2020
Complex mosaic structural variations in human fetal brains
Sekar S, Tomasini L, Proukakis C, Bae T, Manlove L, Jang Y, Scuderi S, Zhou B, Kalyva M, Amiri A, Mariani J, Sedlazeck F, Urban AE, Vaccarino F, Abyzov A. Complex mosaic structural variations in human fetal brains. Genome Research 2020, 30: gr.262667.120. PMID: 33122304, PMCID: PMC7706730, DOI: 10.1101/gr.262667.120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle nucleotide variantsCopy number variantsStructural variantsMegabase-scale copy number variantsHuman fetal brainFunctional consequencesMobile element insertionsSimilar functional consequencesFetal brainMosaic single-nucleotide variantsAdult brain neuronsStructural variationsPotential functional consequencesKilobase scaleDNA eventsGenomic fragmentDifferent chromosomesElement insertionsClonal approachHuman brain cellsFetal human brainNucleotide variantsReplication errorsHuman brainNumber variants
2017
One thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin
Abyzov A, Tomasini L, Zhou B, Vasmatzis N, Coppola G, Amenduni M, Pattni R, Wilson M, Gerstein M, Weissman S, Urban AE, Vaccarino FM. One thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin. Genome Research 2017, 27: 512-523. PMID: 28235832, PMCID: PMC5378170, DOI: 10.1101/gr.215517.116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic mosaicismFibroblast cellsSingle-cell whole-genome amplificationAllele frequenciesNumber of SNVsNormal cell proliferationCell proliferationWhole genome amplificationStem cell linesPluripotent stem cell lineHealthy human tissuesDe novo variantsCancer mutationsHigh-resolution analysisMutational loadPCR experimentsSkin fibroblast cellsMutational signaturesHiPSC linesDe novoGenomeNovo variantsFibroblast populationsCell linesSomatic SNVs