Mechanisms underlying structural variant formation in genomic disorders

CMB Carvalho, JR Lupski - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
With the recent burst of technological developments in genomics, and the clinical
implementation of genome-wide assays, our understanding of the molecular basis of …

Non-coding genetic variants in human disease

F Zhang, JR Lupski - Human molecular genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Genetic variants, including single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number variants
(CNVs), in the non-coding regions of the human genome can play an important role in …

Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

J Weischenfeldt, O Symmons, F Spitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic structural variants have long been implicated in phenotypic diversity and human
disease, but dissecting the mechanisms by which they exert their functional impact has …

Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11. 2 locus

S Jacquemont, A Reymond, F Zufferey, L Harewood… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Both obesity and being underweight have been associated with increased mortality,.
Underweight, defined as a body mass index (BMI)≤ 18.5 kg per m2 in adults and≤− 2 …

Dosage-dependent phenotypes in models of 16p11. 2 lesions found in autism

G Horev, J Ellegood, JP Lerch… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Recurrent copy number variations (CNVs) of human 16p11. 2 have been associated with a
variety of developmental/neurocognitive syndromes. In particular, deletion of 16p11. 2 is …

Behavioral neuroscience of autism

T Takumi, K Tamada, F Hatanaka, N Nakai… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Several genetic causes
of ASD have been identified and this has enabled researchers to construct mouse models …

Genomic disorders 20 years on—mechanisms for clinical manifestations

T Harel, JR Lupski - Clinical genetics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic disorders result from copy‐number variants (CNVs) or submicroscopic
rearrangements of the genome rather than from single nucleotide variants (SNVs). Diverse …

Epitranscriptomic regulation by m6A RNA methylation in brain development and diseases

AK Chokkalla, SL Mehta… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cellular RNAs are pervasively tagged with diverse chemical moieties, collectively called
epitranscriptomic modifications. The methylation of adenosine at N6 position generates N6 …

Structural variation mutagenesis of the human genome: Impact on disease and evolution

JR Lupski - Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Watson‐Crick base‐pair changes, or single‐nucleotide variants (SNV), have long been
known as a source of mutations. However, the extent to which DNA structural variation …

The impact of human copy number variation on gene expression

ER Gamazon, BE Stranger - Briefings in functional genomics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Recent years have witnessed a flurry of important technological and methodological
developments in the discovery and analysis of copy number variations (CNVs), which are …