Intergenerational genomic DNA methylation patterns in mouse hybrid strains
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE53714 | GEO | 2013/12/30
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA232710
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Intergenerational genomic DNA methylation patterns in mouse hybrid strains Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing from mouse liver, using MspI restriction enzyme, and selecting ~100-300bp size fraction.
2013-12-30 | E-GEOD-53714 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2008-07-15 | GSE9888 | GEO
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Project description:This experiment is the analysis of the transcriptomes of several hybrid yeast strains obtained by crossing natural (from wine) isolates of S. cerevisiae and S. uvarum. All isolations have been done from hybrid strains growing in exponential phase in YPD. Keywords: Strain comparison Transcriptomic analysis of three independent replicates of each yeast strain growing in exponential phase. Each replicate has been hybridized on a different macroarray (F19-F22-F24) as indicated in the sample files. A single DNA (S. cerevisiae 3002 wine strain) genomic hybridization, from the same labeling reaction, was done on the same macroarrays for normalization.
2010-06-25 | E-GEOD-9888 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2022-05-01 | GSE175363 | GEO
Project description:Heritable differences in gene expression between individuals are an important source of phenotypic variation. The question of how closely the effects of genetic variation on protein levels mirror those on mRNA levels remains open. Here, we addressed this question by using ribosomal footprinting to examine how genetic differences between two strains of the yeast S. cerevisiae affect translation. Strain differences in translation were observed for hundreds of genes, more than half as many as showed genetic differences in mRNA levels. Similarly, allele specific measurements in the diploid hybrid between the two strains found roughly half as many cis-acting effects on translation as were observed for mRNA levels. In both the parents and the hybrid, strong effects on translation were rare, such that the direction of an mRNA difference was typically reflected in a concordant footprint difference. The relative importance of cis and trans acting variation on footprint levels was similar to that for mRNA levels. Across all expressed genes, there was a tendency for translation to more often reinforce than buffer mRNA differences, resulting in footprint differences with greater magnitudes than the mRNA differences. Finally, we catalogued instances of premature translation termination in the two yeast strains. Overall, genetic variation clearly influences translation, but primarily does so by subtly modulating differences in mRNA levels. Translation does not appear to create strong discrepancies between genetic influences on mRNA and protein levels. Ribsosomal footprinting and RNASeq in the two yeast strains BY and RM as well as their diploid hybrid. We generated one library each for the BY and RM parents, and two libraries (biological replicates) for the hybrid data.
2014-03-31 | E-GEOD-55400 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Heritable differences in gene expression between individuals are an important source of phenotypic variation. The question of how closely the effects of genetic variation on protein levels mirror those on mRNA levels remains open. Here, we addressed this question by using ribosomal footprinting to examine how genetic differences between two strains of the yeast S. cerevisiae affect translation. Strain differences in translation were observed for hundreds of genes, more than half as many as showed genetic differences in mRNA levels. Similarly, allele specific measurements in the diploid hybrid between the two strains found roughly half as many cis-acting effects on translation as were observed for mRNA levels. In both the parents and the hybrid, strong effects on translation were rare, such that the direction of an mRNA difference was typically reflected in a concordant footprint difference. The relative importance of cis and trans acting variation on footprint levels was similar to that for mRNA levels. Across all expressed genes, there was a tendency for translation to more often reinforce than buffer mRNA differences, resulting in footprint differences with greater magnitudes than the mRNA differences. Finally, we catalogued instances of premature translation termination in the two yeast strains. Overall, genetic variation clearly influences translation, but primarily does so by subtly modulating differences in mRNA levels. Translation does not appear to create strong discrepancies between genetic influences on mRNA and protein levels.
2014-03-31 | GSE55400 | GEO