Next-generation sequencing technology: current trends and advancements

H Satam, K Joshi, U Mangrolia, S Waghoo, G Zaidi… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool used in genomics
research. NGS can sequence millions of DNA fragments at once, providing detailed …

Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Lactylome analysis suggests lactylation-dependent mechanisms of metabolic adaptation in hepatocellular carcinoma

Z Yang, C Yan, J Ma, P Peng, X Ren, S Cai, X Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enhanced glycolysis and accumulation of lactate is a common feature in various types of
cancer. Intracellular lactate drives a recently described type of posttranslational modification …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx

AM Frankell, M Dietzen, M Al Bakir, EL Lim, T Karasaki… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Here we
analysed 1,644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint HLA-E: CD94-NKG2A mediates evasion of circulating tumor cells from NK cell surveillance

X Liu, J Song, H Zhang, X Liu, F Zuo, Y Zhao, Y Zhao… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), shed by primary malignancies, function as" seeds" for distant
metastasis. However, it is still largely unknown how CTCs escape immune surveillance …

Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution

Y Dong, S Duan, Q **a, Z Liang, X Dong, K Margaryan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

Single-cell analyses reveal key immune cell subsets associated with response to PD-L1 blockade in triple-negative breast cancer

Y Zhang, H Chen, H Mo, X Hu, R Gao, Y Zhao, B Liu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the benefit of combining chemotherapy with
checkpoint inhibitors is still not very clear. We utilize single-cell RNA-and ATAC-sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

The genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

SW Brady, KG Roberts, Z Gu, L Shi, S Pounds, D Pei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Here, using
whole-genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing of 2,754 childhood patients with ALL …