Integrating non-mammalian model organisms in the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in humans

S Yamamoto, O Kanca, MF Wangler… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing technology has rapidly accelerated the discovery of genetic
variants of interest in individuals with rare diseases. However, showing that these variants …

Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked—An emerging disease

J LoPiccolo, A Gusev, DC Christiani… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2024 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Although smoking-
related lung cancers continue to account for the majority of diagnoses, smoking rates have …

The UCSC genome browser database: 2024 update

BJ Raney, GP Barber, A Benet-Pagès… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The UCSC Genome Browser (https://genome. ucsc. edu) is a web-based genomic
visualization and analysis tool that serves data to over 7,000 distinct users per day …

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 …

Genomic data in the All of Us research program

Biobank, Mayo Blegen Ashley L. 18 Wirkus Samantha … - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Comprehensively mapping the genetic basis of human disease across diverse individuals is
a long-standing goal for the field of human genetics,,–. The All of Us Research Program is a …

Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes

A Guarracino, S Buonaiuto, LG de Lima, T Potapova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The short arms of the human acrocentric chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (SAACs) share
large homologous regions, including ribosomal DNA repeats and extended segmental …

Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes

V Warrier, EM Stauffer, QQ Huang, EM Wigdor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the genetics of the human cerebral cortex is limited both in terms of the
diversity and the anatomical granularity of brain structural phenotypes. Here we conducted a …

Bayesian estimation of gene constraint from an evolutionary model with gene features

T Zeng, JP Spence, H Mostafavi, JK Pritchard - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Measures of selective constraint on genes have been used for many applications, including
clinical interpretation of rare coding variants, disease gene discovery and studies of genome …

A harmonized public resource of deeply sequenced diverse human genomes

Z Koenig, MT Yohannes, LL Nkambule… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Underrepresented populations are often excluded from genomic studies due in part to a lack
of resources supporting their analyses. The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) and Human …

Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes

LFK Kuderna, JC Ulirsch, S Rashid, M Ameen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Noncoding DNA is central to our understanding of human gene regulation and complex
diseases,, and measuring the evolutionary sequence constraint can establish the functional …