Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement

AG Ioannidis, J Blanco-Portillo, K Sandoval… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American
populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of …

Ensembl variation resources

SE Hunt, W McLaren, L Gil, A Thormann… - Database, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The major goal of sequencing humans and many other species is to understand the link
between genomic variation, phenotype and disease. There are numerous valuable and well …

[HTML][HTML] Genome maps across 26 human populations reveal population-specific patterns of structural variation

M Levy-Sakin, S Pastor, Y Mostovoy, L Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Large structural variants (SVs) in the human genome are difficult to detect and study by
conventional sequencing technologies. With long-range genome analysis platforms, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell multiomic profiling of human lungs reveals cell-type-specific and age-dynamic control of SARS-CoV2 host genes

A Wang, J Chiou, OB Poirion, J Buchanan, MJ Valdez… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Respiratory failure associated with COVID-19 has placed focus on the lungs. Here, we
present single-nucleus accessible chromatin profiles of 90,980 nuclei and matched single …

m6AVar: a database of functional variants involved in m6A modification

Y Zheng, P Nie, D Peng, Z He, M Liu, Y Xie… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Identifying disease-causing variants among a large number of single nucleotide variants
(SNVs) is still a major challenge. Recently, N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) has become a …

Predicting the clinical impact of human mutation with deep neural networks

L Sundaram, H Gao, SR Padigepati, JF McRae, Y Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Millions of human genomes and exomes have been sequenced, but their clinical
applications remain limited due to the difficulty of distinguishing disease-causing mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Prime editing in mice reveals the essentiality of a single base in driving tissue-specific gene expression

P Gao, Q Lyu, AR Ghanam, CR Lazzarotto, GA Newby… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Most single nucleotide variants (SNVs) occur in noncoding sequence where
millions of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) reside. Here, a comparative analysis of …

VarCards: an integrated genetic and clinical database for coding variants in the human genome

J Li, L Shi, K Zhang, Y Zhang, S Hu, T Zhao… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A growing number of genomic tools and databases were developed to facilitate the
interpretation of genomic variants, particularly in coding regions. However, these tools are …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and cell-type specificity of human-specific genes preferentially expressed in progenitors of fetal neocortex

M Florio, M Heide, A Pinson, H Brandl, M Albert… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Understanding the molecular basis that underlies the expansion of the neocortex during
primate, and notably human, evolution requires the identification of genes that are …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic identification of mutations and copy number alterations associated with cancer patient prognosis

JC Smith, JM Sheltzer - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Successful treatment decisions in cancer depend on the accurate assessment of patient risk.
To improve our understanding of the molecular alterations that underlie deadly …