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    ‘Mutations in the chromatin remodeler ASXL1 (ASXL1MT) are associated with poor clinical outcome, however, their impact on chromatin dynamics remains unexplored. Here the authors use a multi-omics approach for chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and investigate the transcriptome and chromatin landscape of ASXL1MT CMML.

    • Moritz Binder
    • , Ryan M. Carr
    •  & Mrinal M. Patnaik

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    Transcriptome deconvolution aims to estimate cellular composition based on gene expression data. Here the authors evaluate deconvolution methods for human brain transcriptome and conclude that partial deconvolution algorithms work best, but that appropriate cell-type signatures are also important.

    • Gavin J. Sutton
    • , Daniel Poppe
    •  & Irina Voineagu

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    Our understanding of the extent of involvement of DNA methylation in genome-wide gene regulation and plant developmental control is incomplete. Here, the authors knock out all five known DNA methyltransferases and show the developmental and gene expression changes in the DNA methylation-free Arabidopsis plants.

    • Li He
    • , Huan Huang
    •  & Jian-Kang Zhu

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    Here the authors show that the Koolen-de Vries syndrome associated gene KANSL1 modulates autophagosome-lysosome fusion via transcriptional regulation of autophagosomal gene Syntaxin17, and that 13-cis retinoic acid can reverses mitophagic defects and neurobehavioural abnormalities of mice lacking Kansl1.

    • Ting Li
    • , Dingyi Lu
    •  & Xin Pan

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    Through regeneration, the endometrium accumulates somatic mutations that can lead to diseases like endometriosis and cancer. Here, the authors use genomics to analyse normal endometrial glands from different patient cohorts, detect rhizome structures with common clonal ancestors and infer clonal expansion dynamics.

    • Manako Yamaguchi
    • , Hirofumi Nakaoka
    •  & Takayuki Enomoto

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    The spatial organisation of cells and molecules plays a key role in tissue function. Here the authors report Spatial MultiOmics (SM-Omics) as a fully automated, high-throughput all-sequencing based platform for combined and spatially resolved transcriptomics and antibody-based protein measurements.

    • S. Vickovic
    • , B. Lötstedt
    •  & A. Regev

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    The impact of placental transcriptomics on fetal traits throughout development is not well understood. Here, the authors apply distal-SNP-enriched transcriptome-wide association studies to detect genetic contributions, mediated through fetal placental genomics, to developmental programming of complex traits across the life course.

    • Arjun Bhattacharya
    • , Anastasia N. Freedman
    •  & Hudson P. Santos Jr

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    Numerous disease-associated variants have been described in GWAS for atrial fibrillation. Here the authors integrate omics data to investigate the consequences of genetic variants for transcript and protein levels in the atrium of the human heart. With this multi-omics approach, authors reveal the regulatory network underlying atrial fibrillation and provide a resource for cardiac gene prioritization.

    • Ines Assum
    • , Julia Krause
    •  & Matthias Heinig

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    Combined methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) and hyperhomocysteinemias are inborn errors of vitamin B12 metabolism, and mutations in the transcriptional regulators HCFC1 and RONIN (THAP11) underlie some forms of these disorders. Here the authors generated mouse models of a human syndrome due to mutations in RONIN (THAP11) and HCFC1, and show that this syndrome is both an inborn error of vitamin B12 metabolism and displays some features of ribosomopathy.

    • Tiffany Chern
    • , Annita Achilleos
    •  & Ross A. Poché

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    Notch receptor GLP-1 is required for maintaining germ cells in the C. elegans germline. Here the authors show that syndecan-1, a somatic transmembrane proteoglycan regulates expression of glp-1 and germ cell mitosis in C. elegans, by promoting calcium-dependent binding of APTF-2 to the glp-1 promoter.

    • Sandeep Gopal
    • , Aqilah Amran
    •  & Roger Pocock

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    @melkebir @psashittal et al. develop a graph-based method for the assembly of discontinuous transcripts produced in Coronaviruses and other Nidovirales, enabling the discovery of transcriptional changes missed by existing methods.

    • Palash Sashittal
    • , Chuanyi Zhang
    •  & Mohammed El-Kebir

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    Age is associated with increasing vulnerability to both acute and chronic lung diseases. Employing genomic analysis and live lung imaging, this study reveals a profile of increased cellular senescence, telomere shortening, and fibrosis-induced impaired alveolar function in the natural history of human lung aging.

