Molecular mechanisms underlying nucleotide repeat expansion disorders

I Malik, CP Kelley, ET Wang, PK Todd - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The human genome contains over one million short tandem repeats. Expansion of a subset
of these repeat tracts underlies over fifty human disorders, including common genetic …

Plant organellar genomes: much done, much more to do

J Wang, S Kan, X Liao, J Zhou, LR Tembrock… - Trends in plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Plastids and mitochondria are the only organelles that possess genomes of endosymbiotic
origin. In recent decades, advances in sequencing technologies have contributed to a …

Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding

Y Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Bao, H Li, Y Lyu, Y Zan, Y Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

DC Jeffares, C Jolly, M Hoti, D Speed, L Shaw… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Large structural variations (SVs) within genomes are more challenging to identify than
smaller genetic variants but may substantially contribute to phenotypic diversity and …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of insecticide resistance in the peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae

C Bass, AM Puinean, CT Zimmer, I Denholm… - Insect biochemistry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae is a globally distributed crop pest with a host range
of over 400 species including many economically important crop plants. The intensive use of …

Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression

CA Horton, AM Alexandari, MGB Hayes, E Marklund… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are enriched in eukaryotic cis-regulatory elements and alter
gene expression, yet how they regulate transcription remains unknown. We found that STRs …

On the wrong DNA track: Molecular mechanisms of repeat-mediated genome instability

AN Khristich, SM Mirkin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Expansions of simple tandem repeats are responsible for almost 50 human diseases, the
majority of which are severe, degenerative, and not currently treatable or preventable. In this …

The QTN program and the alleles that matter for evolution: all that's gold does not glitter

MV Rockman - Evolution, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The search for the alleles that matter, the quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) that underlie
heritable variation within populations and divergence among them, is a popular pursuit. But …

Variable tandem repeats accelerate evolution of coding and regulatory sequences

R Gemayel, MD Vinces, M Legendre… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Genotype-to-phenotype map** commonly focuses on two major classes of mutations:
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number variation (CNV). Here, we …

The impact of short tandem repeat variation on gene expression

SF Fotsing, J Margoliash, C Wang, S Saini, R Yanicky… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) have been implicated in a variety of complex traits in humans.
However, genome-wide studies of the effects of STRs on gene expression thus far have had …