic population structure (GPS) algorithm for biogeographical analyses of populations with complex ancestries: a case study of South Asians from 1000 genomes project

The utilization of biological data to infer the geographic origins of human populations has been a long standing quest for biologists and anthropologists. Several biogeographical analysis tools have been devel...

Authors: Ranajit Das and Priyanka Upadhyai

A compendium and functional characterization of mammalian genes involved in adaptation to Arctic or Antarctic environments

Many mammals are well adapted to surviving in extremely cold environments. These species have likely accumulated genetic changes that help them efficiently cope with low temperatures. It is not known whether t...

Authors: Nikolay S. Yudin, Denis M. Larkin and Elena V. Ignatieva

Upregulation of NETO2 gene in colorectal cancer

Neuropilin and tolloid-like 2 (NETO2) is a single-pass transmembrane protein that has been shown primarily implicated in neuron-specific processes. Upregulation of NETO2 gene was also detected in several cancer t...

Authors: Maria S. Fedorova, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Elena A. Pudova, Ivan S. Abramov, Anastasiya V. Lipatova, Sergey L. Kharitonov, Asiya F. Sadritdinova, Kirill M. Nyushko, Kseniya M. Klimina, Mikhail M. Belyakov, Elena N. Slavnova, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Maria A. Chernichenko, Dmitry V. Sidorov, Marina V. Kiseleva, Andrey D. Kaprin…

Generation of megabase-scale deletions, inversions and duplications involving the Contactin-6 gene in mice by CRISPR/Cas9 technology

Copy Number Variation (CNV) of the human CNTN6 gene (encoding the contactin-6 protein), caused by deletions or duplications, is responsible for severe neurodevelopmental impairments, often in combination with fac...

Authors: Alexei N. Korablev, Irina A. Serova and Oleg L. Serov

DEP1 gene in wheat species with normal, compactoid and compact spikes

In rice, a variant of DEP1 gene results in erect panicle architecture, well-developed vascular bundles, an increase in the number of grains per panicle and a consequent increase in the grain yield. Interestingly,...

Authors: Valeriya Vavilova, Irina Konopatskaia, Anastasia E. Kuznetsova, Alexandr Blinov and Nikolay P. Goncharov