Tools for predicting the functional impact of nonsynonymous genetic variation

H Tang, PD Thomas - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
As personal genome sequencing becomes a reality, understanding the effects of genetic
variants on phenotype—particularly the impact of germline variants on disease risk and the …

Wide spectrum of NR5A1‐related phenotypes in 46, XY and 46, XX individuals

S Domenice, AZ Machado, FM Ferreira… - … Research Part C …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Steroidogenic factor 1 (NR5A1, SF‐1, Ad4BP) is a transcriptional regulator of genes
involved in adrenal and gonadal development and function. Mutations in NR5A1 have been …

[HTML][HTML] REVEL: an ensemble method for predicting the pathogenicity of rare missense variants

NM Ioannidis, JH Rothstein, V Pejaver… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
The vast majority of coding variants are rare, and assessment of the contribution of rare
variants to complex traits is hampered by low statistical power and limited functional data …

[HTML][HTML] The ensembl variant effect predictor

W McLaren, L Gil, SE Hunt, HS Riat, GRS Ritchie… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor is a powerful toolset for the analysis,
annotation, and prioritization of genomic variants in coding and non-coding regions. It …

M-CAP eliminates a majority of variants of uncertain significance in clinical exomes at high sensitivity

KA Jagadeesh, AM Wenger, MJ Berger, H Guturu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Variant pathogenicity classifiers such as SIFT, PolyPhen-2, CADD, and MetaLR assist in
interpretation of the hundreds of rare, missense variants in the typical patient genome by …

dbNSFP v3. 0: A one‐stop database of functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice‐site SNVs

X Liu, C Wu, C Li, E Boerwinkle - Human mutation, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of the dbNSFP is to provide a one‐stop resource for functional predictions and
annotations for human nonsynonymous single‐nucleotide variants (nsSNVs) and splice‐site …

Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia

G Genovese, M Fromer, EA Stahl, DM Ruderfer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
By analyzing the exomes of 12,332 unrelated Swedish individuals, including 4,877
individuals affected with schizophrenia, in ways informed by exome sequences from 45,376 …

[HTML][HTML] Mutations in human accelerated regions disrupt cognition and social behavior

RN Doan, BI Bae, B Cubelos, C Chang, AA Hossain… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Comparative analyses have identified genomic regions potentially involved in human
evolution but do not directly assess function. Human accelerated regions (HARs) represent …

NEK1 variants confer susceptibility to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

KP Kenna, PTC Van Doormaal, AM Dekker, N Ticozzi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To identify genetic factors contributing to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we conducted
whole-exome analyses of 1,022 index familial ALS (FALS) cases and 7,315 controls. In a …

Genes with de novo mutations are shared by four neuropsychiatric disorders discovered from NPdenovo database

J Li, T Cai, Y Jiang, H Chen, X He, C Chen, X Li… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Currently, many studies on neuropsychiatric disorders have utilized massive trio-based
whole-exome sequencing (WES) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to identify …