Genetics and genomics of congenital heart disease

S Zaidi, M Brueckner - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, and because of major advances
in medical and surgical management, there are now more adults living with congenital heart …

SPARK: A US cohort of 50,000 families to accelerate autism research

P Feliciano, AM Daniels, LAG Snyder, A Beaumont… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) has launched SPARKForAutism.
org, a dynamic platform that is engaging thousands of individuals with autism spectrum …

A clinically applicable integrative molecular classification of meningiomas

F Nassiri, J Liu, V Patil, Y Mamatjan, JZ Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumour in adults. Patients with
symptoms are generally treated with surgery as there are no effective medical therapies. The …

Whole genome, transcriptome and methylome profiling enhances actionable target discovery in high-risk pediatric cancer

M Wong, C Mayoh, LMS Lau, DA Khuong-Quang… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zero Childhood Cancer Program is a precision medicine program to benefit
children with poor-outcome, rare, relapsed or refractory cancer. Using tumor and germline …

Ensembl 2019

F Cunningham, P Achuthan, W Akanni… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ensembl project (https://www. ensembl. org) makes key genomic data sets
available to the entire scientific community without restrictions. Ensembl seeks to be a …

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

SG Zhao, WS Chen, H Li, A Foye, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive
methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole …

dbNSFP v4: a comprehensive database of transcript-specific functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice-site SNVs

X Liu, C Li, C Mou, Y Dong, Y Tu - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Whole exome sequencing has been increasingly used in human disease studies.
Prioritization based on appropriate functional annotations has been used as an …

A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals

M Wuttke, Y Li, M Li, KB Sieber, MF Feitosa, M Gorski… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is responsible for a public health burden with multi-systemic
complications. Through trans-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of …

Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands

SC Jin, J Homsy, S Zaidi, Q Lu, S Morton… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality from birth defects. Here,
exome sequencing of a single cohort of 2,871 CHD probands, including 2,645 parent …

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 …