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Book Review

Trial and error p3

Alan Packer reviews Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling by Jay D. Aronson

doi:10.1038/ng0108-3


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News and Views

Copy-number analysis goes more than skin deep pp5 - 6

Steven A McCarroll

doi:10.1038/ng0108-5

See also: Brief Communication by Hollox et al.


Genomic rearrangements in the spotlight pp6 - 7

Lucy R Osborne

doi:10.1038/ng0108-6

See also: Letter by Turner et al.


BRCA1—sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow pp8 - 9

William D Foulkes

doi:10.1038/ng0108-8

See also: Letter by Saal et al.


Basal bodies, kinocilia and planar cell polarity pp10 - 11

Jeffrey D Axelrod

doi:10.1038/ng0108-10

See also: Article by Jones et al.


Touching base p13

doi:10.1038/ng0108-13


Research highlights p15

doi:10.1038/ng0108-15


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Perspective


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Brief Communications

Psoriasis is associated with increased beta-defensin genomic copy number pp23 - 25

Edward J Hollox, Ulrike Huffmeier, Patrick L J M Zeeuwen, Raquel Palla, Jesús Lascorz, Diana Rodijk-Olthuis, Peter C M van de Kerkhof, Heiko Traupe, Gys de Jongh, Martin den Heijer, André Reis, John A L Armour & Joost Schalkwijk

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.48

See also: News and Views by McCarroll


Common genetic variants at the CRAC1 (HMPS) locus on chromosome 15q13.3 influence colorectal cancer risk pp26 - 28

Emma Jaeger, Emily Webb, Kimberley Howarth, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Andrew Rowan, Peter Broderick, Axel Walther, Sarah Spain, Alan Pittman, Zoe Kemp, Kate Sullivan, Karl Heinimann, Steven Lubbe, Enric Domingo, Ella Barclay, Lynn Martin, Maggie Gorman, Ian Chandler, Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Wendy Wood, Elli Papaemmanuil, Steven Penegar, Mobshra Qureshi, members of the CORGI Consortium, Susan Farrington, Albert Tenesa, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, David Kerr, Richard Gray, Julian Peto, Malcolm Dunlop, Harry Campbell, Huw Thomas, Richard Houlston & Ian Tomlinson

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.41


Genetic variation in DPP6 is associated with susceptibility to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pp29 - 31

Michael A van Es, Paul WJ van Vught, Hylke M Blauw, Lude Franke, Christiaan GJ Saris, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Sonja W de Jong, Vianney de Jong, Frank Baas, Ruben van't Slot, Robin Lemmens, Helenius J Schelhaas, Anna Birve, Kristel Sleegers, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Jennifer C Schymick, Bryan J Traynor, John HJ Wokke, Cisca Wijmenga, Wim Robberecht, Peter M Andersen, Jan H Veldink, Roel A Ophoff & Leonard H van den Berg

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.52


Impaired glycosylation and cutis laxa caused by mutations in the vesicular H+-ATPase subunit ATP6V0A2 pp32 - 34

Uwe Kornak, Ellen Reynders, Aikaterini Dimopoulou, Jeroen van Reeuwijk, Bjoern Fischer, Anna Rajab, Birgit Budde, Peter Nürnberg, Francois Foulquier, the ARCL Debré-type Study Group, Dirk Lefeber, Zsolt Urban, Stephanie Gruenewald, Wim Annaert, Han G Brunner, Hans van Bokhoven, Ron Wevers, Eva Morava, Gert Matthijs, Lionel Van Maldergem & Stefan Mundlos

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.45


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Articles

ITPKC functional polymorphism associated with Kawasaki disease susceptibility and formation of coronary artery aneurysms pp35 - 42

Yoshihiro Onouchi, Tomohiko Gunji, Jane C Burns, Chisato Shimizu, Jane W Newburger, Mayumi Yashiro, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Yanagawa, Keiko Wakui, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Fumio Kishi, Kunihiro Hamamoto, Masaru Terai, Yoshitake Sato, Kazunobu Ouchi, Tsutomu Saji, Akiyoshi Nariai, Yoichi Kaburagi, Tetsushi Yoshikawa, Kyoko Suzuki, Takeo Tanaka, Toshiro Nagai, Hideo Cho, Akihiro Fujino, Akihiro Sekine, Reiichiro Nakamichi, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Tomisaku Kawasaki, Yusuke Nakamura & Akira Hata

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.59


Widespread microRNA repression by Myc contributes to tumorigenesis pp43 - 50

Tsung-Cheng Chang, Duonan Yu, Yun-Sil Lee, Erik A Wentzel, Dan E Arking, Kristin M West, Chi V Dang, Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko & Joshua T Mendell

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.30


PU.1 is a major downstream target of AML1 (RUNX1) in adult mouse hematopoiesis pp51 - 60

