Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation

N Dussex, HE Morales, C Grossen, L Dalén… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023‏ - cell.com
Our ability to assess the threat posed by the genetic load to small and declining populations
has been greatly improved by advances in genome sequencing and computational …

Genetics of atrial fibrillation in 2020: GWAS, genome sequencing, polygenic risk, and beyond

C Roselli, M Rienstra, PT Ellinor - Circulation research, 2020‏ - ahajournals.org
Atrial fibrillation is a common heart rhythm disorder that leads to an increased risk for stroke
and heart failure. Atrial fibrillation is a complex disease with both environmental and genetic …

CADD-Splice—improving genome-wide variant effect prediction using deep learning-derived splice scores

P Rentzsch, M Schubach, J Shendure, M Kircher - Genome medicine, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Splicing of genomic exons into mRNAs is a critical prerequisite for the accurate
synthesis of human proteins. Genetic variants impacting splicing underlie a substantial …

Genome interpretation using in silico predictors of variant impact

P Katsonis, K Wilhelm, A Williams, O Lichtarge - Human genetics, 2022‏ - Springer
Estimating the effects of variants found in disease driver genes opens the door to
personalized therapeutic opportunities. Clinical associations and laboratory experiments …

Challenges in quantifying genome erosion for conservation

M Bosse, S van Loon - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Massive defaunation and high extinction rates have become characteristic of the
Anthropocene. Genetic effects of population decline can lead populations into an extinction …

Pathogenicity and functional impact of non-frameshifting insertion/deletion variation in the human genome

KA Pagel, D Antaki, AJ Lian, M Mort… - PLoS computational …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Differentiation between phenotypically neutral and disease-causing genetic variation
remains an open and relevant problem. Among different types of variation, non-frameshifting …

Novel, rare and common pathogenic variants in the CFTR gene screened by high-throughput sequencing technology and predicted by in silico tools

SVN Pereira, JD Ribeiro, AF Ribeiro, CS Bertuzzo… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by~ 300 pathogenic CFTR variants. The heterogeneity of
which, challenges molecular diagnosis and precision medicine approaches in CF. Our …

Prediction of cancer driver genes and mutations: the potential of integrative computational frameworks

M Nourbakhsh, K Degn, A Saksager… - Briefings in …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
The vast amount of available sequencing data allows the scientific community to explore
different genetic alterations that may drive cancer or favor cancer progression. Software …

Genomic trajectories of a near-extinction event in the Chatham Island black robin

J von Seth, T van der Valk, E Lord, H Sigeman… - BMC genomics, 2022‏ - Springer
Background Understanding the micro-evolutionary response of populations to demographic
declines is a major goal in evolutionary and conservation biology. In small populations …

Bioinformatics of germline variant discovery for rare disease diagnostics: current approaches and remaining challenges

YA Barbitoff, MO Ushakov, TE Lazareva… - Briefings in …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized the field of rare disease diagnostics.
Whole exome and whole genome sequencing are now routinely used for diagnostic …