Towards accurate and reliable resolution of structural variants for clinical diagnosis

Z Liu, R Roberts, TR Mercer, J Xu, FJ Sedlazeck… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Structural variants (SVs) are a major source of human genetic diversity and have been
associated with different diseases and phenotypes. The detection of SVs is difficult, and a …

Genomic diagnosis of rare pediatric disease in the United Kingdom and Ireland

CF Wright, P Campbell, RY Eberhardt… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Pediatric disorders include a range of highly penetrant, genetically
heterogeneous conditions amenable to genomewide diagnostic approaches. Finding a …

mRNA vaccines: Why is the biology of retroposition ignored?

T Domazet-Lošo - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The major advantage of mRNA vaccines over more conventional approaches is their
potential for rapid development and large-scale deployment in pandemic situations. In the …

[PDF][PDF] A mouse-specific retrotransposon drives a conserved Cdk2ap1 isoform essential for development

AJ Modzelewski, W Shao, J Chen, A Lee, X Qi, M Noon… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Retrotransposons mediate gene regulation in important developmental and pathological
processes. Here, we characterized the transient retrotransposon induction during …

Systematic evaluation of genome sequencing for the diagnostic assessment of autism spectrum disorder and fetal structural anomalies

C Lowther, E Valkanas, JL Giordano, HZ Wang… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Short-read genome sequencing (GS) holds the promise of becoming the primary diagnostic
approach for the assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fetal structural …

Selective binding of retrotransposons by ZFP352 facilitates the timely dissolution of totipotency network

Z Li, H Xu, J Li, X Xu, J Wang, D Wu, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acquisition of new stem cell fates relies on the dissolution of the prior regulatory network
sustaining the existing cell fates. Currently, extensive insights have been revealed for the …

Pedigree-based estimation of human mobile element retrotransposition rates

J Feusier, WS Watkins, J Thomas, A Farrell… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Germline mutation rates in humans have been estimated for a variety of mutation types,
including single-nucleotide and large structural variants. Here, we directly measure the …

Characterizing mobile element insertions in 5675 genomes

Y Niu, X Teng, H Zhou, Y Shi, Y Li, Y Tang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Mobile element insertions (MEIs) are a major class of structural variants (SVs) and have
been linked to many human genetic disorders, including hemophilia, neurofibromatosis, and …

Epigenomic analysis reveals prevalent contribution of transposable elements to cis-regulatory elements, tissue-specific expression, and alternative promoters in …

HJ Lee, Y Hou, JH Maeng, NM Shah, Y Chen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Transposable elements (TEs) encode regulatory elements that impact gene expression in
multiple species, yet a comprehensive analysis of zebrafish TEs in the context of gene …

Mobile element insertions in rare diseases: a comparative benchmark and reanalysis of 60,000 exome samples

R Wijngaard, G Demidov, L O'Gorman… - European Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Mobile element insertions (MEIs) are a known cause of genetic disease but have been
underexplored due to technical limitations of genetic testing methods. Various bioinformatic …