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September 2022

The epigenome, in particular variation of DNA methylation profiles across individuals, has long been of interest as a modifier of the genetic code, with "mutations" reflecting past environments, stochastic events, or genetic regulation. See Sasaki et al.

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Research Articles

Neurocognitive trajectory and proteomic signature of inherited risk for Alzheimer’s disease

Manish D. Paranjpe, Mark Chaffin, Sohail Zahid, Scott Ritchie, Jerome I. Rotter, Stephen S. Rich, Robert Gerszten, Xiuqing Guo, Susan Heckbert, Russ Tracy, John Danesh, Eric S. Lander, Michael Inouye, Sekar Kathiresan, Adam S. Butterworth, Amit V. Khera

The nanoCUT&RUN technique visualizes telomeric chromatin in Drosophila

Tao Chen, Xiaolu Wei, Cécile Courret, Min Cui, Lin Cheng, Jing Wu, Kami Ahmad, Amanda M. Larracuente, Yikang S. Rong

Serotonergic neuron ribosomal proteins regulate the neuroendocrine control of Drosophila development

Lisa Patricia Deliu, Michael Turingan, Deeshpaul Jadir, Byoungchun Lee, Abhishek Ghosh, Savraj Singh Grewal

Repair of mismatched templates during Rad51-dependent Break-Induced Replication

Jihyun Choi, Muwen Kong, Danielle N. Gallagher, Kevin Li, Gabriel Bronk, Yiting Cao, Eric C. Greene, James E. Haber

Elevated phosphorylation of EGFR in NSCLC due to mutations in PTPRH

Matthew R. Swiatnicki, Jonathan P. Rennhack, Mylena M. O. Ortiz, Daniel P. Hollern, Ashlee V. Perry, Rachel Kubiak, Sarai M. Riveria Riveria, Sandra O’Reilly, Eran R. Andrechek

A bipartite, low-affinity roadblock domain-containing GAP complex regulates bacterial front-rear polarity

Dobromir Szadkowski, Luís António Menezes Carreira, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Selection on modifiers of genetic architecture under migration load

Stephen R. Proulx, Henrique Teotónio

Imp interacts with Lin28 to regulate adult stem cell proliferation in the Drosophila intestine

Perinthottathil Sreejith, Sumira Malik, Changsoo Kim, Benoît Biteau

Localized variation in ancestral admixture identifies pilocytic astrocytoma risk loci among Latino children

Shaobo Li, Charleston W. K. Chiang, Swe Swe Myint, Katti Arroyo, Tsz Fung Chan, Libby Morimoto, Catherine Metayer, Adam J. de Smith, Kyle M. Walsh, Joseph L. Wiemels

COVID-19 infection and transmission includes complex sequence diversity

Ernest R. Chan, Lucas D. Jones, Marlin Linger, Jeffrey D. Kovach, Maria M. Torres-Teran, Audric Wertz, Curtis J. Donskey, Peter A. Zimmerman

Deletion of CEP164 in mouse photoreceptors post-ciliogenesis interrupts ciliary intraflagellar transport (IFT)

Michelle Reed, Ken-Ichi Takemaru, Guoxin Ying, Jeanne M. Frederick, Wolfgang Baehr

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals dysregulation of spinal cord cell types in a severe spinal muscular atrophy mouse model

Junjie Sun, Jiaying Qiu, Qiongxia Yang, Qianqian Ju, Ruobing Qu, Xu Wang, Liucheng Wu, Lingyan Xing

Conditional GWAS of non-CG transposon methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals major polymorphisms in five genes

Eriko Sasaki, Joanna Gunis, Ilka Reichardt-Gomez, Viktoria Nizhynska, Magnus Nordborg

The TOG protein Stu2 is regulated by acetylation

Matt A. Greenlee, Braden Witt, Jeremy A. Sabo, Savannah C. Morris, Rita K. Miller

Regulation of heme utilization and homeostasis in Candida albicans

Natalie Andrawes, Ziva Weissman, Mariel Pinsky, Shilat Moshe, Judith Berman, Daniel Kornitzer

Whole-exome sequencing reveals a comprehensive germline mutation landscape and identifies twelve novel predisposition genes in Chinese prostate cancer patients

Yonghao Liang, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Yao Zhu, Christine Yim-Ping Wong, Qing Xiong, Lin Wang, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Qin Cao, Yu Wei, Ding-Wei Ye, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui, Chi-Fai Ng

Actin depolymerizing factor ADF7 inhibits actin bundling protein VILLIN1 to regulate root hair formation in response to osmotic stress in Arabidopsis

