140: SOD1 Variant Landscapes: Activity and Abundance Maps
Axakova A et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Axakova et al. produced comprehensive missense variant-effect maps for human SOD1 by assaying enzymatic activity in yeast and protein abundan...
17 Sep 202520min
139: MosCoverY: a coverage-based method to detect mosaic loss of Y
Timonina V et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - MosCoverY is a coverage-based method that estimates mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) from exome or whole-genome sequencing by normaliz...
16 Sep 202514min
138: Social exposome and dementia in Latin America
Migeot J et al., Nature Communications - Large multicenter study linking a multidimensional social exposome (education, food insecurity, finances, healthcare access, childhood experiences) to cognitio...
15 Sep 202519min
137: Rethinking RNA-binding proteins: riboregulation beyond the classics
Hentze MW et al., Cell - A review that examines the expansion of the RNA-binding proteome, evaluates evidence for many non-canonical RBPs, and highlights riboregulation as an emerging mechanism by whi...
14 Sep 202525min
136: Gene context drift and RECODR: predicting targets to prevent cancer relapse
Jassim A et al., Cancer Cell - This episode summarizes Jassim et al.'s introduction of RECODR, a graph-embedding pipeline that measures gene co-expression context drift from sc/snRNA-seq to reveal dri...
13 Sep 202514min
135: Micronutrients and Modern Human Evolution
Rees J et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Rees et al. analyze signatures of positive selection in 276 genes linked to 13 dietary micronutrients across 40 global populations (HGDP). Using...
12 Sep 202514min
134: Single-cell view of Barrett's esophagus and EAC
Wenzel M et al., Cell Genomics - This episode reviews a single-cell transcriptional atlas comparing Barrett's esophagus, intestinal metaplasia, normal esophagus/gastric samples and esophageal adenocar...
11 Sep 202515min
133: Long-read meta-pangenomics links gut genomes to child growth
Minich JJ et al., Cell - Minich et al. apply PacBio and Oxford Nanopore long‑read metagenomics to generate 986 complete metagenome‑assembled genomes from Malawian toddler fecal samples, then use pange...
10 Sep 202524min
