Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

ALS genetics, mechanisms, and therapeutics: where are we now?

R Mejzini, LL Flynn, IL Pitout, S Fletcher… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The scientific landscape surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) continues to shift
as the number of genes associated with the disease risk and pathogenesis, and the cellular …

A draft human pangenome reference

WW Liao, M Asri, J Ebler, D Doerr, M Haukness… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the
human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies …

Pangenomics enables genoty** of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes

J Sirén, J Monlong, X Chang, AM Novak, JM Eizenga… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Modern genomics depends on inexpensive short-read sequencing.
Sequenced reads up to a few hundred base pairs in length are computationally mapped to …

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 …

Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

RL Collins, H Brand, KJ Karczewski, X Zhao, J Alföldi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) rearrange large segments of DNA and can have profound
consequences in evolution and human disease,. As national biobanks, disease-association …

Structural variation in the sequencing era

SS Ho, AE Urban, RE Mills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying structural variation (SV) is essential for genome interpretation but has been
historically difficult due to limitations inherent to available genome technologies. Detection …

Molecular quantitative trait loci

F Aguet, K Alasoo, YI Li, A Battle, HK Im… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding functional effects of genetic variants is one of the key challenges in human
genetics, as much of disease-associated variation is located in non-coding regions with …

A sheep pangenome reveals the spectrum of structural variations and their effects on tail phenotypes

R Li, M Gong, X Zhang, F Wang, Z Liu… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Structural variations (SVs) are a major contributor to genetic diversity and phenotypic
variations, but their prevalence and functions in domestic animals are largely unexplored …