2024
A common allele increases endometrial Wnt4 expression, with antagonistic implications for pregnancy, reproductive cancers, and endometriosis
Pavličev M, McDonough-Goldstein C, Zupan A, Muglia L, Hu Y, Kong F, Monangi N, Dagdas G, Zupančič N, Maziarz J, Sinner D, Zhang G, Wagner G, Muglia L. A common allele increases endometrial Wnt4 expression, with antagonistic implications for pregnancy, reproductive cancers, and endometriosis. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 1152. PMID: 38346980, PMCID: PMC10861470, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45338-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFrequency of deleterious allelesAssociated with multiple phenotypesResistance to invasionWnt4 locusAlpha binding sitesPleiotropic mutationsDeleterious allelesPleiotropic SNPsMouse genomeMultiple phenotypesWnt4 transcriptionPopulation frequencyMolecular mechanismsPreovulatory estrogen peakRs3820282Estrogen-responsive tissuesWnt4 expressionCRISPR/Cas 9AllelesTranscriptionEndometriotic fociEndometrial stromaMutationsEpithelial proliferationEstrogen peak
2009
Frame‐shifts of digit identity in bird evolution and Cyclopamine‐treated wings
Vargas AO, Wagner GP. Frame‐shifts of digit identity in bird evolution and Cyclopamine‐treated wings. Evolution & Development 2009, 11: 163-169. PMID: 19245548, DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2009.00317.x.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2008
Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals
Lynch VJ, Tanzer A, Wang Y, Leung FC, Gellersen B, Emera D, Wagner GP. Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2008, 105: 14928-14933. PMID: 18809929, PMCID: PMC2567470, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802355105.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCis-regulatory elementsHoxa-11Evolutionary changePlacental mammalsEutherian mammalsTranscription factorsCis-regulatory evolutionDirect regulatory targetsGene expression domainsStrong positive selectionNovel developmental pathwayPRL expressionTherian ancestorGene regulationExpression domainsPositive selectionRegulatory targetsNovel functionDevelopmental pathwaysMammalsSpatial expressionProlactin expressionGenesExpressionAdaptive changesPleiotropic scaling of gene effects and the ‘cost of complexity’
Wagner GP, Kenney-Hunt JP, Pavlicev M, Peck JR, Waxman D, Cheverud JM. Pleiotropic scaling of gene effects and the ‘cost of complexity’. Nature 2008, 452: 470-472. PMID: 18368117, DOI: 10.1038/nature06756.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantitative trait lociEffects of pleiotropyOrganismal complexityGenetic sequence dataHigher organismsEvolutionary biologyTrait lociMouse genomeSequence dataBiology questionsSkeletal traitsGene effectsMost mutationsCost of complexityGenetic mutationsTraitsMutationsMultiple effectsGenomeSkeletal characteristicsPleiotropyLociPleiotropicOrganismsBiology
2000
Is the Genotype-Phenotype Map Modular?: A Statistical Approach Using Mouse Quantitative Trait Loci Data
Mezey J, Cheverud J, Wagner G. Is the Genotype-Phenotype Map Modular?: A Statistical Approach Using Mouse Quantitative Trait Loci Data. Genetics 2000, 156: 305-311. PMID: 10978294, PMCID: PMC1461239, DOI: 10.1093/genetics/156.1.305.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1999
Evolution of Chordate Hox Gene Clustersa
RUDDLE F, AMEMIYA C, CARR J, KIM C, LEDJE C, SHASHIKANT C, WAGNER G. Evolution of Chordate Hox Gene Clustersa. Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences 1999, 870: 238-248. PMID: 10415487, DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08884.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHox cluster duplicationsCluster duplicationBody plan evolutionTerms of genomeGene duplicationHox genesDevelopmental evolutionGene enhancerDuplication modelDuplicationVertebratesNew functionsChordatesInvertebratesGenomeImportant roleEvolutionUrogenital systemGenesEnhancerRoleDaughter clustersNeuromuscular interactionNovel features
1998
Genetic measurement theory of epistatic effects
Wagner G, Laubichler M, Bagheri-Chaichian H. Genetic measurement theory of epistatic effects. Genetica 1998, 102-103: 569-580. PMID: 9766965, DOI: 10.1023/a:1017088321094.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpistatic effectsGenotype-phenotype mapMendelian genetic systemMathematical population geneticsAverage additive effectPairs of lociGenetic architecturePopulation geneticsEvolutionary changeEvolutionary phenomenaGenetic systemGenotypic varianceMetabolic fluxSecond locusEpistasisGene substitutionMutation effectsAdditive effectAdult body weightGene effectsSecond mutationLocus BLociMutationsNegative interactions
1996
Evidence for Four Hox Clusters in the KillifishFundulus heteroclitus(Teleostei)
Misof B, Wagner G. Evidence for Four Hox Clusters in the KillifishFundulus heteroclitus(Teleostei). Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 1996, 5: 309-322. PMID: 8728389, DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceBiological EvolutionDNA PrimersFishesGenes, HomeoboxHomeodomain ProteinsHumansKillifishesKineticsMiceModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyPhylogenyPolymerase Chain ReactionProbabilitySequence Homology, Amino AcidSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidConceptsHox clustersMammalian Hox genesTeleost Fundulus heteroclitusDiploid teleostsHox genesHomeobox sequencesPCR surveySequence comparisonLower vertebratesFundulus heteroclitusCognate groupsFirst evidenceSequenceOrthologsCluster AVertebratesTeleostsGenesNumber of representativesHeteroclitusClustersHumansMiceFragmentsRepresentatives