The application of long-read sequencing in clinical settings

JB Oehler, H Wright, Z Stark, AJ Mallett, U Schmitz - Human genomics, 2023 - Springer
Long-read DNA sequencing technologies have been rapidly evolving in recent years, and
their ability to assess large and complex regions of the genome makes them ideal for clinical …

Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution

M Schreiber, M Jayakodi, N Stein… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as map** the molecular …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

A GGC-repeat expansion in ZFHX3 encoding polyglycine causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 and impairs autophagy

KP Figueroa, C Gross, E Buena-Atienza, S Paul… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Despite linkage to chromosome 16q in 1996, the mutation causing spinocerebellar ataxia
type 4 (SCA4), a late-onset sensory and cerebellar ataxia, remained unknown. Here, using …

High-coverage nanopore sequencing of samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to build a comprehensive catalog of human genetic variation

JA Gustafson, SB Gibson, N Damaraju… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Fewer than half of individuals with a suspected Mendelian or monogenic condition receive a
precise molecular diagnosis after comprehensive clinical genetic testing. Improvements in …

Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life

BY Kim, HR Gellert, SH Church, A Suvorov… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Long-read sequencing is driving rapid progress in genome assembly across all major
groups of life, including species of the family Drosophilidae, a longtime model system for …

Comprehensive structural variant detection: from mosaic to population-level

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Long-read Structural Variation (SV) calling remains a challenging but highly
accurate way to identify complex genomic rearrangements. Here, we present Sniffles2 …

Tradeoffs in alignment and assembly-based methods for structural variant detection with long-read sequencing data

YH Liu, C Luo, SG Golding, JB Ioffe, XM Zhou - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing offers long contiguous DNA fragments, facilitating diploid genome
assembly and structural variant (SV) detection. Efficient and robust algorithms for SV …

Nanopore sequencing: Flourishing in its teenage years

T Zhang, H Li, M Jiang, H Hou, Y Gao, Y Li… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, nanopore sequencing has experienced significant advancements
and changes, transitioning from an initially emerging technology to a significant instrument …

Nanopore sequencing of 1000 Genomes Project samples to build a comprehensive catalog of human genetic variation

JA Gustafson, SB Gibson, N Damaraju… - medRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Less than half of individuals with a suspected Mendelian condition receive a precise
molecular diagnosis after comprehensive clinical genetic testing. Improvements in data …