2021
Comprehensive identification of somatic nucleotide variants in human brain tissue
Wang Y, Bae T, Thorpe J, Sherman MA, Jones AG, Cho S, Daily K, Dou Y, Ganz J, Galor A, Lobon I, Pattni R, Rosenbluh C, Tomasi S, Tomasini L, Yang X, Zhou B, Akbarian S, Ball LL, Bizzotto S, Emery SB, Doan R, Fasching L, Jang Y, Juan D, Lizano E, Luquette LJ, Moldovan JB, Narurkar R, Oetjens MT, Rodin RE, Sekar S, Shin JH, Soriano E, Straub RE, Zhou W, Chess A, Gleeson JG, Marquès-Bonet T, Park PJ, Peters MA, Pevsner J, Walsh CA, Weinberger DR, Vaccarino F, Moran J, Urban A, Kidd J, Mills R, Abyzov A. Comprehensive identification of somatic nucleotide variants in human brain tissue. Genome Biology 2021, 22: 92. PMID: 33781308, PMCID: PMC8006362, DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02285-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic SNVsSomatic single nucleotide variantsWhole-genome sequencing dataSequencing dataBulk DNA samplesCell lineage treesSomatic mosaicismSingle nucleotide variantsLineage treesSomatic nucleotide variantsCellular processesDNA replicationHuman genomeSomatic tissuesDNA repairNucleotide variantsComprehensive identificationDNA samplesMosaic variantsNon-cancerous tissuesDNASingle individualMultiple replicatesHuman brain tissueVariants
2017
Landscape and variation of novel retroduplications in 26 human populations
Zhang Y, Li S, Abyzov A, Gerstein MB. Landscape and variation of novel retroduplications in 26 human populations. PLOS Computational Biology 2017, 13: e1005567. PMID: 28662076, PMCID: PMC5510864, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005567.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsParent genesSequencing dataHigh-coverage exomesLow-coverage whole-genome sequencing dataHuman populationWhole-genome sequencing dataExon-exon junctionsGenomes Phase 3Young L1 elementsPaired-end readsPotential disease associationsRetrotranspositional activityGenomic elementsNucleosome positioningPhylogenetic treeRetroduplicationExome sequencing dataReference genomeGenomic featuresInsertion eventsL1 elementsComprehensive discoveryPopulation markersSNP callingFunctional regions