The impact of structural variation on human gene expression

C Chiang, AJ Scott, JR Davis, EK Tsang, X Li, Y Kim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) are an important source of human genetic diversity, but their
contribution to traits, disease and gene regulation remains unclear. We mapped cis …

Different facets of copy number changes: permanent, transient, and adaptive

S Mishra, JR Whetstine - Molecular and cellular biology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Chromosomal copy number changes are frequently associated with harmful consequences
and are thought of as an underlying mechanism for the development of diseases. However …

A single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human neocortical development during mid-gestation

D Polioudakis, L de la Torre-Ubieta, J Langerman… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
We performed RNA sequencing on 40,000 cells to create a high-resolution single-cell gene
expression atlas of developing human cortex, providing the first single-cell characterization …

Unravelling the roles of susceptibility loci for autoimmune diseases in the post-GWAS era

J Ye, KM Gillespie, S Rodriguez - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several hundred loci
associated with autoimmune diseases, their mechanistic insights are still poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Influences of rare copy-number variation on human complex traits

MLA Hujoel, MA Sherman, AR Barton, RE Mukamel… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The human genome contains hundreds of thousands of regions harboring copy-number
variants (CNV). However, the phenotypic effects of most such polymorphisms are unknown …

Burden analysis of rare microdeletions suggests a strong impact of neurodevelopmental genes in genetic generalised epilepsies

D Lal, AK Ruppert, H Trucks, H Schulz… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Genetic generalised epilepsy (GGE) is the most common form of genetic epilepsy,
accounting for 20% of all epilepsies. Genomic copy number variations (CNVs) constitute …

High population frequencies of MICA copy number variations originate from independent recombination events

A Klussmeier, K Putke, S Klasberg, M Kohler… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
MICA is a stress-induced ligand of the NKG2D receptor that stimulates NK and T cell
responses and was identified as a key determinant of anti-tumor immunity. The MICA gene …

Genome-wide copy number variation (CNV) detection in Nelore cattle reveals highly frequent variants in genome regions harboring QTLs affecting production traits

JM da Silva, PF Giachetto, LO da Silva, LC Cintra… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) have been shown to account for
substantial portions of observed genomic variation and have been associated with …

The missing heritability in type 1 diabetes

H Pang, J Lin, S Luo, G Huang, X Li… - Diabetes, Obesity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by an
absolute deficiency of insulin. It affects more than 20 million people worldwide and imposes …

Detecting rare copy number variants from Illumina genotyping arrays with the CamCNV pipeline: Segmentation of z‐scores improves detection and reliability

J Dennis, L Walker, J Tyrer, K Michailidou… - Genetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The intensities from genotyping array data can be used to detect copy number variants
(CNVs) but a high level of noise in the data and overlap between different copy‐number …