Variant calling and benchmarking in an era of complete human genome sequences

ND Olson, J Wagner, N Dwarshuis, KH Miga… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variant calling from DNA sequencing has enabled understanding of germline
variation in hundreds of thousands of humans. Sequencing technologies and variant-calling …

Diversity and convergence of sex-determination mechanisms in teleost fish

J Kitano, S Ansai, Y Takehana… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Sexual reproduction is prevalent across diverse taxa. However, sex-determination
mechanisms are so diverse that even closely related species often differ in sex …

Telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes with Verkko

M Rautiainen, S Nurk, BP Walenz, GA Logsdon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium recently assembled the first truly complete
sequence of a human genome. To resolve the most complex repeats, this project relied on …

Mouse Genome Informatics: an integrated knowledgebase system for the laboratory mouse

RM Baldarelli, CL Smith, M Ringwald, JE Richardson… - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) is a federation of expertly curated information
resources designed to support experimental and computational investigations into genetic …

The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes

KD Makova, BD Pickett, RS Harris, GA Hartley… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Apes possess two sex chromosomes—the male-specific Y chromosome and the X
chromosome, which is present in both males and females. The Y chromosome is crucial for …

Analysis and benchmarking of small and large genomic variants across tandem repeats

AC English, E Dolzhenko, H Ziaei Jam… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeats (TRs) are highly polymorphic in the human genome, have thousands of
associated molecular traits and are linked to over 60 disease phenotypes. However, they …

Robustness of cancer microbiome signals over a broad range of methodological variation

GD Sepich-Poore, D McDonald, E Kopylova… - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
In 2020, we identified cancer-specific microbial signals in The Cancer Genome Atlas
(TCGA). Multiple peer-reviewed papers independently verified or extended our findings …

Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes

A Guarracino, S Buonaiuto, LG de Lima, T Potapova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The short arms of the human acrocentric chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (SAACs) share
large homologous regions, including ribosomal DNA repeats and extended segmental …

Assembly of 43 human Y chromosomes reveals extensive complexity and variation

P Hallast, P Ebert, M Loftus, F Yilmaz, PA Audano… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of highly repetitive sequences within the human Y chromosome has
prevented its complete assembly to date and led to its systematic omission from genomic …

Genome-wide repeat landscapes in cancer and cell-free DNA

AV Annapragada, N Niknafs, JR White… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Genetic changes in repetitive sequences are a hallmark of cancer and other diseases, but
characterizing these has been challenging using standard sequencing approaches. We …