supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA24030205 and XDA26040303);Biological Breeding-National Science and Technology Major Project(2023ZD0407106 and 2023ZD0406805)。
Sheep(Ovis aries)is a key source of meat for humans,and their weight loss significantly impacts meat production.Although a few causative genes related to weight loss have been identified,the inheritance mechanisms and...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2023YFC2705503);Major Innovation Projects in Shandong Province(2021ZDSYS16);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82071699 and 82371619);CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2021-I2M-5-001);the Basic Science Center Program of NSFC(31988101);Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Shandong(ZR2021JQ27);Taishan Scholars Program for Young Experts of Shandong Province(tsqn202103192)。
Non-obstructive azoospermia(NOA),the lack of sperm in the ejaculate due to failure of spermatogenesis,can result from a variety of diverse factors,with genetic factors accounting for~30%of NOA cases,including chromoso...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82101526,82171238,and 81330025)。
KCNA1 is the coding gene for Kv1.1 voltage-gated potassium-channelαsubunit.Three variants of KCNA1 have been reported to manifest as paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia(PKD),but the correlation between them remains unc...
supported by the grant(82230062)from the National Natural Science Foundation of China to Zhi-Ying Wu.
Leukodystrophies represent a group of cerebral white matter disorders that mainly affect axon-glia units.The disorders are clinically diverse and display significant genetic variability.It is challenging to differenti...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(82030030);the 1·3·5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence,West China Hospital;Sichuan University(ZYJC20002)to H.Yuan;Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2022YFS0211)to K.Wu.
Previous studies on genetic diseases predominantly focused on protein-coding variations, overlooking the vast noncoding regions in the human genome. The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies and funct...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81870747,82170916,81900984,and 82001030);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(PKU2022XGK001);Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality(7182184);Xi'an“Science and Technology+”Action Plan-Medical Research Project(20YXYJ0010[1]);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(xzy012020110).
Orofacial clefts (OFCs) are the most common congenital craniofacial disorders, of which the etiology is closely related to rare coding variants. Filamin B (FLNB) is an actin-binding protein implicated in bone formatio...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82171836);the 1·3·5 project for disciplines of excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(ZYJC20002).
The application of whole genome sequencing is expanding in clinical diagnostics across various genetic disorders, and the significance of non-coding variants in penetrant diseases is increasingly being demonstrated. T...
funded by the Shanghai Hospital Development Center(SHDC2020CR6028-002 to W.Zhou);National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFC2006402 to Y.Lu);National Key R&D Program of China(2022ZD0116003 to X.Dong);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai(22002400700 to S.Wu);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(20Z11900600 to W.Zhou);National Key Research and Development Program(2018YFC0116903 to W.Zhou);Major Research Projects for Young and Middle-aged People of Fujian Province(2021ZQNZD017 to Y.Lu);supported by Key Lab Information Network Security,Ministry of Public Security(to H.Zheng and S.Wang);“Pioneer”and”Leading Goose”R&D Program of Zhejiang(No.2022C01126 to Q.Sun and S.Wang);National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFC2500802 and 2021YFC2500806 to H.Zheng and S.Wang).
The growth in biomedical data resources has raised potential privacy concerns and risks of genetic information leakage. For instance, exome sequencing aids clinical decisions by comparing data through web services, bu...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFA0112800,2020YFA0112801);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82270842,82000829);CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2020-12M-5-002).
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase(G6PD)deficiency is one of the most prevalent hereditary and X-linked enzyme disorders caused by the pathogenetic G6PD(NM_001042351.2)variants(Yang et al.,2016).The clinical manifestat...
Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in late 2019, the virus has rapidly spread worldwide. This has led to an unprecedented ...