Decoding disease: from genomes to networks to phenotypes

AK Wong, RSG Sealfon, CL Theesfeld… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interpreting the effects of genetic variants is key to understanding individual susceptibility to
disease and designing personalized therapeutic approaches. Modern experimental …

Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

…, JW Carlson, A Carr, I Jungreis, D Marbach, R Sealfon… - Science, 2010 - science.org
To gain insight into how genomic information is translated into cellular and developmental
programs, the Drosophila model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) …

Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak

SK Gire, A Goba, KG Andersen, RSG Sealfon, DJ Park… - science, 2014 - science.org
In its largest outbreak, Ebola virus disease is spreading through Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone,
and Nigeria. We sequenced 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone to …

A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome

…, P Kheradpour, ML Eaton, P Loriaux, R Sealfon… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
… Regions of higher complexity are weakly associated with more highly expressed genes (r
2 = 0.19), indicating that low-complexity binding sites are associated with more restricted …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone

…, SK Gire, A Colubri, RSG Sealfon… - New England journal …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Limited clinical and laboratory data are available on patients with Ebola virus
disease (EVD). The Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, which had an existing …

Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

…, SF Schaffner, JS Schieffelin, RS Sealfon… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The 2013–2016 West African epidemic caused by the Ebola virus was of unprecedented
magnitude, duration and impact. Here we reconstruct the dispersal, proliferation and decline of …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic RNA elements drive phase separation of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid

C Iserman, CA Roden, MA Boerneke, RSG Sealfon… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
We report that the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (N-protein) undergoes liquid-liquid
phase separation (LLPS) with viral RNA. N-protein condenses with specific RNA genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Ebola virus epidemiology, transmission, and evolution during seven months in Sierra Leone

…, A Goba, SLM Whitmer, KG Andersen, RS Sealfon… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic is caused by the Makona variant of
Ebola virus (EBOV). Early in the epidemic, genome sequencing provided insights into virus …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical sequencing uncovers origins and evolution of Lassa virus

KG Andersen, BJ Shapiro, CB Matranga, R Sealfon… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The 2013–2015 West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reminds us of how little
is known about biosafety level 4 viruses. Like Ebola virus, Lassa virus (LASV) can cause …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 gene content and COVID-19 mutation impact by comparing 44 Sarbecovirus genomes

I Jungreis, R Sealfon, M Kellis - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Despite its clinical importance, the SARS-CoV-2 gene set remains unresolved, hindering
dissection of COVID-19 biology. We use comparative genomics to provide a high-confidence …