The paper investigates the hematological and genetic factors contributing to clinical variability in HbE/β-thalassemia patients, identifying HbF and HbE levels and specific SNPs as modifiers of disease severity.

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humanbulk RNA-seq

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GenomicsPlants People PlanetPeer-reviewedJun 2, 2025

Integrating target capture with whole genome sequencing of recent and natural history collections to explain the phylogeography of wild-growing and cultivated Cannabis

Manica Balant, Daniel Vitales, Zhiqiang Wang…·Lisa Pokorny

This study uses Hyb-Seq to analyze Cannabis genetic structure, identifying three main genetic groups and their geographic origins.

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C. eleganswhole-genome sequencing

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Evolutionary BiologyMobile DNAPeer-reviewedMay 6, 2024

Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective

Valentina Peona, Jacopo Martelossi, Dareen Almojil…·Alexander Suh

The paper presents a crowd-sourcing approach to manually curate and classify transposable elements (TEs) from tardigrade genomes, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of new TEs.

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non-human primateexperimental assay

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