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
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