Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

A survey of algorithms for the detection of genomic structural variants from long-read sequencing data

MU Ahsan, Q Liu, JE Perdomo, L Fang, K Wang - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
As long-read sequencing technologies are becoming increasingly popular, a number of
methods have been developed for the discovery and analysis of structural variants (SVs) …

Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism

JM Fu, FK Satterstrom, M Peng, H Brand, RL Collins… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carry functional mutations rarely
observed in the general population. We explored the genes disrupted by these variants from …

A draft human pangenome reference

WW Liao, M Asri, J Ebler, D Doerr, M Haukness… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the
human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies …

Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding

Y Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Bao, H Li, Y Lyu, Y Zan, Y Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

A Rhie, S Nurk, M Cechova, SJ Hoyt, DJ Taylor… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble
because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

The complete sequence of a human genome

S Nurk, S Koren, A Rhie, M Rautiainen, AV Bzikadze… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Since its initial release in 2000, the human reference genome has covered only the
euchromatic fraction of the genome, leaving important heterochromatic regions unfinished …

High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios

M Byrska-Bishop, US Evani, X Zhao, AO Basile… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) is the largest fully open resource of whole-
genome sequencing (WGS) data consented for public distribution without access or use …

Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes

J Sirén, J Monlong, X Chang, AM Novak, JM Eizenga… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Modern genomics depends on inexpensive short-read sequencing.
Sequenced reads up to a few hundred base pairs in length are computationally mapped to …