Unravelling genome-wide mosaic microsatellite mutations at single-cell resolution
Chunyi Wang, Wenxuan Fan, Weixiang Wang, Yonghe Xia, Jinhong Lu, Xiaoyu Ma, Jichuan Yu, Yunchao Zheng, Qing Yang, Meizhen Lin, X F Yu, Xushen Xiong, M Kellis, Qi Xie, Yanmei Dou, Data Group
The paper develops BayesMonSTR to detect mosaic STR mutations at single-cell resolution and finds increased STR indels in aging cells, particularly in prefrontal cortex neurons.
bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics