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2017-01-10 new articles we read this week

Behaviour

  1. Dreosti E, Lopes G, Kampff AR, Wilson SW. Development of social behavior in young zebrafish. Front Neural Circuits. 2015 Aug 18;9:39. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00039. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26347614; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4539524.
  2. Pérez-Escudero A, Vicente-Page J, Hinz RC, Arganda S, de Polavieja GG. idTracker: tracking individuals in a group by automatic identification of unmarked animals. Nat Methods. 2014 Jul;11(7):743-8. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2994. Epub 2014 Jun 1. PubMed PMID: 24880877.

Genome editing

  1. Kuscu C, Adli M. CRISPR-Cas9-AID base editor is a powerful gain-of-function screening tool. Nat Methods. 2016 Nov 29;13(12):983-984. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4076. PubMed PMID: 27898061. Ma Y, Zhang J, Yin W, Zhang Z, Song Y, Chang X. Targeted AID-mediated mutagenesis (TAM) enables efficient genomic diversification in mammalian cells. Nat Methods. 2016 Dec;13(12):1029-1035. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4027. PubMed PMID: 27723754.
  2. Hess GT, Frésard L, Han K, Lee CH, Li A, Cimprich KA, Montgomery SB, Bassik MC. Directed evolution using dCas9-targeted somatic hypermutation in mammalian cells. Nat Methods. 2016 Dec;13(12):1036-1042. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4038. PubMed PMID: 27798611. Gao Y, Xiong X, Wong S, Charles EJ, Lim WA, Qi LS. Complex transcriptional modulation with orthogonal and inducible dCas9 regulators. Nat Methods. 2016 Dec;13(12):1043-1049. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4042. PubMed PMID: 27776111.
  3. Nakamura T, Gehrke AR, Lemberg J, Szymaszek J, Shubin NH. Digits and fin rays share common developmental histories. Nature. 2016 Sep 8;537(7619):225-228. doi: 10.1038/nature19322. PubMed PMID: 27533041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5161576.
    • CRISPR helps evo-devo scientists to unpick the origins of adaptions. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):249. doi: 10.1038/536249b. PubMed PMID: 27535498.
    • Saxena A, Cooper KL. Evolutionary biology: Fin to limb within our grasp. Nature. 2016 Sep 8;537(7619):176-177. doi: 10.1038/nature19425. PubMed PMID: 27533039.

Genetics/Genomics

  1. Lek M, Karczewski KJ, Minikel EV, Samocha KE, Banks E, Fennell T, O’Donnell-Luria AH, Ware JS, Hill AJ, Cummings BB, Tukiainen T, Birnbaum DP, Kosmicki JA, Duncan LE, Estrada K, Zhao F, Zou J, Pierce-Hoffman E, Berghout J, Cooper DN, Deflaux N, DePristo M, Do R, Flannick J, Fromer M, Gauthier L, Goldstein J, Gupta N, Howrigan D, Kiezun A, Kurki MI, Moonshine AL, Natarajan P, Orozco L, Peloso GM, Poplin R, Rivas MA, Ruano-Rubio V, Rose SA, Ruderfer DM, Shakir K, Stenson PD, Stevens C, Thomas BP, Tiao G, Tusie-Luna MT, Weisburd B, Won HH, Yu D, Altshuler DM, Ardissino D, Boehnke M, Danesh J, Donnelly S, Elosua R, Florez JC, Gabriel SB, Getz G, Glatt SJ, Hultman CM, Kathiresan S, Laakso M, McCarroll S, McCarthy MI, McGovern D, McPherson R, Neale BM, Palotie A, Purcell SM, Saleheen D, Scharf JM, Sklar P, Sullivan PF, Tuomilehto J, Tsuang MT, Watkins HC, Wilson JG, Daly MJ, MacArthur DG; Exome Aggregation Consortium.. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):285-91. doi: 10.1038/nature19057. PubMed PMID: 27535533; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5018207.
  2. Shendure J. Human genomics: A deep dive into genetic variation. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):277-8. doi: 10.1038/536277a. PubMed PMID: 27535530.
  3. ExAC project pins down rare gene variants. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):249. doi: 10.1038/536249a. PubMed PMID: 27535499.
  4. Carss KJ, Arno G, Erwood M, Stephens J, Sanchis-Juan A, Hull S, Megy K, Grozeva D, Dewhurst E, Malka S, Plagnol V, Penkett C, Stirrups K, Rizzo R, Wright G, Josifova D, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Scott RH, Clement E, Allen L, Armstrong R, Brady AF, Carmichael J, Chitre M, Henderson RH, Hurst J, MacLaren RE, Murphy E, Paterson J, Rosser E, Thompson DA, Wakeling E, Ouwehand WH, Michaelides M, Moore AT; NIHR-BioResource Rare Diseases Consortium., Webster AR, Raymond FL. Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis via Whole-Genome Sequencing to Determine the Molecular Pathology of Inherited Retinal Disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Dec 28. pii: S0002-9297(16)30527-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.12.003. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28041643.

Evolution

  1. Nakamura T, Gehrke AR, Lemberg J, Szymaszek J, Shubin NH. Digits and fin rays share common developmental histories. Nature. 2016 Sep 8;537(7619):225-228. doi: 10.1038/nature19322. PubMed PMID: 27533041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5161576.
  2. CRISPR helps evo-devo scientists to unpick the origins of adaptions. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):249. doi: 10.1038/536249b. PubMed PMID: 27535498.
  3. Saxena A, Cooper KL. Evolutionary biology: Fin to limb within our grasp. Nature. 2016 Sep 8;537(7619):176-177. doi: 10.1038/nature19425. PubMed PMID: 27533039.

System biology

  1. Gao Y, Xiong X, Wong S, Charles EJ, Lim WA, Qi LS. Complex transcriptional modulation with orthogonal and inducible dCas9 regulators. Nat Methods. 2016 Dec;13(12):1043-1049. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4042. PubMed PMID: 27776111.
  2. Frumkin I, Schirman D, Rotman A, Li F, Zahavi L, Mordret E, Asraf O, Wu S, Levy SF, Pilpel Y. Gene Architectures that Minimize Cost of Gene Expression. Mol Cell. 2016 Nov 25. pii: S1097-2765(16)30715-8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.11.007. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27989436.