CADD v1. 7: using protein language models, regulatory CNNs and other nucleotide-level scores to improve genome-wide variant predictions

M Schubach, T Maass, L Nazaretyan… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine Learning-based scoring and classification of genetic variants aids the
assessment of clinical findings and is employed to prioritize variants in diverse genetic …

Selection on synonymous sites: The unwanted transcript hypothesis

S Radrizzani, G Kudla, Z Izsvák, LD Hurst - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although translational selection to favour codons that match the most abundant tRNAs is not
readily observed in humans, there is nonetheless selection in humans on synonymous …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Jump-starting life: Balancing transposable element co-option and genome integrity in the develo** mammalian embryo

ME Oomen, ME Torres-Padilla - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
Remnants of transposable elements (TEs) are widely expressed throughout mammalian
embryo development. Originally infesting our genomes as selfish elements and acting as a …

Harmonized cross-species cell atlases of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia

SA Bhuiyan, M Xu, L Yang, E Semizoglou, P Bhatia… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sensory neurons in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and trigeminal ganglion (TG) are
specialized to detect and transduce diverse environmental stimuli to the central nervous …

Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements

HE Pratt, G Andrews, N Shedd, N Phalke, T Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Most genetic variants associated with psychiatric disorders are located in noncoding regions
of the genome. To investigate their functional implications, we integrate epigenetic data from …

Transposable elements as tissue-specific enhancers in cancers of endodermal lineage

K Karttunen, D Patel, J **a, L Fei, K Palin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TE) are repetitive genomic elements that harbor binding sites for
human transcription factors (TF). A regulatory role for TEs has been suggested in embryonal …

DNAGPT: a generalized pre-trained tool for versatile DNA sequence analysis tasks

D Zhang, W Zhang, Y Zhao, J Zhang, B He… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Pre-trained large language models demonstrate potential in extracting information from DNA
sequences, yet adapting to a variety of tasks and data modalities remains a challenge. To …

Regulatory transposable elements in the encyclopedia of DNA elements

AY Du, JD Chobirko, X Zhuo, C Feschotte… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Transposable elements (TEs) comprise~ 50% of our genome, but knowledge of
how TEs affect genome evolution remains incomplete. Leveraging ENCODE4 data, we …

The developmental and evolutionary characteristics of transcription factor binding site clustered regions based on an explainable machine learning model

Z Ouyang, F Liu, W Li, J Wang, B Chen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression is temporally and spatially regulated by the interaction of transcription
factors (TFs) and cis-regulatory elements (CREs). The uneven distribution of TF binding sites …