Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD

S Gudmundsson, M Singer‐Berk, NA Watts… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reference population databases are an essential tool in variant and gene interpretation.
Their use guides the identification of pathogenic variants amidst the sea of benign variation …

The roles of Polycomb repressive complexes in mammalian development and cancer

A Piunti, A Shilatifard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
More than 80 years ago, the first Polycomb-related phenotype was identified in Drosophila
melanogaster. Later, a group of diverse genes collectively called Polycomb group (PcG) …

Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases

Y Chen, T Lu, U Pettersson-Kymmer, ID Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic processes can influence disease risk and provide therapeutic targets. By
conducting genome-wide association studies of 1,091 blood metabolites and 309 metabolite …

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: comprehensive knockout phenotyping underpinning the study of human disease

T Groza, FL Gomez, HH Mashhadi… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC; https://www.
mousephenotype. org/) web portal makes available curated, integrated and analysed …

Gene expression across mammalian organ development

M Cardoso-Moreira, J Halbert, D Valloton, B Velten… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The evolution of gene expression in mammalian organ development remains largely
uncharacterized. Here we report the transcriptomes of seven organs (cerebrum, cerebellum …

The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis

J Cao, M Spielmann, X Qiu, X Huang, DM Ibrahim… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mammalian organogenesis is a remarkable process. Within a short timeframe, the cells of
the three germ layers transform into an embryo that includes most of the major internal and …

Rab family of small GTPases: an updated view on their regulation and functions

Y Homma, S Hiragi, M Fukuda - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Rab family of small GTPases regulates intracellular membrane trafficking by
orchestrating the biogenesis, transport, tethering, and fusion of membrane‐bound …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal transcriptomic maps of whole mouse embryos at the onset of organogenesis

A Sampath Kumar, L Tian, A Bolondi, AA Hernández… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal orchestration of gene expression is required for proper embryonic
development. The use of single-cell technologies has begun to provide improved resolution …

Mechanisms of early placental development in mouse and humans

M Hemberger, CW Hanna, W Dean - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The importance of the placenta in supporting mammalian development has long been
recognized, but our knowledge of the molecular, genetic and epigenetic requirements that …

Converging evidence from exome sequencing and common variants implicates target genes for osteoporosis

S Zhou, OA Sosina, J Bovijn, L Laurent, V Sharma… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, we leveraged the combined evidence of rare coding variants and common
alleles to identify therapeutic targets for osteoporosis. We undertook a large-scale …