Science,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
366(6463)
Published: Oct. 17, 2019
Adaptive
archaic
hominin
genes
As
they
migrated
out
of
Africa
and
into
Europe
Asia,
anatomically
modern
humans
interbred
with
hominins,
such
as
Neanderthals
Denisovans.
The
result
this
genetic
introgression
on
the
recipient
populations
has
been
considerable
interest,
especially
in
cases
selection
for
specific
variants.
Hsieh
et
al.
characterized
adaptive
structural
variants
copy
number
that
are
likely
targets
positive
Melanesians.
Focusing
population-specific
regions
genome
carry
duplicated
show
an
excess
amino
acid
replacements
provides
evidence
one
mechanisms
by
which
novelty
can
arise
differentiation
between
human
genomes.
Science
,
issue
p.
eaax2083
npj Digital Medicine,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
2(1)
Published: Nov. 21, 2019
The
ambition
of
precision
medicine
is
to
design
and
optimize
the
pathway
for
diagnosis,
therapeutic
intervention,
prognosis
by
using
large
multidimensional
biological
datasets
that
capture
individual
variability
in
genes,
function
environment.
This
offers
clinicians
opportunity
more
carefully
tailor
early
interventions-
whether
treatment
or
preventative
nature-to
each
patient.
Taking
advantage
high
performance
computer
capabilities,
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
algorithms
can
now
achieve
reasonable
success
predicting
risk
certain
cancers
cardiovascular
disease
from
available
clinical
data.
In
contrast,
less
progress
has
been
made
with
neurodevelopmental
disorders,
which
include
intellectual
disability
(ID),
autism
spectrum
disorder
(ASD),
epilepsy
broader
disorders.
Much
hope
pinned
on
quantify
patterns
genomic
variation,
including
functional
characterization
genes
variants,
but
this
confounded
phenotypic
etiologic
heterogeneity,
along
rare
variable
penetrant
nature
underlying
variants
identified
so
far.
Structural
brain
imaging
neuropsychological
neurophysiological
markers
may
provide
further
dimensionality,
often
require
development
sensitivity
diagnosis.
Herein,
therefore,
lies
a
conundrum:
offer
breakthrough
risks
disorders?
review
we
will
examine
these
complexities,
consider
some
strategies
whereby
overcome
them.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
11(1)
Published: Oct. 1, 2020
Most
genes
associated
with
neurodevelopmental
disorders
(NDDs)
were
identified
an
excess
of
de
novo
mutations
(DNMs)
but
the
significance
in
case-control
mutation
burden
analysis
is
unestablished.
Here,
we
sequence
63
16,294
NDD
cases
and
additional
62
6,211
cases.
By
combining
these
published
data,
assess
a
total
125
over
16,000
compare
to
nonpsychiatric
controls
from
ExAC.
We
identify
48
(25
newly
reported)
showing
significant
ultra-rare
(MAF
<
0.01%)
gene-disruptive
(FDR
5%),
six
which
reach
family-wise
error
rate
(FWER)
(p
1.25E-06).
Among
targeted
genes,
also
reevaluate
DNM
17,426
trios
6,499
new
autism
trios.
90
enriched
for
DNMs
5%;
e.g.,
GABRG2
UIMC1);
which,
61
FWER
3.64E-07;
CASZ1).
In
addition
doubling
number
patients
many
risk
present
phenotype-genotype
correlations
seven
(CTCF,
HNRNPU,
KCNQ3,
ZBTB18,
TCF12,
SPEN,
LEO1)
based
on
this
large-scale
sequencing
effort.
Science,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
370(6523)
Published: Dec. 18, 2020
A
high-quality
rhesus
macaque
genome
Genome
technology
has
improved
substantially
since
the
first
full
organismal
genomes
were
generated.
Applying
new
technology,
Warren
et
al.
refined
of
macaque,
a
model
nonhuman
primate.
Long-read
and
other
recent
advances
in
sequencing
applied
to
generate
with
far
fewer
gaps
helped
refine
locations
numbers
repetitive
elements.
Furthermore,
authors
performed
resequencing
among
populations
identify
genetic
variability
macaque.
Thus,
previously
incomplete
inaccurate
set
sequence
information
is
now
fully
resolved,
improving
gene
mapping
for
biomedical
comparative
studies.
Science
,
this
issue
p.
eabc6617