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ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2025

The long and short of hyperdivergent regions.

Nicolas D Moya, Stephanie M Yan, Rajiv C McCoy, Erik C Andersen

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Review in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Global genomic diversity of the selfing nematodebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Natural variation suggests candidate genes underlying Caenorhabditis elegans susceptibility to diverse toxicants.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  8. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. Natural variation suggests candidate genes underlyingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. The regulatory architecture of gene expression variation inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicolas D MoyaDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Stephanie M YanDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Rajiv C McCoyDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: rajiv.mccoy@jhu.edu.
Erik C AndersenDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: erik.andersen@gmail.com.

Funding

NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability Administrative Coordinating CenterOT2OD034190 · OD · RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · PI ROBBINS, ELIZABETH · 2022 to 2023
$16.9M
Developing Capacity to Evaluate Training Programs via Development of Human, Institutional and Social CapitalT32GM008449 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LEONARD, JOSHUA NATHANIEL · 1993 to 2023
$7.8M
Discovery of Novel Benzimidazole Resistance MechanismsR01AI153088 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Erik Christian Andersen, James Solomon Fraser · 2020 to 2026
$4.3M
Function and fitness consequences of human genetic variationR35GM133747 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Rajiv Champion McCoy · 2019 to 2026
$3.3M
Discovery of conserved molecular mechanisms underlying population-wide variation in toxin responsesR01ES029930 · NIEHS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI ANDERSEN, ERIK CHRISTIAN, BAUGH, LARRY RYAN · 2019 to 2023
$3.2M
Genetic and genomic tools for C. briggsae researchR21OD030067 · OD · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ANDERSEN, ERIK CHRISTIAN, CHAMBERLIN, HELEN M · 2022 to 2023
$431k
Investigating the role of structural variation in hominin evolution.F31HG012495 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI YAN, STEPHANIE M · 2022 to 2023
$86k
NHGRI NIH HHS F31 HG012495NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI153088NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES029930NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133747NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008449NIH HHS OT2 OD034190NIH HHS R21 OD030067
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of genome sequencing and assembly has uncovered evidence of hyperdivergent genomic regions - loci with excess genetic diversity - in species across the tree of life. Hyperdivergent regions are often enriched for genes that mediate environmental responses, such as immunity, parasitism, and sensory perception. Especially in self-fertilizing species where the majority of the genome is homozygous, the existence of hyperdivergent regions might imply the historical action of evolutionary forces such as introgression and/or balancing selection. We anticipate that the application of new sequencing technologies, broader taxonomic sampling, and evolutionary modeling of hyperdivergent regions will provide insights into the mechanisms that generate and maintain genetic diversity within and between species.

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Evolution, MolecularGenetic VariationGenomeAnimalsHumansSelection, Geneticbalancing selectionhyperdivergent regionsintrogressionlong-read sequencingmajor histocompatibility complexself-fertilization

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PMID39706705
PMCPMC11981857

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