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Correspondence

A promoter polymorphism in the CASP8 gene is not associated with cancer risk pp259 - 260

Christopher A Haiman, Rachel R Garcia, Laurence N Kolonel, Brian E Henderson, Anna H Wu & Loïc Le Marchand

doi:10.1038/ng0308-259


Reply to "A promoter polymorphism in the CASP8 gene is not associated with cancer risk" pp260 - 261

Tong Sun, Yang Gao, Wen Tan, Sufang Ma, Yuankai Shi, Jiarui Yao, Yongli Guo, Ming Yang, Xuemei Zhang, Qingrun Zhang, Changqing Zeng & Dongxin Lin

doi:10.1038/ng0308-260


Analysis of association of the TIRAP (MAL) S180L variant and tuberculosis in three populations pp261 - 262

Sergey Nejentsev, Thorsten Thye, Jeffrey S Szeszko, Helen Stevens, Yanina Balabanova, Amanua M Chinbuah, Martin Hibberd, Esther van de Vosse, Bachti Alisjahbana, Reinout van Crevel, Tom H M Ottenhoff, Eileen Png, Francis Drobniewski, John A Todd, Mark Seielstad & Rolf D Horstmann

doi:10.1038/ng0308-261


Reply to "Analysis of association of the TIRAP (MAL) S180L variant and tuberculosis in three populations" pp262 - 263

Chiea C Khor, Stephen J Chapman, Fredrik O Vannberg, Andrian VS Hill & Luke AJ O'Neill

doi:10.1038/ng0308-262


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News and Views


Division of labor among meiotic genes pp266 - 267

Luke E Berchowitz & Gregory P Copenhaver

doi:10.1038/ng0308-266

See also: Article by Shinohara et al.


MicroRNAs in facial development pp268 - 269

David E Clouthier

doi:10.1038/ng0308-268

See also: Article by Eberhart et al.


Plant breeders go back to nature pp269 - 270

Dani Zamir

doi:10.1038/ng0308-269

See also: Letter by Zheng et al.


Research highlights p273

doi:10.1038/ng0308-273


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Perspective

What causes mitochondrial DNA deletions in human cells? pp275 - 279

Kim J Krishnan, Amy K Reeve, David C Samuels, Patrick F Chinnery, John K Blackwood, Robert W Taylor, Sjoerd Wanrooij, Johannes N Spelbrink, Robert N Lightowlers & Doug M Turnbull

doi:10.1038/ng.f.94


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Brief Communications

Common sequence variants on 2p15 and Xp11.22 confer susceptibility to prostate cancer pp281 - 283

Julius Gudmundsson, Patrick Sulem, Thorunn Rafnar, Jon T Bergthorsson, Andrei Manolescu, Daniel Gudbjartsson, Bjarni A Agnarsson, Asgeir Sigurdsson, Kristrun R Benediktsdottir, Thorarinn Blondal, Margret Jakobsdottir, Simon N Stacey, Jelena Kostic, Kari T Kristinsson, Birgitta Birgisdottir, Shyamali Ghosh, Droplaug N Magnusdottir, Steinunn Thorlacius, Gudmar Thorleifsson, S Lilly Zheng, Jielin Sun, Bao-Li Chang, J Bradford Elmore, Joan P Breyer, Kate M McReynolds, Kevin M Bradley, Brian L Yaspan, Fredrik Wiklund, Par Stattin, Sara Lindström, Hans-Olov Adami, Shannon K McDonnell, Daniel J Schaid, Julie M Cunningham, Liang Wang, James R Cerhan, Jennifer L St Sauver, Sara D Isaacs, Kathleen E Wiley, Alan W Partin, Patrick C Walsh, Sonia Polo, Manuel Ruiz-Echarri, Sebastian Navarrete, Fernando Fuertes, Berta Saez, Javier Godino, Philip C Weijerman, Dorine W Swinkels, Katja K Aben, J Alfred Witjes, Brian K Suarez, Brian T Helfand, Michael L Frigge, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Carole Ober, Eirikur Jonsson, Gudmundur V Einarsson, Jianfeng Xu, Henrik Gronberg, Jeffrey R Smith, Stephen N Thibodeau, William B Isaacs, William J Catalona, Jose I Mayordomo, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Rosa B Barkardottir, Jeffrey R Gulcher, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Augustine Kong & Kari Stefansson

doi:10.1038/ng.89


Thromboxane synthase mutations in an increased bone density disorder (Ghosal syndrome) pp284 - 286

