In this article, we proposed the methodology of analyzing the distribution of gene functional properties in the context of statistical epistasis networks. The gene interaction network was constructed by first identifying the network of strong and significant pairwise SNP epistatic interactions and then building gene network on top of the SNP interaction network. After annotating genes as vertices based on their functional Gene Ontology, dyadicity and heterophilicity analysis was performed for each GO term to investigate to what degree the vertex characteristics correlate with the underlying interaction network topology. Using a population-based bladder cancer dataset and its previously identified SNP statistical epistasis network, we performed the dyadicity and heterophilicity analysis on enriched GO terms for the genes in the gene interaction network associated with bladder cancer. We were able to find 12 GO categories with significant dyadicity or heterophilicity, which indicated the ...

The interaction between gene loci, namely epistasis, is a widespread biological genetic phenomenon. In genome-wide association studies(GWAS), epistasis detection of complex diseases is a major challenge. Although many approaches using statistics, machine learning, and information entropy were proposed for epistasis detection, the privacy preserving for single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP) data has been largely ignored. Thus, this paper proposes a novel two-stage approach. A fusion strategy assists in combining and sorting the SNPs importance scores obtained by the relief and mutual information, thereby obtaining a candidate set of SNPs. This avoids missing some SNPs with strong interaction. Furthermore, differentially private decision tree is applied to search for SNPs. This achieves the efficient epistasis detection of complex diseases on the basis of privacy preserving compared with heuristic methods. The recognition rate on simulation data set is more than 90%. Also, several susceptible loci including

Our results indicate that epistasis can still facilitate adaptive divergence at longer timescales, even if epistasis is negative. Furthermore, our results indicate a counterintuitive principle that even strong negative epistasis can facilitate diversification on an intermediate timescale, because after a diversification event, one lineage accumulates positive additive effects and the other lineage accumulates negative additive effects, and in combination with a strong negative correlation between additive and epistatic effects, one of these lineages is actually likely to generate a descendant lineage that occupies the niche space between the two lineages. Although strong negative epistasis facilitates diversification, the lineages generated are not very stable and tend to merge. Furthermore, after 10 000 generations, and once dynamics stabilize, a population with a strongly negative epistatic architecture has lower diversity than a weaker negative epistatic architecture.. An important ...

We present a new parameterization of physiological epistasis that allows the measurement of epistasis separate from its effects on the interaction (epistatic) genetic variance component. Epistasis is the deviation of two-locus genotypic values from the sum of the contributing single-locus genotypic values. This parameterization leads to statistical tests for epistasis given estimates of two-locus genotypic values such as can be obtained from quantitative trait locus studies. The contributions of epistasis to the additive, dominance and interaction genetic variances are specified. Epistasis can make substantial contributions to each of these variance components. This parameterization of epistasis allows general consideration of the role of epistasis in evolution by defining its contribution to the additive genetic variance. ...

In evolutionary genetics, the sign of epistasis is usually more significant than the magnitude of epistasis. This is because magnitude epistasis (positive and negative) simply affects how beneficial mutations are together, however sign epistasis affects whether mutation combinations are beneficial or deleterious.[33] A fitness landscape is a representation of the fitness where all genotypes are arranged in 2D space and the fitness of each genotype is represented by height on a surface. It is frequently used as a visual metaphor for understanding evolution as the process of moving uphill from one genotype to the next, nearby, fitter genotype.[15] If all mutations are additive, they can be acquired in any order and still give a continuous uphill trajectory. The landscape is perfectly smooth, with only one peak (global maximum) and all sequences can evolve uphill to it by the accumulation of beneficial mutations in any order. Conversely, if mutations interact with one another by epistasis, the ...

Epistasis:. 1. Epistasis refers to interaction of two or more genes. Thus it involves two or more loci. 2. Epistasis may involve both homo and heterozygotes. Hence it is fixable in homozygotes. 3. Epistasis is of several types such as dominant, recessive, duplicate, etc. 4. Epistasis modifies the normal dihybrid phenotypic ratios in F2. 5. Epistasis is also known as inter genie or inter-locus gene interaction. 6. Recessive gene can also exhibit masking effect. Dominance: ...

QUANTITATIVE traits are affected by many genes that act singly and in interaction with each other. Epistasis, the interaction between genes at different loci, may exert important effects on (1) the dynamic of evolving populations (Cheverud and Routman 1996), (2) changes of genetic variances caused by long-term selection (Carlborg et al. 2006) or by a population bottleneck (Goodnight 1987), and (3) heterosis (Doebley et al. 1995; Yu et al. 1997; Li et al. 2001; Xing et al. 2002; Hua et al. 2003; Mei et al. 2003; Syed and Chen 2005; Kusterer et al. 2007; Melchinger et al. 2007a).. To detect epistatic quantitative trait loci (QTL) in conventional mapping studies with segregating populations such as recombinant inbred lines (RILs), methods have been applied to search multiple QTL simultaneously (for review see Carlborg and Haley 2004). Such multidimensional scans are hampered by the problem of multiple tests, which increases for digenic epistasis in a quadratic manner compared to tests for presence ...

It is well established that gene interactions influence common human diseases, but to date linkage studies have been constrained to searching for single genes across the genome. We applied a novel approach to uncover significant gene-gene interactions in a systematic two-dimensional (2D) genome-scan of essential hypertension. The study cohort comprised 2076 affected sib-pairs and 66 affected half-sib-pairs of the British Genetics of HyperTension study. Extensive simulations were used to establish significance thresholds in the context of 2D genome-scans. Our analyses found significant and suggestive evidence for loci on chromosomes 5, 9, 11, 15, 16 and 19, which influence hypertension when gene-gene interactions are taken into account (5q13.1 and 11q22.1, two-locus lod score=5.72; 5q13.1 and 19q12, two-locus lod score=5.35; 9q22.3 and 15q12, two-locus lod score=4.80; 16p12.3 and 16q23.1, two-locus lod score=4.50). For each significant and suggestive pairwise interaction, the two-locus genetic ...

