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  • A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

    • Mari E. K. Niemi
    • Juha Karjalainen
    • Chloe Donohue
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 600, P: 472-477
  • Understanding deregulation of biological pathways in cancer can provide insight into disease etiology and potential therapies. Here, as part of the PanCancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) consortium, the authors present pathway and network analysis of 2583 whole cancer genomes from 27 tumour types.

    • Matthew A. Reyna
    • David Haan
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-17
  • Using data from a single time point, passenger-approximated clonal expansion rate (PACER) estimates the fitness of common driver mutations that lead to clonal haematopoiesis and identifies TCL1A activation as a mediator of clonal expansion.

    • Joshua S. Weinstock
    • Jayakrishnan Gopakumar
    • Siddhartha Jaiswal
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 616, P: 755-763
  • An analysis of 24,202 critical cases of COVID-19 identifies potentially druggable targets in inflammatory signalling (JAK1), monocyte–macrophage activation and endothelial permeability (PDE4A), immunometabolism (SLC2A5 and AK5), and host factors required for viral entry and replication (TMPRSS2 and RAB2A).

    • Erola Pairo-Castineira
    • Konrad Rawlik
    • J. Kenneth Baillie
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 617, P: 764-768
  • PARP inhibitor treatment triggers histone release from the chromatin in cancer cells; consequently, targeting the histone chaperone NASP renders cells vulnerable to PARP inhibition.

    • Sarah C. Moser
    • Anna Khalizieva
    • Jos Jonkers
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 645, P: 1071-1080
  • Planting diverse forests is widely promoted as a way to counter climate change and improve ecosystem functioning. This study finds that the spatial arrangement of tree species matters: forests with higher spatial mixing of tree species yield greater biomass, faster nutrient cycling, and thus enhanced ecosystem functioning.

    • Rémy Beugnon
    • Georg Albert
    • Nico Eisenhauer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-10
  • CREBBP mutations in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) are linked to poor prognosis and chemoresistance. Here, the authors show that genetic or pharmacological inactivation of CREBBP sensitizes B-ALL cells to the BCL2 inhibitor Venetoclax, inducing ferroptotic cell death and extending survival in B-ALL preclinical mouse models.

    • Alicia Garcia-Gimenez
    • Jonathan E. Ditcham
    • Simon E. Richardson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-21
  • Here the authors conduct a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of telomere length, used diverse approaches to identify genes underlying association signals, and experimentally validated POP5 and KBTBD6 as regulators of telomere length in human cells.

    • Rebecca Keener
    • Surya B. Chhetri
    • Alexis Battle
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-21
  • Experiments using a conditional triple-knockout mouse strain show that histone H1 regulates the activity of chromatin domains by controlling chromatin compaction, genome architecture and  histone methylation.

    • Michael A. Willcockson
    • Sean E. Healton
    • Arthur I. Skoultchi
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 589, P: 293-298
  • Computational methods are used to predict which peptides or antigens are able to bind to MHC in order to activate T cell receptors in neoantigen-directed immunotherapies. Here the authors present an accurate transformer-based method to consider not only the peptide and MHC but also the source antigenic protein to predict peptides which bind to MHC molecules.

    • William John Thrift
    • Nicolas W. Lounsbury
    • Suchit Jhunjhunwala
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-16
  • The authors derive a condition for how natural selection chooses between two competing strategies on any graph for weak selection, elucidating which population structures promote certain behaviours, such as cooperation.

    • Benjamin Allen
    • Gabor Lippner
    • Martin A. Nowak
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 544, P: 227-230
  • Whole-genome sequencing, transcriptome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses in over 7,000 individuals with critical COVID-19 are used to identify 16 independent variants that are associated with severe illness in COVID-19.

    • Athanasios Kousathanas
    • Erola Pairo-Castineira
    • J. Kenneth Baillie
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 607, P: 97-103
  • Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are characterized by their self-renewal potential and associated dormancy. Here the authors show that niche produced netrin-1 preserves HSC quiescence and self-renewal via neogenin-1, and that decline of netrin-1 production during ageing leads to decreased Neo1 mediated HSC self-renewal.

    • Simon Renders
    • Arthur Flohr Svendsen
    • Andreas Trumpp
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-15
  • Analyses of 2,658 whole genomes across 38 types of cancer identify the contribution of non-coding point mutations and structural variants to driving cancer.

    • Esther Rheinbay
    • Morten Muhlig Nielsen
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 578, P: 102-111
  • Multi-omics datasets pose major challenges to data interpretation and hypothesis generation owing to their high-dimensional molecular profiles. Here, the authors develop ActivePathways method, which uses data fusion techniques for integrative pathway analysis of multi-omics data and candidate gene discovery.

    • Marta Paczkowska
    • Jonathan Barenboim
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-16
  • A study shows that clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential is associated with an increased risk of chronic liver disease specifically through the promotion of liver inflammation and injury.

    • Waihay J. Wong
    • Connor Emdin
    • Pradeep Natarajan
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 616, P: 747-754
  • Reduced glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease. Here, Pattaro et al. conduct a meta-analysis to discover several new loci associated with variation in eGFR and find that genes associated with eGFR loci often encode proteins potentially related to kidney development.

