A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

Programmed axon degeneration: from mouse to mechanism to medicine

MP Coleman, A Höke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Wallerian degeneration is a widespread mechanism of programmed axon degeneration. In
the three decades since the discovery of the Wallerian degeneration slow (Wld S) mouse …

Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes

AG Bick, JS Weinstock, SK Nandakumar, CP Fulco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for most chronic human diseases, but the mechanisms
through which ageing confers this risk are largely unknown. The age-related acquisition of …

Mechanisms and therapeutic implications of hypermutation in gliomas

M Touat, YY Li, AN Boynton, LF Spurr, JB Iorgulescu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A high tumour mutational burden (hypermutation) is observed in some gliomas,,,–; however,
the mechanisms by which hypermutation develops and whether it predicts the response to …

The DisGeNET knowledge platform for disease genomics: 2019 update

J Piñero, JM Ramírez-Anguita… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
One of the most pressing challenges in genomic medicine is to understand the role played
by genetic variation in health and disease. Thanks to the exploration of genomic variants at …

Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection

JJ Chabon, EG Hamilton, DM Kurtz, MS Esfahani… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Radiologic screening of high-risk adults reduces lung-cancer-related mortality,; however, a
small minority of eligible individuals undergo such screening in the United States,. The …

[HTML][HTML] ACE2 and TMPRSS2 variants and expression as candidates to sex and country differences in COVID-19 severity in Italy

R Asselta, EM Paraboschi, A Mantovani… - Aging (albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) progresses, prognostic markers for
early identification of high-risk individuals are an urgent medical need. Italy has one of the …

[HTML][HTML] A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing

DE Gordon, GM Jang, M Bouhaddou, J Xu, K Obernier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A newly described coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), which is the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has …

Ensembl 2020

AD Yates, P Achuthan, W Akanni, J Allen… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ensembl (https://www. ensembl. org) is a system for generating and distributing
genome annotation such as genes, variation, regulation and comparative genomics across …

Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

A Rives, J Meier, T Sercu, S Goyal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In the field of artificial intelligence, a combination of scale in data and model capacity
enabled by unsupervised learning has led to major advances in representation learning and …