2024
Somatic mosaicism in schizophrenia brains reveals prenatal mutational processes
Maury E, Jones A, Seplyarskiy V, Nguyen T, Rosenbluh C, Bae T, Wang Y, Abyzov A, Khoshkhoo S, Chahine Y, Zhao S, Venkatesh S, Root E, Voloudakis G, Roussos P, Network B, Park P, Akbarian S, Brennand K, Reilly S, Lee E, Sunyaev S, Walsh C, Chess A. Somatic mosaicism in schizophrenia brains reveals prenatal mutational processes. Science 2024, 386: 217-224. PMID: 39388546, PMCID: PMC11490355, DOI: 10.1126/science.adq1456.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscription factor binding sitesWhole-genome sequencingOpen chromatinMutational processesSomatic mutationsFactor binding sitesSchizophrenia casesSchizophrenia risk genesSomatic mosaicismSomatic variantsRisk genesG mutationGene expressionGermline mutationsBinding sitesGenesMutationsIncreased somatic mutationsChromatinMosaic somatic mutationsPrenatal neurogenesisContext of schizophreniaBrain neuronsSchizophrenia brainVariants
2023
Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development
Chung C, Yang X, Bae T, Vong K, Mittal S, Donkels C, Westley Phillips H, Li Z, Marsh A, Breuss M, Ball L, Garcia C, George R, Gu J, Xu M, Barrows C, James K, Stanley V, Nidhiry A, Khoury S, Howe G, Riley E, Xu X, Copeland B, Wang Y, Kim S, Kang H, Schulze-Bonhage A, Haas C, Urbach H, Prinz M, Limbrick D, Gurnett C, Smyth M, Sattar S, Nespeca M, Gonda D, Imai K, Takahashi Y, Chen H, Tsai J, Conti V, Guerrini R, Devinsky O, Silva W, Machado H, Mathern G, Abyzov A, Baldassari S, Baulac S, Gleeson J. Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development. Nature Genetics 2023, 55: 209-220. PMID: 36635388, PMCID: PMC9961399, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01276-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle-nucleus RNA sequencingSpatiotemporal expression patternsSomatic mutationsTarget amplicon sequencingLow allelic fractionsMulti-omics profilingGene setsRNA sequencingFunctional validationCellular organizationExpression patternsGenotype-phenotype correlation analysisGenetic landscapeCortical developmentMutationsGenetic causeUtero electroporationSomatic mosaic mutationsGenesCritical roleMosaic mutationsSequencingNeuronal hyperexcitabilityBrain resectionProfiling
2022
Analysis of somatic mutations in 131 human brains reveals aging-associated hypermutability
Bae T, Fasching L, Wang Y, Shin JH, Suvakov M, Jang Y, Norton S, Dias C, Mariani J, Jourdon A, Wu F, Panda A, Pattni R, Chahine Y, Yeh R, Roberts RC, Huttner A, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM, Straub RE, Walsh CA, Urban A, Leckman J, Weinberger D, Vaccarino F, Abyzov A, Walsh C, Park P, Sestan N, Weinberger D, Moran J, Gage F, Vaccarino F, Gleeson J, Mathern G, Courchesne E, Roy S, Chess A, Akbarian S, Bizzotto S, Coulter M, Dias C, D’Gama A, Ganz J, Hill R, Huang A, Khoshkhoo S, Kim S, Lee A, Lodato M, Maury E, Miller M, Borges-Monroy R, Rodin R, Zhou Z, Bohrson C, Chu C, Cortes-Ciriano I, Dou Y, Galor A, Gulhan D, Kwon M, Luquette J, Sherman M, Viswanadham V, Jones A, Rosenbluh C, Cho S, Langmead B, Thorpe J, Erwin J, Jaffe A, McConnell M, Narurkar R, Paquola A, Shin J, Straub R, Abyzov A, Bae T, Jang Y, Wang Y, Molitor C, Peters M, Linker S, Reed P, Wang M, Urban A, Zhou B, Zhu X, Pattni R, Serres Amero A, Juan D, Lobon I, Marques-Bonet T, Solis Moruno M, Garcia Perez R, Povolotskaya I, Soriano E, Antaki D, Averbuj D, Ball L, Breuss M, Yang X, Chung C, Emery S, Flasch D, Kidd J, Kopera H, Kwan K, Mills R, Moldovan J, Sun C, Zhao X, Zhou W, Frisbie T, Cherskov A, Fasching L, Jourdon A, Pochareddy S, Scuderi S. Analysis of somatic mutations in 131 human brains reveals aging-associated hypermutability. Science 2022, 377: 511-517. PMID: 35901164, PMCID: PMC9420557, DOI: 10.1126/science.abm6222.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscription factorsSomatic mutationsPutative transcription factorEnhancer-like regionSingle nucleotide mutationsWhole-genome sequencingGene regulationSomatic duplicationGenome sequencingDamaging mutationsBackground mutagenesisMutationsHypermutabilityClonal expansionMotifDiseased brainPotential linkVivo clonal expansionMutagenesisGenesDuplicationSequencingRegulation
2020
The role of somatic mosaicism in brain disease
Jourdon A, Fasching L, Scuderi S, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. The role of somatic mosaicism in brain disease. Current Opinion In Genetics & Development 2020, 65: 84-90. PMID: 32622340, PMCID: PMC7749073, DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2020.05.002.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus Statements
2017
Intersection of diverse neuronal genomes and neuropsychiatric disease: The Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network
McConnell MJ, Moran JV, Abyzov A, Akbarian S, Bae T, Cortes-Ciriano I, Erwin JA, Fasching L, Flasch DA, Freed D, Ganz J, Jaffe AE, Kwan KY, Kwon M, Lodato MA, Mills RE, Paquola ACM, Rodin RE, Rosenbluh C, Sestan N, Sherman MA, Shin JH, Song S, Straub RE, Thorpe J, Weinberger DR, Urban AE, Zhou B, Gage FH, Lehner T, Senthil G, Walsh CA, Chess A, Courchesne E, Gleeson JG, Kidd JM, Park PJ, Pevsner J, Vaccarino FM, Barton A, Bekiranov S, Bohrson C, Burbulis I, Chronister W, Coppola G, Daily K, D’Gama A, Emery S, Frisbie T, Gao T, Gulyás-Kovács A, Haakenson M, Keil J, Kopera H, Lam M, Lee E, Marques-Bonet T, Mathern G, Moldovan J, Oetjens M, Omberg L, Peters M, Pochareddy S, Pramparo T, Ratan A, Sanavia T, Shi L, Skarica M, Wang J, Wang M, Wang Y, Wierman M, Wolpert M, Woodworth M, Zhao X, Zhou W. Intersection of diverse neuronal genomes and neuropsychiatric disease: The Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network. Science 2017, 356 PMID: 28450582, PMCID: PMC5558435, DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1641.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic mutationsComplex genetic architectureStructural genomic variantsNeuronal genomeNeuronal transcriptomeGenetic architectureCell divisionCellular metabolismGenomic variantsLong life spanDNA damageComplex neuropsychiatric disorderCellular expansionNeuropsychiatric diseasesNeuropsychiatric disordersProgenitor cellsSomatic mosaicismIndividual neurodevelopmentSmall populationCell proliferationPopulation-based studyMutationsGermline variantsLife spanBrain development