[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and challenges of rare variant association analysis in the biobank sequencing era

W Chen, BJ Coombes, NB Larson - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Causal variants for rare genetic diseases are often rare in the general population. Rare
variants may also contribute to common complex traits and can have much larger per-allele …

Paternally inherited cis-regulatory structural variants are associated with autism

WM Brandler, D Antaki, M Gujral, ML Kleiber, J Whitney… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is known to consist of contributions
from de novo mutations in variant-intolerant genes. We hypothesize that rare inherited …

[PDF][PDF] Frequency and complexity of de novo structural mutation in autism

WM Brandler, D Antaki, M Gujral, A Noor… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Genetic studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have established that de novo
duplications and deletions contribute to risk. However, ascertainment of structural variants …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging blood serotonin as an endophenotype to identify de novo and rare variants involved in autism

R Chen, LK Davis, S Guter, Q Wei, S Jacob, MH Potter… - Molecular autism, 2017 - Springer
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most highly heritable
neuropsychiatric disorders, but underlying molecular mechanisms are still unresolved due to …

SV2: accurate structural variation genotyping and de novo mutation detection from whole genomes

D Antaki, WM Brandler, J Sebat - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Structural variation (SV) detection from short-read whole genome sequencing is
error prone, presenting significant challenges for population or family-based studies of …

[HTML][HTML] Rare variants in fox-1 homolog A (RBFOX1) are associated with lower blood pressure

KY He, H Wang, BE Cade, P Nandakumar, A Giri… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Many large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common blood
pressure (BP) variants. However, most of the identified BP variants do not overlap with the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of genotype calling errors on family-based studies

Q Yan, R Chen, JS Sutcliffe, EH Cook, DE Weeks… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Family-based sequencing studies have unique advantages in enriching rare variants,
controlling population stratification, and improving genotype calling. Standard genotype …

A unifying framework for rare variant association testing in family-based designs, including higher criticism approaches, SKATs, and burden tests

J Hecker, FW Townes, P Kachroo, C Laurie… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Analysis of rare variants in family-based studies remains a challenge.
Transmission-based approaches provide robustness against population stratification, but …

[HTML][HTML] 基于家系数据的罕见变异关联分析方法研究进展

陈曦, 王斯悦, 薛恩慈, 王雪珩, 彭和香, 范梦… - 中华流行病学 …, 2022 - html.rhhz.net
二代测序技术的发展促进了复杂疾病致病性罕见遗传变异的研究. 罕见变异的低频性使得单位点
关联分析功效不足, 因此负荷检验, 方差成分检验等整合多个位点信息的关联分析方法得到了 …

Paternally inherited noncoding structural variants contribute to autism

WM Brandler, D Antaki, M Gujral, ML Kleiber, MS Maile… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is known to consist of
contributions from gene-disrupting de novo mutations and common variants of modest effect …