Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD

S Gudmundsson, M Singer‐Berk, NA Watts… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reference population databases are an essential tool in variant and gene interpretation.
Their use guides the identification of pathogenic variants amidst the sea of benign variation …

A systematic review of the validated monogenic causes of human male infertility: 2020 update and a discussion of emerging gene–disease relationships

BJ Houston, A Riera-Escamilla… - Human reproduction …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Human male infertility has a notable genetic component, including well-
established diagnoses such as Klinefelter syndrome, Y-chromosome microdeletions and …

Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism

JM Fu, FK Satterstrom, M Peng, H Brand, RL Collins… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carry functional mutations rarely
observed in the general population. We explored the genes disrupted by these variants from …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes

X Zhou, P Feliciano, C Shu, T Wang, I Astrovskaya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To capture the full spectrum of genetic risk for autism, we performed a two-stage analysis of
rare de novo and inherited coding variants in 42,607 autism cases, including 35,130 new …

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 …

Highly sensitive spatial transcriptomics at near-cellular resolution with Slide-seqV2

RR Stickels, E Murray, P Kumar, J Li, JL Marshall… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Measurement of the location of molecules in tissues is essential for understanding tissue
formation and function. Previously, we developed Slide-seq, a technology that enables …

Landscape of mSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex perturbations in neurodevelopmental disorders

AM Valencia, A Sankar, PJ van der Sluijs… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA sequencing-based studies of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) have identified a
wide range of genetic determinants. However, a comprehensive analysis of these data, in …

Systematic single-variant and gene-based association testing of thousands of phenotypes in 394,841 UK Biobank exomes

KJ Karczewski, M Solomonson, KR Chao, JK Goodrich… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies have successfully discovered thousands of common
variants associated with human diseases and traits, but the landscape of rare variations in …