[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution map of human RNA translation

SP Chothani, E Adami, AA Widjaja, SR Langley… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Translated small open reading frames (smORFs) can have important regulatory roles and
encode microproteins, yet their genome-wide identification has been challenging. We …

Whole genome sequencing resource identifies 18 new candidate genes for autism spectrum disorder

RK C Yuen, D Merico, M Bookman, JL Howe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We are performing whole-genome sequencing of families with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) to build a resource (MSSNG) for subcategorizing the phenotypes and underlying …

An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse

D De Rie, I Abugessaisa, T Alam, E Arner, P Arner… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs with key roles in cellular regulation. As
part of the fifth edition of the Functional Annotation of Mammalian Genome (FANTOM5) …

The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression

JA Robinson, CC Kyriazis, SF Nigenda-Morales… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In cases of severe wildlife population decline, a key question is whether recovery efforts will
be impeded by genetic factors, such as inbreeding depression. Decades of excess mortality …

M-CAP eliminates a majority of variants of uncertain significance in clinical exomes at high sensitivity

KA Jagadeesh, AM Wenger, MJ Berger, H Guturu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Variant pathogenicity classifiers such as SIFT, PolyPhen-2, CADD, and MetaLR assist in
interpretation of the hundreds of rare, missense variants in the typical patient genome by …

Therapeutic base editing of human hematopoietic stem cells

J Zeng, Y Wu, C Ren, J Bonanno, AH Shen, D Shea… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing by nucleotide deaminases linked to programmable DNA-binding proteins
represents a promising approach to permanently remedy blood disorders, although its …

Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes

HJ Abel, DE Larson, AA Regier, C Chiang, I Das… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A key goal of whole-genome sequencing for studies of human genetics is to interrogate all
forms of variation, including single-nucleotide variants, small insertion or deletion (indel) …

Large-scale ruminant genome sequencing provides insights into their evolution and distinct traits

L Chen, Q Qiu, YU Jiang, K Wang, Z Lin, Z Li, F Bibi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ruminants are one of the most successful mammalian lineages,
exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity and containing several key …

Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

M Lynch, MS Ackerman, JF Gout, H Long… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
As one of the few cellular traits that can be quantified across the tree of life, DNA-replication
fidelity provides an excellent platform for understanding fundamental evolutionary …

De novo birth of functional microproteins in the human lineage

N Vakirlis, Z Vance, KM Duggan, A McLysaght - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Small open reading frames (sORFs) can encode functional" microproteins" that perform
crucial biological tasks. However, their size makes them less amenable to genomic analysis …