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GWAS identifies 74 loci associated w. educational attainment http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17671.html Described in 3 pgs of main text & 146 pgs of supplement

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17671.html

Timing, rates & spectra of human germline mutation
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v48/n2/full/ng.3469.html Metaanalysis of >6500 events gives a de novo mutational signature

Identification of [872] sig. mutated regions across #cancer types http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v48/n2/full/ng.3471.html ranges from noncoding annotations to 3D structure

two papers for journal club:

1. What are super-enhancers? Pott et al., Nature Genetics (2015) http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n1/full/ng.3167.html

2. Epigenomic analysis detects aberrant super-enhancer DNA methylation in human cancer, Heyn et al., Genome Biology (2016)
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0879-2

#Epigenomic analysis detects aberrant super-enhancer DNA methylation in human #cancer
https://GenomeBiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0879-2 hypo-Me of many large blocks

Discovering TFBSs in…Repetitive Regions of #Genomes with Multi-Read
Analysis http://journals.PLOS.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002111 CSEM uses EM to refine site occupancy

Chung D, Kuan PF, Li B, SanalKumar R, Liang K, Bresnick E, Dewey C, and Keles S (2011), “Discovering transcription factor binding sites in highly repetitive regions of genomes with multi-read analysis of ChIP-Seq data,” PLoS Computational Biology, 7(7): e1002111

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~keles/Software/multi-reads/

CSEM

https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository/display_tool?repository_id=e18c78b20646a2aa&tool_config=database%2Fcommunity_files%2F000%2Frepo_83%2Fcsem.xml&changeset_revision=1438767ad92f

Expanded seq. context model…explains variability in polymorphism[s] http://www.nature.com/NG/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3511.html Reminiscent of GOR sec. structure prediction

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw120

http://AlgoRun.org, #Docker-based packaging [w/ web GUI & workflow mgt] for platform-agnostic implement[ations]
http://Bioinformatics.Oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/02/bioinformatics.btw120

Hosny, A. et al. AlgoRun, a Docker-based packaging system for platform-agnostic implemented algorithms. Bioinformatics Advance Access, Mar 2, 2016.

CTCF-Mediated…3D Genome Architecture
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(15)01504-4 SNPs give different #chromatin topologies, including strong #allelic effects

Gene-gene & gene-env interactions…by #transcriptome…in twins by @dermitzakis lab
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n1/full/ng.3162.html Nice model for ASE HT @cjieming

Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions detected by transcriptome sequence analysis in twins
Alfonso Buil, Andrew Anand Brown, Tuuli Lappalainen, Ana Viñuela, Matthew N Davies, Hou-Feng Zheng, J Brent Richards, Daniel Glass, Kerrin S Small, Richard Durbin, Timothy D Spector & Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n1/full/ng.3162.html

Similarity #network fusion for aggregating data types
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n3/full/nmeth.2810.html Combines mRNA, miRNA & gene fusions to classify cancer subtypes http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/SNF/SNF