Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …

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 …

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates

H Gao, T Hamp, J Ede, JG Schraiber, J McRae… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between
individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To …

A map of constrained coding regions in the human genome

JM Havrilla, BS Pedersen, RM Layer, AR Quinlan - Nature genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Deep catalogs of genetic variation from thousands of humans enable the detection of
intraspecies constraint by identifying coding regions with a scarcity of variation. While …

Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease

LD Ward, M Kellis - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Association studies provide genome-wide information about the genetic basis of complex
disease, but medical research has focused primarily on protein-coding variants, owing to the …

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 approaches for understanding the genetics of complex disease

WL Lowe, TE Reddy - Genome research, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
There are thousands of known associations between genetic variants and complex human
phenotypes, and the rate of novel discoveries is rapidly increasing. Translating those …

Large-scale identification of sequence variants influencing human transcription factor occupancy in vivo

MT Maurano, E Haugen, R Sandstrom, J Vierstra… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The function of human regulatory regions depends exquisitely on their local genomic
environment and on cellular context, complicating experimental analysis of common disease …

Single-nucleotide evolutionary constraint scores highlight disease-causing mutations

GM Cooper, DL Goode, SB Ng, A Sidow… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
To the Editor: Identifying disease-causing genetic variants in individual human genomes is a
major challenge, even in proteincoding exons (the 'exome'). Analysis of nucleotide-level …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic pleiotropy in complex traits and diseases: implications for genomic medicine

J Gratten, PM Visscher - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Several recent papers have used summary results from genome-wide association studies to
characterize genetic overlap between human complex traits and common diseases. The …