{"title":"Selection on structural variation in the amylase locus","authors":"Kirsty Minton","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00782-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-024-00782-2","url":null,"abstract":"Bolognini et al. report evidence of positive selection for human amylase gene duplications associated with the agricultural revolution.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321963","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}
Camille L. G. Lambert, Guido van Mierlo, Johannes J. Bues, Orane J. Guillaume-Gentil, Bart Deplancke
{"title":"The evolution of DNA sequencing with microfluidics","authors":"Camille L. G. Lambert, Guido van Mierlo, Johannes J. Bues, Orane J. Guillaume-Gentil, Bart Deplancke","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00783-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00783-1","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of microfluidics was fundamental to the development of cost-effective, high-throughput DNA sequencing. As the field progresses towards multi-omics, we reflect on the key concepts underlying microfluidics and how resulting engineering advances at the microscale drove the evolution of genomic sequencing. The adoption of microfluidics was fundamental to the development of cost-effective, high-throughput DNA sequencing. As the field progresses towards multi-omics, Lambert et al. reflect on the key concepts underlying microfluidics and how resulting engineering advances at the microscale drove the evolution of genomic sequencing.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321966","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":"Genome-scale models in human metabologenomics","authors":"Adil Mardinoglu, Bernhard Ø. Palsson","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00768-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00768-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Metabologenomics integrates metabolomics with other omics data types to comprehensively study the genetic and environmental factors that influence metabolism. These multi-omics data can be incorporated into genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs), which are highly curated knowledge bases that explicitly account for genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites. By including all known biochemical reactions catalysed by enzymes and transporters encoded in the human genome, GEMs analyse and predict the behaviour of complex metabolic networks. Continued advancements to the scale and scope of GEMs — from cells and tissues to microbiomes and the whole body — have helped to design effective treatments and develop better diagnostic tools for metabolic diseases. Furthermore, increasing amounts of multi-omics data are incorporated into GEMs to better identify the underlying mechanisms, biomarkers and potential drug targets of metabolic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245261","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":"Gene synthesis from a non-coding RNA","authors":"Linda Koch","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00781-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-024-00781-3","url":null,"abstract":"A study in Science investigating bacterial defence mechanisms against phages reports a novel mode of gene regulation through reverse transcription of a non-coding RNA template, leading to the formation of a toxic repetitive gene.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236231","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":"Tumbling bacteria and non-genetic individuality","authors":"Alejo E. Rodriguez-Fraticelli","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00779-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00779-x","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Alejo Rodriguez-Fratelli discusses a paper by Spudich and Koshland Jr that characterized non-genetic cell individuality in bacteria, a concept with emerging relevance to cancer progression.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236227","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":"Identifying off-target effects of genome editing with Tracking-seq","authors":"Ming Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00775-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00775-1","url":null,"abstract":"In this Tools of the Trade article, Ming Zhu describes Tracking-seq, a versatile method for detecting off-target effects of genome-editing tools across a range of experimental conditions.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235253","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":"Reshaping Waddington’s developmental landscape","authors":"Yimiao Qu, Kyle M. Loh","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00777-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-024-00777-z","url":null,"abstract":"Yimiao Qu and Kyle Loh discuss a 2004 paper by Xie et al., who demonstrated that B cells can be reprogrammed into macrophages through the enforced expression of a single transcription factor, providing insights into cellular plasticity and lineage conversion.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235255","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":"Why geneticists should care about male infertility","authors":"Joris A. Veltman, Frank Tüttelmann","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00773-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00773-3","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread use of medically assisted reproduction fosters the false impression that the underlying causes of male infertility are not important to know. However, to improve men’s reproductive and long-term health, as well as the health of their offspring, large-scale genetic studies are essential. Thus, reproductive genomics should be implemented in diagnostics as soon as possible. In this Comment, Veltman and Tüttelmann call on geneticists to further study male infertility and help to develop diagnostic strategies using state-of-the-art genomic approaches.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236232","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}
Matthew J. Meier, Joshua Harrill, Kamin Johnson, Russell S. Thomas, Weida Tong, Julia E. Rager, Carole L. Yauk
{"title":"Progress in toxicogenomics to protect human health","authors":"Matthew J. Meier, Joshua Harrill, Kamin Johnson, Russell S. Thomas, Weida Tong, Julia E. Rager, Carole L. Yauk","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00767-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00767-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Toxicogenomics measures molecular features, such as transcripts, proteins, metabolites and epigenomic modifications, to understand and predict the toxicological effects of environmental and pharmaceutical exposures. Transcriptomics has become an integral tool in contemporary toxicology research owing to innovations in gene expression profiling that can provide mechanistic and quantitative information at scale. These data can be used to predict toxicological hazards through the use of transcriptomic biomarkers, network inference analyses, pattern-matching approaches and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, emerging approaches, such as high-throughput dose–response modelling, can leverage toxicogenomic data for human health protection even in the absence of predicting specific hazards. Finally, single-cell transcriptomics and multi-omics provide detailed insights into toxicological mechanisms. Here, we review the progress since the inception of toxicogenomics in applying transcriptomics towards toxicology testing and highlight advances that are transforming risk assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142118117","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":"The complex non-genetic inheritance of complex traits","authors":"Merly C. Vogt","doi":"10.1038/s41576-024-00770-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41576-024-00770-6","url":null,"abstract":"Merly C. Vogt recalls a seminal paper by Greer et al., who demonstrated the transgenerational inheritance of longevity, a complex trait, in Caenorhabditis elegans by manipulating the trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) in the parental generation.","PeriodicalId":19067,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Genetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142090006","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}