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New G3 editors: de los Campos, Marshall, Myers, Ross-Ibarra, Slotte & Warburton
G3 welcomes new Associate Editors Gustavo de los Campos, Christian Marshall, Chad Myers, Jeff Ross-Ibarra, Tanja Slotte, and Marilyn Warburton! GUSTAVO DE LOS CAMPOS University of Alabama at Birmingham The academic interests of Gustavo de los Campos center on statistical learning methods with emphasis on applications in quantitative genetics. He completed two MS and a…
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December GENETICS Highlights
The December issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. Ectopic centromere nucleation by CENP-A in fission yeast, pp. 1433–1446 Marlyn Gonzalez, Haijin He, Qianhua Dong, Siyu Sun, and Fei Li The mechanisms protecting the cell against formation of ectopic centromeres (neocentromeres) are poorly understood. Gonzalez…
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Wild zebrafish sex: a lab mystery solved
Laboratory zebrafish hide a dirty little secret. Although the tiny fish have proven to be a vital model of vertebrate development and disease genetics, zebrafish reproduction—at least in the lab—has wildly variable outcomes. Offspring sex ratios can vary from extremely male-biased to extremely female-biased, depending on which breeding pairs serve as parents. The reason for…
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ASHG Meeting Report: The X-factor in complex disease
One of the major risk factors for autoimmune diseases is being born with two copies of the X chromosome. For example, women—who typically carry two Xs—face around ten times the risk of lupus, while men with lupus are around 15 times more likely than the general population to carry two Xs and a Y (Klinefelter…