Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

B Trost, B Thiruvahindrapuram, AJS Chan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fully understanding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) genetics requires whole-genome
sequencing (WGS). We present the latest release of the Autism Speaks MSSNG resource …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

N Patterson, M Isakov, T Booth, L Büster, CE Fischer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early
European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age 1. To understand this, here …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health

A Choudhury, S Aron, LR Botigué, D Sengupta… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The African continent is regarded as the cradle of modern humans and African genomes
contain more genetic variation than those from any other continent, yet only a fraction of the …

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations

W Barrie, Y Yang, EK Irving-Pease, KE Attfield… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuro-inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that is most
prevalent in Northern Europe. Although it is known that inherited risk for MS is located within …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

The landscape of mtDNA modifications in cancer: a tale of two cities

KL Hertweck, S Dasgupta - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria from normal and cancerous cells represent a tale of two cities, wherein both
execute similar processes but with different cellular and molecular effects. Given the number …

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

I Olalde, S Mallick, N Patterson, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb

C Fowler, I Olalde, V Cummings, I Armit, L Büster… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
To explore kinship practices at chambered tombs in Early Neolithic Britain, here we
combined archaeological and genetic analyses of 35 individuals who lived about 5,700 …