Mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood across ancestries using whole-genome sequencing

YA Jakubek, Y Zhou, A Stilp, J Bacon, JW Wong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Megabase-scale mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) in blood are prognostic markers
for a host of human diseases. Here, to gain a better understanding of mCA rates in …

A pan-tissue survey of mosaic chromosomal alterations in 948 individuals

T Gao, ME Kastriti, V Ljungström, A Heinzel… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic mutations accumulate in an organism's body throughout its lifetime. While somatic
single-nucleotide variants have been well characterized in the human body, the patterns …

[PDF][PDF] Patterns of mosaicism for sequence and copy-number variants discovered through clinical deep sequencing of disease-related genes in one million individuals

R Truty, S Rojahn, K Ouyang, C Kautzer… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
DNA variants that arise after conception can show mosaicism, varying in presence and
extent among tissues. Mosaic variants have been reported in Mendelian diseases, but …

Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations and risk for infection among 767,891 individuals without blood cancer

P Natarajan, S Zekavat, SH Lin, A Bick, A Liu… - Research …, 2020 - researchsquare.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for infectious diseases, but the mechanisms linking the two
are incompletely understood1, 2. Age-related mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) …

Incident disease associations with mosaic chromosomal alterations on autosomes, X and Y chromosomes: insights from a phenome-wide association study in the UK …

SH Lin, DW Brown, B Rose, F Day, OW Lee, SM Khan… - Cell & bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Background Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are large chromosomal gains, losses
and copy-neutral losses of heterozygosity (LOH) in peripheral leukocytes. While many …

Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection

SM Zekavat, SH Lin, AG Bick, A Liu, K Paruchuri… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for infectious diseases, but the mechanisms linking age to
infectious disease risk are incompletely understood. Age-related mosaic chromosomal …

Clonal hematopoiesis due to mosaic chromosomal alterations: Impact on disease risk and mortality

AK Hubbard, DW Brown, MJ Machiela - Leukemia research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are the clonal expansion of large somatically
acquired structural chromosomal changes present on the autosomes and sex …

EM-mosaic detects mosaic point mutations that contribute to congenital heart disease

A Hsieh, SU Morton, JAL Willcox, JM Gorham, AC Tai… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The contribution of somatic mosaicism, or genetic mutations arising after oocyte
fertilization, to congenital heart disease (CHD) is not well understood. Further, the …

Cell-type-specific consequences of mosaic structural variants in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

K Grimes, H Jeong, A Amoah, N Xu, J Niemann… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The functional impact and cellular context of mosaic structural variants (mSVs) in normal
tissues is understudied. Utilizing Strand-seq, we sequenced 1,133 single-cell genomes from …

Serum biomarkers are altered in UK Biobank participants with mosaic chromosomal alterations

AK Hubbard, DW Brown, W Zhou, SH Lin… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Age-related clonal expansion of cells harbouring mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) is
one manifestation of clonal haematopoiesis. Identifying factors that influence the generation …