Shuangtian Bi, Mingyang Li, Caiyuan Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Jianing Cheng, Lu Wang, Jinshu Wang, Yanling Lv, Ming He, Xin Cheng, Yue Gao, Che Wang

Genome-wide analysis identifies Homothorax and Extradenticle as regulators of insulin in Drosophila Insulin-Producing cells

Mattias Winant, Kurt Buhler, Jason Clements, Sofie De Groef, Korneel Hens, Veerle Vulsteke, Patrick Callaerts

Rdh54 stabilizes Rad51 at displacement loop intermediates to regulate genetic exchange between chromosomes

Margaret Keymakh, Jennifer Dau, Jingyi Hu, Bryan Ferlez, Michael Lisby, J. Brooks Crickard

Recovery from spindle checkpoint-mediated arrest requires a novel Dnt1-dependent APC/C activation mechanism

Shuang Bai, Li Sun, Xi Wang, Shuang-min Wang, Zhou-qing Luo, Yamei Wang, Quan-wen Jin

miR-309a is a regulator of ovarian development in the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis

Qiang Zhang, Wei Dou, Clauvis Nji Tizi Taning, Shan-Shan Yu, Guo-Rui Yuan, Feng Shang, Guy Smagghe, Jin-Jun Wang

Analysis of low-level somatic mosaicism reveals stage and tissue-specific mutational features in human development

Ja Hye Kim, Shinwon Hwang, Hyeonju Son, Dongsun Kim, Il Bin Kim, Myeong-Heui Kim, Nam Suk Sim, Dong Seok Kim, Yoo-Jin Ha, Junehawk Lee, Hoon-Chul Kang, Jeong Ho Lee, Sangwoo Kim

Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Wolbachia strain wAlbA reveals Wolbachia-associated plasmids are common

Julien Martinez, Thomas H. Ant, Shivan M. Murdochy, Lily Tong, Ana da Silva Filipe, Steven P. Sinkins

Cek1 regulates ß(1,3)-glucan exposure through calcineurin effectors in Candida albicans

Andrew S. Wagner, Stephen W. Lumsdaine, Mikayla M. Mangrum, Ainsley E. King, Trevor J. Hancock, Timothy E. Sparer, Todd B. Reynolds

Daisy-chain gene drives: The role of low cut-rate, resistance mutations, and maternal deposition

Sebald A. N. Verkuijl, Michelle A. E. Anderson, Luke Alphey, Michael B. Bonsall

SAUR63 stimulates cell growth at the plasma membrane

Punita Nagpal, Paul H. Reeves, Jeh Haur Wong, Laia Armengot, Keun Chae, Nathaniel B. Rieveschl, Brendan Trinidad, Vala Davidsdottir, Prateek Jain, William M. Gray, Yvon Jaillais, Jason W. Reed

Hrq1/RECQL4 regulation is critical for preventing aberrant recombination during DNA intrastrand crosslink repair and is upregulated in breast cancer

Thong T. Luong, Zheqi Li, Nolan Priedigkeit, Phoebe S. Parker, Stefanie Böhm, Kyle Rapchak, Adrian V. Lee, Kara A. Bernstein

The cell cortex-localized protein CHDP-1 is required for dendritic development and transport in C. elegans neurons

Ting Zhao, Liying Guan, Xuehua Ma, Baohui Chen, Mei Ding, Wei Zou

Oocyte mitophagy is critical for extended reproductive longevity

Vanessa Cota, Salman Sohrabi, Rachel Kaletsky, Coleen T. Murphy

Long-distance transport of sucrose in source leaves promotes sink root growth by the EIN3-SUC2 module

Chen Tong, Cong Li, Xiao-Ying Cao, Xu-Dong Sun, Qin-Xin Bao, Xin-Rong Mu, Chang-Yue Liu, Gary J. Loake, Hu-hui Chen, Lai-Sheng Meng

The germ cell-specific RNA binding protein RBM46 is essential for spermatogonial differentiation in mice

Natoya J. Peart, Taylor A. Johnson, Sungkyoung Lee, Matthew J. Sears, Fang Yang, Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières, Huijuan Feng, Yocelyn Recinos, Yoseph Barash, Chaolin Zhang, Brian P. Hermann, P. Jeremy Wang, Christopher B. Geyer, Russ P. Carstens

The impact of Mendelian sleep and circadian genetic variants in a population setting

Michael N. Weedon, Samuel E. Jones, Jacqueline M. Lane, Jiwon Lee, Hanna M. Ollila, Amy Dawes, Jess Tyrrell, Robin N. Beaumont, Timo Partonen, Ilona Merikanto, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Timothy M. Frayling, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Tamar Sofer, Richa Saxena, Andrew R. Wood