Background: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is an important indicator of future coronary artery disease events. Since elevated blood pressure (BP) is an important predictor of CAC, genetic polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin system and their interaction may play a role in explaining CAC quantity variation. Material/Methods: As part of the Epidemiology of Coronary Artery Calcification Study, 166 asymptomatic women and 166 asymptomatic men were genotyped for the insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene and the -6 promoter polymorphism of the angiotensinogen (AGT) gene. We used a novel method to detect gene-gene interaction and compared it to the standard two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) method. Results: Based on a two-way ANOVA model, there was no evidence for epistasis for either systolic BP or CAC in either men or women. However, using a novel method, we found evidence of significant gene-gene interaction in systolic BP in men and gene-gene ...

Tobacco consumption has been implicated as the most relevant risk factor for the development of bladder cancer. Among various carcinogens identified in tobacco smoke, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are well characterized and their risk associations with bladder cancer are well studied [1-4]. In addition to these strong environmental risk factors, recent genome-wide association studies have identified several highly significant genetic factors with small effects [5, 6]. Some of these have been shown to modify the effects of smoking on risk of bladder cancer [7].. Most existing genetic association studies have focused on the independent effects of individual genes. That is, they have by design ignored the context of human ecology and the extensive variability in the human genome. As a result, much of the heritability of common human diseases such as bladder cancer remains unexplained. Multiple approaches have been proposed to account for this missing heritability including sequencing ...

How to catch epistasis: theory and practice Elena S. Gusareva, PhD [email protected] (1) Systems and Modeling Unit, Montefiore Institute (2) Bioinformatics and Modeling, GIGA-R Université de Liège Belgium Outline  Epistasis: gene interaction and phenotype effects  Protocol for genome-wide association interaction analysis (GWAI) Data collection Quality control Choosing a strategy for GWAI (exhaustive and selective epistasis screening) Tests of association Interpretation and follow-up (replication analysis and validation)  GWAI screening: an example on Alzheimer disease Missing heritability Monogenic disease - Phenylketonuria (Phenylalanine hydroxylase - PAH gene) mutation Single Linkage analysis Ph: disease gene Complex disease - Crohns disease (99 disease susseptibility loci ~ 25% of heritability of CD) Gene 1 Gene2 Environmental factor 1…n Gene …n Gender Age missing heritability !!! GWA analysis Ph: disease Biological epistasis William Bateson, 1909 - compositional epistasis ...

The difficulty in elucidating the genetic basis of complex diseases roots in the many factors that can affect the development of a disease. Some of these genetic effects may interact in complex ways, proving undetectable by current single-locus methodology. We have developed an analysis tool called Hypothesis Free Clinical Cloning (HFCC) to search for genome-wide epistasis in a case-control design. HFCC combines a relatively fast computing algorithm for genome-wide epistasis detection, with the flexibility to test a variety of different epistatic models in multi-locus combinations. HFCC has good power to detect multi-locus interactions simulated under a variety of genetic models and noise conditions. Most importantly, HFCC can accomplish exhaustive genome-wide epistasis search with large datasets as demonstrated with a 400,000 SNP set typed on a cohort of Parkinsons disease patients and controls. With the current availability of genetic studies with large numbers of individuals and genetic markers,

Epistasis typically applies to a certain allele, or version, of a gene. Epistasis depends on how the protein allele codes for actually functions. In our analogy, epistasis depends on what the workers do in our process.. Now well add epistasis to our example. Lets say a version (or allele) of a is broken so that it contains no instructions. Worker A wouldnt be able to put paint into the tray, and we would end up with a blank poster-even though workers B and C are still doing their jobs.. This broken version of a is epistatic to b and c: the final product (a blank poster) shows no evidence of what B and C have been told to do. We cant tell if Bs instructions said to add red or blue, or if Cs said to draw a circle or a square.. The important aspect of epistasis is that it doesnt just influence the phenotype, it hides the output of another gene or genes.. Now lets imagine that a is working, but c is broken. This version, or allele, of c is epistatic to a and b: the output shows no evidence ...

There is a new paper in PLoS Genetics by Clayton that highlights the challenges of making biological inferences from statistical models of interaction. I was surprised to see our 2006 paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology cited as an example of confusing mathematical and biological interaction. Clayton interpreted our paper as saying that we can make causal statements from statistical models. Quite to the contrary, we highlight in our paper the enormous challenges faced when trying to make inferences about the biology happening at the cellular level from a statistical model summarizing population-level data. He also misinterpreted our use of information theory in this paper. We very clearly state in this paper and many others that entropy measures are useful for statistical interpretation. We never say anywhere that this is any type of biological interpretation. Clayton should have read and cited our 2005 BioEssays paper that goes through the difference between biological and statistical ...

Plants use diverse mechanisms influenced by vast regulatory networks of indefinite scale to adapt to their environment. These regulatory networks have an unknown potential for epistasis between genes within and across networks. To test for epistasis within an adaptive trait genetic network, we generated and tested 47 Arabidopsis thaliana double mutant combinations for 20 transcription factors, which all influence the accumulation of aliphatic glucosinolates, the defense metabolites that control fitness. The epistatic combinations were used to test if there is more or less epistasis depending on gene membership within the same or different phenotypic subnetworks. Extensive epistasis was observed between the transcription factors, regardless of subnetwork membership. Metabolite accumulation displayed antagonistic epistasis, suggesting the presence of a buffering mechanism. Epistasis affecting enzymatic estimated activity was highly conditional on the tissue and environment and shifted between both ...

Plants use diverse mechanisms influenced by vast regulatory networks of indefinite scale to adapt to their environment. These regulatory networks have an unknown potential for epistasis between genes within and across networks. To test for epistasis within an adaptive trait genetic network, we generated and tested 47 Arabidopsis thaliana double mutant combinations for 20 transcription factors, which all influence the accumulation of aliphatic glucosinolates, the defense metabolites that control fitness. The epistatic combinations were used to test if there is more or less epistasis depending on gene membership within the same or different phenotypic sub-networks. Extensive epistasis was observed between the transcription factors, regardless of sub-network membership. Metabolite accumulation displayed antagonistic epistasis, suggesting the presence of a buffering mechanism. Epistasis affecting enzymatic estimated activity was highly conditional on the tissue and environment and shifted between ...

