The divergence of mutation rates and spectra across the Tree of Life

M Lynch, F Ali, T Lin, Y Wang, J Ni, H Long - EMBO reports, 2023 - embopress.org
Owing to advances in genome sequencing, genome stability has become one of the most
scrutinized cellular traits across the Tree of Life. Despite its centrality to all things biological …

Systems genetics approaches for understanding complex traits with relevance for human disease

H Allayee, CR Farber, MM Seldin, EG Williams… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative traits are often complex because of the contribution of many loci, with further
complexity added by environmental factors. In medical research, systems genetics is a …

Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain

GA Johnson, Y Tian, DG Ashbrook… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We have developed workflows to align 3D magnetic resonance histology (MRH) of the
mouse brain with light sheet microscopy (LSM) and 3D delineations of the same specimen …

Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 mutational spectrum

JD Bloom, AC Beichman, RA Neher… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
SARS-CoV-2 evolves rapidly in part because of its high mutation rate. Here, we examine
whether this mutational process itself has changed during viral evolution. To do this, we …

[HTML][HTML] Resolution of structural variation in diverse mouse genomes reveals chromatin remodeling due to transposable elements

A Ferraj, PA Audano, P Balachandran, A Czechanski… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Diverse inbred mouse strains are important biomedical research models, yet genome
characterization of many strains is fundamentally lacking in comparison with humans. In …

geneHapR: an R package for gene haplotypic statistics and visualization

R Zhang, G Jia, X Diao - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
Background Together with application of next-generation sequencing technologies and
increased accumulation of genomic variation data in different organism species, an …

A mutation rate model at the basepair resolution identifies the mutagenic effect of polymerase III transcription

V Seplyarskiy, EM Koch, DJ Lee, JS Lichtman… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
De novo mutations occur at substantially different rates depending on genomic location,
sequence context and DNA strand. The success of methods to estimate selection intensity …

Nonparametric coalescent inference of mutation spectrum history and demography

WS DeWitt, KD Harris… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
As populations boom and bust, the accumulation of genetic diversity is modulated, encoding
histories of living populations in present-day variation. Many methods exist to decode these …

GenomeMUSter mouse genetic variation service enables multitrait, multipopulation data integration and analysis

RL Ball, MA Bogue, H Liang, A Srivastava… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Hundreds of inbred mouse strains and intercross populations have been used to
characterize the function of genetic variants that contribute to disease. Thousands of disease …

A modified fluctuation assay reveals a natural mutator phenotype that drives mutation spectrum variation within Saccharomyces cerevisiae

P Jiang, AR Ollodart, V Sudhesh, AJ Herr, MJ Dunham… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Although studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have provided many insights into
mutagenesis and DNA repair, most of this work has focused on a few laboratory strains …