David Geneviève, Valérie Proulle, Bertrand Isidor, Samuel Bellais, Valérie Serre, Fatima Djouadi, Capucine Picard, Capucine Vignon-Savoye, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Stéphane Blanche, Marie-Christine de Vernejoul, Laurence Legeai-Mallet, Anne-Marie Fischer, Martine Le Merrer, Marie Dreyfus, Pascale Gaussem, Arnold Munnich & Valérie Cormier-Daire

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.66


Mutations in the cyclin family member FAM58A cause an X-linked dominant disorder characterized by syndactyly, telecanthus and anogenital and renal malformations pp287 - 289

Sheila Unger, Detlef Böhm, Frank J Kaiser, Silke Kaulfus zlig, Wiktor Borozdin, Karin Buiting, Peter Burfeind, Johann Böhm, Francisco Barrionuevo, Alexander Craig, Kristi Borowski, Kim Keppler-Noreuil, Thomas Schmitt-Mechelke, Bernhard Steiner, Deborah Bartholdi, Johannes Lemke, Geert Mortier, Richard Sandford, Bernhard Zabel, Andrea Superti-Furga & Jürgen Kohlhase

doi:10.1038/ng.86


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Articles

MicroRNA Mirn140 modulates Pdgf signaling during palatogenesis pp290 - 298

Johann K Eberhart, Xinjun He, Mary E Swartz, Yi-Lin Yan, Hao Song, Taylor C Boling, Allison K Kunerth, Macie B Walker, Charles B Kimmel & John H Postlethwait

doi:10.1038/ng.82

See also: News and Views by Clouthier



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Letters

Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer pp310 - 315

Gilles Thomas, Kevin B Jacobs, Meredith Yeager, Peter Kraft, Sholom Wacholder, Nick Orr, Kai Yu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Robert Welch, Amy Hutchinson, Andrew Crenshaw, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Brian J Staats, Zhaoming Wang, Jesus Gonzalez-Bosquet, Jun Fang, Xiang Deng, Sonja I Berndt, Eugenia E Calle, Heather Spencer Feigelson, Michael J Thun, Carmen Rodriguez, Demetrius Albanes, Jarmo Virtamo, Stephanie Weinstein, Fredrick R Schumacher, Edward Giovannucci, Walter C Willett, Olivier Cussenot, Antoine Valeri, Gerald L Andriole, E David Crawford, Margaret Tucker, Daniela S Gerhard, Joseph F Fraumeni, Jr, Robert Hoover, Richard B Hayes, David J Hunter & Stephen J Chanock

doi:10.1038/ng.91


Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility pp316 - 321

Rosalind A Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Graham G Giles, Ali Amin Al Olama, Michelle Guy, Sarah K Jugurnauth, Shani Mulholland, Daniel A Leongamornlert, Stephen M Edwards, Jonathan Morrison, Helen I Field, Melissa C Southey, Gianluca Severi, Jenny L Donovan, Freddie C Hamdy, David P Dearnaley, Kenneth R Muir, Charmaine Smith, Melisa Bagnato, Audrey T Ardern-Jones, Amanda L Hall, Lynne T O'Brien, Beatrice N Gehr-Swain, Rosemary A Wilkinson, Angie Cox, Sarah Lewis, Paul M Brown, Sameer G Jhavar, Malgorzata Tymrakiewicz, Artitaya Lophatananon, Sarah L Bryant, The UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators, British Association of Urological Surgeons' Section of Oncology, The UK ProtecT Study Collaborators, Alan Horwich, Robert A Huddart, Vincent S Khoo, Christopher C Parker, Christopher J Woodhouse, Alan Thompson, Tim Christmas, Chris Ogden, Cyril Fisher, Charles Jamieson, Colin S Cooper, Dallas R English, John L Hopper, David E Neal & Douglas F Easton

doi:10.1038/ng.90


A recurrent 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome associated with mental retardation and seizures pp322 - 328