If synergistic epistasis occurs, each mutation added to a genome has a greater deleterious effect than preceding mutations. Without this effect it is difficult to explain how small populations can survive in the face of genetic drift, or how larger populations can survive a high mutation rate. In the 27 July Nature Peck and Waxman use a mathematical model to deduce that competition in small groups does, indeed, lead to synergistic epistasis (Nature 2000, 406:399-404). This competition also produ. 0 Comments. ...

Although research effort is being expended into determining the importance of epistasis and epistatic variance for complex traits, there is considerable controversy about their importance. Here we undertake an analysis for quantitative traits utilizing a range of multilocus quantitative genetic models and gene frequency distributions, focusing on the potential magnitude of the epistatic variance. All the epistatic terms involving a particular locus appear in its average effect, with the number of two-locus interaction terms increasing in proportion to the square of the number of loci and that of third order as the cube and so on. Hence multilocus epistasis makes substantial contributions to the additive variance and does not, per se, lead to large increases in the nonadditive part of the genotypic variance. Even though this proportion can be high where epistasis is antagonistic to direct effects, it reduces with multiple loci. As the magnitude of the epistatic variance depends critically on the ...

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Epistasis is a progressive approach that complements the common disease, common variant hypothesis that highlights the potential for connected networks of genetic variants collaborating to produce a phenotypic expression. Epistasis is commonly performed as a pairwise or limitless-arity capacity that considers variant networks as either variant vs variant or as high order interactions. This type of analysis extends the number of tests that were previously performed in a standard approach such as Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS), in which False Discovery Rate (FDR) is already an issue, therefore by multiplying the number of tests up to a factorial rate also increases the issue of FDR. Further to this, epistasis introduces its own limitations of computational complexity and intensity that are generated based on the analysis performed; to consider the most intense approach, a multivariate analysis introduces a time complexity of O(n!). Proposed in this paper is a novel methodology for the ...

Dynamic epistasis for different alleles of the same gene Lin Xu, Brandon Barker, Zhenglong Gu (Submitted on 24 Nov 2014) Epistasis refers to the phenomenon in which phenotypic consequences caused by mutation of one gene depend on one or more mutations at another gene. Epistasis is critical for understanding many genetic and evolutionary processes, including…

Epistasis is the sensation whereby a single polymorphisms influence on a characteristic depends upon other polymorphisms within the genome. Right here we present that, using advanced computation10 and a gene appearance study style, many cases of epistasis are located between common one nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Within a cohort of 846 people 1062169-56-5 manufacture with 7339 gene appearance levels assessed in peripheral bloodstream, we discovered 501 significant pairwise connections between common SNPs influencing the appearance of 238 genes (< 2.91 10?16). Replication of the connections in two indie data pieces11,12 demonstrated both concordance of path of epistatic results (= 5.56 10?31) 1062169-56-5 manufacture and enrichment of relationship < 0.05/501. Forty-four from the hereditary connections can be found within 2Mb of parts of known physical chromosome connections13 (= 1.8 10?10). Epistatic systems of three SNPs or even more impact the appearance degrees of 129 genes, whereby one ...

Abstract: Gene-gene interactions shape complex phenotypes and modify the effects of mutations during development and disease. The effects of statistical gene-gene interactions on phenotypes have been used to assign genes to functional modules. However, directional, epistatic interactions, which reflect regulatory relationships between genes, have been challenging to map at large-scale. Here, we used combinatorial RNA interference and automated single-cell phenotyping to generate a large genetic interaction map for 21 phenotypic features of Drosophila cells. We devised a method that combines genetic interactions on multiple phenotypes to reveal directional relationships. This network reconstructed the sequence of protein activities in mitosis. Moreover, it revealed that the Ras pathway interacts with the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complex, an interaction that we show is conserved in human cancer cells. Our study presents a powerful approach for reconstructing directional regulatory networks ...

The epistatic interaction of alleles at the VRN-H1 and VRN-H2 loci determines vernalization sensitivity in barley. To validate the current molecular model for the two-locus epistasis, we crossed homozygous vernalization-insensitive plants harboring a predicted winter type allele at either VRN-H1 ( …

Are Genetic Interactions Influencing Gene Expression Evidence for Biological Epistasis or Statistical Artifacts? Alexandra Fish, John A. Capra, William S Bush doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/020479 Interactions between genetic variants, also called epistasis, are pervasive in model organisms; however, their importance in humans remains unclear because statistical interactions in observational studies can be explained by processes other than…

Antibiotic resistance often evolves by mutations at conserved sites in essential genes, resulting in parallel molecular evolution between divergent bacterial strains and species. Whether these resistance mutations are having parallel effects on fitness across bacterial taxa, however, is unclear. This is an important point to address, because the fitness effects of resistance mutations play a key role in the spread and maintenance of resistance in pathogen populations. We address this idea by measuring the fitness effect of a collection of rifampicin resistance mutations in the β subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) across eight strains that span the diversity of the genus Pseudomonas We find that almost 50% of rpoB mutations have background-dependent fitness costs, demonstrating that epistatic interactions between rpoB and the rest of the genome are common. Moreover, epistasis is typically strong, and it is the dominant genetic determinant of the cost of resistance mutations. To investigate the functional

The toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88)-dependent signaling pathway plays a role in the initiation and progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). We investigated SNP-SNP interactions between the TLR4 and MyD88 genes in CAD susceptibility and assessed whether the effects of such interactions were modified by confounding risk factors (hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection). Participants with CAD (n = 424) and controls (n = 424) without CAD were enrolled. Polymerase chain restriction-restriction fragment length polymorphism was performed on genomic DNA to detect polymorphisms in TLR4 (rs10116253, rs10983755, and rs11536889) and MyD88 (rs7744). H. pylori infections were evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, and the cardiovascular risk factors for each subject were evaluated clinically. The significant interaction between TLR4 rs11536889 and MyD88 rs7744 was associated with an increased CAD risk (p value for interaction = 0

