Decoding disease: from genomes to networks to phenotypes

AK Wong, RSG Sealfon, CL Theesfeld… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interpreting the effects of genetic variants is key to understanding individual susceptibility to
disease and designing personalized therapeutic approaches. Modern experimental …

Comparative host-coronavirus protein interaction networks reveal pan-viral disease mechanisms

DE Gordon, J Hiatt, M Bouhaddou, VV Rezelj, S Ulferts… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The emergence of three lethal coronaviruses in< 20 years and the urgency
of the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted efforts to develop new therapeutic strategies …

Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates

J Damas, GM Hughes, KC Keough… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
the cause of COVID-19. The main receptor of SARS-CoV-2, angiotensin I converting enzyme …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-protein transfer learning substantially improves disease variant prediction

M Jagota, C Ye, C Albors, R Rastogi, A Koehl… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Genetic variation in the human genome is a major determinant of individual
disease risk, but the vast majority of missense variants have unknown etiological effects …

Novel variants in the NARS2 gene as a cause of infantile-onset severe epilepsy leading to fatal refractory status epilepticus: case study and literature review

K Štěrbová, M Vlčková, H Hansíková, V Sebroňová… - neurogenetics, 2021 - Springer
Biallelic variants in the NARS2 gene are the cause of a continuous spectrum of
neurodegenerative disorders presenting with various severity-from spastic paraplegia …

[HTML][HTML] Possible A2E mutagenic effects on RPE mitochondrial DNA from innovative RNA-seq bioinformatics pipeline

L Donato, C Scimone, S Alibrandi, A Pitruzzella… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are subject to continuous oxidative stress stimuli that, over time, can impair
their genome and lead to several pathologies, like retinal degenerations. Our main purpose …

Human BRCA pathogenic variants were originated during recent human history

J Li, B Zhao, T Huang, Z Qin… - Life Science …, 2022 - life-science-alliance.org
BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA) play essential roles in maintaining genome stability. BRCA
germline pathogenic variants increase cancer risk. However, the evolutionary origin of …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary Origin of Human PALB2 Germline Pathogenic Variants

JS Chian, J Li, SM Wang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
PALB2 (Partner and localizer of BRCA2) is crucial for repairing DNA double-stranded
breaks (DSBs) through homologous recombination (HR). Germline pathogenic variation in …

Genetic dissection of cis-regulatory control of ZmWUSCHEL1 expression by type B RESPONSE REGULATORS

Z Chen, L Cortes, A Gallavotti - Plant physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in cis-regulatory regions play an important role in the domestication and
improvement of crops by altering gene expression. However, assessing the in vivo impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of protein-protected mRNA fragments and structured excised intron RNAs in human plasma by TGIRT-seq peak calling

J Yao, DC Wu, RM Nottingham, AM Lambowitz - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Human plasma contains> 40,000 different coding and non-coding RNAs that are potential
biomarkers for human diseases. Here, we used thermostable group II intron reverse …