Gang Huang, Pu Zhang, Hideyo Hirai, Shannon Elf, Xiaomei Yan, Zhao Chen, Steffen Koschmieder, Yutaka Okuno, Tajhal Dayaram, Joseph D Growney, Ramesh A Shivdasani, D Gary Gilliland, Nancy A Speck, Stephen D Nimer & Daniel G Tenen

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.7


RNA toxicity in myotonic muscular dystrophy induces NKX2-5 expression pp61 - 68

Ramesh S Yadava, Carla D Frenzel-McCardell, Qing Yu, Varadamurthy Srinivasan, Amy L Tucker, Jack Puymirat, Charles A Thornton, Owen W Prall, Richard P Harvey & Mani S Mahadevan

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.28


Ciliary proteins link basal body polarization to planar cell polarity regulation pp69 - 77

Chonnettia Jones, Venus C Roper, Isabelle Foucher, Dong Qian, Boglarka Banizs, Christine Petit, Bradley K Yoder & Ping Chen

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.54

See also: News and Views by Axelrod


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Letters

Chymotrypsin C (CTRC) variants that diminish activity or secretion are associated with chronic pancreatitis pp78 - 82

Jonas Rosendahl, Heiko Witt, Richárd Szmola, Eesh Bhatia, Béla Ózsvári, Olfert Landt, Hans-Ulrich Schulz, Thomas M Gress, Roland Pfützer, Matthias Löhr, Peter Kovacs, Matthias Blüher, Michael Stumvoll, Gourdas Choudhuri, Péter Hegyi, René HM te Morsche, Joost PH Drenth, Kaspar Truninger, Milan Macek, Jr, Gero Puhl, Ulrike Witt, Hartmut Schmidt, Carsten Büning, Johann Ockenga, Andreas Kage, David Alexander Groneberg, Renate Nickel, Thomas Berg, Bertram Wiedenmann, Hans Bödeker, Volker Keim, Joachim Mössner, Niels Teich & Miklós Sahin-Tóth

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.44


Polymorphism at the TNF superfamily gene TNFSF4 confers susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus pp83 - 89

Deborah S Cunninghame Graham, Robert R Graham, Harinder Manku, Andrew K Wong, John C Whittaker, Patrick M Gaffney, Kathy L Moser, John D Rioux, David Altshuler, Timothy W Behrens & Timothy J Vyse

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.47


Germline rates of de novo meiotic deletions and duplications causing several genomic disorders pp90 - 95

Daniel J Turner, Marcos Miretti, Diana Rajan, Heike Fiegler, Nigel P Carter, Martyn L Blayney, Stephan Beck & Matthew E Hurles

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.40

See also: News and Views by Osborne


Closing gaps in the human genome with fosmid resources generated from multiple individuals pp96 - 101

Donald Bovee, Yang Zhou, Eric Haugen, Zaining Wu, Hillary S Hayden, Will Gillett, Eray Tuzun, Gregory M Cooper, Nick Sampas, Karen Phelps, Ruth Levy, V Anne Morrison, James Sprague, Donald Jewett, Danielle Buckley, Sandhya Subramaniam, Jean Chang, Douglas R Smith, Maynard V Olson, Evan E Eichler & Rajinder Kaul

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.34


Recurrent gross mutations of the PTEN tumor suppressor gene in breast cancers with deficient DSB repair pp102 - 107

Lao H Saal, Sofia K Gruvberger-Saal, Camilla Persson, Kristina Lövgren, Mervi Jumppanen, Johan Staaf, Göran Jönsson, Maira M Pires, Matthew Maurer, Karolina Holm, Susan Koujak, Shivakumar Subramaniyam, Johan Vallon-Christersson, Håkan Olsson, Tao Su, Lorenzo Memeo, Thomas Ludwig, Stephen P Ethier, Morten Krogh, Matthias Szabolcs, Vundavalli VVS Murty, Jorma Isola, Hanina Hibshoosh, Ramon Parsons & Åke Borg

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.39

See also: News and Views by Foulkes


AID is required for germinal center–derived lymphomagenesis pp108 - 112

Laura Pasqualucci, Govind Bhagat, Mila Jankovic, Mara Compagno, Paula Smith, Masamichi Muramatsu, Tasuku Honjo, Herbert C Morse, III, Michel C Nussenzweig & Riccardo Dalla-Favera

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.35


Identification and characterization of high-flux-control genes of yeast through competition analyses in continuous cultures pp113 - 117

Daniela Delneri, David C Hoyle, Konstantinos Gkargkas, Emma J M Cross, Bharat Rash, Leo Zeef, Hui-Sun Leong, Hazel M Davey, Andrew Hayes, Douglas B Kell, Gareth W Griffith & Stephen G Oliver

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.49


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