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Katzourou IK et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Population analysis of ~459,000 UK Biobank participants shows that carriers of neurodevelopmental CNVs (ND-CNVs) have higher odds of co-oc...

8 Apr 22min

Sapp JC et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - A longitudinal study of recipients of medically actionable secondary genomic findings develops a Bayesian approach that integrates variant, fam...

7 Apr 24min

Massilania D et al., PNAS - We summarize a PNAS study reporting a ~37× genome from a ~110,000-year-old male Neandertal (Denisova 17) from Denisova Cave. The genome shows D17 is closely related to an e...

5 Apr 23min

Law C-T et al., Cell Genomics - Law and Burns introduce TiMEstamp, a comparative-genomics pipeline that dates LINE-1 insertions from multiple sequence alignments and discovers hundreds of LINE-1 chime...

5 Apr 21min

Jiang P et al., Cell Genomics - This episode reviews a Cell Genomics study that uses ssDNA '2-end' and novel '4-end' sequencing to profile native 5′ and 3′ termini of plasma cfDNA. The work identifies...

4 Apr 24min

Jiang P et al., Cell Genomics - This episode reviews a Cell Genomics study that uses ssDNA '2-end' and novel '4-end' sequencing to profile native 5′ and 3′ termini of plasma cfDNA. The work identifies...

4 Apr 0s

Liao Y et al., PNAS - Human dermal fibroblasts from young and old donors were embedded in 3D collagen and exposed to mechanical tension and TGF-β. Combining bulk RNA‑seq, ATAC‑seq, imaging, and pertur...

2 Apr 22min

Tan et al et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - This report identifies bi-allelic NDUFA5 variants in four individuals from three families causing an isolated mitochondrial complex I deficie...

31 Mar 26min