Andrew J Sharp, Heather C Mefford, Kelly Li, Carl Baker, Cindy Skinner, Roger E Stevenson, Richard J Schroer, Francesca Novara, Manuela De Gregori, Roberto Ciccone, Adam Broomer, Iris Casuga, Yu Wang, Chunlin Xiao, Catalin Barbacioru, Giorgio Gimelli, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Claudia Torniero, Roberto Giorda, Regina Regan, Victoria Murday, Sahar Mansour, Marco Fichera, Lucia Castiglia, Pinella Failla, Mario Ventura, Zhaoshi Jiang, Gregory M Cooper, Samantha J L Knight, Corrado Romano, Orsetta Zuffardi, Caifu Chen, Charles E Schwartz & Evan E Eichler

doi:10.1038/ng.93


G protein–coupled receptor P2Y5 and its ligand LPA are involved in maintenance of human hair growth pp329 - 334

Sandra M Pasternack, Ivar von Kügelgen, Khalid Al Aboud, Young-Ae Lee, Franz Rüschendorf, Katrin Voss, Axel M Hillmer, Gerhard J Molderings, Thomas Franz, Alfredo Ramirez, Peter Nürnberg, Markus M Nöthen & Regina C Betz

doi:10.1038/ng.84

See also: News and Views by Sprecher | Letter by Shimomura et al.


Disruption of P2RY5, an orphan G protein–coupled receptor, underlies autosomal recessive woolly hair pp335 - 339

Yutaka Shimomura, Muhammad Wajid, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Lawrence Shapiro, Lynn Petukhova, Derek Gordon & Angela M Christiano

doi:10.1038/ng.100

See also: News and Views by Sprecher | Letter by Pasternack et al.


Natural selection has driven population differentiation in modern humans pp340 - 345

Luis B Barreiro, Guillaume Laval, Hélène Quach, Etienne Patin & Lluís Quintana-Murci

doi:10.1038/ng.78


Regulatory changes underlying expression differences within and between Drosophila species pp346 - 350

Patricia J Wittkopp, Belinda K Haerum & Andrew G Clark

doi:10.1038/ng.77


The birth and death of microRNA genes in Drosophila pp351 - 355

Jian Lu, Yang Shen, Qingfa Wu, Supriya Kumar, Bin He, Suhua Shi, Richard W Carthew, San Ming Wang & Chung-I Wu

doi:10.1038/ng.73


Distinct mitochondrial retrograde signals control the G1-S cell cycle checkpoint pp356 - 361

Edward Owusu-Ansah, Amir Yavari, Sudip Mandal & Utpal Banerjee

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.50


Unprotected Drosophila melanogaster telomeres activate the spindle assembly checkpoint pp362 - 366

Mariarosaria Musarò, Laura Ciapponi, Barbara Fasulo, Maurizio Gatti & Giovanni Cenci

doi:10.1038/ng.2007.64


A phenylalanine in DGAT is a key determinant of oil content and composition in maize pp367 - 372

Peizhong Zheng, William B Allen, Keith Roesler, Mark E Williams, Shirong Zhang, Jiming Li, Kimberly Glassman, Jerry Ranch, Douglas Nubel, William Solawetz, Dinakar Bhattramakki, Victor Llaca, Stéphane Deschamps, Gan-Yuan Zhong, Mitchell C Tarczynski & Bo Shen

doi:10.1038/ng.85

See also: News and Views by Zamir


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Corrigendum

Corrigendum: Regional copy number–independent deregulation of transcription in cancer p373

Nicolas Stransky, Céline Vallot, Fabien Reyal, Isabelle Bernard-Pierrot, Sixtina Gil Diez de Medina, Rick Segraves, Yann de Rycke, Paul Elvin, Andrew Cassidy, Carolyn Spraggon, Alexander Graham, Jennifer Southgate, Bernard Asselain, Yves Allory, Claude C Abbou, Donna G Albertson, Jean Paul Thiery, Dominique K Chopin, Daniel Pinkel & François Radvanyi

doi:10.1038/ng0308-373


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