    • Cristian Pattaro
    • Alexander Teumer
    • Caroline S. Fox
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-19
  • The authors present SVclone, a computational method for inferring the cancer cell fraction of structural variants from whole-genome sequencing data.

    • Marek Cmero
    • Ke Yuan
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-15
  • The goals, resources and design of the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme are described, and analyses of rare variants detected in the first 53,831 samples provide insights into mutational processes and recent human evolutionary history.

    • Daniel Taliun
    • Daniel N. Harris
    • Gonçalo R. Abecasis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 590, P: 290-299
  • A genomic constraint map for the human genome constructed using data from 76,156 human genomes from the Genome Aggregation Database shows that non-coding constrained regions are enriched for regulatory elements and variants associated with complex diseases and traits.

    • Siwei Chen
    • Laurent C. Francioli
    • Konrad J. Karczewski
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 625, P: 92-100
  • Analysis of cancer genome sequencing data has enabled the discovery of driver mutations. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium the authors present DriverPower, a software package that identifies coding and non-coding driver mutations within cancer whole genomes via consideration of mutational burden and functional impact evidence.

    • Shimin Shuai
    • Federico Abascal
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-12
  • Analysis of 97,691 high-coverage human blood DNA-derived whole-genome sequences enabled simultaneous identification of germline and somatic mutations that predispose individuals to clonal expansion of haematopoietic stem cells, indicating that both inherited and acquired mutations are linked to age-related cancers and coronary heart disease.

    • Alexander G. Bick
    • Joshua S. Weinstock
    • Pradeep Natarajan
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 586, P: 763-768
  • Inbreeding depression has been observed in many different species, but in humans a systematic analysis has been difficult so far. Here, analysing more than 1.3 million individuals, the authors show that a genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) is associated with disadvantageous outcomes in 32 out of 100 traits tested.

    • David W Clark
    • Yukinori Okada
    • James F Wilson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-17
  • We present a synthetic method that transforms complex pyrimidine-containing structures into iminoenamines and then uses de novo heterocycle synthesis to obtain substituted pyrimidine and 1,2-azole analogues.

    • Benjamin J. H. Uhlenbruck
    • Celena M. Josephitis
    • Andrew McNally
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 631, P: 87-93
  • The flagship paper of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium describes the generation of the integrative analyses of 2,658 cancer whole genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types, the structures for international data sharing and standardized analyses, and the main scientific findings from across the consortium studies.

    • Lauri A. Aaltonen
    • Federico Abascal
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 578, P: 82-93
  • A large empirical assessment of sequence-resolved structural variants from 14,891 genomes across diverse global populations in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) provides a reference map for disease-association studies, population genetics, and diagnostic screening.

    • Ryan L. Collins
    • Harrison Brand
    • Michael E. Talkowski
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 581, P: 444-451
  • Whole-genome sequencing data for 2,778 cancer samples from 2,658 unique donors across 38 cancer types is used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of cancer, revealing that driver mutations can precede diagnosis by several years to decades.

    • Moritz Gerstung
    • Clemency Jolly
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 578, P: 122-128
  • Cancers evolve as they progress under differing selective pressures. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, the authors present the method TrackSig the estimates evolutionary trajectories of somatic mutational processes from single bulk tumour data.

    • Yulia Rubanova
    • Ruian Shi
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-12
  • Emelia Benjamin and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association study data for atrial fibrillation, a condition associated with stroke and heart failure, in five European community-based cohorts of the CHARGE consortium. They report an association in ZFHX3 to atrial fibrillation, with replication in an independent cohort from the German AF Network.

    • Emelia J Benjamin
    • Kenneth M Rice
    • Jacqueline C M Witteman
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 41, P: 879-881
  • A large genome-wide association study of more than 5 million individuals reveals that 12,111 single-nucleotide polymorphisms account for nearly all the heritability of height attributable to common genetic variants.

    • Loïc Yengo
    • Sailaja Vedantam
    • Joel N. Hirschhorn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 610, P: 704-712
  • Gain of function mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) have been detected in cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The application of an allosteric IDH1 inhibitor in AML cells promotes blast differentiation and restores DNA cytosine methylation patterns.

    • Ujunwa C Okoye-Okafor
    • Boris Bartholdy
    • Ulrich Steidl
    Research
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 11, P: 878-886
  • Quantifying intermolecular coupling and local morphology is important to understand soft matter systems. Pollard et al. show how multispectral vibrational near-field optical microscopy can be used to image molecular-scale morphology and intermolecular interactions with nanometre spatial resolution.

    • Benjamin Pollard
    • Eric A. Muller
    • Markus B. Raschke
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-7
  • A genetic study identifies hundreds of loci associated with risk tolerance and risky behaviors, finds evidence of substantial shared genetic influences across these phenotypes, and implicates genes involved in neurotransmission.

    • Richard Karlsson Linnér
    • Pietro Biroli
    • Jonathan P. Beauchamp
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 51, P: 245-257