We study the segregation of variants of a putative self-incompatibility gene in Arabidopsis lyrata. This gene encodes a sequence that is homologous to the protein encoded by the SRK gene involved in self-incompatibility in Brassica species. We show by diallel pollinations of plants in several full-sib families that seven different sequences of the gene in A. lyrata are linked to different S-all...

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a common strategy to avoid inbreeding and, consequently, keep genetic diversity within species. In its mechanism, pollen rejection happens in the style when single multiallelic locus (SFB prunus species) of haploid matches one S-alleles existing diploid pistil. The SFB gene for S has been identified many Prunus However, Japanese apricot species with typical gametoph...

We have obtained 15 sequences of Est-6 from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster to test whether linkage disequilibrium exists between Est-6 and the closely linked Sod, and whether natural selection may be involved. An early experiment with allozymes had shown linkage disequilibrium between these two loci, while none was detected between other gene pairs. The Sod sequences for the sa...

Natural populations of self-incompatible species often exhibit marked phenotypic variation among individuals in the strength of self-incompatibility (SI). In previous studies, we found that the strength of the SI response in Solanum carolinense, a weedy invasive with RNase-mediated SI, is a plastic trait. Selfing can be particularly important for weeds and other successional species that typica...

Although single nucleotide polymorphisms rs429358 and rs7412 in the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) are widely investigated to analyze APOE alleles, there no data on their association with Alzheimer?s disease (AD) dementia a Serbian population. This study aimed investigate distribution of ?2/?3/?4 alleles patients due AD cognitively unimpaired subjects assess ?4 allele risk A case-control included...

HE existence of several allelomorphs at the S locus has been demonstrated in T Nicotiana spp. (EAST and YARNELL 1929), Veronica syriaca (LEHMANN 1926), Antirrhinum glutinosum ( GRUBER 1932), Trifolium pfatense (WILLIAMS 1939; and WILLIAMS and WILLIAMS 1947), Oenothera organensis (EMERSON 1939, 1940) and Trifolium repens (ATWOOD 1944). In Trifolium pratense, BATEMAN (1947) calculated that the nu...

Objective(s): This study was aimed to evaluate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TLR4 and common living habits of prostate hyperplasia (BPH) patients would affect the subjects’ risk and prognosis.Materials and Methods: We totally recruited 501 BPH patients and 964 healthy controls. The patients’ international prostate symptom score (IPSS) and quality of life assessment (QoL) wer...

the aim of this study was to assess the possible association between genetic polymorphisms of the glutathione s-transferase (gst) gene family and the risk of the development of metabolic syndrome (ms) in zoroastrian females in yazd, iran.in this case-control study, gstm1, t1, and p1 polymorphisms were genotyped in 51 randomly selected ms patients and 50 randomly selected healthy controls on feb...

Brassica self-incompatibility (SI) is controlled by SLG and SRK expressed in the stigma and by SP11/SCR expressed in the anther. We determined the sequences of the S domains of 36 SRK alleles, 13 SLG alleles, and 14 SP11 alleles from Brassica oleracea and B. rapa. We found three S haplotypes lacking SLG genes in B. rapa, confirming that SLG is not essential for the SI recognition system. Togeth...