In Arabidopsis, promoter-proximal site II motifs appear to act as extrusion barriers in a PDS5A/SYN4/WAPL cohesin module — but the motif's boundary role remains correlational, not causally perturbed.
Review: plant chromatin extrusion framework →snATAC-seq can detect meiotic crossovers in haploid sperm, but same-nucleus accessibility cannot explain recombination outcome because the causal chromatin state exists one cell division earlier (rated ~45% likely as stated).
Crossover map hypothesis analysis →A 325-genome atlas suggests satellite and transposon centromere states recur and interconvert, but the evolutionary cycle model is correlative and preprint-stage, with ~10% of genomes in unresolved cryptic states.
Centromere architecture atlas review →Multi-omics work in Myospalax links 40 large inversions to divergence islands and DNA-repair gene enrichment, yet the reported stability–instability co-selection paradox is inferred, not functionally tested.
Zokor genomics review →A nanowell method shows miRNA profiles classify PBMC subtypes (94%) and distinguish NK from T cells where mRNA cannot, though validation used a small clinical cohort and no spike-in controls.
PSCSR-seq method review →Ribo-ITP detects thousands of non-canonical translation events from single embryos and brain slices, with an arginine/proline-enriched composition suggesting many micropeptides are translated then rapidly degraded — a largely correlational mechanistic claim.
Ribo-ITP translon review →The first T2T Manilkara zapota genome documents a recent Gypsy retrotransposon burst and an unusual age-dependent CHH methylation increase — reported from nanopore methylation calling without bisulfite validation.
T2T Chiku genome review →Across 458 Magnaporthe oryzae isolates, TE occupancy explains ~51% of AVR locus variance, implying TE-dense effector neighborhoods flag resistance-breakdown risk — a correlation model without mechanistic tests.
M. oryzae TE–effector review →The strongylid reference shows chromosome-level synteny persisting over ~100 million years while gene order is fully reshuffled, hinting selection preserves chromosome identity — regulatory claims remain experimentally unvalidated.
Haemonchus genome review →Comparative evidence suggests centrophilic Athila retrotransposons displaced satellite centromeres at rates ~6× faster than passive decay since the two Geum species diverged, but meiotic-drive versus neutral displacement is unresolved.
Geum centromere analysis →Alzheimer's PRS evidence indicates transferability failure is a magnitude problem: effect-size compression between cohorts suggests calibration slopes, not odds-ratio direction, are the decisive diagnostic for cross-ancestry risk scores.
PRS transferability analysis →Three strepsipteran genomes share ~600 lost insect-universal genes, mostly ciliary/sensory, suggesting a one-time loss predating host radiation — but the enrichment is inconsistent across species and rests on only three taxa.
Strepsiptera genomics review →ChAIR (RNA + ATAC + PET) reports a "megacontact ratio" that inversely tracks transcriptional activity and nuclear size — a promising chromatin-compaction surrogate, demonstrated only in mouse and correlational only.
ChAIR tri-omic review →A computational atlas of R-loops, G-quadruplexes, and i-motifs across the human rDNA unit shows strong strand asymmetry correlated with Pol I occupancy — entirely predictive, with no experimental validation of structure formation.
rDNA PNCSS mapping review →A 2005 mouse study found ~25–33% of the genome organizes into linkage-disequilibrium domains holding functionally related genes under inbreeding selection — an epistatic-organization prediction still largely untested against modern GWAS.
LD domain organization review →A C. elegans phenotyping ladder shows weak disease-variant alleles can be separated from wild type with a single environmental sensitiser, supporting penetrance as a threshold phenomenon — pending cross-species validation.
C. elegans VUS strategy review →The LSS/GRPS pipeline works without in-sample LD — useful where genotypes are unavailable — but its validation was partly circular and functional tests used a non-kidney cell line with small samples.
LSS/GRPS fine-mapping review →In 200 pediatric bone marrow samples, CMA+NGS detected 72% of B-ALL drivers vs 54% for karyotype+FISH, with NGS alone catching 90% of myeloid drivers — evidence that driver classes require complementary assays, not one better assay.
Pediatric leukemia diagnostics review →Dipyrimidine depletion in haloarchaea may reflect salt-adaptive coding constraints as much as UV avoidance, implying two selection pressures compete over the same dinucleotide budget — based on only four genomes, correlational.
Haloarchaea UV survey review →Opposite-direction constraint-score changes between >99%-identical HBG1/HBG2 paralogs across consecutive gnomAD releases are more consistent with alignment/callability artifacts than real constraint change (moderate confidence; LOEUF values unverified).
HBG LOEUF artifact analysis →gnomAD v4.1 quadrupled globin variant discovery while quality-pass rates fell (76.6%→47.7%) and PM2_Supporting fulfillment rose to 93.5% — evidence that population-based ACMG criteria are release- and callset-dependent.
Globin gnomAD audit review →An open portal integrates SNP, SV, and IS6110 data for 420 Chinese isolates, but the notable esxR variant pattern may reflect short-read paralog artifacts, and evolutionary interpretations lack independent validation.
TBpop resource review →Two independent chromosome-scale Cirrhinus molitorella assemblies report gene counts differing by ~41% (36,478 vs 25,865), likely reflecting annotation pipelines rather than biology — no definitive community reference yet exists.
Mud carp assembly review →The first radish small-RNA survey found 66% of reads unannotated and 39% of novel miRNAs under 10 reads, suggesting many pre-genome-era "novel" plant miRNAs may be repeats or degradation products.
Radish miRNA review →The first A. gigas chloroplast genome supports sisterhood with A. titanum, but reference-guided assembly against the putative closest relative means the phylogenetic conclusion partly restates the method.
A. gigas plastome review →A 115-genome survey catalogs virulence and resistance genes, but convergent evidence suggests PHASTER-style prophage calls overestimate functional prophages several-fold, making the actionable mobile-ome more plasmid-centric.
O157:H7 comparative genomics review →His path from Sirevirus annotation to eukaryote-wide centromere atlases (62 works, h-index 15) shows lineage-specific TE expertise enabling cross-clade discovery — though flagship outputs remain computational without functional tests.
Bousios author review →Both senior avian-genomics authors report explicit falsification criteria, null results, and open data in quail methylation-inheritance work (Pitel h-index 40; Zerjal h-index 31–34) — a hallmark of self-correcting science, with germline transmission still unverified.
Pitel author review → Zerjal author review →Draft genomes of three resistance-carrying L1/L5 isolates in a transit-hub country fit both frequent undetected importation and chronic local circulation; only population-scale sampling can distinguish the hypotheses.
Panama MTB genome announcement →Complete NDH loss coinciding with contraction of the small single-copy region to 4,915 bp hints a single boundary-remodeling event may drive correlated gene loss — from a single specimen, so population-wide structure is unconfirmed.
Shizhenia plastome review →A complete 6.44 Mb chromosome plus 257 kb linear plasmid from a phenol-fed chemostat is deposited and reproducible, but the paper leaves unanswered which replicon carries the phenol-catabolic determinants.
R. qingshengii genome review →Millions of short-ORF candidates exist against only hundreds of functionally validated microproteins — a ~5-order-of-magnitude gap making prioritization frameworks more valuable than further discovery methods.
sORF/microprotein review →Jellyfish mitogenomes are so gene-content-invariant (13 PCGs, 2 rRNAs, 2 tRNAs) that additional single-species reports add little; progress now depends on population-scale sampling, as the Chrysaora chinensis mitogenome illustrates.
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