Author Summary Epistasis describes non-additive interactions among genetic sites: the consequence of a mutation at one site may depend on the status of the genome at other sites. In an extreme case, a mutation may have no effect if it arises on one genetic background, but a strong effect on another background. Epistatic mutations in viruses and bacteria that live under severe conditions, such as antibiotic treatments or immune pressure, often allow pathogens to develop drug resistance or escape the immune system. In this paper we develop a new phylogenetic method for detecting epistasis, and we apply this method to the surface proteins of the influenza A virus, which are important targets of the immune system and drug treatments. The authors identify and characterize hundreds of epistatic mutations in these proteins. Among those identified, we find the specific epistatic mutations that were recently shown, experimentally, to confer resistance to the drug Tamiflu. The results of this study may help to

TY - JOUR. T1 - Epistasis analysis uncovers hidden antibiotic resistance-associated fitness costs hampering the evolution of MRSA. AU - Yokoyama, Maho. AU - Stevens, Emily. AU - Laabei, Maisem. AU - Bacon, Leann. AU - Heesom, Kate. AU - Bayliss, Sion. AU - Ooi, Nicola. AU - ONeill, Alex J.. AU - Murray, Ewan. AU - Williams, Paul. AU - Lubben, Anneke. AU - Reeksting, Shaun. AU - Meric, Guillaume. AU - Pascoe, Ben. AU - Sheppard, Samuel K.. AU - Recker, Mario. AU - Hurst, Laurence D.. AU - Massey, Ruth C.. PY - 2018/7/18. Y1 - 2018/7/18. N2 - Background: Fitness costs imposed on bacteria by antibiotic resistance mechanisms are believed to hamper their dissemination. The scale of these costs is highly variable. Some, including resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to the clinically important antibiotic mupirocin, have been reported as being cost-free, which suggests that there are few barriers preventing their global spread. However, this is not supported by surveillance data in healthy communities, ...

Selfish genetic elements and coevolved suppressors are often invoked as sources of hybrid incompatibility [9,16,48], but direct evidence for a specific role of genomic conflict in the evolution of BDM incompatibilities is rare. Cryptic CMS in plants, where mismatch between organellar and nuclear genes results in hybrid male sterility, epitomizes this gap. Despite abundant evidence that cryptic CMS is common [21,23,24] and robust theory that it should evolve selfishly [28], the links between pattern and process have been circumstantial to date [31]. Here, we present, to our knowledge, the first direct evidence that mitochondrial CMS loci and associated nuclear restorers have evolved under the positive selection predicted by the conflict model. Our findings strongly point to selfish evolution/coevolution within one parental species, rather than negative epistasis limited only to hybrids, as the source of cytonuclear incompatibilites in crosses between hermaphroditic plant ...

Background: Geneticists who look beyond single locus disease associations require additional strategies for the detection of complex multi-locus effects. Epistasis, a multi-locus masking effect, presents a particular challenge, and has been the target of bioinformatic development. Thorough evaluation of new algorithms calls for simulation studies in which known disease models are sought. To date, the best methods for generating simulated multi-locus epistatic models rely on genetic algorithms. However, such methods are computationally expensive, difficult to adapt to multiple objectives, and unlikely to yield models with a precise form of epistasis which we refer to as pure and strict. Purely and strictly epistatic models constitute the worst-case in terms of detecting disease associations, since such associations may only be observed if all n-loci are included in the disease model. This makes them an attractive gold standard for simulation studies considering complex multi-locus ...

Background: The statistical genetics phenomenon of epistasis is widely acknowledged to confound disease etiology. In order to evaluate strategies for detecting these complex multi-locus disease associations, simulation studies are required. The development of the GAMETES software for the generation of complex genetic models, has provided the means to randomly generate an architecturally diverse population of epistatic models that are both pure and strict, i.e. all n loci, but no fewer, are predictive of phenotype. Previous theoretical work characterizing complex genetic models has yet to examine pure, strict, epistasis which should be the most challenging to detect. This study addresses three goals: (1) Classify and characterize pure, strict, two-locus epistatic models, (2) Investigate the effect of model architecture on detection difficulty, and (3) Explore how adjusting GAMETES constraints influences diversity in the generated models.. Results: In this study we utilized a geometric approach ...

In this study the genetic basis of inheritance of important agronomic traits of maize was examined using different biometric methods. Field trials were conducted during two years 2011 and 2012 on three locations: Zemun Polje, Pančevo and Bečej. Six inbred lines were crossed with each other without reciprocal combination giving 15 hybrids that were used as material for the application of diallel analysis. Most of the lines exhibited highly significant GCA and SCA values for the examined traits which made it possible to identify the lines that could be used as sources of desirable alleles. Inbred line ZPL6 showed to be a good combiner for most of the studied traits. The GCA / SCA ratio pointed at the greater importance of genes with dominant and epistatic effect on the inheritance of grain yield, plant and ear height, while for the ear length, kernel row number and leaf number, genes with additive effects were of greater importance. The analysis of genetic variance indicated a greater ...

View Notes - supplementary from BIO 390 at McMaster University. BIO 390 - GENETICS FROM GENE TO PHENOTYPE DOMINANCE, EPISTASIS, GENE INTERACTION O VERVIEW - Genetic and environmental contributions

Sohail M, Vakhrusheva OA, Sul JH, Pulit SL, Francioli LC; Genome of the Netherlands Consortium; Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, van den Berg LH, Veldink JH, de Bakker PIW, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS, Sunyaev SR. Negative selection in humans and fruit flies involves synergistic epistasis.\\ Science 356(6337):​539-542 (2017). PubMed [[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pubmed/​28473589,PMID:​28473589 ...

Even if both genes have mutants with the same phenotype, there may be other mutations that enable pathway ordering via epistasis analysis. Specifically, if you can find a mutation that causes a gain of function - for example, by constitutively activating a gene product that normally requires activation. Consider the genes that specify the fates of cells at the termini of the Drosophila embryo so that they are distinct from those in the central region of the embryo. A ligand present only at the termini activates a receptor tyrosine kinase, encoded by the torso gene (Figure 4). The activated kinase initiates a signal transduction cascade that ultimately activates transcription of the tailless gene in the termini. The tailless gene encodes a transcriptional regulator that directs terminal-cell fates and represses central-cell fates in the termini. Thus, loss-of-function mutations in torso (torso lof ) and tailless (tailless lof ) have very similar phenotypes: the cells at the termini adopt central ...

