Best practices for variant calling in clinical sequencing

DC Koboldt - Genome Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled a dramatic expansion of clinical
genetic testing both for inherited conditions and diseases such as cancer. Accurate variant …

Computational analysis of cancer genome sequencing data

I Cortés-Ciriano, DC Gulhan, JJK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Distilling biologically meaningful information from cancer genome sequencing data requires
comprehensive identification of somatic alterations using rigorous computational methods …

Genome-wide RNA polymerase stalling shapes the transcriptome during aging

A Gyenis, J Chang, JJPG Demmers, ST Bruens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression profiling has identified numerous processes altered in aging, but how
these changes arise is largely unknown. Here we combined nascent RNA sequencing and …

A telomere-to-telomere gap-free reference genome of watermelon and its mutation library provide important resources for gene discovery and breeding

Y Deng, S Liu, Y Zhang, J Tan, X Li, X Chu, B Xu… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus, is the world's third largest fruit crop. Reference genomes with
gaps and a narrow genetic base hinder functional genomics and genetic improvement of …

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

cfDNA methylome profiling for detection and subtyping of small cell lung cancers

F Chemi, SP Pearce, A Clipson, SM Hill, AM Conway… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by morphologic, epigenetic and
transcriptomic heterogeneity. Subtypes based upon predominant transcription factor …

Evidence for host-dependent RNA editing in the transcriptome of SARS-CoV-2

S Di Giorgio, F Martignano, MG Torcia, G Mattiuz… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The COVID-19 outbreak has become a global health risk, and understanding the response
of the host to the SARS-CoV-2 virus will help to combat the disease. RNA editing by host …

Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

N Dussex, T Van Der Valk, HE Morales, CW Wheat… - Cell Genomics, 2021 - cell.com
The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago,
only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island …

Spatial mapping of the total transcriptome by in situ polyadenylation

DW McKellar, M Mantri, MM Hinchman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics reveals the spatial context of gene expression, but current methods
are limited to assaying polyadenylated (A-tailed) RNA transcripts. Here we demonstrate that …

A developmental landscape of 3D-cultured human pre-gastrulation embryos

L Xiang, Y Yin, Y Zheng, Y Ma, Y Li, Z Zhao, J Guo, Z Ai… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Our understanding of how human embryos develop before gastrulation, including spatial
self-organization and cell type ontogeny, remains limited by available two-dimensional …