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Open AccessAn integrated single-cell RNA-seq map of human neuroblastoma tumors and preclinical models uncovers divergent mesenchymal-like gene expression programs
Neuroblastoma is a common pediatric cancer, where preclinical studies suggest that a mesenchymal-like gene expression program contributes to chemotherapy resistance. However, clinical outcomes remain poor, imp...
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Open AccessLABS: linear amplification-based bisulfite sequencing for ultrasensitive cancer detection from cell-free DNA
Methylation-based liquid biopsies show promises in detecting cancer using circulating cell-free DNA; however, current limitations impede clinical application. Most assays necessitate substantial DNA inputs, po...
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Open AccessStructural variant landscapes reveal convergent signatures of evolution in sheep and goats
Sheep and goats have undergone domestication and improvement to produce similar phenotypes, which have been greatly impacted by structural variants (SVs). Here, we report a high-quality chromosome-level refere...
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Environmental Effects on Nocturnal Encounters of Two Sympatric Bushbabies, Galago moholi and Otolemur crassicaudatus, in a High-Altitude South African Northern Mistbelt Montane Habitat
Temperate living primates cope with a variety of environmental stressors, which may vary by body mass. We studied two sympatric galagos, the thick-tailed greater galago, Otolemur crassicaudatus (1.5 kg) and the s...
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Open AccessUndetectable off-target effects induced by FokI catalytic domain in mouse embryos
The FokI catalytic domain can be fused to various DNA binding architectures to improve the precision of genome editing tools. However, evaluation of off-target effects is essential for develo** these tools. ...
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Ongoing Bidirectional Introgression and the Maintenance of Species Boundaries in Hemiculter Hybrid Zone
The proper delimitation of species plays an important role in taxonomy as well as in studies related to speciation. However, introgressive hybridization can confuse our ability to accurately construct phylogen...
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Open AccessSeasonal Effects on the Fecal Microbial Composition of Wild Greater Thick-Tailed Galagos (Otolemur crassicaudatus)
Bacterial communities present in the host digestive tract are important for the breakdown and absorption of nutrients required by the host. Changes in diet and the environment are major factors affecting the c...
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Allometric brain reduction in an insular, dwarfed population of black-tailed deer
Insular populations of mammals have been shown to undergo drastic morphological changes relative to mainland counterparts, and these adaptations can provide insight into the evolutionary effects of predation a...
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Open AccessEffective methods for bulk RNA-seq deconvolution using scnRNA-seq transcriptomes
RNA profiling technologies at single-cell resolutions, including single-cell and single-nuclei RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq, scnRNA-seq for short), can help characterize the composition of tissues a...
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Open AccessEnhancer-driven transcription of MCM8 by E2F4 promotes ATR pathway activation and glioma stem cell characteristics
Glioma stem cells (GSCs) are responsible for glioma recurrence and drug resistance, yet the mechanisms underlying their maintenance remains unclear. This study aimed to identify enhancer-controlled genes invol...
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Open AccessCharacterization of novel loci controlling seed oil content in Brassica napus by marker metabolite-based multi-omics analysis
Seed oil content is an important agronomic trait of Brassica napus (B. napus), and metabolites are considered as the bridge between genotype and phenotype for physical traits.
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Open AccessSMPD1 expression profile and mutation landscape help decipher genotype–phenotype association and precision diagnosis for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) disorder, also known as Niemann–Pick disease (NPD) is a rare genetic disease caused by mutations in SMPD1 gene, which encodes sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase (ASM). Except ...
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Open AccessDynamic chromatin regulatory programs during embryogenesis of hexaploid wheat
Plant and animal embryogenesis have conserved and distinct features. Cell fate transitions occur during embryogenesis in both plants and animals. The epigenomic processes regulating plant embryogenesis remain ...
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Open AccessImplicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis
Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understandi...
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Open AccessPan-cancer surveys indicate cell cycle-related roles of primate-specific genes in tumors and embryonic cerebrum
Despite having been extensively studied, it remains largely unclear why humans bear a particularly high risk of cancer. The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis predicts that primate-specific genes (PSGs) tend t...
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Open AccessMETTL4-mediated nuclear N6-deoxyadenosine methylation promotes metastasis through activating multiple metastasis-inducing targets
DNA N6-methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) is rarely present in mammalian cells and its nuclear role remains elusive.
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Open AccessPopulation structure discovery in meta-analyzed microbial communities and inflammatory bowel disease using MMUPHin
Microbiome studies of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have achieved a scale for meta-analysis of dysbioses among populations. To enable microbial community meta-analyses generally, we develop MMUPHin for nor...
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Functional analysis of HADH c.99C>G shows that the variant causes the proliferation of pancreatic islets and leu-sensitive hyperinsulinaemia
A novel missense variant (NM_005327.7: c.99C>G, p.Ile33Met) was discovered in 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HADH), which is involved in congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). This variant may be damaging or dele...
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Open AccessA high-resolution single-molecule sequencing-based Arabidopsis transcriptome using novel methods of Iso-seq analysis
Accurate and comprehensive annotation of transcript sequences is essential for transcript quantification and differential gene and transcript expression analysis. Single-molecule long-read sequencing technolog...
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Open AccessGene fusion as an important mechanism to generate new genes in the genus Oryza
Events of gene fusion have been reported in several organisms. However, the general role of gene fusion as part of new gene origination remains unknown.
