whole-exome sequencing

An AI-assisted C++17 port of VarDictJava gives byte-identical calls on five exome samples while running 3.7-4.8 times faster on one core and needing 8-17 times less memory.

MetaDome now supports GRCh38 alongside GRCh37, adds coordinate lookup, and identifies 52,463 GRCh38 ClinVar missense variants of uncertain significance with uncontradicted pathogenic evidence at homologous Pfam-domain positions.

Organoids grew from 13 of 27 resected hepatocellular carcinomas. The sequenced lines kept parental mutations, and solid rather than cystic growth marked shorter progression-free survival (HR 13.91).

Ultra-rare damaging coding variants in 87,959 schizophrenia cases and 150,587 controls implicate 40 genes (16 exome-wide, 24 at 5% FDR), half overlapping autism, developmental delay or bipolar genes.

Whole-exome sequencing of memory NK cells from 81 CMV-seropositive donors reveals dominant somatic clones, early-life origin, and positive selection, with Kmt2d loss shifting mouse NK fitness.

A low-rank covariance probe on Evo 2 embeddings predicts ClinVar pathogenicity across SNVs and indels, while annotation probes plus an LLM produce mechanistic hypotheses; scores released for 4.2 million variants.

Homozygosity for hypomorphic IL23R variants (G149R, G300V, R381Q) partly impairs IL-23-dependent IFN-γ production in patient cells; with L372F (effect inferred), they are enriched in tuberculosis, not MSMD or CMC patients.

Abundance scores for 8,891 TSC2 missense variants, plus mTOR pathway activity scores for 391, were calibrated to ACMG/AMP evidence. They putatively reclassify 212 of 276 clinical-cohort missense VUS.

Phenome-wide scan of Y-chromosomal variants against 1,426 traits in 104,334 Finnish men finds no significant hits; kin-based validation supports haplogroup I1 increasing coronary heart disease risk.

gnomAD v4 (730,947 exomes) brings LOFTEE-2 loss-of-function annotation (0.90 precision, strict mode), missense-aware constraint, and LLM-mined literature evidence combined with constraint to rank disease genes.

A Shiny web platform pulls together gnomAD frequencies, UK Biobank LDL-C associations, AlphaMissense, LDLR deep mutational scanning and ClinVar/HGMD to draft ACMG/AMP evidence for familial hypercholesterolemia variants.

Mixture modeling of 239 phenotype features in 5,392 SPARK autistic children defines four replicable classes carrying distinct common and rare variant signatures and developmental gene-timing patterns.

Exome and transcriptome sequencing of salivary basal cell adenomas reveals a recurrent FBXW11 p.F517S mutation, exclusive with CTNNB1 p.I35T, together accounting for 94% of cases.

SigProfilerAssignment refits known substitution, doublet, indel and copy-number mutational signatures to single samples and probabilistically to individual mutations, outperforming four refitting tools on 2,700 synthetic genomes.

Exomes of 24,248 schizophrenia cases and 97,322 controls implicate ultra-rare damaging variants in 10 genes, including GRIN2A and GRIA3, with odds ratios of 3 to 50.

Cryo-EM shows brain-derived Aβ42 filaments adopt two related S-shaped protofilament folds: Type I dominates sporadic Alzheimer's, Type II familial Alzheimer's, other disorders and App^NL-F knock-in mice.

A C++ library plus 83 command line utilities and 44 scripts (vcflib) for filtering, transforming and computing population-genetic statistics on VCF files, with companion tools bio-vcf, slivar, cyvcf2 and hts-nim.

From 125,748 exomes and 15,708 genomes, 443,769 high-confidence predicted loss-of-function variants yield LOEUF, a continuous gene intolerance score tracking mouse lethality, cell essentiality, and disease associations.

Mutect2 calls somatic SNVs and indels via local haplotype assembly, Bayesian genotyping and F-score-optimised filtering, with roughly one false call per 5 Mb in exome replicate-versus-replicate tests.

Exomes of 49,960 UK Biobank participants reveal 231,631 predicted loss-of-function variants (>10-fold more than imputed data); burden tests implicate PIEZO1, MEPE, and COL6A1 in disease traits.

Step-by-step protocol for interpreting omics gene lists via g:Profiler or GSEA enrichment testing, then grouping redundant enriched pathways into themes with Cytoscape Enrichment Map.

Per-sample assembly with gVCF output, followed by joint genotyping, lets GATK HaplotypeCaller scale linearly with cohort size while calling indels more accurately than SAMtools, UnifiedGenotyper or Platypus.

GLnexus, a joint variant caller backed by an incrementally growable gVCF database, largely matched GATK on 50,000 exomes while keeping more rare indels and using 3.8–6.6-fold fewer core-hours.

Sub-genic missense depletion in ExAC anchors MPC, a deleteriousness score; de novo missense variants with MPC ≥ 2 occur in neurodevelopmental cases at 5.79 times the control rate.

Sentieon's rewrite of GATK and MuTect pipelines runs on average 36x faster than GATK Best Practices on public human data while matching its calls (average F-score 0.9996).

Immunogenomic profiling of 8243 TCGA samples across 20 solid cancers yields an immune atlas and a random-forest-derived immunophenoscore stratifying melanoma responders to checkpoint blockade.