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Editorial

Pinpointing expression differences p1175

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1175


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Obituary

Marcy Carlson Speer 1959–2007 p1177

Margaret A Pericak-Vance

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1177


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Book Review

A textbook for all seasons p1179

Francisco J Ayala reviews Evolution by Nicholas H. Barton, Derek E.G. Briggs, Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein & Nipam H. Patel

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1179


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Commentary

The NCBI dbGaP database of genotypes and phenotypes pp1181 - 1186

Matthew D Mailman, Michael Feolo, Yumi Jin, Masato Kimura, Kimberly Tryka, Rinat Bagoutdinov, Luning Hao, Anne Kiang, Justin Paschall, Lon Phan, Natalia Popova, Stephanie Pretel, Lora Ziyabari, Moira Lee, Yu Shao, Zhen Y Wang, Karl Sirotkin, Minghong Ward, Michael Kholodov, Kerry Zbicz, Jeffrey Beck, Michael Kimelman, Sergey Shevelev, Don Preuss, Eugene Yaschenko, Alan Graeff, James Ostell & Stephen T Sherry

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1181


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News and Views

Rescuing distal crossovers pp1187 - 1188

Terry Hassold & Patricia Hunt

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1187

See also: Letter by Lacefield & Murray


Adaptive drool in the gene pool pp1188 - 1190

John Novembre, Jonathan K Pritchard & Graham Coop

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1188

See also: Letter by Perry et al.


Rhythm is not enough pp1190 - 1191

Bernhard Horsthemke

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1190

See also: Letter by Kozlov et al.


How microRNAs choose their targets pp1191 - 1192

Ivo L Hofacker

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1191

See also: Letter by Kertesz et al.


Touching base p1193

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1193


Research Highlights p1195

doi:10.1038/ng1007-1195


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Brief Communications

A QTL influencing F cell production maps to a gene encoding a zinc-finger protein on chromosome 2p15 pp1197 - 1199

Stephan Menzel, Chad Garner, Ivo Gut, Fumihiko Matsuda, Masao Yamaguchi, Simon Heath, Mario Foglio, Diana Zelenika, Anne Boland, Helen Rooks, Steve Best, Tim D Spector, Martin Farrall, Mark Lathrop & Swee Lay Thein

doi:10.1038/ng2108


Variation in complement factor 3 is associated with risk of age-related macular degeneration pp1200 - 1201

Julian B Maller, Jesen A Fagerness, Robyn C Reynolds, Benjamin M Neale, Mark J Daly & Johanna M Seddon

doi:10.1038/ng2131


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Articles

A genome-wide association study of global gene expression pp1202 - 1207

Anna L Dixon, Liming Liang, Miriam F Moffatt, Wei Chen, Simon Heath, Kenny C C Wong, Jenny Taylor, Edward Burnett, Ivo Gut, Martin Farrall, G Mark Lathrop, Gonçalo R Abecasis & William O C Cookson

doi:10.1038/ng2109


Discovery of expression QTLs using large-scale transcriptional profiling in human lymphocytes pp1208 - 1216

Harald H H Göring, Joanne E Curran, Matthew P Johnson, Thomas D Dyer, Jac Charlesworth, Shelley A Cole, Jeremy B M Jowett, Lawrence J Abraham, David L Rainwater, Anthony G Comuzzie, Michael C Mahaney, Laura Almasy, Jean W MacCluer, Ahmed H Kissebah, Gregory R Collier, Eric K Moses & John Blangero

doi:10.1038/ng2119


Population genomics of human gene expression pp1217 - 1224

Barbara E Stranger, Alexandra C Nica, Matthew S Forrest, Antigone Dimas, Christine P Bird, Claude Beazley, Catherine E Ingle, Mark Dunning, Paul Flicek, Daphne Koller, Stephen Montgomery, Simon Tavaré, Panos Deloukas & Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

doi:10.1038/ng2142


Modulation of morphogenesis by noncanonical Wnt signaling requires ATF/CREB family–mediated transcriptional activation of TGFbeta2 pp1225 - 1234

Wenlai Zhou, Lizhu Lin, Arindam Majumdar, Xue Li, Xiaoxue Zhang, Wei Liu, Leah Etheridge, Yunqing Shi, James Martin, Wim Van de Ven, Vesa Kaartinen, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Andrew P McMahon, Michael G Rosenfeld & Sylvia M Evans

doi:10.1038/ng2112


A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast pp1235 - 1244

William Lee, Desiree Tillo, Nicolas Bray, Randall H Morse, Ronald W Davis, Timothy R Hughes & Corey Nislow

doi:10.1038/ng2117


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Letters

A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population pp1245 - 1250

Michael N Weedon, Guillaume Lettre, Rachel M Freathy, Cecilia M Lindgren, Benjamin F Voight, John R B Perry, Katherine S Elliott, Rachel Hackett, Candace Guiducci, Beverley Shields, Eleftheria Zeggini, Hana Lango, Valeriya Lyssenko, Nicholas J Timpson, Noel P Burtt, Nigel W Rayner, Richa Saxena, Kristin Ardlie, Jonathan H Tobias, Andrew R Ness, Susan M Ring, Colin N A Palmer, Andrew D Morris, Leena Peltonen, Veikko Salomaa, The Diabetes Genetics Initiative, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, George Davey Smith, Leif C Groop, Andrew T Hattersley, Mark I McCarthy, Joel N Hirschhorn & Timothy M Frayling

doi:10.1038/ng2121


Measurement of the human allele frequency spectrum demonstrates greater genetic drift in East Asians than in Europeans pp1251 - 1255

Alon Keinan, James C Mullikin, Nick Patterson & David Reich

doi:10.1038/ng2116


Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation pp1256 - 1260

George H Perry, Nathaniel J Dominy, Katrina G Claw, Arthur S Lee, Heike Fiegler, Richard Redon, John Werner, Fernando A Villanea, Joanna L Mountain, Rajeev Misra, Nigel P Carter, Charles Lee & Anne C Stone

doi:10.1038/ng2123

See also: News and Views by Novembre et al.


Loss of ACTN3 gene function alters mouse muscle metabolism and shows evidence of positive selection in humans pp1261 - 1265

Daniel G MacArthur, Jane T Seto, Joanna M Raftery, Kate G Quinlan, Gavin A Huttley, Jeff W Hook, Frances A Lemckert, Anthony J Kee, Michael R Edwards, Yemima Berman, Edna C Hardeman, Peter W Gunning, Simon Easteal, Nan Yang & Kathryn N North

doi:10.1038/ng2122


The imprinted gene Magel2 regulates normal circadian output pp1266 - 1272

Serguei V Kozlov, James W Bogenpohl, Maureen P Howell, Rachel Wevrick, Satchin Panda, John B Hogenesch, Louis J Muglia, Russell N Van Gelder, Erik D Herzog & Colin L Stewart

doi:10.1038/ng2114

See also: News and Views by Horsthemke



The role of site accessibility in microRNA target recognition pp1278 - 1284

Michael Kertesz, Nicola Iovino, Ulrich Unnerstall, Ulrike Gaul & Eran Segal

doi:10.1038/ng2135

See also: News and Views by Hofacker


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