UFGI Publication Round-Up: Week of 5/25/2026

Christou EA, Shankar VR, Kim JJ, Malik RJ, Yacoubi B.

J Neurophysiol. 2026 Jun 1;135(6):1453-1454. doi: 10.1152/jn.00077.2026.

PMID: 42189107

Genetic variation in antidiabetic drug targets: associations with Parkinson’s disease risk and age at onset.

Vincze K, Szwajda A, Ploner A, Karlsson R, Kang X, Tang B, Qin C, Domenighetti C, Sugier PE, Ashok Kumar Sreelatha A, Schulte C, Portugal B, May P, Bobbili DR, Radivojkov-Blagojevic M, Lichtner P, Singleton AB, Hernandez DG, Edsall C, Mellick GD, Zimprich A, Pirker W, Rogaeva E, Lang AE, Koks S, Taba P, Lesage S, Brice A, Corvol JC, Chartier-Harlin MC, Mutez E, Brockmann K, Deutschlander AB, Burbulla LF, 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, Matsuo H, Nakayama A, Hattori N, Nishioka K, Chung SJ, Kim YJ, Kolber P, Van de Warrenburg BP, Bloem BR, Toft M, Pihlstrøm L, Correia Guedes L, Ferreira JJ, Bardien S, Carr J, Tolosa E, Ezquerra M, Pastor P, Ran C, Belin AC, Puschmann A, Clarke CE, Morrison KE, Tan M, Krainc D, Farrer MJ, Landoulsi Z, Kruger R, Gasser T, Elbaz A, Sharma M, Pedersen NL, Carlsson S, Hägg S, Wirdefeldt K; Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson’s Disease (COURAGE-PD) Consortium; Domenighetti C, Sugier PE, Ashok Kumar Sreelatha A, Schulte C, Portugal B, May P, Bobbili DR, Radivojkov-Blagojevic M, Lichtner P, Singleton AB, Hernandez DG, Edsall C, Mellick GD, Zimprich A, Pirker W, Rogaeva E, Lang AE, Koks S, Taba P, Lesage S, Brice A, Corvol JC, Chartier-Harlin MC, Mutez E, Brockmann K, Deutschlander AB, Burbulla LF, 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, Matsuo H, Nakayama A, Hattori N, Nishioka K, Chung SJ, Kim YJ, Kolber P, Van de Warrenburg BP, Bloem BR, Toft M, Pihlstrøm L, Correia Guedes L, Ferreira JJ, Bardien S, Carr J, Tolosa E, Ezquerra M, Pastor P, Ran C, Belin AC, Puschmann A, Clarke CE, Morrison KE, Tan M, Krainc D, Farrer MJ, Landoulsi Z, Kruger R, Gasser T, Elbaz A, Sharma M, Wirdefeldt K.

NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2026 May 28;12(1):127. doi: 10.1038/s41531-026-01398-5.

PMID: 42209523

Consistency in causal reasoning for large language models in scenarios of HIV antiretroviral treatment, drug interactions, and side effects.

Prosperi M, Rancati S, Guo Y, Guo J, Radwan RM, Salemi M, Bian J, Bhasuran B, Egelund EF, Janelle J, Manavalan P, Maranchick N, Marini S, He Z.

NPJ Digit Med. 2026 May 27. doi: 10.1038/s41746-026-02771-7. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42204276

Phylogenomics beyond the ‘bag-of-genes’ model.

Rivas-González I, Mirarab S, Braun EL.

Trends Genet. 2026 May 27:S0168-9525(26)00115-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2026.05.003. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42203613

Development of a face-validated conceptual model structure for economic evaluation in phenylketonuria, through expert elicitation.

Muntau AC, Zhang R, Chakrapani A, Hamazaki T, Lah M, Ruebel DJ, Vijay S, Zori RT, Feillet F, Longo N, Northrup H, Hollander S, O’Connell T, Woolley JJ, Tomazos I.

Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2026 May 29. doi: 10.1186/s13023-026-04423-1. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42216082

The Use of Chitosan- and Coconut Oil-Based Edible Coatings Enriched With Cinnamon Essential Oil for Extending Fresh Peach Quality.

Chang Y, Riley SS, Liu X, Ritenour MA, Liu T, Sarkhosh A, Brecht JK, Sims CA.

J Food Sci. 2026 Jun;91(6):e71166. doi: 10.1111/1750-3841.71166.

PMID: 42216718

CYP2D6 phenotype and post-surgical pain control with hydrocodone and oxycodone.

Lteif C, Myers RA, Elwood EN, Harris EC, Chakraborty H, Dexter PR, Peterson JF, Rider R, Skaar TC, Volpi S, Johnson JA, Duarte JD, Cavallari LH.

Front Pharmacol. 2026 May 11;17:1817652. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2026.1817652. eCollection 2026.

PMID: 42199863

A full-length single nuclei transcriptomic atlas of human skeletal muscle insulin resistance.

Whytock KL, Divoux A, Vazquez J, Hopf M, Viggars MR, Gutierrez-Monreal MA, Ruggiero CH, Jimenez-Rondan FR, Morena F, Krassovskaia P, Broskey NT, Sun Y, Walsh MJ, Cousins RJ, Houmard JA, Sparks LM, Goodpaster BH.

bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 Feb 28:2026.02.26.708250. doi: 10.64898/2026.02.26.708250.

