Contents

Russian Journal of Genetics

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Vol. 52, No. 7, 2016

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Russian Journal of Genetics ISSN 1022-7954.

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On the 50th Anniversary of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders

S. V. Shestakov and S. G. Inge-Vechtomov p. 641  abstract

Fundamentally Low Reproducibility in Molecular Genetic Cancer Research

I. V. Alekseenko, V. V. Pleshkan, G. S. Monastyrskaya, A. I. Kuzmich, E. V. Snezhkov, D. A. Didych and E. D. Sverdlov p. 650  abstract

Genetic Mechanisms of Adaptive Immunity Emergence in Vertebrates

E. S. Shilov and D. V. Kuprash p. 664  abstract

Prospects for Application of Breakthrough Technologies in Breeding: The CRISPR/Cas9 System for Plant Genome Editing

E. K. Khlestkina and V. K. Shumny p. 676  abstract

Methods of High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping for Large-Scale Breeding and Genetic Experiments

D. A. Afonnikov, M. A. Genaev, A. V. Doroshkov, E. G. Komyshev and T. A. Pshenichnikova p. 688  abstract

Horizontal Gene Transfer into the Genomes of Insects

I. A. Zakharov p. 702  abstract

Chromosome as a Chronicler: Genetic Dating, Historical Events, and DNA-Genealogic Temptation

O. P. Balanovsky and V. V. Zaporozhchenko p. 708  abstract

Migration as the Main Factor of the Russia’s Urban Population Dynamics

O. L. Kurbatova and N. K. Yankovsky p. 726  abstract

Evolution of Genetic Diversity and Human Diseases

V. A. Stepanov p. 746  abstract

Genetic Risk Assessment of the Joint Effect of Several Genes: Critical Appraisal

A. V. Rubanovich and N. N. Khromov-Borisov p. 757  abstract

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