A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic causes and modifiers of autism spectrum disorder

L Rylaarsdam, A Guemez-Gamboa - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental
disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 59 children. ASD is highly genetically heterogeneous …

A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders,,–, but …

Genomic diagnosis of rare pediatric disease in the United Kingdom and Ireland

CF Wright, P Campbell, RY Eberhardt… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Pediatric disorders include a range of highly penetrant, genetically
heterogeneous conditions amenable to genomewide diagnostic approaches. Finding a …

A genome-wide mutational constraint map quantified from variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders, but …

Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

E Turro, WJ Astle, K Megy, S Gräf, D Greene… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most patients with rare diseases do not receive a molecular diagnosis and the aetiological
variants and causative genes for more than half such disorders remain to be discovered …

[HTML][HTML] The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

KJ Karczewski, LC Francioli, G Tiao, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic variants that inactivate protein-coding genes are a powerful source of information
about the phenotypic consequences of gene disruption: genes that are crucial for the …

Variation across 141,456 human exomes and genomes reveals the spectrum of loss-of-function intolerance across human protein-coding genes

KJ Karczewski, LC Francioli, G Tiao, BB Cummings… - biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Genetic variants that inactivate protein-coding genes are a powerful source of information
about the phenotypic consequences of gene disruption: genes critical for an organism's …

Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

S Köhler, L Carmody, N Vasilevsky… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)—a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic
abnormalities associated with 7000+ diseases—is used by thousands of researchers …

Enhancer redundancy in development and disease

EZ Kvon, R Waymack, M Gad, Z Wunderlich - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Shadow enhancers are seemingly redundant transcriptional cis-regulatory elements that
regulate the same gene and drive overlapping expression patterns. Recent studies have …