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

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Xue, Yali ^a   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^a,b   Haber, Marc ^a   McCarthy, Shane ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Narasimhan, Vagheesh ^a   Gilly, Arthur ^a   Ayub, Qasim ^a   Colonna, Vincenza ^a,c   Southam, Lorraine ^a,d   Finan, Christopher ^a   Massaia, Andrea ^a,e   Chheda, Himanshu ^f   Palta, Priit ^f,g   Ritchie, Graham ^a,h,i   Asimit, Jennifer ^a   Dedoussis, George ^j   Gasparini, Paolo ^b   Palotie, Aarno ^a,f,k,l   Ripatti, Samuli ^a,f   Soranzo, Nicole ^a,m   Toniolo, Daniela ⁿ   Wilson, James F ^i,o   Durbin, Richard ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^a   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^h EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; INDEX METHOD;

DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEISURE; POPULATION; PURIFYING SELECTION; STATISTICS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CAUCASIAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85021419267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15927     Document Type: Article

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