PMID: 42124624

MarkerMatch: a Proximity-Based Probe-Matching Algorithm for Joint Analysis of Copy-Number Variants from Different Genotyping Arrays.

Ivankovic F, Yu D, Shen J, Zhan L, Niarchou M, Kaylor A, Domènech L, Miller-Fleming TW, Porras LM, Giusti-Rodríguez P, Ophoff RA, Scharf JM, Mathews CA.

Bioinformatics. 2026 May 24:btag341. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag341. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42178371

Toxicodynamics and Human Health Risks of Metal Nanoparticles: A Review of AI/ML-Based Predictive Nanotoxicology.

Awasthi KK, Awasthi G, Saxena P, Awasthi A, Srivastava A, Sankhla MS, Roy AS, Hussain A, Miglani R, Rawat G, Pathania R.

Int J Nanomedicine. 2026 May 20;21:580784. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S580784. eCollection 2026.

PMID: 42199650

Pochcial P, Solomon SC, Bruno KA, Fairweather D, Kinane A, Letzkus L, Gurka KK, Stephens I, Knight DRT.

Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2026 May 30. doi: 10.1186/s13023-026-04424-0. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42218552

Impact of Trait Measurement Error on Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Computer Vision-Derived Traits.

Bi Y, Huang Y, Yu H, Morota G.

Genes (Basel). 2026 Apr 24;17(5):506. doi: 10.3390/genes17050506.

PMID: 42194963

Love as a lived experience.

Kruglanski AW, Lemay EP, Moskalenko S, Yu H, Contu F, Ellenberg M, Szumowska E, Molinario E, Pierro A, Wang M.

Behav Brain Sci. 2026 May 28;49:e24. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2510277X.

PMID: 42203746

Polyploidy and stress.

Soltis DE, Fox DT, Soltis PS.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Jun 2;123(22):e2607049123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2607049123. Epub 2026 May 26.

PMID: 42189984

Early-life proteomic and microbiome features signal obesity risk across 26 years of follow-up.

Ahrens AP, Dias R, Hyötyläinen T, White PA, Orešič M, Triplett EW, Ludvigsson J.

mSystems. 2026 May 28:e0142425. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01424-25. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42206849

Enhancing propensity score analysis with data missing not at random: Introducing dual-forest proximity imputation.

Lee Y, Leite WL.

Behav Res Methods. 2026 May 29;58(7):182. doi: 10.3758/s13428-026-03024-x.

PMID: 42215842

PFAS Mixture Composition and Internal Exposure Profiles Shape Biological Responses under Field-Realistic Exposure.

Vajda AM, Jenkins JA, Bertolatus DW, LeBlanc DR, Martyniuk CJ, Hopkins ZR, Tokranov AK, Dethloff AR, Tucker JC, Lohmann R, Barber LB.

Environ Sci Technol. 2026 May 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6c01726. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42177649

Transcriptome and Behavioral Assessment in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Following Exposure to Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA).

Avidan L, English CD, McDonnell KA, Ivantsova E, Martyniuk CJ.

Genes (Basel). 2026 May 7;17(5):558. doi: 10.3390/genes17050558.

PMID: 42195015

Do Perfluorinated Chemicals Enhance the Toxicity of Other Contaminants in Aquatic Organisms? A Review.

Valle EMA, Ivantsova E, Pracchia ML, Cabello CQ, de Oliveira HPM, Codognoto L, Martyniuk CJ.

Toxics. 2026 Apr 26;14(5):373. doi: 10.3390/toxics14050373.

PMID: 42198499

Effect of apremilast on whole-body magnetic resonance imaging of peripheral and axial inflammation in patients with psoriatic arthritis.

Østergaard M, Lambert RGW, Maksymowych WP, Boesen M, Bubb MR, Kubassova O, Valenzuela G, Colgan S, Deignan C, Zhou Z, Mease PJ.

Ann Rheum Dis. 2026 May 26:S0003-4967(26)00269-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.04.010. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42191498

Common Medical Comorbidities, Demographic Factors and Levels of Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegeneration in Black/African American Older Adults.

Cid REC, Ortega A, Crenshaw K, Vaccari JPR, Carrasquillo MM, Vaillancourt D, Zheng DD, Hinton D, Sfakianaki E, Crocco EA, Casellas H, Kuchenbecker LA, Ramirez S, Abascal T, Abel T, Wang WE, Duara R, Ertekin-Taner N, Loewenstein DA.

Biomolecules. 2026 May 19;16(5):747. doi: 10.3390/biom16050747.

PMID: 42194093

U-Net-based reactive center loop-identifier for serpins.

Liang J, Wang C, Zhou L.

Bioinform Adv. 2026 May 7;6(1):vbag132. doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbag132. eCollection 2026.

PMID: 42211342

Dynamics of Paraspeckle Components in Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1)-Infected Human Neuronal Cells.

Filipponi C, Bloom DC, Gambotto C, Wallace CT, Milosevic J, Watkins SC, Buckley S, Wesesky MA, Nimgaonkar VL, D’Aiuto L.

Viruses. 2026 May 12;18(5):552. doi: 10.3390/v18050552.

PMID: 42198755

A novel ψ-χ fusion protein for unravelling the contributions of χ to DNA replication and repair.

Padgett-Pagliai KA, Wimer E, Grant JD, Petrides MJ, Newcomb ESP, Sutera VA, Lovett ST, Bloom LB.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 May 20;54(10):gkag533. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkag533.

PMID: 42200296