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  3. Stress response is mediated by the transcription of stress-responsive genes. The F-box motif protein Saf1p is involved in SCF-E3 ligase mediated degradation of the adenine deaminase, Aah1p upon nutrient stress...

    Authors: Meenu Sharma, V. Verma and Narendra K. Bairwa

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:45

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  4. To explore the role of folate metabolism in 1,3-Butadiene (BD)'s genotoxicity, we conducted a match-up study in BD-exposed workers in China to analyze the associations between the polymorphisms of methylenetet...

    Authors: Menglong Xiang, Zhi Wang, Peng Zou, Xi Ling, Guowei Zhang, Ziyuan Zhou, Jia Cao and Lin Ao

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:44

    Content type: Research

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  5. Gene mutations induced in germ cells may be transmitted to the next generation and cause adverse effects such as genetic diseases. Certain mutations may result in infertility or death in early development. Thu...

    Authors: Kenichi Masumura, Tomoko Ando, Naomi Toyoda-Hokaiwado, Akiko Ukai, Takehiko Nohmi and Masamitsu Honma

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:43

    Content type: Research

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  6. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common autoimmune system diseases in our world. More studies in recent years have shown that FCRL gene polymorphisms is closely related to autoimmune diseases. It is suggeste...

    Authors: Yonghui Yang, Dandan Li, Chunjuan He, Linna Peng, Shishi Xing, Mei Bai, Hao Rong, Dongya Yuan, Yongjun He, Xue He, Li Wang and Tianbo Jin

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:42

    Content type: Research

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  7. Ames test is used worldwide for detecting the bacterial mutagenicity of chemicals. In silico analyses of bacterial mutagenicity have recently gained acceptance by regulatory agencies; however, current in silico m...

    Authors: Atsushi Hakura, Takumi Awogi, Toshiyuki Shiragiku, Atsushi Ohigashi, Mika Yamamoto, Kayoko Kanasaki, Hiroaki Oka, Yasuaki Dewa, Shunsuke Ozawa, Kouji Sakamoto, Tatsuya Kato and Eiji Yamamura

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:41

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  8. Previous studies have shown the effect of MTHFR A1298C gene polymorphism on stroke risk. But the results of published studies remained inconclusive and controversial. So we conducted a meta-analysis to accurately...

    Authors: Xiaobo Dong, Jun Wang, Gesheng Wang, Jiayue Wang, Lei Wang and Yong Du

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:40

    Content type: Research

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  9. Due to the complex structure and function of central nervous system (CNS), human CNS in vitro modeling is still a great challenge. Neurotoxicity testing of environmental chemicals mainly depends on the traditi...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Zheng, Fangrong Zhang, Shengmin Xu and Lijun Wu

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:39

    Content type: Review

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  10. Chemical carcinogens to humans have been usually identified by epidemiological studies on the relationships between occupational or environmental exposure to the agents and specific cancer induction. In contra...

    Authors: Takehiko Nohmi and Masahiko Watanabe

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:38

    Content type: Review

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  11. The liver micronucleus (MN) assay is an effective and important in vivo test for detecting genotoxic compounds. In particular, the repeated-dose liver MN (RDLMN) assay which greatly facilitates incorporation o...

    Authors: Miyuki Shigano, Hironao Takasawa and Shuichi Hamada

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:37

    Content type: Short report

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  12. Pentavalent antimonial compounds are currently used to treat leishmaniasis and resistance to these drugs is a serious problem. Multidrug resistance protein is an efflux pump of the cell membrane that expels fo...

    Authors: Maryam Fekri Soofi Abadi, Alireza Moradabadi, Reza Vahidi, Saeedeh Shojaeepour, Sara Rostami, Iman Rad and Shahriar Dabiri

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:36

    Content type: Research

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  13. Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) is a member of a ubiquitous family of thiol peroxidases that catalyze the reduction of peroxides, including hydrogen peroxide. It functions as an antioxidant enzyme, similar to catalase...

    Authors: Takahito Moriwaki, Akari Yoshimura, Yuki Tamari, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Shunichi Takeda, Masayuki Seki and Keizo Tano

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:35

    Content type: Research

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  14. Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) is one of the most widely used manufactured nanomaterials, however, its potential harmful effect on human health is of great concern. Previously we have shown the acute and...

    Authors: Li Ju, Lijin Zhu, Hao Wu, Min Yu, Xianhong Yin, Zhenyu Jia, Lingfang Feng, Shibo Ying, Hailing Xia, Shuzhi Zhang, Jianlin Lou and Jun Yang

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:34

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  18. Perillaldehyde and cinnamaldehyde are natural substances found in plants that are used as flavoring ingredients. Due to the α,β-unsaturated aldehydes in their structures, these compounds are expected to be DNA...

