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
2016
Elevated variant density around SV breakpoints in germline lineage lends support to error-prone replication hypothesis
Dhokarh D, Abyzov A. Elevated variant density around SV breakpoints in germline lineage lends support to error-prone replication hypothesis. Genome Research 2016, 26: 874-881. PMID: 27216746, PMCID: PMC4937565, DOI: 10.1101/gr.205484.116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSNPs/indelsComplex genomic rearrangementsHundreds of lociComplex human traitsAllele frequency spectrumReplication-based mechanismsBreakpoints of deletionsGermline lineageParental genomesSV breakpointsGenomic rearrangementsGenome ProjectMutational mechanismsDeletion eventsGenomic disordersHeterozygous SNPsStructural variantsVariant densityHuman traitsIndelsNumber variantsFold changeGermline deletionCNV formationDeletion
2015
Analysis of deletion breakpoints from 1,092 humans reveals details of mutation mechanisms
Abyzov A, Li S, Kim DR, Mohiyuddin M, Stütz AM, Parrish NF, Mu XJ, Clark W, Chen K, Hurles M, Korbel JO, Lam HY, Lee C, Gerstein MB. Analysis of deletion breakpoints from 1,092 humans reveals details of mutation mechanisms. Nature Communications 2015, 6: 7256. PMID: 26028266, PMCID: PMC4451611, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8256.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-allelic homologous recombinationTemplate-switching eventsGenomic structural variantsDeletion breakpointsHi-C interactionsNon-homologous mechanismsRelaxed selectionGenomic averageHistone marksOpen chromatinGenomic sitesGermline cellsDNA replicationCell divisionDNA methylationHomologous recombinationGenome ProjectStructural variantsBasepair resolutionNearby SNPsMutation mechanismMicroinsertionsBreakpointsChromatinIndels
2013
Child Development and Structural Variation in the Human Genome
Zhang Y, Haraksingh R, Grubert F, Abyzov A, Gerstein M, Weissman S, Urban AE. Child Development and Structural Variation in the Human Genome. Child Development 2013, 84: 34-48. PMID: 23311762, DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12051.Peer-Reviewed Original Research