Plant pan-genomes are the new reference

PE Bayer, AA Golicz, A Scheben, J Batley, D Edwards - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a surge in plant genome sequencing projects and the comparison
of multiple related individuals. The high degree of genomic variation observed led to the …

Enhancer redundancy in development and disease

EZ Kvon, R Waymack, M Gad, Z Wunderlich - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Shadow enhancers are seemingly redundant transcriptional cis-regulatory elements that
regulate the same gene and drive overlapping expression patterns. Recent studies have …

A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders,,–, but …

A genome-wide mutational constraint map quantified from variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders, but …

Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

D Taliun, DN Harris, MD Kessler, J Carlson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate
the genetic architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the …

Structural variation in the 3D genome

M Spielmann, DG Lupiáñez, S Mundlos - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Structural and quantitative chromosomal rearrangements, collectively referred to as
structural variation (SV), contribute to a large extent to the genetic diversity of the human …

Pan-genomics in the human genome era

RM Sherman, SL Salzberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Since the early days of the genome era, the scientific community has relied on a single
'reference'genome for each species, which is used as the basis for a wide range of genetic …

Enhancer redundancy provides phenotypic robustness in mammalian development

M Osterwalder, I Barozzi, V Tissières… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Distant-acting tissue-specific enhancers, which regulate gene expression, vastly outnumber
protein-coding genes in mammalian genomes, but the functional importance of this …

Noncoding variants alter GATA2 expression in rhombomere 4 motor neurons and cause dominant hereditary congenital facial paresis

AP Tenney, SA Di Gioia, BD Webb, WM Chan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hereditary congenital facial paresis type 1 (HCFP1) is an autosomal dominant disorder of
absent or limited facial movement that maps to chromosome 3q21-q22 and is hypothesized …

Assembly of a pan-genome from deep sequencing of 910 humans of African descent

RM Sherman, J Forman, V Antonescu, D Puiu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We used a deeply sequenced dataset of 910 individuals, all of African descent, to construct
a set of DNA sequences that is present in these individuals but missing from the reference …