[HTML][HTML] Determinants of penetrance and variable expressivity in monogenic metabolic conditions across 77,184 exomes

JK Goodrich, M Singer-Berk, R Son, A Sveden… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hundreds of thousands of genetic variants have been reported to cause severe monogenic
diseases, but the probability that a variant carrier develops the disease (termed penetrance) …

Exome sequencing in suspected monogenic dyslipidemias

NO Stitziel, GM Peloso, M Abifadel… - Circulation …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Exome sequencing is a promising tool for gene mapping in Mendelian
disorders. We used this technique in an attempt to identify novel genes underlying …

Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations

AV Khera, M Chaffin, KG Aragam, ME Haas, C Roselli… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A key public health need is to identify individuals at high risk for a given disease to enable
enhanced screening or preventive therapies. Because most common diseases have a …

[HTML][HTML] Exome sequencing-driven discovery of coding polymorphisms associated with common metabolic phenotypes

A Albrechtsen, N Grarup, Y Li, T Sparsø, G Tian, H Cao… - Diabetologia, 2013 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Human complex metabolic traits are in part regulated by genetic
determinants. Here we applied exome sequencing to identify novel associations of coding …

[HTML][HTML] Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK Biobank exomes

Q Wang, RS Dhindsa, K Carss, AR Harper, A Nag… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have uncovered thousands of common variants
associated with human disease, but the contribution of rare variants to common disease …

Genome-wide polygenic score to identify a monogenic risk-equivalent for coronary disease

AV Khera, M Chaffin, KG Aragam, CA Emdin, D Klarin… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Identification of individuals at increased genetic risk for a complex disorder such as coronary
disease can facilitate treatments or enhanced screening strategies. A rare monogenic …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing the pathogenicity, penetrance, and expressivity of putative disease-causing variants in a population setting

CF Wright, B West, M Tuke, SE Jones, K Patel… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
More than 100,000 genetic variants are classified as disease causing in public databases.
However, the true penetrance of many of these rare alleles is uncertain and might be over …

Systematic single-variant and gene-based association testing of thousands of phenotypes in 426,370 UK Biobank exomes

KJ Karczewski, M Solomonson, KR Chao, JK Goodrich… - Medrxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies have successfully discovered thousands of common
variants associated with human diseases and traits, but the landscape of rare variation in …

[HTML][HTML] Using high-resolution variant frequencies to empower clinical genome interpretation

N Whiffin, E Minikel, R Walsh, AH O'Donnell-Luria… - Genetics in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing have transformed the discovery of
genetic variants that cause human Mendelian disease, but discriminating pathogenic from …

Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

A Mahajan, J Wessel, SM Willems, W Zhao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We aggregated coding variant data for 81,412 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,832 controls
of diverse ancestry, identifying 40 coding variant association signals (P< 2.2× 10− 7); of …