1. Preface

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 99

2. Mobile Genes and RNA Interference

   • V. A. Gvozdev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 100 - 104

3. Was August Weismann Right?

   • L. I. Korochkin
   • A. P. Ryskov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 111

4. Retrotransposon gypsy and Its Role in Genetic Instability of a Mutator Strain of Drosophila melanogaster

   • N. V. Lyubomirskaya
   • A. I. Kim
   • Yu. V. Ilyin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 112 - 119

5. Initiation of DNA Replication in Cells of Higher Eukaryotes

   • S. V. Razin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 120 - 127

6. Regulatory Systems of Genome Domains with Vague Boundaries

   • E. S. Ioudinkova
   • S. V. Razin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 132

7. Heterochromatin, Position Effect, and Genetic Silencing

   • I. F. Zhimulev
   • E. S. Belyaeva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 146

8. Genetics and Epigenetics of Progressive Fascioscapulohumeral (Landouzy–Dejerine) Muscular Dystrophy

   • A. Petrov
   • D. Laoudj
   • Ye. Vassetzky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 151

9. Tumor Necrosis Factor and Lymphotoxin: Molecular Genetics, Regulation and Physiological Role

   • S. A. Nedospasov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 152 - 158

10. Variation of Mini- and Microsatellite DNA Repeats in Parthenogenetic Lizard Darevskia armeniaca as Revealed by DNA Fingerprinting Analysis

    • I. A. Martirosyan
    • N. G. Kan
    • O. N. Tokarskaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 165

11. Analysis of Deletion Mutations in the PARK2 Gene in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease

    • P. A. Slominsky
    • O. V. Miloserdova
    • S. A. Limborska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 166 - 171

12. Assessment of Population Differentiation Using DNA Fingerprinting and Modified Wright's FST-Statistics

    • V. G. Petrosyan
    • O. N. Tokarskaya
    • A. P. Ryskov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 172 - 177

13. Differentiation of Closely Related and Distant Human Populations by Multilocus DNA Fingerprinting

    • E. V. Shabrova
    • L. A. Tarskaya
    • S. A. Limborska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 178 - 184

14. Expression Analysis of Proteins Encoded by Genes of the tag7/tagL (PGRP-S, L) Family in Human Peripheral Blood Cells

    • A. V. Kibardin
    • I. I. Mirkina
    • S. L. Kiselev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 189

15. TRITHORAX, a Global Transcription Activator/Maintenance Protein of Drosophila melanogaster, Is Associated with the Nuclear Matrix

    • L. A. Lebedeva
    • S. V. Tillib

    OriginalPaper Pages: 190 - 197

16. Targeted Intracellular Site-Specific Drug Delivery: Photosensitizer Targeting to Melanoma Cell Nuclei

    • A. A. Rosenkranz
    • V. G. Lunin
    • A. S. Sobolev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 198 - 206

17. The Unusual Transposable Element Penelope and Its Behavior in Distant Drosophila Species

    • E. S. Zelentsova
    • K. I. Pyatkov
    • M. B. Evgen'ev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 215

18. Transcription Regulation of Human oct-1 Gene Requires Involvement of Two Promoters

    • S. V. Zhenilo
    • I. E. Deyev
    • O. L. Polanovsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 216 - 221

19. Role of “Antirestriction” Motif in Functional Activity of Antirestriction Protein ArdA pKM101 (IncN)

    • S. M. Rastorguev
    • G. B. Zavilgelsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 222 - 228

20. Polymorphism of the Promoter Region of the Angiotensinogen Gene and the Gene for Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme in Arterial Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease of the Kazakh Ethnic Group

    • N. A. Aitkhozhina
    • E. K. Lyudvikova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 235

21. RNA Interference is Developmentally Regulated: Analysis of Expression of suffix, a Short Retroelement of Drosophila

    • N. A. Tchurikov
    • O. V. Kretova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 236 - 239