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 …

CNVs: harbingers of a rare variant revolution in psychiatric genetics

D Malhotra, J Sebat - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The genetic bases of neuropsychiatric disorders are beginning to yield to scientific inquiry.
Genome-wide studies of copy number variation (CNV) have given rise to a new …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

Accurate detection of complex structural variations using single-molecule sequencing

FJ Sedlazeck, P Rescheneder, M Smolka, H Fang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Structural variations are the greatest source of genetic variation, but they remain poorly
understood because of technological limitations. Single-molecule long-read sequencing has …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

Y Li, ND Roberts, JA Wala, O Shapira, SE Schumacher… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A key mutational process in cancer is structural variation, in which rearrangements delete,
amplify or reorder genomic segments that range in size from kilobases to whole …

Comprehensive structural variant detection: from mosaic to population-level

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Long-read Structural Variation (SV) calling remains a challenging but highly
accurate way to identify complex genomic rearrangements. Here, we present Sniffles2 …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of gene duplication and amplification

AB Reams, JR Roth - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Abstract Changes in gene copy number are among the most frequent mutational events in
all genomes and were among the mutations for which a physical basis was first known. Yet …

[HTML][HTML] An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples

A Ahouidi, M Ali, J Almagro-Garcia… - Wellcome Open …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A major obstacle to malaria elimination is the great capacity of the parasite and vector
populations to evolve in response to malaria control interventions. The widespread use of …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosome catastrophes involve replication mechanisms generating complex genomic rearrangements

P Liu, A Erez, SCS Nagamani, SU Dhar… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Complex genomic rearrangements (CGRs) consisting of two or more breakpoint junctions
have been observed in genomic disorders. Recently, a chromosome catastrophe …

Human structural variation: mechanisms of chromosome rearrangements

B Weckselblatt, MK Rudd - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Chromosome structural variation (SV) is a normal part of variation in the human genome, but
some classes of SV can cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Analysis of the DNA …