Transcription start sites experience a high influx of heritable variants fuelled by early development
Miguel Cortés Guzmán, David Castellano, Clàudia Serrano Colomé, Vladimir B. Seplyarskiy, Donate Weghorn
The paper identifies a hypermutation hotspot at transcription start sites in the human germline, linked to early embryogenesis and distinct from known mutagenic processes.
Nature Communications · Nov 26, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics