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Selection for somatic escape variants in SERPINA1 in the liver of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

October 17, 2025

Liver samples All liver samples were collected with written informed consent from Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, according to…

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Meta-analysis reveals differences in somatic alterations by genetic ancestry across common cancers

October 17, 2025

Genetic ancestry is a quantitative measure of inherited genetic variation and correlates with human migration patterns1. It contributes…

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SPAmix: a scalable, accurate, and universal analysis framework for large-scale genetic association studies in admixed populations | Genome Biology

October 16, 2025

Model residuals of linear regression and logistic regression Linear regression and logistic regression are regular models to fit…

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Genetic variation and genome-enabled selection of white lupin for key seed quality traits | BMC Genomics

October 16, 2025

Foyer CH, Lam H-M, Nguyen HT, Siddique KHM, Varshney RK, Colmer TD, et al. Neglecting legumes has compromised…

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Population-scale gene-based analysis of whole-genome sequencing provides insights into metabolic health

October 11, 2025

Ethics Our research complies with all relevant ethical regulations. All studies included in this research were approved by…

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Nucleotide dependency analysis of genomic language models detects functional elements

October 10, 2025

SpeciesLM training For SpeciesLM metazoa, we obtained metazoan genomes comprising 494 different species from the Ensembl 110 database36.…

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A novel gene expression stability metric to unveil homeostasis and regulation | Genome Biology

October 10, 2025

K-proportion and gene homeostasis Z-Index identify regulatory genes As cells of the same type and in the same…

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The genetic influence of sex on gene expression for blood in pigs | BMC Genomics

October 9, 2025

Data summary We collected 386 blood samples with matched genotype and gene expression data from the PigGTEx project…

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Genomic predictions for growth and feed efficiency traits in a duck breeding population | BMC Genomics

October 8, 2025

Animal population and phenotype data This study used a breeding population of Zhongxin white duck (a commercial breed…

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A genetic map of human metabolism across the allele frequency spectrum

October 4, 2025

Study design The UKB is a prospective cohort study from the UK that contains more than 500,000 volunteers…

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Incorporating additive genetic effects and linkage disequilibrium information to discover gene-environment interactions using BV-LDER-GE | Genome Biology

October 3, 2025

Model overview We consider the following model to incorporate both additive and interaction effects: $${Y}_{i}={\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{G}_{ji}{\beta }_{j}+{\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{S}_{ji}{\gamma…

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Exploring the genetic basis of heterosis in eucalypt growth based on transcriptome analysis | BMC Genomics

October 3, 2025

Preparation of preliminary data In all samples, the proportion of clean reads was higher than 99.5% (Table S2),…