    • Seoyeon Lee
    • , Mohammad Naimul Islam
    •  & Mallar Bhattacharya

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    Here the authors identify PHF3 SPOC domain as a reader of the phosphorylated RNA polymerase II (Pol II) C-terminal domain. They show that PHF3 clusters with Pol II complexes in cells, drives phase separation of Pol II in vitro, and regulates neuronal gene expression and neuronal differentiation.

    • Lisa-Marie Appel
    • , Vedran Franke
    •  & Dea Slade

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    Annotating functional elements of the genome helps the interpretation of genetic variation. Here, the authors compile functional genomics data for the pig genome over 14 tissues with 15 different chromatin states, integrate the data with WGS and GWAS data, and compare conservation of regulatory elements across mouse and human tissues.

    • Zhangyuan Pan
    • , Yuelin Yao
    •  & Huaijun Zhou

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    CHARGE syndrome that affects cerebellar development can be caused by haploinsufficiency of the chromatin remodeling enzyme CHD7; however the precise role of CHD7 remains unknown. Here the authors show CHD7 promotes chromatin accessibility and enhancer activity in granule cell precursors and regulates morphogenesis of the cerebellar cortex, where loss of CHD7 triggers cerebellar polymicrogyria.

    • Naveen C. Reddy
    • , Shahriyar P. Majidi
    •  & Harrison W. Gabel

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    How to infer transient cells and cell-fate transitions from snap-shot single cell transcriptome dataset remains a major challenge. Here the authors present a multiscale approach to construct single-cell dynamical manifold, quantify cell stability, and compute transition trajectory and probability between cell states.

    • Peijie Zhou
    • , Shuxiong Wang
    •  & Qing Nie

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    The BMP antagonist Gremlin1 balances BMP and SHH signalling, endowing limb bud development with robustness. Here, the authors identify enhancers controlling Grem1 levels in an additive, and spatial regulation in a synergistic manner, providing digit patterning with cis-regulatory robustness and evolutionary plasticity.

    • Jonas Malkmus
    • , Laurène Ramos Martins
    •  & Rolf Zeller

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    TFE3-translocation renal cell carcinoma (TFE3-tRCC) is a rare subtype of kidney cancer with no standard treatment options for the advanced disease. Here, the authors perform genomic and transcriptomic profiling of 63 untreated primary TFE3-tRCC tumours and reveal potential therapeutic targets.

    • Guangxi Sun
    • , Junru Chen
    •  & Hao Zeng

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    The global pattern of the mammalian methylome is formed by changes in methylation and demethylation. Here the authors describe a metric methylation concurrence that measures the ratio of unmethylated CpGs inside the partially methylated reads and show that methylation concurrence is associated with epigenetically regulated tumour suppressor genes.

    • Jiejun Shi
    • , Jianfeng Xu
    •  & Wei Li

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    The effect of histone H4 lysine 20 methylation (H4K20me) on chromatin accessibility are not well established. Here the authors show how H4K20 methylation regulates chromatin structure and accessibility to ensure precise transcriptional outputs through the cell cycle using genome-wide approaches, in vitro biophysical assays, and NMR.

    • Muhammad Shoaib
    • , Qinming Chen
    •  & Claus S. Sørensen

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    Genetic mechanisms underlying fetal hemoglobin (HbF) regulation and switching are not fully understood. Here, the authors develop a single-cell genome editing functional assay to model how effects of mutation-harbouring functional elements contribute to HbF expression.

    • Yong Shen
    • , Jeffrey M. Verboon
    •  & Vijay G. Sankaran

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    Lineage tracing and snapshots of transcriptional state at the single-cell level are powerful, complementary tools for studying development. Here, the authors propose a mathematical method combining lineage tracing with trajectory inference to improve our understanding of development.

    • Aden Forrow
    •  & Geoffrey Schiebinger

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    Local gene co-expression is found throughout the genome, but systematic analysis of these co-expressed genes is needed. Here, the authors identify local co-expressed genes in 49 tissues and characterize the genetic variants which may affect their expression and contribute to disease.

    • Diogo M. Ribeiro
    • , Simone Rubinacci
    •  & Olivier Delaneau

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    The ability of HIV to alternate between acute and latent forms is thought to rely on a transcriptional feedback loop where polymerase pausing is released by the viral protein Tat. Here, the authors show that viral genome transcription can occur in a burst-like stochastic manner in the absence of Tat.

