Epigenetic patterns in a complete human genome

A Gershman, MEG Sauria, X Guitart, MR Vollger… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The completion of a telomere-to-telomere human reference genome, T2T-CHM13, has
resolved complex regions of the genome, including repetitive and homologous regions …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent inversion polymorphisms in humans associate with genetic instability and genomic disorders

D Porubsky, W Höps, H Ashraf, PH Hsieh… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Unlike copy number variants (CNVs), inversions remain an underexplored genetic variation
class. By integrating multiple genomic technologies, we discover 729 inversions in 41 …

Computational identification of mutator-derived lncRNA signatures of genome instability for improving the clinical outcome of cancers: a case study in breast cancer

S Bao, H Zhao, J Yuan, D Fan, Z Zhang… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Emerging evidence revealed the critical roles of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in
maintaining genomic instability. However, identification of genome instability-associated …

Inversion polymorphism in a complete human genome assembly

D Porubsky, WT Harvey, AN Rozanski, J Ebler, W Höps… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
The telomere-to-telomere (T2T) complete human reference has significantly improved our
ability to characterize genome structural variation. To understand its impact on inversion …

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

DA Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci… - BioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present haplotype-resolved reference genomes and comparative analyses of six ape
species, namely: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan …

Recurrent inversion toggling and great ape genome evolution

D Porubsky, AD Sanders, W Höps, PH Hsieh… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inversions play an important role in disease and evolution but are difficult to characterize
because their breakpoints map to large repeats. We increased by sixfold the number (n …

[HTML][HTML] CNest: A novel copy number association discovery method uncovers 862 new associations from 200,629 whole-exome sequence datasets in the UK Biobank

T Fitzgerald, E Birney - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Copy number variation (CNV) is known to influence human traits, having a rich history of
research into common and rare genetic disease, and although CNV is accepted as an …

AGAP duplicons associate with structural diversity at Chromosome 10q11. 22

S Fornezza, VS Delvecchio, WT Harvey… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
The 10q11. 22 chromosomal region is a duplication-rich interval of the human genome and
one of the last to be fully assembled. It carries copy number–variable genes associated with …

Single-cell strand sequencing of a macaque genome reveals multiple nested inversions and breakpoint reuse during primate evolution

FAM Maggiolini, AD Sanders, CJ Shew… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Rhesus macaque is an Old World monkey that shared a common ancestor with human∼ 25
Myr ago and is an important animal model for human disease studies. A deep …

Genomic regions associated with microdeletion/microduplication syndromes exhibit extreme diversity of structural variation

Y Mostovoy, F Yilmaz, SK Chow, C Chu, C Lin… - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Segmental duplications (SDs) are a class of long, repetitive DNA elements whose paralogs
share a high level of sequence similarity with each other. SDs mediate chromosomal …