EPISTASIS. Dr. S. Ramgopal Rao. Epistatic Gene Interactions. Gene interactions occur when two or more different genes influence the outcome of a single trait Most morphological traits (height, weight, color) are affected by multiple genes Slideshow 4764171 by hazina

Gene-Gene interaction: Comparison between the number of interacting locus/loci and the odds ratio (relative risk) pertaining to each SNP combination.Testing A

Extending genome wide association analysis by the inclusion of gene expression data may assist in the dissection of complex traits. We examined piebald, a...

Collins SR, Miller KM, Maas NL, Roguev A, Fillingham J, Chu CS, Schuldiner M, Gebbia M, Recht J, Shales M, Ding H, Xu H, Han J, Ingvarsdottir K, Cheng B, Andrews B, Boone C, Berger SL, Hieter P, Zhang Z, Brown GW, Ingles CJ, Emili A, Allis CD, Toczyski DP, Weissman JS, Greenblatt JF, Krogan NJ. Functional dissection of protein complexes involved in yeast chromosome biology using a genetic interaction map. Nature. 2007 Apr 12; 446(7137):806-10. Epub 2007 Feb 21 ...

Questions and answers on biology exam preparations. MCQs or objective questions are based on Epistasis, polytene chromosomes, number of chromosomes in plasmodium etc.

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Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR) Analysis to Detect Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with a Carcass Trait in a Hanwoo Population - Multifactor-dimensionality Reduction (MDR);SNP;Hanwoo;Association Study;

Genetic architecture reflects the pattern of effects and interaction of genes underlying phenotypic variation. Most mapping and breeding approaches generally consider the additive part of variation but offer limited knowledge on the benefits of epistasis which explains in part the variation observed in traits. In this study, the cowpea multiparent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) population was used to characterize the epistatic genetic architecture of flowering time, maturity, and seed size. In addition, consideration for epistatic genetic architecture in genomic-enabled breeding (GEB) was investigated using parametric, semi-parametric, and non-parametric genomic selection (GS) models. Our results showed that large and moderate effect-sized two-way epistatic interactions underlie the traits examined. Flowering time QTL colocalized with cowpea putative orthologs of Arabidopsis thaliana and Glycine max genes like PHYTOCLOCK1 (PCL1 [Vigun11g157600]) and PHYTOCHROME A (PHY A [Vigun01g205500]).

Mining epistatic loci which affects specific phenotypic traits is an important research issue in the field of biology. Bayesian network (BN) is a graphical model which can express the relationship between genetic loci and phenotype. Until now, it has been widely used into epistasis mining in many research work. However, this method has two disadvantages: low learning efficiency and easy to fall into local optimum. Genetic algorithm has the excellence of rapid global search and avoiding falling into local optimum. It is scalable and easy to integrate with other algorithms. This work proposes an epistasis mining approach based on genetic tabu algorithm and Bayesian network (Epi-GTBN). It uses genetic algorithm into the heuristic search strategy of Bayesian network. The individual structure can be evolved through the genetic operations of selection, crossover and mutation. It can help to find the optimal network structure, and then further to mine the epistasis loci effectively. In order to enhance the

Epistasis arising from physiological interactions between gene products often contributes to species differences, particularly those involved in reproductive isolation. In social organisms, phenotypes are influenced by the genotypes of multiple interacting individuals. In theory, social interactions can give rise to an additional type of epistasis between the genomes of social partners that can contribute to species differences. Using a full-factorial cross-fostering design with three species of closely related Temnothorax ants, I found that adult worker size was determined by an interaction between the genotypes of developing brood and care-giving workers, i.e. intergenomic epistasis. Such intergenomic social epistasis provides a strong signature of coevolution between social partners. These results demonstrate that just as physiologically interacting genes coevolve, diverge, and contribute to species differences, so do socially interacting genes. Coevolution and conflict between social partners,

TY - JOUR. T1 - Investigation of potential gene-gene interactions between APOE and RELN contributing to autism risk. AU - Ashley-Koch, Allison E.. AU - Jaworski, James. AU - Ma, De Qiong. AU - Mei, Hao. AU - Ritchie, Marylyn D.. AU - Skaar, David A.. AU - Robert Delong, G.. AU - Worley, Gordon. AU - Abramson, Ruth K.. AU - Wright, Harry H.. AU - Cuccaro, Michael L.. AU - Gilbert, John R.. AU - Martin, Eden R.. AU - Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.. PY - 2007/8/1. Y1 - 2007/8/1. N2 - BACKGROUND: Several candidate gene studies support RELN as susceptibility gene for autism. Given the complex inheritance pattern of autism, it is expected that gene-gene interactions will exist. A logical starting point for examining potential gene-gene interactions is to evaluate the joint effects of genes involved in a common biological pathway. RELN shares a common biological pathway with APOE, and Persico et al. have observed transmission distortion of the APOE-2 allele in autism families. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated RELN ...

To understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of cancer and therefore to improve pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, it is necessary to explore the activities of cancer-related genes and the interactions among these genes. In this dissertation, I use machine learning and computational methods to identify differential gene relations and detect gene-gene interactions. To identify gene pairs that have different relationships in normal versus cancer tissues, I develop an integrative method based on the bootstrapping K-S test to evaluate a large number of microarray datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that my method can find meaningful alterations in gene relations. For gene-gene interaction detection, I propose to use two Bayesian Network based methods: DASSO-MB (Detection of ASSOciations using Markov Blanket) and EpiBN (Epistatic interaction detection using Bayesian Network model) to address the two critical challenges: searching and scoring. DASSO-MB is ...

