UFGI Publication Round-Up: Week of 4/20/2026

Conte CA, Rivarola M, Gonzalez S, Milla FH, Soria C, Giardini MC, Segura DF, Handler AM, Bourtzis K, Ragoussis J, Lanzavecchia SB.

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2026 Apr 23:e0042526. doi: 10.1128/mra.00425-26. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42023878

SPACT: A clustering-driven multi-modal framework for survival prediction using genomic and histopathology data.

Öğülmüş FE, Gafarov S, Almalıoğlu Y, Özdemir BH, Atılgan AO, Demir D, Özen Ö, Keleş GE, Kahveci T, Turan M.

Med Image Anal. 2026 Apr 17;112:104078. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2026.104078. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42013616

Neuroanatomical patterns of dementia risk in autism spectrum disorder.

Shin YS, Wang J, Pulver SL, Orlando AM, Romero RA, Cuomo CR, Lauzan IV, Dentry T, Shirley DJ, Christensen D, Unruh KE, Stevens CJ, McKinney WS, Mosconi MW, Vaillancourt DE, Wang Z, Coombes SA.

Front Aging Neurosci. 2026 Apr 2;18:1771822. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2026.1771822. eCollection 2026.

PMID: 42006949

Detecting Cognitive Impairment in African American Older Adults Using the LASSI-L and Plasma P-Tau₂₁₇.

Crenshaw KH, Ortega A, Curiel Cid RE, Zheng DD, Carrasquillo MM, Crocco E, Ramirez S, Frydman A, Remedios S, Morales YV, Vaillancourt DE, Wang WE, Garcia DF, de Rivero Vaccari JP, Ertekin-Taner N, Kuchenbecker L, Duara R, Loewenstein DA.

Adv Alzheimer Dis. 2025 Jun;14(2):23-37. doi: 10.4236/aad.2025.142002. Epub 2025 Jun 30.

PMID: 42007415

CerS2 is a druggable target in triple-negative breast cancer.

Alatawi H, Nair HH, Ai L, Mahmud I, Gour A, Singh A, Baek D, Yan B, Maharjan CK, Zhang W, Law BK, Zajac-Kaye M, Vulpe CD, Guryanova OA, Sharma AK, Garrett TJ, Sharma A, Heldermon CD, Hong S, Narayan S.

Mol Cancer Ther. 2026 Apr 21. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-25-1159. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42012500

Phylogenomics of melastomataceae: rooting out discordance across organellar and nuclear genomes.

Brito MR, Dagallier LMJ, Bacci LF, Reginato M, Ore-Rengifo MI, Acha S, Veranso-Libalah MC, Chen L, Kadereit G, Goldenberg R, Liu Y, Zhou R, Penneys DS, Sekarathil R, Nampy S, Stone RD, Almeda F, Judd WS, Cellinese N, Michelangeli FA, Majure LC.

Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2026 Apr 19:108628. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108628. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42013962

Genomic signatures of speciation and adaptation in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis.

Ketchum RN, Smith EG, Toledo LM, Leach WB, Padillo-Anthemides NE, Baxevanis AD, Reitzel AM, Ryan JF.

BMC Biol. 2026 Apr 21. doi: 10.1186/s12915-026-02578-8. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42010656

Interstitial loss of heterozygosity at Chr19q13 in CD33-negative AML.

Shastri VM, Dai R, Zhang Y, Loken MR, Lamba JK.

Leukemia. 2026 Apr 21. doi: 10.1038/s41375-026-02963-w. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42014857

Genome-wide association study of copy number variations in Parkinson’s disease.

Landoulsi Z, Sreelatha AAK, Kuznetsov N, Schulte C, Bobbili DR, Montanucci L, Leu C, Niestroj LM, Hassanin E, Domenighetti C, Sugier PE, Radivojkov-Blagojevic M, Lichtner P, Portugal B, Edsall C, Krüger J, Hernandez DG, Blauwendraat C, Mellick GD, Zimprich A, Pirker W, Tan M, Rogaeva E, Lang A, Koks S, Taba P, Lesage S, Brice A, Corvol JC, Chartier-Harlin MC, Mutez E, Brockmann K, Deutschländer AB, Hadjigeorgiou GM, Dardiotis E, Stefanis L, Simitsi AM, Valente EM, Petrucci S, Straniero L, Zecchinelli A, Pezzoli G, Brighina L, Ferrarese C, Annesi G, Quattrone A, Gagliardi M, Burbulla LF, Matsuo H, Nakayama A, Hattori N, Nishioka K, Chung SJ, Kim YJ, Pavelka L, Kolber P, van de Warrenburg BP, Bloem BR, Singleton AB, Vitale D, Toft M, Pihlstrom L, Guedes LC, Ferreira JJ, Bardien S, Carr J, Tolosa E, Ezquerra M, Pastor P, Wirdefeldt K, Pedersen NL, Ran C, Belin AC, Puschmann A, Clarke CE, Morrison KE, Krainc D, Farrer MJ, Lal D; Global Parkinson Genetics Program (GP2); Elbaz A, Gasser T, Krüger R, Sharma M, May P; Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson’s Disease (COURAGE-PD) consortium.

NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2026 Apr 20. doi: 10.1038/s41531-025-01245-z. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42009659

Haplotype diversity of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein prior to malaria vaccine implementation in Kaelé Health District, Cameroon, 2022-2023.

Ali IM, Vasquez Martinez B, Tchuenkam VPK, Sadler JM, Gorman CC, Nsango SE, Junior VV, Ateba JM, Wanda GY, Bailey JA, Dinglasan RR, Lin JT, Juliano JJ.

Front Parasitol. 2026 Apr 7;5:1749169. doi: 10.3389/fpara.2026.1749169. eCollection 2026.

PMID: 42023409

Corrigendum: Pseudomonas boreofloridensis sp. nov., and Pseudomonas citrulli sp. nov., isolated from watermelon in Florida.

Fullem KR, MacLellan MP, Poudel M, Goss EM, Potnis N, Minsavage GV, Jones JB, Paret ML.

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2026 Apr;76(4):007147. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.007147.

PMID: 42017945

Rapid screening of genome edited strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa) regenerants using high-resolution melting analysis followed by Amplicon sequencing.

Vondracek K, Lee MB, Liu T, Lee S.

BMC Res Notes. 2026 Apr 24. doi: 10.1186/s13104-026-07792-9. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42032748

Endoderm differentiates into a transient epidermis in the mouse perineum.

Larkins CE, Grunberg DM, Daniels GM, Feldtmann EJ, Cohn MJ.

Dev Dyn. 2026 Apr;255(4):430-440. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.70050. Epub 2025 Jun 25.

PMID: 40557929

Beyond Tubipora musica: Phylogenomics unveils the overlooked diversity and endemism of the hermatypic octocoral genus Tubipora.

Macrina L, Terraneo TI, McFadden CS, Sabino A, Oury N, Barreca F, Vicario S, Samimi-Namin K, Knop D, Rodrigue M, Pieribone V, Baird AH, Berumen ML, Reimer JD, Paulay G, Benzoni F.

Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2026 Apr 18:108622. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108622. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42009284

ShapeRNA: an integrated web server for RNA secondary structure, ensemble, and functional analysis.

Liang J, Zhou M, Xie M, Song Q.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Apr 23:gkag387. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkag387. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42023506

Scaling k-Means for Multi-Million Frames: A Stratified NANI Approach for Large-Scale MD Simulations.

Santos JBW, Chen L, Miranda-Quintana RA.

J Chem Inf Model. 2026 Apr 21. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c02741. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42013462

The effect of occlusion location and technique in mechanical thrombectomy for minor stroke.

Abecassis IJ, Almallouhi E, Chalhoub RM, Helal A, Naidugari JR, Kasab SA, Bass E, Ding D, Saini V, Burks JD, Maier IL, Jabbour P, Kim JT, Wolfe S, Rai A, Psychogios MN, Samaniego E, Arthur AS, Yoshimura S, Howard B, Alawieh A, Fragata I, Cuellar H, Polifka A, Mascitelli J, Osbun J, Crosa R, Matouk C, Park MS, Levitt MR, Dumont T, Williamson RW, Spiotta AM, Starke RM.

Interv Neuroradiol. 2026 Apr;32(2):152-161. doi: 10.1177/15910199231196451. Epub 2023 Aug 18.

PMID: 37593806

Improving Assessment of Vaccine Effectiveness by Coupling Test-Negative Design Studies with Survival Models.

Song S, Hitchings M, Yang Y, Longini IM Jr; N3C consortium.

Epidemiology. 2026 Apr 22. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001972. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42017631

Evaluation of causal reasoning for large language models in contextualized clinical scenarios of laboratory test interpretation.

Bhasuran B, Prosperi M, Hanna K, Petrilli J, Washington CJ, He Z.

NPJ Digit Med. 2026 Apr 23. doi: 10.1038/s41746-026-02632-3. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42020503

Targeted disruption of vacuolar-sorting protein and inhibitor of apoptosis genes via virus-induced gene silencing alters survival and reproduction of Diaphorina citri.

Killiny N, Rashidi M, Shilts T, Stelinski LL, Bonning BC.

Pest Manag Sci. 2026 Apr 20. doi: 10.1002/ps.70824. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42010772

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/ World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery/ European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association 2026 Clinical Practice Guidelines on Indications and Timing of Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot.

Nelson JS, Lu JC, Ashfaq A, Kwon MH, Kamp A, Stephens E, Cohen MI, Rossi C, Sood P, Sandoval N, Vida V, Lee C, Khanna AD, Bhamidipati C, Lotto A, Zampi JD, Protopapas E, Polimenakos AC, Beltran SC, Orr Y, Ahmad D, Tchervenkov C, Sarris G, Jacobs JP, St Louis JD.

Ann Thorac Surg. 2026 Apr 22:S0003-4975(26)00357-7. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2026.04.011. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42031156