Desmosomal cadherins in health and disease

M Hegazy, AL Perl, SA Svoboda… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Desmosomal cadherins are a recent evolutionary innovation that make up the adhesive core
of highly specialized intercellular junctions called desmosomes. Desmosomal cadherins …

Nucleotide Transformer: building and evaluating robust foundation models for human genomics

H Dalla-Torre, L Gonzalez, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prediction of molecular phenotypes from DNA sequences remains a longstanding
challenge in genomics, often driven by limited annotated data and the inability to transfer …

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates

H Gao, T Hamp, J Ede, JG Schraiber, J McRae… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between
individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To …

Phylogenomic analyses provide insights into primate evolution

Y Shao, L Zhou, F Li, L Zhao, BL Zhang, F Shao… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Comparative analysis of primate genomes within a phylogenetic context is essential for
understanding the evolution of human genetic architecture and primate diversity. We present …

MutationTaster2021

R Steinhaus, S Proft, M Schuelke… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Here we present an update to MutationTaster, our DNA variant effect prediction tool. The
new version uses a different prediction model and attains higher accuracy than its …

The molecular structure of IFT-A and IFT-B in anterograde intraflagellar transport trains

SE Lacey, HE Foster, G Pigino - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2023 - nature.com
Anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains are essential for cilia assembly and
maintenance. These trains are formed of 22 IFT-A and IFT-B proteins that link structural and …

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

V Pejaver, J Urresti, J Lugo-Martinez, KA Pagel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying pathogenic variants and underlying functional alterations is challenging. To this
end, we introduce MutPred2, a tool that improves the prioritization of pathogenic amino acid …

Accelerated identification of disease-causing variants with ultra-rapid nanopore genome sequencing

SD Goenka, JE Gorzynski, K Shafin, DG Fisk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) can identify variants that cause genetic disease, but the
time required for sequencing and analysis has been a barrier to its use in acutely ill patients …

Development of a human genetics-guided priority score for 19,365 genes and 399 drug indications

Á Duffy, BO Petrazzini, D Stein, JK Park, IS Forrest… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Studies have shown that drug targets with human genetic support are more likely to succeed
in clinical trials. Hence, a tool integrating genetic evidence to prioritize drug target genes is …