Mobile elements in human population-specific genome and phenotype divergence
Shohei Kojima, Satoshi Koyama, Mirei Ka, Yuka Saito, Erica H. Parrish, Mikiko Endo, Sadaaki Takata, Misaki Mizukoshi, Keiko Hikino, Atsushi Takeda, Asami F. Gelinas, Steven M. Heaton, Rie Koide, Anselmo Jiro Kamada, Michiya Noguchi, , Nicholas F. Parrish
The paper develops a tool to genotype mobile element variants (MEVs) using short-read data and identifies population-specific MEs linked to disease and gene regulation.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2022 · PreprintGenetics