Enrichment of low-frequency functional variants revealed by whole-genome sequencing of multiple isolated European populations

Autor: Yali Xue, Massimo Mezzavilla, Marc Haber, Shane McCarthy, Yuan Chen, Vagheesh Narasimhan, Arthur Gilly, Qasim Ayub, Vincenza Colonna, Lorraine Southam, Christopher Finan, Andrea Massaia, Himanshu Chheda, Priit Palta, Graham Ritchie, Jennifer Asimit, George Dedoussis, Paolo Gasparini, Aarno Palotie, Samuli Ripatti, Nicole Soranzo, Daniela Toniolo, James F. Wilson, Richard Durbin, Chris Tyler-Smith, Eleftheria Zeggini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15927
Popis: Isolated populations often have special genetic compositions that can be leveraged for genetic association studies. Here, Xue and colleagues generate and analyse 3,059 low-depth whole-genome sequences from eight European isolated populations and two matched general populations.
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