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CONCLUSIONS: PF ependymoma comprises two biologically and clinically distinct entities. Maximal safe resection and focal radiotherapy remain the backbone of treatment, but integrating molecular subgrouping, imaging biomarkers, and modern radiotherapeutic techniques into surgical and adjuvant planning offers the clearest path to improved outcomes, particularly for high-risk PFA tumors.

Next-generation sequencing has transformed diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment across rare disease, cancer, immunology, and infectious disease. As variant interpretation may evolve with emerging evidence, sharing genetic data is essential to improve diagnostic accuracy and advance genomic medicine. However, practical guidance for implementing clinical genetic data sharing remains limited. The Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG), therefore, developed national guidance to support...

The microbial degradation of synthetic polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is mediated by diverse α/β-hydrolases, many of which remain poorly characterized. In this study, we investigated SM0281, an uncharacterized α/β-hydrolase from the symbiotic legume-associated rhizobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. Sequence analysis revealed that SM0281 shares low similarity with known polyester-degrading enzymes. Biochemical characterization of purified SM0281 demonstrated that it is a...

CONCLUSIONS: This study will provide initial evidence on the feasibility and utility of wearable-based digital phenotyping in individuals receiving rTMS for TRD. Our findings will inform the design of future large-scale studies aimed at wearable-supported relapse prevention and precision monitoring in depression care.

Primitive hematopoietic stem cells (pHSCs) sustain lifelong hematopoiesis through tightly regulated transitions between quiescence and activation. Circadian oscillations influence hematopoiesis; however, the mechanisms coordinating metabolic state and stem cell function daily remain incompletely defined. Here, we show that circadian cues coordinated a program of mitochondrial remodeling, metabolic reprogramming, and structural adaptation in pHSCs. At night, peak melatonin levels were associated...

Tuning protein expression in non-model organisms is often constrained by the lack of validated genetic parts and predictive design tools. Translational tuning through the modulation of upstream untranslated regions (5'-UTRs) offers a potentially organism-agnostic route, but existing methods typically rely on mechanistic assumptions, prior knowledge that may not be available in non-model contexts, or the screening of sequence libraries. Here, we present a simple generative approach for creating...

Triple-negative breast cancer is an aggressive and heterogeneous breast cancer subtype with few effective targeted therapies and frequent resistance to chemotherapy. Here, we integrate transcriptional regulatory network inference with chromatin accessibility across a large-scale multi-system collection of primary tumors, patient-derived xenografts and model cell lines to quantify transcription factor activity and identify regulators that underpin triple-negative breast cancer identity. This...

CONCLUSIONS: In addition to shedding light on the molecular events underpinning its pathogenesis, our data will serve as a valuable resource to help accelerate the discovery of improved diagnostics and therapeutics for DKD.

BACKGROUND: Determining the early immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in individuals who are vaccinated is essential for better understanding immune memory and informing COVID-19 vaccine design and use. We aimed to evaluate antibody and T-cell immune markers against SARS-CoV-2 infection among household contacts of index patients infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Adseverin is a Ca^(2+)-dependent, actin severing protein that promotes fusion of osteoclast precursors in osteoclast formation. Currently it is not understood how actin severing activity is regulated in osteoclastogenesis. Mass spectrometry of adseverin immunoprecipitates from osteoclasts showed that adseverin associated with Serpin D1. Purified Serpin D1 interacted with adseverin in vitro in a Ca^(2+)-dependent manner. Ca^(2+) increased actin severing by ~2-fold. Cells that differentiated into...

Pleiotropic and monotonic effects of gene dosage are central to understanding comorbidities in developmental pediatric and psychiatric disorders, yet the underlying biological processes are not well characterized. Here we develop a functional burden analysis to investigate the association of all protein-coding copy-number variants, genome-wide, with 43 complex traits in approximately 500,000 UK Biobank participants. We test variant associations disrupting 172 tissue or cell-type gene sets,...

Studies on schizophrenia-associated rare copy number variants (CNVs) have predominantly focused on people of European (EUR) ancestry. Here we present a rare CNV study of schizophrenia in East Asian (EAS) populations, comprising 20,903 cases and 23,258 controls. We observed a significantly elevated genome-wide rare CNV burden in EAS cases compared with controls. Cross-population comparisons showed largely consistent rare CNV effects on schizophrenia risk. In the EAS sample, we identified nine...

Urine is an attractive biomarker analyte for non-invasive longitudinal monitoring of health and disease, particularly for diseases of the genitourinary tract, like prostate and bladder cancer. The composition of an individual's urine reflects both genetic and lifestyle characteristics that differ across geographies and populations, like diet, hydration and other socio-economic factors. While men of African ancestry have elevated prostate cancer risk, it is unclear to what extent this influences...

CONCLUSIONS: While opioid-limiting laws were not associated with meaningful reductions in opioid prescribing among Medicaid-enrolled adult survivors of childhood cancer overall, notable declines were observed among subgroups with potentially higher pain care needs.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD; MIM 209850) is reported to vary globally from 0.01% in East Asian populations to 4.36% in certain Australian cohorts. Despite high heritability estimates (61-94%), the genetic architecture underlying ASD susceptibility remains poorly characterized across diverse populations, as most genomic studies have initially focused on individuals of European ancestry. To investigate ancestry-specific genetic contributions to ASD, we analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from...

This Letter presents the first evidence of the simultaneous production of two Z bosons and one photon with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is performed using the full Run-2 dataset, recorded from 2015 to 2018, of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb^{-1}. The fully leptonic final state with four leptons and one photon is analyzed, pp→ZZγ→ℓ^{+}ℓ^{-}ℓ^{'+}ℓ^{'-}γ with ℓ,ℓ^{'}=e or μ. This...

Eating disorders-including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder-are clinically distinct but exhibit symptom overlap and diagnostic crossover. Genomic analyses have mostly examined AN. Here we conducted a genomic meta-analysis of case-control studies of binge-eating behavior (BE; 39,279 cases, 1,227,436 controls), alongside analyses of AN (24,223 cases, 1,243,971 controls) and its subtypes (all European ancestries). We identified six BE-associated loci, including loci...

Prostate cancer follows a long and heterogeneous disease course with incompletely understood aetiology¹. Here we dissect the mutational processes shaping the genomes of 959 donors from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group and assess their clinical relevance. By integrating de novo extracted single-base substitution, insertion-deletion and copy-number signatures with six novel complex structural variant signatures, we identify eight integrated mutational footprints (IMFs) that collectively explain the...

The inactivation of tumour suppressor genes is a key step in cancer development, and is usually achieved by homozygous loss. In prostate cancer, however, large genomic regions are often hemizygously lost, which complicates the identification of putative tumour suppressors in these regions. Here, we develop Epi2Hit, an integrative computational method that leverages whole genome sequencing, epigenomic profiling and gene expression to identify biallelic inactivation of tumour suppressor genes...

Gangstalking is a persecutory belief system espoused by targeted individuals who report being followed, monitored, harassed, or otherwise persecuted by groups of people in their community, often through the coordinated efforts of the government, law enforcement agencies, and strangers. Although the alleged harassment can take the form of conventional stalking, stereotypical gangstalking claims often include added victimization by street theater and directed energy weapons, along with...