    Authors: Masamitsu Honma, Masami Yamada, Manabu Yasui, Katsuyoshi Horibata, Kei-ichi Sugiyama and Kenichi Masumura

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:30

    Content type: Research

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  20. Alcohol consumption and the ingestion of red meat and oxidized cooking oil are risk factors of gastric and colorectal cancers. We reported that acetaldehyde (AcAld) is generated from Heme/Mb/Meat-Linoleate-EtO...

    Authors: Hiroshi Kasai and Kazuaki Kawai

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:28

    Content type: Research

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  21. Base pair mismatches in genomic DNA can result in mutagenesis, and consequently in tumorigenesis. To investigate how mismatch repair deficiency increases mutagenicity under oxidative stress, we examined the ty...

    Authors: Yasunobu Aoki, Mizuki Ohno, Michiyo Matsumoto, Michi Matsumoto, Kenichi Masumura, Takehiko Nohmi and Teruhisa Tsuzuki

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:27

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  22. To evaluate the relationship between transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene polymorphism and diabetic nephropathy (DN) risk, as well as the effect of gene-environment interactions on DN risk in Chinese Han p...

    Authors: Peng Xue, Haihong Cao, Zhimin Ma, Ying Zhou and Nian Wang

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:26

    Content type: Research

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  23. Gene mutation assays in transgenic rodents are useful tools to investigate in vivo mutagenicity in a target tissue. Using a lambda EG10 transgene containing reporter genes, gpt delta transgenic mice and rats have...

    Authors: Kenichi Masumura, Tomoko Ando, Akiko Ukai, Sho Fujiwara, Shigeo Yokose, Xinyue You, Takayoshi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Takehiko Nohmi, Hisayoshi Takagi and Masamitsu Honma

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:25

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  25. Exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) can induce accelerated silicosis (AS), a form of silicosis that is more progressive and severe form of silicosis. In this project we aimed to assess processes of...

    Authors: Linlin Sai, Xuejie Qi, Gongchang Yu, Juan Zhang, Yuxin Zheng, Qiang Jia and Cheng Peng

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:23

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  26. Malaria is a disease annually causing over 400,000 deaths. Deep understanding of molecular and genetic processes underlying its life cycle and pathogenicity is required to efficiently resist it. RNA interferen...

    Authors: Alexandr Grinev, Natalya Fokina, Denis Bogomolov, Iza Berechikidze and Yuliya Lazareva

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:22

    Content type: Research

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  29. We designed a case-control study to investigate the effect of vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and possible gene- environment interaction on the susceptibility of renal...

    Authors: Tian Jianhai, Lv Jian, Zhang Long, Wang Wei, Zhang Shumao, Wang Yiming and Li Xiaojuan

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:19

    Content type: Research

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  32. Food flavors are relatively low molecular weight chemicals with unique odor-related functional groups that may also be associated with mutagenicity. These chemicals are often difficult to test for mutagenicity...

    Authors: Toshio Kasamatsu, Airi Kitazawa, Sumie Tajima, Masahiro Kaneko, Kei-ichi Sugiyama, Masami Yamada, Manabu Yasui, Kenichi Masumura, Katsuyoshi Horibata and Masamitsu Honma

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:16

    Content type: Research

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  33. CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized genome-editing techniques in various biological fields including human cancer research. Cancer is a multi-step process that encompasses the accumulation of mutations that result ...

    Authors: Hussein Sabit, Shaimaa Abdel-Ghany, Huseyin Tombuloglu, Emre Cevik, Amany Alqosaibi, Fatma Almulhim and Afnan Al-Muhanaa

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:15

    Content type: Review

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  34. Cancer is one of the main health challenges and leading causes of deaths in the world. Various environmental and genetic risk factors are associated with tumorigenesis. Epigenetic deregulations are also import...

    Authors: Iman Akhlaghipour, Amir Reza Bina, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadegan and Meysam Moghbeli

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:14

    Content type: Review

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  35. Formaldehyde is a widely used but highly reactive and toxic chemical. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies formaldehyde as a Group 1 carcinogen, based on nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemi...

    Authors: Doo Seok Kang, Hyun Soo Kim, Jong-Hyeon Jung, Cheol Min Lee, Yeon-Soon Ahn and Young Rok Seo

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:13

    Content type: Review

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  36. A comprehensive understanding of DNA adducts, one of the most plausible origins of cancer mutations, is still elusive, especially in human tissues in clinical settings. Recent technological developments have f...

