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 …

CADD v1. 7: using protein language models, regulatory CNNs and other nucleotide-level scores to improve genome-wide variant predictions

M Schubach, T Maass, L Nazaretyan… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine Learning-based scoring and classification of genetic variants aids the
assessment of clinical findings and is employed to prioritize variants in diverse genetic …

Selection on synonymous sites: the unwanted transcript hypothesis

S Radrizzani, G Kudla, Z Izsvák, LD Hurst - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although translational selection to favour codons that match the most abundant tRNAs is not
readily observed in humans, there is nonetheless selection in humans on synonymous …

Harmonized cross-species cell atlases of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia

SA Bhuiyan, M Xu, L Yang, E Semizoglou, P Bhatia… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sensory neurons in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and trigeminal ganglion (TG) are
specialized to detect and transduce diverse environmental stimuli to the central nervous …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements as tissue-specific enhancers in cancers of endodermal lineage

K Karttunen, D Patel, J Xia, L Fei, K Palin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TE) are repetitive genomic elements that harbor binding sites for
human transcription factors (TF). A regulatory role for TEs has been suggested in embryonal …

Jump-starting life: balancing transposable element co-option and genome integrity in the developing mammalian embryo

ME Oomen, ME Torres-Padilla - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
Remnants of transposable elements (TEs) are widely expressed throughout mammalian
embryo development. Originally infesting our genomes as selfish elements and acting as a …

Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements

HE Pratt, G Andrews, N Shedd, N Phalke, T Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Most genetic variants associated with psychiatric disorders are located in noncoding regions
of the genome. To investigate their functional implications, we integrate epigenetic data from …

DNAGPT: a generalized pretrained tool for multiple DNA sequence analysis tasks

D Zhang, W Zhang, B He, J Zhang, C Qin, J Yao - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The success of the GPT series proves that GPT can extract general information from
sequences, thereby benefiting all downstream tasks. This motivates us to use pre-trained …

New ingredients for old recipes

O Rosspopoff, F Martins, D Trono - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The pancreas is an essential organ present in all vertebrates, and human pancreatic
agenesis is an extremely rare disorder of largely unknown genetic determinants. A study …

Seeing humans through an evolutionary lens

IG Romero - Science, 2023 - science.org
One of the foundational aims of human genetics is understanding the genetic causes of
human traits, with a particular focus on disease. Two decades after the publication of the …