2024
Saturation mutagenesis-reinforced functional assays for disease-related genes
Ma K, Huang S, Ng K, Lake N, Joseph S, Xu J, Lek A, Ge L, Woodman K, Koczwara K, Cohen J, Ho V, O'Connor C, Brindley M, Campbell K, Lek M. Saturation mutagenesis-reinforced functional assays for disease-related genes. Cell 2024 PMID: 39326416, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.047.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDisease-related genesDisease-causing genetic variantsGenome-wide resolutionMutation scanning methodsSingle-nucleotide variantsDeep mutational scanning methodFunctional assaysDisease genesComputational predictorsSaturation mutagenesisHuman geneticsGenetic variantsGenesVariantsSmurfAssayMutagenesisLARGE1GeneticsDisease severity
2023
Deleterious heteroplasmic mitochondrial mutations are associated with an increased risk of overall and cancer-specific mortality
Hong Y, Battle S, Shi W, Puiu D, Pillalamarri V, Xie J, Pankratz N, Lake N, Lek M, Rotter J, Rich S, Kooperberg C, Reiner A, Auer P, Heard-Costa N, Liu C, Lai M, Murabito J, Levy D, Grove M, Alonso A, Gibbs R, Dugan-Perez S, Gondek L, Guallar E, Arking D. Deleterious heteroplasmic mitochondrial mutations are associated with an increased risk of overall and cancer-specific mortality. Nature Communications 2023, 14: 6113. PMID: 37777527, PMCID: PMC10542802, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41785-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle nucleotide variantsOwn circular genomeState of heteroplasmyAging-related diseasesNuclear genomeMitochondrial genomeCircular genomeMtDNA single nucleotide variantsMitochondrial DNASomatic cellsMitochondrial mutationsMtDNA heteroplasmyGenomeNucleotide variantsHeteroplasmyDNA moleculesFunctional roleMitochondriaUK BiobankCertain cancersVariantsDNAMutationsCopiesCells
2022
Neuromuscular disorders: finding the missing genetic diagnoses
Koczwara KE, Lake NJ, DeSimone AM, Lek M. Neuromuscular disorders: finding the missing genetic diagnoses. Trends In Genetics 2022, 38: 956-971. PMID: 35908999, DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2022.07.001.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsHigh-throughput functional screeningDiscovery of hundredsGenetic diagnosisNMD genesNext-generation sequencingFunctional screeningSequencing technologiesPathogenic variantsNeuromuscular disordersGroup of diseasesGenesSequencingFuture approachesLarge numberRecent advancementsDiscoveryVariantsYieldMitoVisualize: a resource for analysis of variants in human mitochondrial RNAs and DNA
Lake NJ, Zhou L, Xu J, Lek M. MitoVisualize: a resource for analysis of variants in human mitochondrial RNAs and DNA. Bioinformatics 2022, 38: 2967-2969. PMID: 35561159, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac216.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRibosomal RNA secondary structuresHuman mitochondrial RNAMitochondrial transfer RNAsPost-transcriptional modificationsHuman mitochondrial DNADisease-associated variantsRNA secondary structureEffects of variantsMtDNA mapMitochondrial RNAMtDNA variationMitochondrial DNATransfer RNAAnalysis of variantsRNA structureSecondary structureVariant annotationLarge deletionsSupplementary dataVariant interpretationRNADNAVariantsGenesNew tool