Supervised machine learning for population genetics: a new paradigm

DR Schrider, AD Kern - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
As population genomic datasets grow in size, researchers are faced with the daunting task
of making sense of a flood of information. To keep pace with this explosion of data …

Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models

BT McClintock, R Langrock, O Gimenez, E Cam… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological systems can often be characterised by changes among a finite set of underlying
states pertaining to individuals, populations, communities or entire ecosystems through time …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Efficient ancestry and mutation simulation with msprime 1.0

F Baumdicker, G Bisschop, D Goldstein, G Gower… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stochastic simulation is a key tool in population genetics, since the models involved are
often analytically intractable and simulation is usually the only way of obtaining ground-truth …

Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen

OA MacLean, S Lytras, S Weaver, JB Singer… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Virus host shifts are generally associated with novel adaptations to exploit the cells of the
new host species optimally. Surprisingly, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus …

HyPhy 2.5—a customizable platform for evolutionary hypothesis testing using phylogenies

SL Kosakovsky Pond, AFY Poon… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies (HyPhy) is a scriptable, open-source
package for fitting a broad range of evolutionary models to multiple sequence alignments …

Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …

Genome-scale activation screen identifies a lncRNA locus regulating a gene neighbourhood

J Joung, JM Engreitz, S Konermann, OO Abudayyeh… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes contain thousands of loci that transcribe long noncoding RNAs
(lncRNAs),, some of which are known to carry out critical roles in diverse cellular processes …

Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching

ZL Fuller, VJL Mocellin, LA Morris, N Cantin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Coral reefs worldwide are suffering losses at an alarming rate as a result of
anthropogenic climate change. Increased seawater temperatures, even only slightly above …

Genome-wide patterns and properties of de novo mutations in humans

LC Francioli, PP Polak, A Koren, A Menelaou, S Chun… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Mutations create variation in the population, fuel evolution and cause genetic diseases.
Current knowledge about de novo mutations is incomplete and mostly indirect,,,,,,,,,. Here we …