[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the role of structural variation in human evolution: a functional perspective

C Karageorgiou, O Gokcumen, MY Dennis - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advances in sequencing technologies have enabled the comparison of high-quality
genomes of diverse primate species, revealing vast amounts of divergence due to structural …

TDP-43 chronic deficiency leads to dysregulation of transposable elements and gene expression by affecting R-loop and 5hmC crosstalk

Y Hou, Y Li, JF Xiang, K Tilahun, J Jiang, VG Corces… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Summary TDP-43 is an RNA/DNA-binding protein that forms aggregates in various brain
disorders. TDP-43 engages in many aspects of RNA metabolism, but its molecular roles in …

Genome graphs detect human polymorphisms in active epigenomic state during influenza infection

C Groza, X Chen, A Pacis, MM Simon, A Pramatarova… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Genetic variants, including mobile element insertions (MEIs), are known to impact the
epigenome. We hypothesized that genome graphs, which encapsulate genetic diversity …

Correlation of myeloid-derived suppressor cell expansion with upregulated transposable elements in severe COVID-19 unveiled in single-cell RNA sequencing …

M Farahmandnejad, P Mosaddeghi, M Dorvash… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Some studies have investigated the potential role of transposable elements (TEs) in COVID-
19 pathogenesis and complications. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no …

MATES: A Deep Learning-Based Model for Locus-specific Quantification of Transposable Elements in Single Cell

R Wang, Y Zheng, Z Zhang, X Zhu, TP Wu, J Ding - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are crucial for genetic diversity and gene regulation. Current
single-cell quantification methods often align multi-mapping reads to eitherbest …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements may enhance antiviral resistance in HIV-1 elite controllers

M Singh, SM Leddy, LP Iñiguez, ML Bendall, DF Nixon… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Less than 0.5% of people living with HIV-1 are elite controllers (ECs)-individuals
who have a replication-competent viral reservoir in their CD4+ T cells but maintain …

Multi-species analysis of inflammatory response elements reveals ancient and lineage-specific contributions of transposable elements to NF-κB binding

L Wang, A Alizada, K Rathnakumar, N Khyzha, T Taylor… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) is an essential and
evolutionarily conserved transcription factor complex primarily involved in innate immunity …

Cryptic endogenous retrovirus subfamilies in the primate lineage

X Chen, Z Zhang, Y Yan, C Goubert, G Bourque… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Many endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in the human genome are primate-specific and have
contributed novel cis-regulatory elements and transcripts. However, current approaches for …

Novel Transcriptomic Mechanisms of Brain Aging

AN Cavalier - 2023 - search.proquest.com
As the world ages, the incidence of age-related diseases like dementia is expected to
increase. Brain aging is characterized by declines in cognitive function that may develop into …

The Evolution of NF-κB Mediated Transcriptional Regulation in Mammalian Endothelial Cells

L Wang - 2023 - search.proquest.com
NF-κB is an essential and evolutionarily conserved transcription factor complex primarily
involved in innate immunity and inflammation. In the thesis, I explore how the NF-κB-centric …