Exome sequencing as a tool for Mendelian disease gene discovery

MJ Bamshad, SB Ng, AW Bigham, HK Tabor… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
Exome sequencing—the targeted sequencing of the subset of the human genome that is
protein coding—is a powerful and cost-effective new tool for dissecting the genetic basis of …

Genetic costs of domestication and improvement

BT Moyers, PL Morrell, JK McKay - Journal of Heredity, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The “cost of domestication” hypothesis posits that the process of domesticating wild species
can result in an increase in the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic …

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 …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Comparative host-coronavirus protein interaction networks reveal pan-viral disease mechanisms

DE Gordon, J Hiatt, M Bouhaddou, VV Rezelj, S Ulferts… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The emergence of three lethal coronaviruses in< 20 years and the urgency
of the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted efforts to develop new therapeutic strategies …

Phylogenomic analyses provide insights into primate evolution

Y Shao, L Zhou, F Li, L Zhao, BL Zhang, F Shao… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Comparative analysis of primate genomes within a phylogenetic context is essential for
understanding the evolution of human genetic architecture and primate diversity. We present …

PlantRegMap: charting functional regulatory maps in plants

F Tian, DC Yang, YQ Meng, J **… - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With the goal of charting plant transcriptional regulatory maps (ie transcription factors (TFs),
cis-elements and interactions between them), we have upgraded the TF-centred database …

Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates

J Damas, GM Hughes, KC Keough, CA Painter… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
the cause of COVID-19. The main receptor of SARS-CoV-2, angiotensin I converting enzyme …

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

S Feng, J Stiller, Y Deng, J Armstrong, QI Fang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity,,–. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

[HTML][HTML] Standards for the classification of pathogenicity of somatic variants in cancer (oncogenicity): Joint recommendations of Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) …

P Horak, M Griffith, AM Danos, BA Pitel, S Madhavan… - Genetics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Several professional societies have published guidelines for the clinical
interpretation of somatic variants, which specifically address diagnostic, prognostic, and …