supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31925004);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB27010305);the Innovative Academy of Seed Design,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Gene gain and loss are crucial factors that shape the evolutionary success of diverse organisms.In the past two decades,more attention has been paid to the significance of gene gain through gene duplication or de novo...
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant R41 AR074854;the Welch Endowed Chair in Biochemistry,Grant No.BI-0028,at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Uric acid is the end product of purine catabolism and its plasma levels are maintained below its maximum solubility in water(6–7 mg/dl).The plasma levels are tightly regulated as the balance between the rate of produ...
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...
Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)is a very deadly disease.HCC initiation and progression involve multiple genetic events,including the activation of proto-oncogenes and disruption of the function of specific tumor suppres...
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 National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFC2701101 to H.W.and X.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81930036 and 82150008 to H.W.,and 31000542 to X.Y.);the Commission of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipality(20JC1418500 to H.W.).
T-box transcription factor T(TBXT;T)is required for mesodermal formation and axial skeletal development.Although it has been extensively studied in various model organisms,human congenital vertebral malformations(CVMs...
supported by the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)for the project"UPS-NDDiag"and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)for the project ANR-21-CE17-0005.
The recent advances in high throughput sequencing technology have drastically changed the practice of medical diagnosis,allowing for rapid identification of hundreds of genes causing human diseases.This unprecedented ...
supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC2702604);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82171608,82201773,and 81971447);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022M711119);the Scientific Research Foundation of the Health Committee of Hunan Province(B202301039323 and B202301039518).
Male infertility is a major reproductive disorder,which is clinically characterized by highly heterogeneous phenotypes of abnormal sperm count or quality.To date,five male patients with biallelic loss-of-function(LOF)...