Volume 34 Issue 2, June 2003

A new look

Adherence to published ethical guidelines by the UK genetics research community

• Nicolas J Goulding
• Heather C Waddell
• Len Doyal

MEDLINE definitions of race and ethnicity and their application to genetic research

• Pamela Sankar

Reply to "MEDLINE definitions of race and ethnicity and their application to genetic research"

• Stuart J Nelson

Ira Herskowitz 1946–2003

• Anita Sil

Reality check for pharmacogenomics

• Kenneth E. Thummel

Turned off by RNA

• Dirk A Kleinjan
• Veronica van Heyningen

Epigenetic interplay

• Kye-Yoon Park
• Karl Pfeifer

The advantages of recombination

• Antonio Bernardo Carvalho

Touching base

Research notes

When calcium goes wrong: genetic alterations of a ubiquitous signaling route

• Rosario Rizzuto
• Tullio Pozzan

Different noses for different people

• Idan Menashe
• Orna Man
• Yoav Gilad

Deficiency of Mbd2 suppresses intestinal tumorigenesis

• Owen J Sansom
• Jennifer Berger
• Alan R Clarke

Somatic mutations in PTPN11 in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia

• Marco Tartaglia
• Charlotte M Niemeyer
• Bruce D Gelb

Hypotrichosis simplex of the scalp is associated with nonsense mutations in CDSN encoding corneodesmosin

• Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum
• Regina C Betz
• Elon Pras

Mutations in PCSK9 cause autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia

• Marianne Abifadel
• Mathilde Varret
• Catherine Boileau

Transcription of antisense RNA leading to gene silencing and methylation as a novel cause of human genetic disease

• Cristina Tufarelli
• Jackie A Sloane Stanley
• Douglas R Higgs

Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data

• Eran Segal
• Michael Shapira
• Nir Friedman

Alternative splicing in the human, mouse and rat genomes is associated with an increased frequency of exon creation and/or loss

• Barmak Modrek
• Christopher J Lee

Positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 13q14 that influences immunoglobulin E levels and asthma

• Youming Zhang
• Nicholas I Leaves
• William O C M Cookson

The role of DNA methylation in setting up chromatin structure during development

• Tamar Hashimshony
• Jianmin Zhang
• Howard Cedar

The Widespread Colonization Island of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

• Paul J Planet
• Scott C Kachlany
• David H Figurski

Trans allele methylation and paramutation-like effects in mice

• Herry Herman
• Michael Lu
• Paul D Soloway

Fraser syndrome and mouse blebbed phenotype caused by mutations in FRAS1/Fras1 encoding a putative extracellular matrix protein

• Lesley McGregor
• Ville Makela
• Peter J Scambler

Fras1 deficiency results in cryptophthalmos, renal agenesis and blebbed phenotype in mice

• Sophia Vrontou
• Petros Petrou
• Georges Chalepakis

Adaptation shapes patterns of genome evolution on sexual and asexual chromosomes in Drosophila

• Doris Bachtrog

Bleeding due to disruption of a cargo-specific ER-to-Golgi transport complex

• Bin Zhang
• Michael A Cunningham
• David Ginsburg

Gene expression phenotypic models that predict the activity of oncogenic pathways

• Erich Huang
• Seiichi Ishida
• Joseph R Nevins

Erratum: A lentivirus-based system to silence genes in primary mammalian cells, stem cells and transgenic mice by RNA interference

• D A Rubinson
• C P Dillon
• L Van Parijs

Erratum: Treatment-specific changes in gene expression discriminate in vivo drug response in human leukemia cells

• M H Cheok
• W Yang
• W E Evans