Alternative splicing as a source of phenotypic diversity

CJ Wright, CWJ Smith, CD Jiggins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
A major goal of evolutionary genetics is to understand the genetic processes that give rise to
phenotypic diversity in multicellular organisms. Alternative splicing generates multiple …

The Human Gene Mutation Database: towards a comprehensive repository of inherited mutation data for medical research, genetic diagnosis and next-generation …

PD Stenson, M Mort, EV Ball, K Evans, M Hayden… - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®) constitutes a comprehensive
collection of published germline mutations in nuclear genes that underlie, or are closely …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Nanopore native RNA sequencing of a human poly (A) transcriptome

RE Workman, AD Tang, PS Tang, M Jain, JR Tyson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High-throughput complementary DNA sequencing technologies have advanced our
understanding of transcriptome complexity and regulation. However, these methods lose …

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues

GTEx Consortium Lead analysts: Aguet François 1 … - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the molecular function of the human genome and its variation
across individuals is essential for identifying the cellular mechanisms that underlie human …

Recommendations for interpreting the loss of function PVS1 ACMG/AMP variant criterion

AN Abou Tayoun, T Pesaran, MT DiStefano… - Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The 2015 ACMG/AMP sequence variant interpretation guideline provided a framework for
classifying variants based on several benign and pathogenic evidence criteria, including a …

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay: an emerging modulator of malignancy

K Tan, DG Stupack, MF Wilkinson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved RNA turnover pathway that
selectively degrades RNAs harbouring truncating mutations that prematurely terminate …

Transcriptome variation in human tissues revealed by long-read sequencing

DA Glinos, G Garborcauskas, P Hoffman, N Ehsan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Regulation of transcript structure generates transcript diversity and plays an important role in
human disease,,,,,–. The advent of long-read sequencing technologies offers the opportunity …

To NMD or not to NMD: nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in cancer and other genetic diseases

F Supek, B Lehner, RGH Lindeboom - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway degrades some but not all mRNAs
bearing premature termination codons (PTCs). Decades of work have elucidated the …

Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues

T Tukiainen, AC Villani, A Yen, MA Rivas, JL Marshall… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
X chromosome inactivation (XCI) silences transcription from one of the two X chromosomes
in female mammalian cells to balance expression dosage between XX females and XY …