Search Results - "Purcell, Shaun"
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Statistical power and significance testing in large-scale genetic studies
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-05-2014)“…Key Points Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for…”
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Reduced Sleep Spindles in Schizophrenia: A Treatable Endophenotype That Links Risk Genes to Impaired Cognition?
Published in Biological psychiatry (1969) (15-10-2016)“…Abstract Although schizophrenia (SZ) is defined by waking phenomena, abnormal sleep is a common feature. In particular, there is accumulating evidence of a…”
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Testing for an unusual distribution of rare variants
Published in PLoS genetics (01-03-2011)“…Technological advances make it possible to use high-throughput sequencing as a primary discovery tool of medical genetics, specifically for assaying rare…”
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Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets
Published in Gigascience (25-02-2015)“…PLINK 1 is a widely used open-source C/C++ toolset for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and research in population genetics. However, the steady…”
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Pleiotropy in complex traits: challenges and strategies
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-07-2013)“…Key Points Genome-wide association studies have identified many novel loci for hundreds of traits. Interestingly, numerous genetic loci have been associated…”
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INRICH: interval-based enrichment analysis for genome-wide association studies
Published in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) (01-07-2012)“…Here we present INRICH (INterval enRICHment analysis), a pathway-based genome-wide association analysis tool that tests for enriched association signals of…”
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The hypoxic burden of sleep apnoea predicts cardiovascular disease-related mortality: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study and the Sleep Heart Health Study
Published in European heart journal (07-04-2019)“…Abstract Aims Apnoea–hypopnoea index (AHI), the universal clinical metric of sleep apnoea severity, poorly predicts the adverse outcomes of sleep apnoea,…”
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Discovery and Statistical Genotyping of Copy-Number Variation from Whole-Exome Sequencing Depth
Published in American journal of human genetics (05-10-2012)“…Sequencing of gene-coding regions (the exome) is increasingly used for studying human disease, for which copy-number variants (CNVs) are a critical genetic…”
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De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks
Published in Nature (London) (13-02-2014)“…Inherited alleles account for most of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. However, new ( de novo ) mutations, in the form of large chromosomal copy number…”
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Synthetic associations created by rare variants do not explain most GWAS results
Published in PLoS biology (01-01-2011)“…Abbreviations: GRR, genotype relative risk; GWAS, genome-wide association study; ISC, International Schizophrenia Consortium; LD, linkage disequilibrium; MAF,…”
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Using XHMM Software to Detect Copy Number Variation in Whole-Exome Sequencing Data
Published in Current protocols in human genetics (24-04-2014)“…Copy number variation (CNV) has emerged as an important genetic component in human diseases, which are increasingly being studied for large numbers of samples…”
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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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A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human disease
Published in Nature genetics (01-09-2014)“…Mark Daly and colleagues present a statistical framework to evaluate the role of de novo mutations in human disease by calibrating a model of de novo mutation…”
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AI-Driven sleep staging from actigraphy and heart rate
Published in PloS one (17-05-2023)“…Sleep is an important indicator of a person's health, and its accurate and cost-effective quantification is of great value in healthcare. The gold standard for…”
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Pooled Association Tests for Rare Variants in Exon-Resequencing Studies
Published in American journal of human genetics (11-06-2010)“…Deep sequencing will soon generate comprehensive sequence information in large disease samples. Although the power to detect association with an individual…”
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Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics
Published in Nature genetics (01-11-2015)“…Hilary Finucane, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Benjamin Neale, Alkes Price and colleagues introduce a new method, called stratified LD score regression, for…”
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Sex differences in obstructive sleep apnea phenotypes, the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-05-2020)“…Abstract Study Objectives The bases for sex disparities in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is poorly understood. We quantified the influences of event…”
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Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-11-2016)“…Using whole-exome sequencing, the authors identified 244,246 coding-sequence and splice-site ultra-rare variants (URVs) and found that gene-disruptive and…”
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Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits
Published in Nature genetics (01-02-2017)“…Richa Saxena and colleagues report genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits in the UK Biobank cohort. They discover loci associated with…”
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