Structural variant calling: the long and the short of it

M Mahmoud, N Gobet, DI Cruz-Dávalos, N Mounier… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Recent research into structural variants (SVs) has established their importance to medicine
and molecular biology, elucidating their role in various diseases, regulation of gene …

Methods for mapping 3D chromosome architecture

R Kempfer, A Pombo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Determining how chromosomes are positioned and folded within the nucleus is critical to
understanding the role of chromatin topology in gene regulation. Several methods are …

Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

JE Moore, MJ Purcaro, HE Pratt, CB Epstein… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The human and mouse genomes contain instructions that specify RNAs and proteins and
govern the timing, magnitude, and cellular context of their production. To better delineate …

Subtype-specific 3D genome alteration in acute myeloid leukaemia

J Xu, F Song, H Lyu, M Kobayashi, B Zhang, Z Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) represents a set of heterogeneous myeloid malignancies,
and hallmarks include mutations in epigenetic modifiers, transcription factors and kinases …

Neuronal DNA double-strand breaks lead to genome structural variations and 3D genome disruption in neurodegeneration

V Dileep, CA Boix, H Mathys, A Marco, GM Welch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Persistent DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in neurons are an early pathological hallmark
of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the potential to …

Structural variation in the sequencing era

SS Ho, AE Urban, RE Mills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying structural variation (SV) is essential for genome interpretation but has been
historically difficult due to limitations inherent to available genome technologies. Detection …

EagleC: A deep-learning framework for detecting a full range of structural variations from bulk and single-cell contact maps

X Wang, Y Luan, F Yue - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The Hi-C technique has been shown to be a promising method to detect structural variations
(SVs) in human genomes. However, algorithms that can use Hi-C data for a full-range SV …

Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense

M Wang, L Tu, D Yuan, D Zhu, C Shen, J Li, F Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Allotetraploid cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense) have long
been cultivated worldwide for natural renewable textile fibers. The draft genome sequences …

Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing

AS Deshpande, N Ulahannan, M Pendleton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract High-order three-dimensional (3D) interactions between more than two genomic
loci are common in human chromatin, but their role in gene regulation is unclear. Previous …

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

H Zhang, TU Ahearn, J Lecarpentier, D Barnes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor
subtype,–. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including …