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
2014
Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Striatum in Tourette Syndrome
Lennington JB, Coppola G, Kataoka-Sasaki Y, Fernandez TV, Palejev D, Li Y, Huttner A, Pletikos M, Sestan N, Leckman JF, Vaccarino FM. Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Striatum in Tourette Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 2014, 79: 372-382. PMID: 25199956, PMCID: PMC4305353, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.07.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCopy number variantsGenome-wide association studiesGene coexpression modulesNumber variantsGene network analysisCommon genetic variantsCoexpression modulesUpregulated genesMetabolism modulesImmune-related genesNetwork analysisAssociation studiesDifferential expressionUpregulated modulesGenetic variantsGenesPatient's striatumTS individualsTranscriptomeVariantsMetabolic alterationsSame regionGamma-aminobutyric acidergic interneuronsTranscriptsRNA
2012
Somatic copy number mosaicism in human skin revealed by induced pluripotent stem cells
Abyzov A, Mariani J, Palejev D, Zhang Y, Haney MS, Tomasini L, Ferrandino AF, Rosenberg Belmaker LA, Szekely A, Wilson M, Kocabas A, Calixto NE, Grigorenko EL, Huttner A, Chawarska K, Weissman S, Urban AE, Gerstein M, Vaccarino FM. Somatic copy number mosaicism in human skin revealed by induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 2012, 492: 438-442. PMID: 23160490, PMCID: PMC3532053, DOI: 10.1038/nature11629.Peer-Reviewed Original Research