Keva Li, Nicholas Tolman ... UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium
Pyruvate and related metabolites are linked to reduced glaucoma risk among genetically predisposed individuals and mitigate disease in a mouse model, highlighting a potential metabolic mechanism of resilience.
Genetic tools were generated and used to determine the neurotransmitters and neuropeptides used by individual cell types within the Drosophila central complex and to study their roles in sleep regulation.
Hirokazu Kimura, Kamel Lahouel ... Nicholas Jason Roberts
High-throughput characterization of all possible CDKN2A missense variants identifies functionally deleterious variants and establishes accuracy of variant effect predictors.
Sexually antagonistic pleiotropy involving frequency-dependent traits like mating display maintains linkage blocks like inversions as balanced polymorphisms in simulation, and may explain common inversion polymorphisms maintained at intermediate frequencies.
Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.