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  5. A recent study on human structural variation indicates insufficiencies and errors in the human reference genome, GRCh38, and argues for the construction of a human pan-genome.

    Authors: Xiaofei Yang, Wan-Ping Lee, Kai Ye and Charles Lee
    Citation: Genome Biology 2019 20:104
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  6. Histone variants constitute a fundamental feature of the epigenome. However, their dynamics during normal and challenged DNA replication and their distribution in the three-dimensional space of the nucleus rem...

    Authors: Stella Maxouri, Stavros Taraviras and Zoi Lygerou
    Citation: Genome Biology 2018 19:182
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  10. We discuss a recent study that has identified and validated the link between a type-2 diabetes (T2D) association and human adipose biology by means of KLF14 gene expression. In addition to being maternally imprin...

    Authors: Kim Lorenz and Benjamin F. Voight
    Citation: Genome Biology 2018 19:74
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  15. The generation of genetically modified alleles in mice using conventional transgenesis technologies is a long and inefficient process. A new study shows that the in situ delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 reagents into p...

    Authors: Gaetan Burgio
    Citation: Genome Biology 2018 19:27
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Genome Biology 2018 19:41

  17. Balancing selection maintains variation for evolution. A recent study investigated the extent of balancing selection in two Brassicaceae species and highlighted its importance for adaptation.

    Authors: Baosheng Wang and Thomas Mitchell-Olds
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:231
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  18. Concentration is important and not only while driving; a new study indicates how an adjacent genomic element helps to increase the efficiency of a specific adenosine to inosine RNA editing reaction, by providi...

    Authors: Miri Danan-Gotthold and Erez Y. Levanon
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:196
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  26. Epigenetic profiling in diploid, allopolyploid, and domesticated cotton shows that despite most DNA methylation being conserved and stably inherited, alterations likely due to hybridization and domestication a...

    Authors: Scott A. Jackson
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:117
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  28. Epigenetic clocks provide powerful tools to evaluate nutritional, hormonal, and genetic effects on aging. What can we learn from differences between species in how these clocks tick?

    Authors: Wolfgang Wagner
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:107
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  30. Two recent studies demonstrate the power of integrating tumor genotype information with epigenetic and proteomic studies to discover potential therapeutic targets in breast cancer.

    Authors: Gabriel J. Sandoval and William C. Hahn
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:95
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  32. A recently published study in Genome Biology shows that cells isolated from cryopreserved tissues are a reliable source of genetic material for single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments.

    Authors: Felipe A. Vieira Braga, Sarah A. Teichmann and Michael J. T. Stubbington
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:54
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  33. Selection-free genome editing using Cas9 ribonucleoprotein embryo bombardment has been achieved for maize and wheat. This is a breakthrough that should make new breeding technologies more acceptable for worldw...

    Authors: Felix Wolter and Holger Puchta
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:43
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  34. Tumor cells have to overcome challenges in the host tissue microenvironment to metastasize successfully to distant organs. In a recent Nature study, a genome-wide functional screen demonstrated that deficiency of...

    Authors: Toni Celià-Terrassa and Yibin Kang
    Citation: Genome Biology 2017 18:31
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  36. Alternative splice isoforms are common and important and have been shown to impact many human diseases. A new study by Nellore et al. offers a comprehensive study of splice junctions in humans by re-analyzing ...

    Authors: Christelle Robert and Mick Watson
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:265
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  40. A new mitotic clock and mathematical approach that incorporates DNA methylation biology common among human cell types provides a new tool for cancer epigenetics research.

    Authors: Brock C. Christensen and Karl T. Kelsey
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:216
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  42. Schmitz and colleagues recently investigated DNA methylation patterns in diverse flowering plant species, finding substantial variation in the extent and distribution of methylation in angiosperms.

    Authors: Mary Gehring
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:197
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  43. The search for novel ways to target and alter the genomes of living organisms accelerated rapidly this decade with the discovery of CRISPR/Cas9. Since the initial discovery, efforts to find alternative methods...

    Authors: Gaurav K. Varshney and Shawn M. Burgess
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:187
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  44. Understanding a tumor’s complex cellular heterogeneity will be crucial for the development of better treatment strategies. A new study suggests a novel method for the in silico dissociation of solid tumors and...

    Authors: Dvir Aran and Atul J. Butte
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:175
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  49. An association between hammerhead ribozymes and non-autonomous, long terminal repeat retrotransposons is uncovered in plants, shedding light on the biological function of genomically encoded ribozymes.

    Authors: Christian Hammann
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:136
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  50. Computational methods have been developed to reconstruct evolutionary lineages from tumors using single-cell genomic data. The resulting tumor trees have important applications in cancer research and clinical ...

    Authors: Alexander Davis and Nicholas E. Navin
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:113
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