    • Katjana Tantale
    • , Encar Garcia-Oliver
    •  & Edouard Bertrand

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    In most mammals, imprinted genes contain epigenetic marks that differ in each parental genome and control their parent-of-origin-specific expression. Here, the authors map imprinted genes in mouse preimplantation embryos and find that imprinted gene expression in blastocysts is mainly dependent on Polycomb-mediated H3K27me3-associated gene silencing.

    • Laura Santini
    • , Florian Halbritter
    •  & Martin Leeb

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    A comprehensive transcriptomic survey of the pig could enable mechanistic understanding of tissue specialization and accelerate its use as a biomedical model. Here the authors characterize four distinct transcript types in 31 adult pig tissues to dissect their distinct structural and transcriptional features and uncover transcriptomic variability related to tissue physiology.

    • Long Jin
    • , Qianzi Tang
    •  & Mingzhou Li

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    The transcription factor BRN2 regulates melanoma migration and invasion, but its role during melanoma initiation is unclear. Here the authors show that BRN2 is a haplo-insufficient tumour suppressor that positively regulates PTEN expression and in the context of BRAF mutation and heterozygous PTEN, BRN2 loss promotes melanoma initiation and progression.

    • Michael Hamm
    • , Pierre Sohier
    •  & Lionel Larue

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    Single cell RNA-seq loses spatial information of gene expression in multicellular systems because tissue must be dissociated. Here, the authors show the spatial gene expression profiles can be both accurately and robustly reconstructed by a new computational method using a generative linear mapping, Perler.

    • Yasushi Okochi
    • , Shunta Sakaguchi
    •  & Honda Naoki

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    Allele-specific expression in diploid organisms can be quantified by RNA-seq and it is common practice to rely on a single library. Here, the authors show that the standard approach has variable error rate and present Qllelic as a tool to improve reproducibility of allele-specific RNA-seq analysis.

    • Asia Mendelevich
    • , Svetlana Vinogradova
    •  & Alexander A. Gimelbrant

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    The heterogeneity of tumor evolution from AR-positive, adenocarcinoma to AR-negative, neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is not fully characterized. Here the authors generate a mouse model to show that Rb1 loss and MYCN overexpression accelerates the progression to AR-negative NEPC and identify emergence of distinct subpopulations of NEPC cells.

    • Nicholas J. Brady
    • , Alyssa M. Bagadion
    •  & David S. Rickman

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    Homeostasis of the intestinal epithelium is crucial for the maintenance of the epithelial barrier. Here, the authors show that mir-802 ablation in the mouse intestine impairs enterocyte differentiation and glucose absorption, enhances Paneth cell function by increasing Tmed9-mediated defensin secretion, and increases epithelial cell turnover.

    • Algera Goga
    • , Büsra Yagabasan
    •  & Markus Stoffel

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    Microglia associated with Aβ plaques may have a distinct transcriptional signature compared to those in plaque-free areas of the brain in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) models. Here the authors show that amyloid plaque phagocytosis is associated with a specific microglia transcriptional signature in a mouse model of AD.

    • Alexandra Grubman
    • , Xin Yi Choo
    •  & Jose M. Polo

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    While coffee and tea consumption has been associated with risk of diseases, their mechanisms of action remain elusive. Here the authors present a large EWAS on coffee and tea consumption in cohorts of European and African-American ancestries, finding that coffee consumption is associated with differential DNA methylation levels at multiple CpGs.

    • Irma Karabegović
    • , Eliana Portilla-Fernandez
    •  & Mohsen Ghanbari

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    Classification methods for scRNA-seq data are limited in their ability to learn from multiple datasets simultaneously. Here the authors present scHPL, a hierarchical progressive learning method that automatically finds relationships between cell populations across multiple datasets and constructs a classification tree.

    • Lieke Michielsen
    • , Marcel J. T. Reinders
    •  & Ahmed Mahfouz

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    Placental dysfunction can have catastrophic or barely discernible effects ranging from miscarriage to apparently normal birth. Here the authors present a comprehensive analysis of the human placental transcriptome and identify circular RNAs and piRNAs.

    • Sungsam Gong
    • , Francesca Gaccioli
    •  & D. Stephen Charnock-Jones

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    A fundamental principle of evolutionary theory is that the force of natural selection is weaker on traits expressed late in life relative to traits expressed early. Here, the authors find strong and consistent patterns of molecular evolution reflecting this principle in four species of animals, including humans.

    • Changde Cheng
    •  & Mark Kirkpatrick

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