    Authors: Ippei Ohnishi, Yuji Iwashita, Yuto Matsushita, Shunsuke Ohtsuka, Takashi Yamashita, Keisuke Inaba, Atsuko Fukazawa, Hideto Ochiai, Keigo Matsumoto, Nobuhito Kurono, Yoshitaka Matsushima, Hiroki Mori, Shioto Suzuki, Shohachi Suzuki, Fumihiko Tanioka and Haruhiko Sugimura

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:12

    Content type: Research

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  37. The in vivo comet assay is used to evaluate the genotoxic potential of compounds by detecting DNA strand breaks in cells isolated from animal tissue. The comet assay of hepatocytes is well established; however, t...

    Authors: Haruna Tahara, Yoshinori Yamagiwa, Yu Haranosono and Masaaki Kurata

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:11

    Content type: Research

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  38. The PIGRET assay is one of the Pig-a assays targeting reticulocytes (RETs), an in vivo genotoxicity evaluation method using flow cytometry with endogenous reporter glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor protein. The...

    Authors: Satsuki Chikura, Takafumi Kimoto, Satoru Itoh, Hisakazu Sanada, Shigeharu Muto and Katsuyoshi Horibata

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:10

    Content type: Method

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  39. Radio-adaptive response (RAR) is transient phenomena, where cells conditioned with a small dose (priming) of ionizing radiation shows significantly reduced DNA damage with a subsequent high challenging dose. T...

    Authors: Shridevi Shelke and Birajalaxmi Das

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:9

    Content type: Research

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  41. Conflicting results between bacterial mutagenicity tests (the Ames test) and mammalian carcinogenicity tests might be due to species differences in metabolism, genome structure, and DNA repair systems. Mutagen...

    Authors: Manabu Yasui, Takayuki Fukuda, Akiko Ukai, Jiro Maniwa, Tadashi Imamura, Tsuneo Hashizume, Haruna Yamamoto, Kaori Shibuya, Kazunori Narumi, Yohei Fujiishi, Emiko Okada, Saori Fujishima, Mika Yamamoto, Naoko Otani, Maki Nakamura, Ryoichi Nishimura…

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:7

    Content type: Research

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  42. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Marzieh Siavashifar, Fatemeh Rezaei, Tahereh Motallebirad, Davood Azadi, Abdorrahim Absalan, Zahra Naserramezani, Mohadeseh Golshani, Morteza Jafarinia and Kazem Ghaffari

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:6

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Genes and Environment 2021 43:2

  44. Acrylamide (AA) is a rodent carcinogen and classified by the IARC into Group 2A (probable human carcinogen). AA has been reported to induce mutations in transgenic rodent gene mutation assays (TGR assays), the...

    Authors: Soichiro Hagio, Naho Tsuji, Satoshi Furukawa, Kazuya Takeuchi, Seigo Hayashi, Yusuke Kuroda, Masamitsu Honma and Kenichi Masumura

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:4

    Content type: Research

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  45. There are very few studies covering the epidemiological risk factors associated with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) and Microsatellite stability for Gastric Cancer (GC) cases. Early diagnosis of GC through epidemiologi...

    Authors: Payel Chakraborty, Souvik Ghatak, Saia Chenkual, Lalawmpuii Pachuau, John Zohmingthanga, Zothankima Bawihtlung, Lalfakzuala Khenglawt, Jeremy L. Pautu, Arindam Maitra, Lalchhandama Chhakchhuak and Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:3

    Content type: Research

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  46. Hospital environmental resources have a significant role in cross-transmission of opportunistic pathogens such as actinomycetes species to the patients. Actinomycetes have a remarkable capability to survive in...

    Authors: Marzieh Siavashifar, Fatemeh Rezaei, Tahereh Motallebirad, Davood Azadi, Abdorrahim Absalan, Zahra Naserramezani, Mohadeseh Golshani, Morteza Jafarinia and Kazem Ghaffari

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:2

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Genes and Environment 2021 43:6

  47. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is caused by the blockage of the coronary arteries. it is argued that there has an association between the Interleukin-6 gene and the occurrence of atherosclerosis, coronary arter...

    Authors: Nader Salari, Kamran Mansouri, Amin Hosseinian-Far, Hooman Ghasemi, Masoud Mohammadi, Rostam Jalali and Aliakbar Vaisi-Raygani

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2021 43:1

    Content type: Research

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  49. (Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationship ((Q)SAR) is a promising approach to predict the potential adverse effects of chemicals based on their structure without performing toxicological studies. We evalu...

    Authors: Masamitsu Honma, Airi Kitazawa, Toshio Kasamatsu and Kei-ichi Sugiyama

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2020 42:32

    Content type: Research

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  50. The 6th Asian Congress on Environmental Mutagens (ACEM) was held at Hitotsubashi Hall, Chiyoda City, Tokyo on November 18–20, 2019, in conjunction with the 48th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Environmental Mut...

    Authors: Masamitsu Honma

    Citation: Genes and Environment 2020 42:30

    Content type: Meeting report

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