To the Editor:. These are exciting times for the genetic investigation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), characterized by the discovery of many reproducibly associated loci1. Further progress will require research in many different directions, including investigation of how the effects of each locus integrate between them and with environmental exposures to cause SLE. We read with interest the report by Hellquist, et al2 that showed evidence of significant epistatic interaction between 2 SLE-associated loci, IRF5 and TYK2. The first is a definitively confirmed SLE susceptibility locus with one of the strongest, albeit complex, effects. The latter has been more contentious, but its association with SLE is becoming clearer2,3. Epistasis means that risk in subjects with susceptibility alleles at the 2 loci significantly exceeds the sum of the risks at each locus. This was rightly interpreted to mean that the 2 loci impinge in the type 1 interferon pathway2, which is an important insight ...

A four-stage approach was used to analyse epistasis based on the pre-corrected phenotypes where SNP genotypes were fitted as fixed factors: 1) single SNP regression to identify qSNPs (see above); 2) detect qSNP × qSNP pairs [9]; 3) detect qSNP × non-qSNP pairs; 4) detect non-qSNP × non-qSNP pairs. Nested tests were used to identify significant epistatic pairs; the first test compares the full model (y = μ+SNP1+SNP2+SNP1 *SNP2+e) with the NULL model (y = μ+e); the second test compares the full model with the two-SNP model (y = μ+SNP1+SNP2+e) (i.e. epistasis test). Only pairs that were significant for the first test enter the epistasis test. When either SNP1 or SNP2 is a qSNP, the first test is changed to ensure the full model is better than the single SNP model (y = μ+qSNP +e) before the epistasis test. When both SNP1 and SNP2 are qSNPs, only the epistasis test is needed. To avoid spurious interactions between closely located SNPs an arbitrary minimum distance of 10 cM was applied to any ...

BACKGROUND: Neuregulin1 (NRG1)-ErbB signaling has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer and schizophrenia. We have previously reported that NRG1-stimulated migration of B lymphoblasts is PI3K-AKT1dependent and impaired in patients with schizophrenia and significantly linked to the catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) Val108/158Met functional polymorphism. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We have now examined AKT1 activation in NRG1-stimulated B lymphoblasts and other cell models and explored a functional relationship between COMT and AKT1. NRG1-induced AKT1 phosphorylation was significantly diminished in Val carriers compared to Met carriers in both normal subjects and in patients. Further, there was a significant epistatic interaction between a putatively functional coding SNP in AKT1 (rs1130233) and COMT Val108/158Met genotype on AKT1 phosphorylation. NRG1 induced translocation of AKT1 to the plasma membrane also was impaired in Val carriers, while PIP(3) levels were not decreased. Interestingly

The most noticeable finding of the present study based on a highly heterotic cross is the prevalence and importance of epistasis in the rice genome with two pronounced features. First, two-locus analyses resolved much larger numbers of loci contributing to trait expression than single-locus analyses. For example, counting only the interactions simultaneously detected in both years for grain number per panicle, the significant two-locus interactions involved a total of 25 loci located on 9 of the 12 rice chromosomes, compared with 5 and 7 QTLs detected in the two years for this trait. As a second feature, all three types of interactions (AA, AD, and DD) occurred among the various two-locus combinations. It is even more remarkable that multiple interaction terms were found in a considerable proportion of the interacting two-locus combinations in all traits examined (Tables 4 and 5).. Overdominance at the single-locus level was detected at many of the QTLs. More QTLs showed overdominance for yield ...

BACKGROUND: Fitness epistasis, the interaction effect of genes at different loci on fitness, makes an important contribution to adaptive evolution. Although fitness interaction evidence has been observed in model organisms, it is more difficult to detect and remains poorly understood in human populations as a result of limited statistical power and experimental constraints. Fitness epistasis is inferred from non-independence between unlinked loci. We previously observed ancestral block correlation between chromosomes 4 and 6 in African Americans. The same approach fails when examining ancestral blocks on the same chromosome due to the strong confounding effect observed in a recently admixed population. RESULTS: We developed a novel approach to eliminate the bias caused by admixture linkage disequilibrium when searching for fitness epistasis on the same chromosome. We applied this approach in 16,252 unrelated African Americans and identified significant ancestral correlations in two pairs of ...

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It is becoming increasingly evident that single-locus effects cannot explain complex multifactorial human diseases like cancer. We applied the multi-factor dimensionality reduction (MDR) method to a large cohort study on gene-environment and gene-gene interactions. The study (case-control nested in the EPIC cohort) was established to investigate molecular changes and genetic susceptibility in relation to air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in non-smokers. We have analyzed 757 controls and 409 cases with bladder cancer (n = 124), lung cancer (n = 116) and myeloid leukemia (n = 169). Thirty-six gene variants (DNA repair and metabolic genes) and three environmental exposure variables (measures of air pollution and ETS at home and at work) were analyzed. Interactions were assessed by prediction error percentage and cross-validation consistency (CVC) frequency. For lung cancer, the best model was given by a significant gene-environment association between the base excision repair (BER) XRCC1

Tatistic, is calculated, testing the association between transmitted/non-transmitted and high-risk/low-risk genotypes. The phenomic evaluation procedure aims to assess the impact of Computer on this association. For this, the strength of association involving transmitted/non-transmitted and high-risk/low-risk genotypes in the various Pc levels is compared using an evaluation of variance model, resulting in an F statistic. The final MDR-Phenomics statistic for every single multilocus model could be the item of the C and F statistics, and significance is assessed by a non-fixed permutation test. Aggregated MDR The original MDR method doesnt account for the accumulated effects from multiple interaction effects, because of choice of only a single optimal model during CV. The Aggregated Multifactor Daporinad web dimensionality Reduction (A-MDR), proposed by Dai et al. [52],A roadmap to multifactor dimensionality reduction techniques,makes use of all important interaction effects to develop a gene ...