Sir2 and Reb1 antagonistically regulate nucleosome occupancy in subtelomeric X-elements and repress TERRAs by distinct mechanisms

Stefanie L. Bauer, Thomas N. T. Grochalski, Agata Smialowska, Stefan U. Åström

The helper NLR immune protein NRC3 mediates the hypersensitive cell death caused by the cell-surface receptor Cf-4

Jiorgos Kourelis, Mauricio P. Contreras, Adeline Harant, Hsuan Pai, Daniel Lüdke, Hiroaki Adachi, Lida Derevnina, Chih-Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun

Cas9 targeted nanopore sequencing with enhanced variant calling improves CYP2D6-CYP2D7 hybrid allele genotyping

Kaat Rubben, Laurentijn Tilleman, Koen Deserranno, Olivier Tytgat, Dieter Deforce, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh

AFF4 regulates cellular adipogenic differentiation via targeting autophagy

Yaqian Chen, Qiwen Li, Yuting Liu, Xuelan Chen, Shuang Jiang, Weimin Lin, Yuning Zhang, Rui Liu, Bin Shao, Chong Chen, Quan Yuan, Chenchen Zhou

Effects of replication domains on genome-wide UV-induced DNA damage and repair

Yanchao Huang, Cem Azgari, Mengdie Yin, Yi-Ying Chiou, Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz, Aziz Sancar, Jinchuan Hu, Ogun Adebali

Prostaglandins and calprotectin are genetically and functionally linked to the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Mohamad Karaky, Gabrielle Boucher, Saraï Mola, Sylvain Foisy, Claudine Beauchamp, Marie-Eve Rivard, Melanie Burnette, Hugues Gosselin, iGenoMed Consortium, Alain Bitton, Guy Charron, Philippe Goyette, John D. Rioux

Chromatin remodeler Dmp18 regulates apoptosis by controlling H2Av incorporation in Drosophila imaginal disc development

Ying Feng, Yan Zhang, Zhiqing Lin, Xiaolei Ye, Xue Lin, Lixiu Lv, Yi Lin, Shenfei Sun, Yun Qi, Xinhua Lin

A genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies DPM1 as a modifier of DPAGT1 deficiency and ER stress

Hans M. Dalton, Raghuvir Viswanatha, Roderick Brathwaite Jr., Jae Sophia Zuno, Alexys R. Berman, Rebekah Rushforth, Stephanie E. Mohr, Norbert Perrimon, Clement Y. Chow

FIONA1-mediated methylation of the 3’UTR of FLC affects FLC transcript levels and flowering in Arabidopsis

Bin Sun, Kaushal Kumar Bhati, Peizhe Song, Ashleigh Edwards, Louise Petri, Valdeko Kruusvee, Anko Blaakmeer, Ulla Dolde, Vandasue Rodrigues, Daniel Straub, Junbo Yang, Guifang Jia, Stephan Wenkel

Gap junctions mediate discrete regulatory steps during fly spermatogenesis

Yanina-Yasmin Pesch, Vivien Dang, Michael John Fairchild, Fayeza Islam, Darius Camp, Priya Kaur, Christopher M. Smendziuk, Anat Messenberg, Rosalyn Carr, Ciaran R. McFarlane, Pierre-Yves Musso, Filip Van Petegem, Guy Tanentzapf

Widespread employment of conserved C. elegans homeobox genes in neuronal identity specification

Molly B. Reilly, Tessa Tekieli, Cyril Cros, G. Robert Aguilar, James Lao, Itai Antoine Toker, Berta Vidal, Eduardo Leyva-Díaz, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Steven J. Cook, Jayson J. Smith, Ismar Kovacevic, Burcu Gulez, Robert W. Fernandez, Elisabeth F. Bradford, Yasmin H. Ramadan, Paschalis Kratsios, Zhirong Bao, Oliver Hobert

Ether lipid deficiency disrupts lipid homeostasis leading to ferroptosis sensitivity

Marcos A. Perez, Andrea J. Clostio, Isabel R. Houston, Jimena Ruiz, Leslie Magtanong, Scott J. Dixon, Jennifer L. Watts

Methods

Testing for association with rare variants in the coding and non-coding genome: RAVA-FIRST, a new approach based on CADD deleteriousness score

Ozvan Bocher, Thomas E. Ludwig, Marie-Sophie Oglobinsky, Gaëlle Marenne, Jean-François Deleuze, Suryakant Suryakant, Jacob Odeberg, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Hervé Perdry, Emmanuelle Génin

High-throughput sequencing of EcoWI restriction fragments maps the genome-wide landscape of phosphorothioate modification at base resolution

Weiwei Yang, Alexey Fomenkov, Dan Heiter, Shuang-yong Xu, Laurence Ettwiller