In concordance, recent functional studies pointed to an essential role of GRP in zebrafish skeletal development and calcification [ 5], albeit GRP-deficient mice did not reveal evident phenotypic alterations in skeletal architecture, development, or calcification [ 6].
If this postulate is true, then our findings suggest that these two ZP genes may not play an important role in reproductive isolation between the bovine species as it was defended in a recent functional study [ 14].
In a recent functional MRI study, PWS individuals had higher activities of blood oxygen dependent response to pictures of food than to pictures of animals or tools.
In humans, recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies with effective connectivity analysis have suggested that voluntary attentional control is mediated by causal streams along the DAN from frontal to parietal or to the visual cortex [15], [16].
Similar to the literature relating abnormalities of brain structure to poor outcome in schizophrenia, recent functional MRI studies also have begun to document such a relationship.
In a recent functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) study, an adapted version of the DRM-paradigm was used to investigate the neural activity associated with the formation (encoding) of true versus false memories [ 35].
In a recent functional magnetic resonance imaging study we reported abnormal co-activation of the motor cortex and increased functional connectivity between the motor system and prefrontal cognitive networks during a working memory paradigm, providing an underlying mechanism for cognitively triggered jerks.
In a recent functional study it was shown that the risk allele of SNP9, rs10993994, had only 13% of the promoter activity of the wild-type allele in the PrCa model LNCaP cell line and there was a dose dependant increase in MSMB promoter activity in the wild-type allele with the synthetic androgen R1881 (Chang et al, 2009).
In a recent functional MRI study of reward learning, Murray et al [ 37] showed that brain responses correlating with reward prediction error in the dopaminergic midbrain and associated dopamine neuron striatal and limbic target regions were abnormal in patients with active psychotic symptoms.
In a recent functional analysis of DIO2, including DNA methylation studies, it was reported that differential methylation of CpGs located upstream of the gene correlated with DIO2 expression changes, and that these effects were particularly striking for individuals harboring the risk-conferring allele of rs225014 [ 22 ▪].