Heck, Angela; Vogler, Christian; Gschwind, Leo; Ackermann, Sandra; Auschra, Bianca; Spalek, Klara; Rasch, Björn; de Quervain, Dominique; Papassotiropoulos, Andreas (2011). Statistical epistasis and functional brain imaging support a role of voltage-gated potassium channels in human memory. PLoS ONE, 6(12), e29337. Iijima, Takatoshi; Wu, Karen; Witte, Harald; Hanno-Iijima, Yoko; Glatter, Timo; Richard, Stéphane; Scheiffele, Peter (2011). SAM68 regulates neuronal activity-dependent alternative splicing of Neurexin-1. Cell, 147(7), 1601-14. Schötz, Thomas; Neher, Richard A.; Gerland, Ulrich (2011). Target search on a dynamic DNA molecule. Physical Review E, 84(5 Pt 1), 051911. Loewith, R.; Hall, M. N. (2011). Target of Rapamycin (TOR) in nutrient signaling and growth control. Genetics, 189(4), 1177-1201. Suffert, Guillaume; Malterer, Georg; Hausser, Jean; Viiliäinen, Johanna; Fender, Aurélie; Contrant, Maud; Ivacevic, Tomi; Benes, Vladimir; Gros, Frédéric; Voinnet, Olivier; Zavolan, Mihaela; ...

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The 3 loci that have been associated with CAC thus far (CDKN2A/B at 9p21, PHACTR1, and ADAMTS7) were first discovered for their association with CAD and MI. This observation motivated us to test the hypothesis that other loci associated with CAD/MI might also influence CAC. Because single-variant association testing has limited power to detect modest effects, we adopted a polygenic approach by aggregating the effects of ≤15 000 independent SNPs into a single genetic risk score and then tested each for association with CAC. The polygenic score is based on the assumption that markers act additively; that is, gene-gene interactions (epistasis) are ignored in these models. Our results demonstrate that there is at least a polygenic component with alleles acting additively, and its quantitative contribution may represent a lower bound estimate if we assume a non-negligible contribution because of epistatic effects.. In our data, the 3 known CAC SNP associations found by recent GWAS explained 2.4% of ...

Epistasis is defined as a non‐additive genetic interaction, where the interaction may be described as transgressive if the hybrid progeny is in some way either superior to the better or inferior to the worse parent. Transgression has been previously suggested to facilitate hybrid niche specialization and is particularly important in crop breeding (i.e., when hybrid yields are higher than those of either parent).. sRNAs play an important role in gene and genome regulation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and trans‐acting small interfering RNAs (tasiRNAs) regulate coding transcript levels, while small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) guide DNA methylation and stable chromatin modifications predominantly at TEs and other repeat sequences. These epigenetic marks keep TEs repressed, thereby limiting potentially detrimental transposition events. Epigenetic and sRNA differences between and within species are relatively poorly described compared with genetic and transcriptome variation. Nonetheless, since genomic ...

Functions to perform robust epistasis detection in genome-wide association studies, as described in Slim et al. (2018) ,doi:10.1101/442749,. The implemented methods identify pairwise interactions between a particular target variant and the rest of the genotype, using a propensity score approach. The propensity score models the linkage disequilibrium between the target and the rest of the genotype. All methods are penalized regression approaches, which differently incorporate the propensity score to only recover the synergistic effects between the target and the genotype.. ...

Labradors come in three different colors due to two different genes. In this lesson, find out how epistasis works as one phenotype is controlled by...

Summary A major goal in plant biology is to understand how naturally occurring genetic variation leads to quantitative differences in economically important traits. Efforts to navigate the genotype-to-phenotype map are often focused on linear genetic interactions. As a result, crop breeding is mainly driven by loci with predictable additive effects. However, it has become clear that quantitative trait variation often results from perturbations of complex genetic networks. Thus, understanding epistasis, or interactions between genes, is key for our ability to predictably improve crops. To meet this challenge, this project will reveal and dissect epistatic interactions in gene regulatory networks that guide stem cell differentiation in the model crop tomato. In the first aim, I will utilize exhaustive allelic series for epistatic MADS-box genes that quantitatively regulate flower and fruit production as an experimental model system to study fundamental principles of epistasis that can be applied ...

Summary A major goal in plant biology is to understand how naturally occurring genetic variation leads to quantitative differences in economically important traits. Efforts to navigate the genotype-to-phenotype map are often focused on linear genetic interactions. As a result, crop breeding is mainly driven by loci with predictable additive effects. However, it has become clear that quantitative trait variation often results from perturbations of complex genetic networks. Thus, understanding epistasis, or interactions between genes, is key for our ability to predictably improve crops. To meet this challenge, this project will reveal and dissect epistatic interactions in gene regulatory networks that guide stem cell differentiation in the model crop tomato. In the first aim, I will utilize exhaustive allelic series for epistatic MADS-box genes that quantitatively regulate flower and fruit production as an experimental model system to study fundamental principles of epistasis that can be applied ...

Cancer is a complex disease in which cells acquire many genetic and epigenetic alterations. We have examined how three types of alterations, mutations in tumor suppressor genes, changes in an imprinted locus, and polymorphic loci, interact to affect tumor susceptibility in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Mutations in tumor suppressor genes such as TP53 and in oncogenes such as KRAS have major effects on tumorigenesis due to the central roles of these genes in cell proliferation and cell survival. Imprinted genes expressed from only one parental chromosome affect tumorigenesis if their monoallelic expression is lost or duplicated. Because imprinted loci are within regions deleted or amplified in cancer, the parental origin of genomic rearrangements could affect tumorigenesis. Gene polymorphisms can vary tumor incidence by affecting rate-limiting steps in tumorigenesis within tumor cells or surrounding stroma. In our mouse model of NF1, the incidence of tumors mutant for the

The global effects of epistasis on protein and RNA function are revealed by an unsupervised model of amino acid co-conservation in evolutionary sequence variation. Many high-throughput experimental technologies have been developed to assess the effects of large numbers of mutations (variation) on phenotypes. However, designing functional assays for these methods is challenging, and systematic testing of all combinations is impossible, so robust methods to predict the effects of genetic variation are needed. Most prediction methods exploit evolutionary sequence conservation but do not consider the interdependencies of residues or bases. We present EVmutation, an unsupervised statistical method for predicting the effects of mutations that explicitly captures residue dependencies between positions. We validate EVmutation by comparing its predictions with outcomes of high-throughput mutagenesis experiments and measurements of human disease mutations and show that it outperforms methods that do not account

Sequence Conservation Within and Among Genomes:Quantitative Evolutionary, Comparative, and Biomedical Genomics The Units research is aimed at development of theoretical and computational tools for decoding genome sequences. We are especially interested on the impact of linkage, recombination, and epistasis on sequence conservation, and how they affect inference of selective pressure.

