Profiling the genome-wide landscape of tandem repeat expansions

N Mousavi, S Shleizer-Burko, R Yanicky… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Tandem repeat (TR) expansions have been implicated in dozens of genetic diseases,
including Huntington's Disease, Fragile X Syndrome, and hereditary ataxias. Furthermore …

[HTML][HTML] Straglr: discovering and genotyping tandem repeat expansions using whole genome long-read sequences

R Chiu, IS Rajan-Babu, JM Friedman, I Birol - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Tandem repeat (TR) expansion is the underlying cause of over 40 neurological disorders.
Long-read sequencing offers an exciting avenue over conventional technologies for …

Advancing genomic technologies and clinical awareness accelerates discovery of disease-associated tandem repeat sequences

T Gall-Duncan, N Sato, RKC Yuen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Expansions of gene-specific DNA tandem repeats (TRs), first described in 1991 as a
disease-causing mutation in humans, are now known to cause> 60 phenotypes, not just …

[HTML][HTML] Tandem-genotypes: robust detection of tandem repeat expansions from long DNA reads

S Mitsuhashi, MC Frith, T Mizuguchi, S Miyatake… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Tandemly repeated DNA is highly mutable and causes at least 31 diseases, but it is hard to
detect pathogenic repeat expansions genome-wide. Here, we report robust detection of …

[HTML][HTML] STRling: a k-mer counting approach that detects short tandem repeat expansions at known and novel loci

H Dashnow, BS Pedersen, L Hiatt, J Brown… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Expansions of short tandem repeats (STRs) cause many rare diseases. Expansion detection
is challenging with short-read DNA sequencing data since supporting reads are often …

Characterization and visualization of tandem repeats at genome scale

E Dolzhenko, A English, H Dashnow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeat (TR) variation is associated with gene expression changes and numerous
rare monogenic diseases. Although long-read sequencing provides accurate full-length …

[PDF][PDF] Profiling of short-tandem-repeat disease alleles in 12,632 human whole genomes

H Tang, EF Kirkness, C Lippert, WH Biggs… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are hyper-mutable sequences in the human genome. They are
often used in forensics and population genetics and are also the underlying cause of many …

[HTML][HTML] STRetch: detecting and discovering pathogenic short tandem repeat expansions

H Dashnow, M Lek, B Phipson, A Halman, S Sadedin… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Short tandem repeat (STR) expansions have been identified as the causal DNA mutation in
dozens of Mendelian diseases. Most existing tools for detecting STR variation with short …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting expansions of tandem repeats in cohorts sequenced with short-read sequencing data

RM Tankard, MF Bennett, P Degorski… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Repeat expansions cause more than 30 inherited disorders, predominantly neurogenetic.
These can present with overlapping clinical phenotypes, making molecular diagnosis …

Large-scale analysis of tandem repeat variability in the human genome

J Duitama, A Zablotskaya, R Gemayel… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Tandem repeats are short DNA sequences that are repeated head-to-tail with a propensity
to be variable. They constitute a significant proportion of the human genome, also occurring …