Healthy human aging: intrinsic and environmental factors

VC Sgarbieri, MTB Pacheco - Brazilian Journal of Food Technology, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
This review is an attempt to compile current knowledge on concepts and transformations that
occur naturally in the human body and that characterize what is defined today as biological …

Variant‐level matching for diagnosis and discovery: Challenges and opportunities

ES Rodrigues, S Griffith, R Martin… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Here we describe MyGene2, Geno2MP, VariantMatcher, and Franklin; databases
that provide variant‐level information and phenotypic features to researchers, clinicians …

Non-coding deletions identify Maenli lncRNA as a limb-specific En1 regulator

L Allou, S Balzano, A Magg, M Quinodoz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can be important components in gene-regulatory
networks, but the exact nature and extent of their involvement in human Mendelian disease …

Whole-genome sequencing of 1,171 elderly admixed individuals from Brazil

MS Naslavsky, MO Scliar, GL Yamamoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As whole-genome sequencing (WGS) becomes the gold standard tool for studying
population genomics and medical applications, data on diverse non-European and admixed …

VannoPortal: multiscale functional annotation of human genetic variants for interrogating molecular mechanism of traits and diseases

D Huang, Y Zhou, X Yi, X Fan, J Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Interpreting the molecular mechanism of genomic variations and their causal relationship
with diseases/traits are important and challenging problems in the human genetic study. To …

Discordant congenital Zika syndrome twins show differential in vitro viral susceptibility of neural progenitor cells

LC Caires-Júnior, E Goulart, US Melo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) causes early brain development impairment by affecting
neural progenitor cells (NPCs). Here, we analyze NPCs from three pairs of dizygotic twins …

New genetic findings in a large cohort of congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

LGL Amato, LR Montenegro, AM Lerario… - European journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Context Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) is a rare condition caused by
GnRH deficiency. Several genes have been associated with the pathogenesis of CHH, but …

Whole‐exome sequencing of non‐BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carrier cases at high‐risk for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer

PS Felicio, RS Grasel, N Campacci… - Human …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current study aimed to identify new breast and/or ovarian cancer predisposition genes.
For that, whole‐exome sequencing (WES) was performed in the germline DNA of 52 non …

The first genetic landscape of inherited retinal dystrophies in Portuguese patients identifies recurrent homozygous mutations as a frequent cause of pathogenesis

VG Peter, K Kaminska, C Santos, M Quinodoz… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a group of ocular conditions characterized by an
elevated genetic and clinical heterogeneity. They are transmitted almost invariantly as …

A data set of variants derived from 1455 clinical and research exomes is efficient in variant prioritization for early‐onset monogenic disorders in Indians

N Kausthubham, A Shukla, N Gupta… - Human …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Given the genomic uniqueness, a local data set is most desired for Indians, who are
underrepresented in existing public databases. We hypothesize patients with rare …