Project description:Plants display remarkable developmental and phenotypic plasticity in order to adapt to their environment. It has long been postulated that epigenetics plays a key role in these processes, but with one or two exceptions, solid evidence for the role of epigenetic variation in these processes is lacking. A key impediment to understanding these processes is the lack of information on the extent of epigenetic variation and how it relates to genetic and phenotypic variation in natural population, both over the lifecycle of an individual, and over evolutionary time. Here we show that genetic variants under selection in the north of Sweden appear to drive variation in DNA methylation, which in turn is highly correlated with local climate. Selective sweeps and genetic variants associated with adaptation to the local environment have previously been identified within the Swedish Arabidopsis population. Our finding that they harbour variants responsible for climate associated epigenetic variation strongly supports the role of epigenetic processes in local adaptation. These findings provide a basis for further dissecting the role of epigenetics in local adaptation at the molecular level
Project description:Plants display remarkable developmental and phenotypic plasticity in order to adapt to their environment. It has long been postulated that epigenetics plays a key role in these processes, but with one or two exceptions, solid evidence for the role of epigenetic variation in these processes is lacking. A key impediment to understanding these processes is the lack of information on the extent of epigenetic variation and how it relates to genetic and phenotypic variation in natural population, both over the lifecycle of an individual, and over evolutionary time. Here we show that genetic variants under selection in the north of Sweden appear to drive variation in DNA methylation, which in turn is highly correlated with local climate. Selective sweeps and genetic variants associated with adaptation to the local environment have previously been identified within the Swedish Arabidopsis population. Our finding that they harbour variants responsible for climate associated epigenetic variation strongly supports the role of epigenetic processes in local adaptation. These findings provide a basis for further dissecting the role of epigenetics in local adaptation at the molecular level Bisulfite sequencing of 113 F2 crosses between T550 and Brosarp-11-135.
Project description:Canine tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy caused by several weeks of rapid ventricular pacing is a well-established animal model of congestive heart failure. However, little is known about the underlying changes in gene expression that occur in the canine myocardium after the induction of heart failure. This project aims to compare expression profiles in left ventricular free wall samples from control dogs and dogs with pacing-induced heart failure on the custom MuscleChip. Keywords: other
Project description:The complexity and low accessibility of the human brain make it challenging to understand its development, function, and disorders. Brain diseases including neurodegenerative disease and psychiatric diseases incur huge medical and social burdens without effective treatments. While mouse has substantially contributed to our current understanding of brain, the translational value of mouse models may limit to certain aspects of a disease due to the apparent differences in brain structure (gyrencephalic versus lissencephalic) and behavior between mice and humans. Nonhuman primates are, in theory, the best animals to understand human brains. However, monkeys are extremely expensive and inefficient to reproduce (5 years to reach sexual maturity and only one progeny per pregnancy). Dogs have similar gyrencephalic brain structure as humans. Due to the human selection and domestication, dogs have developed exquisite and complex dog-human heterospecific social capabilities. For example, dogs can learn by observing human social and communicative behaviors such as a pointing gesture to find hidden food. Indeed, psychologists have learned that average dogs can count, reason and recognize words and gestures on par with a human 2-year-old. Compared with nonhuman primates, dogs have relatively lower costs of husbandry and shorter breeding times, with multiple offspring per pregnancy. Given that gene editing and animal cloning by somatic nuclear transfer have been available in dogs in recent years and other advantages described above, dogs are thus a potential model for studying human brain development and disease. However, to what extent the dog brain is conserved with the human brain at the molecular level remains unclear.
Project description:The complexity and low accessibility of the human brain make it challenging to understand its development, function, and disorders. Brain diseases including neurodegenerative disease and psychiatric diseases incur huge medical and social burdens without effective treatments. While mouse has substantially contributed to our current understanding of brain, the translational value of mouse models may limit to certain aspects of a disease due to the apparent differences in brain structure (gyrencephalic versus lissencephalic) and behavior between mice and humans. Nonhuman primates are, in theory, the best animals to understand human brains. However, monkeys are extremely expensive and inefficient to reproduce (5 years to reach sexual maturity and only one progeny per pregnancy). Dogs have similar gyrencephalic brain structure as humans. Due to the human selection and domestication, dogs have developed exquisite and complex dog-human heterospecific social capabilities. For example, dogs can learn by observing human social and communicative behaviors such as a pointing gesture to find hidden food. Indeed, psychologists have learned that average dogs can count, reason and recognize words and gestures on par with a human 2-year-old. Compared with nonhuman primates, dogs have relatively lower costs of husbandry and shorter breeding times, with multiple offspring per pregnancy. Given that gene editing and animal cloning by somatic nuclear transfer have been available in dogs in recent years and other advantages described above, dogs are thus a potential model for studying human brain development and disease. However, to what extent the dog brain is conserved with the human brain at the molecular level remains unclear.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE16390: Response of gastric epithelial progenitors to H. pylori isolates from Swedish patients with chronic atrophic gastritis 1 GSE16439: Response of gastric epithelial progenitors to H. pylori isolates from Swedish patients with chronic atrophic gastritis 2 Refer to individual Series