A draft human pangenome reference

WW Liao, M Asri, J Ebler, D Doerr, M Haukness… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the
human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies …

A unified framework to analyze transposable element insertion polymorphisms using graph genomes

C Groza, X Chen, TJ Wheeler, G Bourque… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transposable elements are ubiquitous mobile DNA sequences generating insertion
polymorphisms, contributing to genomic diversity. We present GraffiTE, a flexible pipeline to …

Investigating mobile element variations by statistical genetics

S Kojima - Human Genome Variation, 2024 - nature.com
The integration of structural variations (SVs) in statistical genetics provides an opportunity to
understand the genetic factors influencing complex human traits and disease. Recent …

MATES: a deep learning-based model for locus-specific quantification of transposable elements in single cell

R Wang, Y Zheng, Z Zhang, K Song, E Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are crucial for genetic diversity and gene regulation. Current
single-cell quantification methods often align multi-mapping reads to either 'best-mapped'or …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements are associated with the variable response to influenza infection

X Chen, A Pacis, KA Aracena, S Gona, T Kwan… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Influenza A virus (IAV) infections are frequent every year and result in a range of disease
severity. Here, we wanted to explore the potential contribution of transposable elements …

GraffiTE: a unified framework to analyze transposable element insertion polymorphisms using genome-graphs

C Groza, X Chen, TJ Wheeler, G Bourque, C Goubert - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Transposable Elements (TEs) are abundant and mobile repetitive DNA sequences evolving
within and across their hosts' genomes. Active TEs cause insertion polymorphism and …

An assessment of bioinformatics tools for the detection of human endogenous retroviral insertions in short-read genome sequencing data

H Bowles, R Kabiljo, A Al Khleifat, A Jones… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing interest in the study of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) given
the substantial body of evidence that implicates them in many human diseases. Although …

Genotyping of Transposable Element Insertions Segregating in Human Populations Using Short-Read Realignments

X Chen, G Bourque, C Goubert - Transposable Elements: Methods and …, 2022 - Springer
Transposable element (TE) insertions are a major source of structural variation in the human
genome. Due to the repetitive nature and biological importance of TEs, many bioinformatic …

Expanded methylome and quantitative trait loci detection by long-read profiling of personal DNA

C Groza, B Ge, W Cheung, T Pastinen, G Bourque - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Structural variants (SVs) are omnipresent in human DNA, yet their genotype and methylation
status is rarely characterized due to previous limitations in genome assembly and detection …

Pangenomic applications in rare disease and the epigenomics of structural variation

C Groza - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Structural variants (SVs) is a class of human genetic variation that affects millions of
nucleotides between any two genomes. However, SVs were not easily accessible until long …