341: The Genetic Lottery and the Value of an Extra Year of School
Widding-Havneraas T et al., PNAS - This study uses genetic variation related to educational attainment as a quasi-experimental instrument (Mendelian randomization) together with Norwegian registry dat...
13 Apr 29min
340: Microexon Control of Behavior — PTPRD Splicing
Imai A et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - This paper shows that alternative splicing of a 12-nt microexon (meB) in Ptprd is regulated by a genetic intronic enhancer and a...
12 Apr 17min
339: cxt: A language model for population genetics
Korfmann K et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - This episode examines cxt, a decoder-only transformer that performs next-coalescence prediction by translating local mutatio...
11 Apr 22min
338: WDHD1 and Microcephalic Primordial Dwarfism
Tibbe D et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - This study identifies bi-allelic hypomorphic WDHD1 variants in 17 subjects with a clinical spectrum from fetal lethality to microcephalic primo...
10 Apr 21min
337: ND-CNVs and internalizing–cardiometabolic multimorbidity
Katzourou IK et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - Population analysis of ~459,000 UK Biobank participants shows that carriers of neurodevelopmental CNVs (ND-CNVs) have higher odds of co-oc...
8 Apr 22min
336: Measuring disease likelihood in genomic ascertainment
Sapp JC et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics - A longitudinal study of recipients of medically actionable secondary genomic findings develops a Bayesian approach that integrates variant, fam...
7 Apr 24min
335: Altai Neandertal Genome Reveals Deep Population Structure
Massilania D et al., PNAS - We summarize a PNAS study reporting a ~37× genome from a ~110,000-year-old male Neandertal (Denisova 17) from Denisova Cave. The genome shows D17 is closely related to an e...
5 Apr 23min
334: LINE-1 Recombination with Diverse RNAs
Law C-T et al., Cell Genomics - Law and Burns introduce TiMEstamp, a comparative-genomics pipeline that dates LINE-1 insertions from multiple sequence alignments and discovers hundreds of LINE-1 chime...
5 Apr 21min
