The pathogenesis of endometriosis: molecular and cell biology insights

AS Laganà, S Garzon, M Götte, P Viganò… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The etiopathogenesis of endometriosis is a multifactorial process resulting in a
heterogeneous disease. Considering that endometriosis etiology and pathogenesis are still …

Finding the genomic basis of local adaptation: pitfalls, practical solutions, and future directions

S Hoban, JL Kelley, KE Lotterhos… - The American …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Uncovering the genetic and evolutionary basis of local adaptation is a major focus of
evolutionary biology. The recent development of cost-effective methods for obtaining high …

Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into evolutionary history of the tea plant Camellia sinensis

X Zhang, S Chen, L Shi, D Gong, S Zhang, Q Zhao… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Tea is an important global beverage crop and is largely clonally propagated. Despite
previous studies on the species, its genetic and evolutionary history deserves further …

High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health

A Choudhury, S Aron, LR Botigué, D Sengupta… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The African continent is regarded as the cradle of modern humans and African genomes
contain more genetic variation than those from any other continent, yet only a fraction of the …

Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

M Maccaferri, NS Harris, SO Twardziok, RK Pasam… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The domestication of wild emmer wheat led to the selection of modern durum wheat, grown
mainly for pasta production. We describe the 10.45 gigabase (Gb) assembly of the genome …

Identification of 38 novel loci for systemic lupus erythematosus and genetic heterogeneity between ancestral groups

YF Wang, Y Zhang, Z Lin, H Zhang, TY Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a worldwide autoimmune disease with high
heritability, shows differences in prevalence, severity and age of onset among different …

A spectrum of free software tools for processing the VCF variant call format: vcflib, bio-vcf, cyvcf2, hts-nim and slivar

E Garrison, ZN Kronenberg, ET Dawson… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Since its introduction in 2011 the variant call format (VCF) has been widely adopted for
processing DNA and RNA variants in practically all population studies—as well as in …

Dynamic landscape and evolution of m6A methylation in human

H Zhang, X Shi, T Huang, X Zhao, W Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract m6A is a prevalent internal modification in mRNAs and has been linked to the
diverse effects on mRNA fate. To explore the landscape and evolution of human m6A, we …

YTHDF1 links hypoxia adaptation and non-small cell lung cancer progression

Y Shi, S Fan, M Wu, Z Zuo, X Li, L Jiang, Q Shen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Hypoxia occurs naturally at high-altitudes and pathologically in hypoxic solid tumors. Here,
we report that genes involved in various human cancers evolved rapidly in Tibetans and six …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …