[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the role of structural variation in human evolution: a functional perspective

C Karageorgiou, O Gokcumen, MY Dennis - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advances in sequencing technologies have enabled the comparison of high-quality
genomes of diverse primate species, revealing vast amounts of divergence due to structural …

[HTML][HTML] Structural variation in humans and our primate kin in the era of telomere-to-telomere genomes and pangenomics

JL Rocha, RN Lou, PH Sudmant - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•T2T genomes are transforming our understanding of genome architecture and
evolution.•Population scale long read sequencing is identifying novel selective …

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes

GA Logsdon, P Ebert, PA Audano, M Loftus… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diverse sets of complete human genomes are required to construct a pangenome reference
and to understand the extent of complex structural variation. Here, we sequence 65 diverse …

Genotyping sequence-resolved copy-number variations using pangenomes reveals paralog-specific global diversity and expression divergence of duplicated genes

W Ma, MJP Chaisson - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Copy-number variable (CNV) genes are important in evolution and disease, yet sequence
variation in CNV genes is a blindspot for large-scale studies. We present a method, ctyper …

High-resolution global diversity copy number variation maps and association with ctyper

M Chaisson, W Ma - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Genetic analysis of copy number variations (CNVs), especially in complex regions, is
challenging due to reference bias and ambiguous alignment of Next-Generation …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of saliva protein genes in the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein (SCPP) locus and accelerated evolution in primates

P Pajic, L Landau, O Gokcumen, S Ruhl - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genes within the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein (SCPP) family evolved in
conjunction with major evolutionary milestones: the formation of a calcified skeleton in …

[HTML][HTML] Gene expansions contributing to human brain evolution

DC Soto, JM Uribe-Salazar, G Kaya, R Valdarrago… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic drivers of human-specific neurological traits remain largely undiscovered.
Duplicated genes expanded uniquely in the human lineage likely contributed to brain …

Variabilita amylázového genu u člověka

V Vosmíková - 2024 - dspace.cuni.cz
Amyláza je enzym produkovaný u člověka v pankreatu a slinných žlázách, jehož funkcí je
štěpení škrobu. Geny pro slinný izoenzym (AMY1) nacházející se na chromozomu 1p21. 1 …