All possible two-, three-, and C646 datasheet four-way SNP interactions were tested using 20-fold cross-validation in an exhaustive search (considering all possible SNP combinations). The conditional logistic regression analysis was performed using SPSS (v16.0) to confirm the reported interactive effects in MDR, which may be caused by the main effects from the component loci instead of the epistatic interactions. A logistic regression analysis with P < 0.05 could support the corresponding significant MDR interaction model. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay The human complementary DNA clone of CDX1 (pCMV6-CDX1) was produced by OriGene (OriGene Technologies,. Rockville, MD, USA). CDX1 protein preparation was made by transfecting pCMV6-CDX1 construct into HEK293 cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Cells were harvested 48-h post-transfection, and nuclear extractions were performed. using a nuclear extraction kit (Panomics, Fremont, CA, USA). Protein concentration was ...

The recent explosion of data set size, in number of records and attributes, has triggered the development of a number of big data platforms as well as parallel data analytics algorithms. At the same time though, it has pushed for usage of data dimensionality reduction procedures. Indeed, more is not always better. Large amounts of data might sometimes produce worse performances in data analytics applications.

Marginal effects are an alternative metric that can be used to describe the impact of age on participation. Marginal effects can be described as the change in outcome as a function of the change in the treatment (or independent variable of interest) holding all other variables in the model constant. In linear regression, the estimated regression coefficients are marginal effects and are more easily interpreted (more on this later). Marginal effects can be output easily from STATA, however they are not directly available in SAS or R. However there are some adhoc ways of getting them which I will demonstrate here. (there are some packages in R available to assist with this as well). I am basing most of this directly on two very good blog posts on the topic ...

Major depression is a serious psychiatric disorder impacting the lives of millions of Americans. The gene DISC1 has been linked to this disorder by translocatio...

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a. If the F2 is given, the irreducible ratio or frequency indicates the minimum number of mutants assorting. For example, 16ths implies two mutants; and similar reasoning is used for testcross data, or for mixtures of F2 and testcross data. Epistasis and mimics may reduce the number of phenotypic classes and allow fraction reduction, e.g. 4/16 to .. b. Give symbols to each mutant (e.g. aa for albino).. c. If feasible, write down physiological action of each mutant (e.g. aa controls absence of all melanin pigment)- helpful, but not mandatory.. ...

Downloadable! We study the scope of local indirect least squares (LILS) methods for nonparametrically estimating average marginal effects of an endogenous cause X on a response Y in triangular structural systems that need not exhibit linearity, separability, or monotonicity in scalar unobservables. One main finding is negative: in the fully nonseparable case, LILS methods cannot recover the average marginal effect. LILS methods can nevertheless test the hypothesis of no effect in the general nonseparable case. We provide new nonparametric asymptotic theory, treating both the traditional case of observed exogenous instruments Z and the case where one observes only error-laden proxies for Z.

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I believe this is done to avoid having the reader do the arithmetic. In the simple linear model,. $$E[Y_i \vert X] = \alpha + \beta W_i + \gamma X_i + \psi X_i \cdot W_i. $$. The marginal effect of $W$ is $\beta +\psi X_i$, which is a function of $X$, and so the average marginal effect is $\beta +\psi \bar X$. The reader would need to know what $\bar X$ was to figure it out.. In the second version of the model,. $$E[Y_i \vert X_i] = \alpha + \beta W_i + \gamma X_i + \psi (X_i - \bar X) \cdot W_i. $$. The marginal effect of $W$ is $\beta +\psi (X_i - \bar X)$, which is a function of $X$. Here $\beta$ is the average marginal effect, so you dont need to do any arithmetic. Another way to think about it is that in the second model, $\beta$ is the effect of $W$ for someone with the average $X$, and because the model is linear, that is also the average marginal effect.. Heres an example with Stata. First we fit the simple model:. ...

BIS 2BMendelian genetics practice questions 20141. You breed black labs. Labs exhibit epistasis for coat color. Dad is BbEe and mom isBbEe, where B_

Chae, E.; Bomblies, K.; Kim, S.-T.; Karelina, D.; Zaidem, M.; Ossowski, S.; Martín-Pizarro, C.; Laitinen, R.; Rowan, B.; Tenenboim, H. et al.; Lechner, S.; Demar, M.; Habring-Müller, A.; Lanz, C.; Rätsch, G.; Weigel, D.: Species-wide Genetic Incompatibility Analysis Identifies Immune Genes as Hot Spots of Deleterious Epistasis. Cell 159 (6), pp. 1341 - 1351 (2014 ...

What is the high-resolution structure of genetic interaction networks? To build a map of genetic interactions we employ high throughput suppressor screens using conditional lethal alleles. We use forward and reverse genetic approaches to explore a large fraction of sequence space allowing us to identify both those genes (and their products) that interact and the sequence specificity of those interactions. Our ultimate aim is to infer the rules that govern the interaction and co-evolution of genes ...

The terms interaction and main effects were adopted from the analysis of variance method (ANOVA). In the context of analysis of variance an interaction refers to the effect of a factor averaged over another factor and the main effect represents the average effect of a single variable. In the case of multiple regression, this terminology is not suitable in the presence of an interaction. Typically, b1 and b2 in a nonadditive model are referred to as main effects. It is quiet common in the case of an interactive model to refer to b 1 and b2 as main effects. The use of this term in examining an interactive model is held here to be misleading. In the presence of an interaction these coefficients in no instance represent a constant effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. The use of the term main effect implies that b1 and b2 are somehow interpretable alone when they actually represent a portion of the effect of the corresponding variable on the dependent ...

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Since the log odds (also called the logit) is the response function in a logistic model, such models enable you to estimate the log odds for populations in the data. A population is a setting of the model predictors. By exponentiating you can estimat