{"title":"Chromatin organization in red triangles","authors":"Elisa Oricchio","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00582-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00582-0","url":null,"abstract":"This journal club by Elisa Oricchio highlights two studies published in 2012, which used chromatin conformation capture methods to detect the formation of self-interacting chromatin regions, known as topologically associating domains (TADs).","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 7","pages":"419-419"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9647535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Hi-C ignited the era of 3D genome biology","authors":"Magda Bienko","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00583-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00583-z","url":null,"abstract":"Magda Bienko highlights a landmark paper by Lieberman-Aiden et al., which in 2009 reported the development of high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C), revolutionizing the field of 3D genome biology.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 7","pages":"418-418"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10003784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haotian Wu, Christina M. Eckhardt, Andrea A. Baccarelli
{"title":"Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease","authors":"Haotian Wu, Christina M. Eckhardt, Andrea A. Baccarelli","doi":"10.1038/s41576-022-00569-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-022-00569-3","url":null,"abstract":"A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants act on our cells to produce deleterious health effects has led to advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of chronic diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and respiratory diseases. Here, we discuss emerging research on the interplay of environmental pollutants with the human genome and epigenome. We review evidence showing the environmental impact on gene expression through epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNAs. We also highlight recent studies that evaluate recently discovered molecular processes through which the environment can exert its effects, including extracellular vesicles, the epitranscriptome and the mitochondrial genome. Finally, we discuss current challenges when studying the exposome — the cumulative measure of environmental influences over the lifespan — and its integration into future environmental health research. Environmental pollutants have been shown to disrupt molecular mechanisms underlying common complex diseases. The authors review the interplay of environmental stressors with the human genome and epigenome as well as other molecular processes, such as production of extracellular vesicles, epitranscriptomic changes and mitochondrial changes, through which the environment can exert its effects.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 5","pages":"332-344"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9336630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exon junction complex modulates m6A distribution","authors":"Dorothy Clyde","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00581-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00581-1","url":null,"abstract":"Two studies have revealed that the characteristic distribution of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) — an RNA modification known to be functionally important for mRNA metabolism among other processes — in mRNA is shaped by the exon junction complex during splicing.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 3","pages":"141-141"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9272868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pharmacogenomics: current status and future perspectives","authors":"Munir Pirmohamed","doi":"10.1038/s41576-022-00572-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-022-00572-8","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-individual variability in drug response, be it efficacy or safety, is common and likely to become an increasing problem globally given the growing elderly population requiring treatment. Reasons for this inter-individual variability include genomic factors, an area of study called pharmacogenomics. With genotyping technologies now widely available and decreasing in cost, implementing pharmacogenomics into clinical practice — widely regarded as one of the initial steps in mainstreaming genomic medicine — is currently a focus in many countries worldwide. However, major challenges of implementation lie at the point of delivery into health-care systems, including the modification of current clinical pathways coupled with a massive knowledge gap in pharmacogenomics in the health-care workforce. Pharmacogenomics can also be used in a broader sense for drug discovery and development, with increasing evidence suggesting that genomically defined targets have an increased success rate during clinical development. In this Review, Munir Pirmohamed provides an overview of the current state of the pharmacogenomics field, using examples of clinically relevant drug–gene associations, before outlining the steps needed for implementation of pharmacogenomics into clinical practice. The role of pharmacogenomics in drug discovery and development is also considered.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 6","pages":"350-362"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9500159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stem cell-derived organoid models: defying the Hayflick limit","authors":"Meritxell Huch","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00577-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00577-x","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal club, Meritxell Huch recalls a dogma postulated by Hayflick in 1961, that the capacity for propagating primary epithelial cells with normal ploidy is limited — a theory that persisted until the advent of organoid cultures.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 6","pages":"348-348"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9509177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical filament recording of cellular events","authors":"Darren J. Burgess","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00579-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00579-9","url":null,"abstract":"Two new studies in Nature Biotechnology describe cellular recording systems that incorporate time-resolved optical signals into self-assembling protein filaments.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 3","pages":"140-140"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10763292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating the pitfalls of mapping DNA and RNA modifications","authors":"Yimeng Kong, Edward A. Mead, Gang Fang","doi":"10.1038/s41576-022-00559-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-022-00559-5","url":null,"abstract":"Chemical modifications to nucleic acids occur across the kingdoms of life and carry important regulatory information. Reliable high-resolution mapping of these modifications is the foundation of functional and mechanistic studies, and recent methodological advances based on next-generation sequencing and long-read sequencing platforms are critical to achieving this aim. However, mapping technologies may have limitations that sometimes lead to inconsistent results. Some of these limitations are technical in nature and specific to certain types of technology. Here, however, we focus on common (yet not always widely recognized) pitfalls that are shared among frequently used mapping technologies and discuss strategies to help technology developers and users mitigate their effects. Although the emphasis is primarily on DNA modifications, RNA modifications are also discussed. The ability to map DNA and RNA modifications has improved our understanding of these marks, but in some cases inconsistent results have been problematic. Here, Kong et al. discuss how to recognize and resolve issues associated with commonly used sequencing-based approaches to minimize mapping errors.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 6","pages":"363-381"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9506457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the minutiae of the human methylome","authors":"Kirsty Minton","doi":"10.1038/s41576-023-00576-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-023-00576-y","url":null,"abstract":"A study in Nature reports comprehensive, genome-wide mapping of the human methylome that provides mechanistic insights into gene regulation and offers great potential for analysis of cell-free DNA.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 3","pages":"139-139"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841940/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9280103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prioritizing the detection of rare pathogenic variants in population screening","authors":"Paul Lacaze, Ranjit Manchanda, Robert C. Green","doi":"10.1038/s41576-022-00571-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-022-00571-9","url":null,"abstract":"Population genomic screening to detect carriers of rare monogenic variants for medically actionable conditions is supported by substantial evidence of clinical utility and cost effectiveness. Much less evidence supports screening by polygenic risk scores, which do not detect rare variants. Using only polygenic scores in population screening initiatives, while ignoring the detection of higher-risk rare monogenic variants, is ill-advised. Lacaze et al. caution against the use of polygenic scores alone for population screening in the absence of monogenic testing.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":"24 4","pages":"205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9279276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}