Genetic variation and the de novo assembly of human genomes

MJP Chaisson, RK Wilson, EE Eichler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The discovery of genetic variation and the assembly of genome sequences are both
inextricably linked to advances in DNA-sequencing technology. Short-read massively …

Genome structural variation discovery and genoty**

C Alkan, BP Coe, EE Eichler - Nature reviews genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Comparisons of human genomes show that more base pairs are altered as a result of
structural variation—including copy number variation—than as a result of point mutations …

Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation

P Ebert, PA Audano, Q Zhu, B Rodriguez-Martin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The characterization of the full spectrum of genetic variation is critical to
understanding human health and disease. Recent technological advances have made it …

Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

MR Corces, A Shcherbina, S Kundu, MJ Gloudemans… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of
variants associated with disease phenotypes. However, most of these variants do not alter …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent inversion polymorphisms in humans associate with genetic instability and genomic disorders

D Porubsky, W Höps, H Ashraf, PH Hsieh… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Unlike copy number variants (CNVs), inversions remain an underexplored genetic variation
class. By integrating multiple genomic technologies, we discover 729 inversions in 41 …

Evaluation of GRCh38 and de novo haploid genome assemblies demonstrates the enduring quality of the reference assembly

VA Schneider, T Graves-Lindsay, K Howe… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
The human reference genome assembly plays a central role in nearly all aspects of today's
basic and clinical research. GRCh38 is the first coordinate-changing assembly update since …

High-resolution comparative analysis of great ape genomes

ZN Kronenberg, IT Fiddes, D Gordon, S Murali… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Understanding the genetic differences that make us human is a long-
standing endeavor that requires the comprehensive discovery and comparison of all forms …

A copy number variation morbidity map of developmental delay

GM Cooper, BP Coe, S Girirajan, JA Rosenfeld… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
To understand the genetic heterogeneity underlying developmental delay, we compared
copy number variants (CNVs) in 15,767 children with intellectual disability and various …

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

JW Trampush, MLZ Yang, J Yu, E Knowles… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind
many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) …