Humanized yeast to model human biology, disease and evolution

AH Kachroo, M Vandeloo, BM Greco… - Disease models & …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
For decades, budding yeast, a single-cellular eukaryote, has provided remarkable insights
into human biology. Yeast and humans share several thousand genes despite …

Phenotypic screening models for rapid diagnosis of genetic variants and discovery of personalized therapeutics

CE Hopkins, T Brock, TR Caulfield… - Molecular aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precision medicine strives for highly individualized treatments for disease under the notion
that each individual's unique genetic makeup and environmental exposures imprints upon …

InParanoid 8: orthology analysis between 273 proteomes, mostly eukaryotic

ELL Sonnhammer, G Östlund - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The InParanoid database (http://InParanoid. sbc. su. se) provides a user interface to
orthologs inferred by the InParanoid algorithm. As there are now international efforts to …

The Monarch Initiative: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species

CJ Mungall, JA McMurry, S Köhler… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The correlation of phenotypic outcomes with genetic variation and environmental factors is a
core pursuit in biology and biomedicine. Numerous challenges impede our progress: patient …

The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species

TE Putman, K Schaper, N Matentzoglu… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bridging the gap between genetic variations, environmental determinants, and phenotypic
outcomes is critical for supporting clinical diagnosis and understanding mechanisms of …

Neuroinformatic analyses of common and distinct genetic components associated with major neuropsychiatric disorders

A Lotan, M Fenckova, J Bralten, A Alttoa… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Major neuropsychiatric disorders are highly heritable, with mounting evidence suggesting
that these disorders share overlapping sets of molecular and cellular underpinnings. In the …

Pathway connectivity and signaling coordination in the yeast stress‐activated signaling network

D Chasman, YH Ho, DB Berry, CM Nemec… - Molecular systems …, 2014 - embopress.org
Stressed cells coordinate a multi‐faceted response spanning many levels of physiology. Yet
knowledge of the complete stress‐activated regulatory network as well as design principles …

Comprehensive genotyping and clinical characterisation reveal 27 novel NKX2-1 mutations and expand the phenotypic spectrum

A Thorwarth, S Schnittert-Hübener… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - jmg.bmj.com
Background NKX2-1 encodes a transcription factor with large impact on the development of
brain, lung and thyroid. Germline mutations of NKX2-1 can lead to dysfunction and …

Drosophila and genome-wide association studies: a review and resource for the functional dissection of human complex traits

MF Wangler, Y Hu, JM Shulman - Disease models & …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Human genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified thousands of
susceptibility loci for common diseases with complex genetic etiologies. Although the …

Behavioral genetic toolkits: toward the evolutionary origins of complex phenotypes

CC Rittschof, GE Robinson - Current topics in developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The discovery of toolkit genes, which are highly conserved genes that consistently regulate
the development of similar morphological phenotypes across diverse species, is one of the …