171: Virulence Hierarchies in the Tuberculosis Complex—What Makes Some Lineages Deadlier?

461: Adult Ank3 loss quiets neurons and lowers a myelin protein

Yoon et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - ANK3, which encodes the scaffolding protein ankyrin-G, is a major risk gene for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, yet what it does in a...

24 Syys 24min

460: The lupus variant that also sharpens antiviral defense

Virolainen et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - A lupus signal on chromosome 11p15 narrows to a coding haplotype in IRF7 that most people in the world carry. This study shows the risk form...

21 Syys 24min

459: Cerebral palsy genetics: 515 candidate genes, evidence for 89

Arterbery et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Hundreds of genes have been reported as causes of cerebral palsy, yet there is no agreed model of what a pathogenic variant in a child with C...

13 Syys 24min

458: Somatic or inherited? Reading TP53 risk from shared DNA

MacGregor et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Pathogenic TP53 variants found in blood have long been read as inherited Li-Fraumeni alleles, but many turn out to be somatic clones that gre...

10 Syys 25min

457: A deletion that raises Alzheimer risk, a duplication that lowers it

Quenez O et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Rare copy-number variants were called from 22,319 exomes covering early-onset Alzheimer disease, late-onset disease and unaffected controls, t...

9 Syys 24min

456: Beyond exons: where heritability hides as traits get more polygenic

Fuhrer J et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Across 34 complex traits and disorders, a MiXeR-based framework partitions SNP heritability over 74 functional annotations and finds that exon...

8 Syys 45min

455: Agentic genomics: the bottleneck moves from code to judgment

Corpas M et al., Cell Genomics - A Perspective arguing that autonomous AI agents which discover, configure and chain bioinformatics operations from natural-language instructions have shifted the bottl...

7 Syys 13min

454: Efavirenz retarda a doença priônica mexendo no colesterol do cérebro [PT]

Ali T et al., JCI Insight - Um antirretroviral aprovado para HIV, dado por via oral em microdose, prolongou a sobrevida de camundongos que carregam a proteína priônica humana e foram infectados com pr...

2 Syys 17min