Search Results - "MacArthur, Daniel G."
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Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD
Published in Human mutation (01-08-2022)“…Reference population databases are an essential tool in variant and gene interpretation. Their use guides the identification of pathogenic variants amidst the…”
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The ExAC browser: displaying reference data information from over 60 000 exomes
Published in Nucleic acids research (04-01-2017)“…Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of humans have had their genomes or exomes sequenced, and access to the resulting data sets can provide valuable information…”
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Dindel: accurate indel calls from short-read data
Published in Genome research (01-06-2011)“…Small insertions and deletions (indels) are a common and functionally important type of sequence polymorphism. Most of the focus of studies of sequence…”
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Transcriptome variation in human tissues revealed by long-read sequencing
Published in Nature (London) (11-08-2022)“…Regulation of transcript structure generates transcript diversity and plays an important role in human disease 1 – 7 . The advent of long-read sequencing…”
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STRetch: detecting and discovering pathogenic short tandem repeat expansions
Published in Genome Biology (21-08-2018)“…Short tandem repeat (STR) expansions have been identified as the causal DNA mutation in dozens of Mendelian diseases. Most existing tools for detecting STR…”
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Refining the role of de novo protein-truncating variants in neurodevelopmental disorders by using population reference samples
Published in Nature genetics (01-04-2017)“…Mark Daly and colleagues use population reference samples to refine the role of de novo protein-truncating variants in neurodevelopmental disorders. They show…”
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Patterns of genic intolerance of rare copy number variation in 59,898 human exomes
Published in Nature genetics (01-10-2016)“…Douglas Ruderfer, Shaun Purcell and colleagues characterized the rates and properties of rare genic copy number variants in exome sequencing data from nearly…”
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The Evaluation of Tools Used to Predict the Impact of Missense Variants Is Hindered by Two Types of Circularity
Published in Human mutation (01-05-2015)“…ABSTRACT Prioritizing missense variants for further experimental investigation is a key challenge in current sequencing studies for exploring complex and…”
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Human genetic variation alters CRISPR-Cas9 on- and off-targeting specificity at therapeutically implicated loci
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-12-2017)“…The CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease system holds enormous potential for therapeutic genome editing of a wide spectrum of diseases. Large efforts have been made to further…”
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Genetic regulatory variation in populations informs transcriptome analysis in rare disease
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (18-10-2019)“…Transcriptome data can facilitate the interpretation of the effects of rare genetic variants. Here, we introduce ANEVA (analysis of expression variation) to…”
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Origins and functional impact of copy number variation in the human genome
Published in Nature (London) (01-04-2010)“…Structural variations of DNA greater than 1 kilobase in size account for most bases that vary among human genomes, but are still relatively under-ascertained…”
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Estimating the selective effects of heterozygous protein-truncating variants from human exome data
Published in Nature genetics (01-05-2017)“…Shamil Sunyaev, David Beier and colleagues report an analysis of the fitness effects of heterozygous protein-truncating variants from the Exome Aggregation…”
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Publicly Available Data Provide Evidence against NR1H3 R415Q Causing Multiple Sclerosis
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (19-10-2016)“…It has recently been reported that an NR1H3 missense variant, R415Q, causes a novel familial form of multiple sclerosis (Wang et al., 2016a). This claim is at…”
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From patients to partners: participant-centric initiatives in biomedical research
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-05-2012)“…Participant-centred initiatives use social media technologies to allow long-term interactive partnerships to be established between study participants and…”
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A whole-genome sequence study identifies genetic risk factors for neuromyelitis optica
Published in Nature communications (16-05-2018)“…Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a rare autoimmune disease that affects the optic nerve and spinal cord. Most NMO patients ( > 70%) are seropositive for…”
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Quantifying unobserved protein-coding variants in human populations provides a roadmap for large-scale sequencing projects
Published in Nature communications (31-10-2016)“…As new proposals aim to sequence ever larger collection of humans, it is critical to have a quantitative framework to evaluate the statistical power of these…”
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The landscape of genomic imprinting across diverse adult human tissues
Published in Genome research (01-07-2015)“…Genomic imprinting is an important regulatory mechanism that silences one of the parental copies of a gene. To systematically characterize this phenomenon, we…”
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Differences in 5'untranslated regions highlight the importance of translational regulation of dosage sensitive genes
Published in Genome Biology (29-04-2024)“…Untranslated regions (UTRs) are important mediators of post-transcriptional regulation. The length of UTRs and the composition of regulatory elements within…”
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Using ALoFT to determine the impact of putative loss-of-function variants in protein-coding genes
Published in Nature communications (29-08-2017)“…Variants predicted to result in the loss of function of human genes have attracted interest because of their clinical impact and surprising prevalence in…”
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