Rare and common variants: twenty arguments

G Gibson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have greatly improved our understanding of the genetic
basis of disease risk. The fact that they tend not to identify more than a fraction of the specific …

Genome-wide association studies for complex traits: consensus, uncertainty and challenges

MI McCarthy, GR Abecasis, LR Cardon… - Nature reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
The past year has witnessed substantial advances in understanding the genetic basis of
many common phenotypes of biomedical importance. These advances have been the result …

Can AlphaFold2 predict the impact of missense mutations on structure?

GR Buel, KJ Walters - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2022 - nature.com
To the Editor—Understanding the impact that missense mutations have on protein structure
helps to reveal their biological effects. Although the structural prediction algorithm of …

Accurate classification of BRCA1 variants with saturation genome editing

GM Findlay, RM Daza, B Martin, MD Zhang, AP Leith… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Variants of uncertain significance fundamentally limit the clinical utility of genetic information.
The challenge they pose is epitomized by BRCA1, a tumour suppressor gene in which …

Prevalence of homologous recombination–related gene mutations across multiple cancer types

AL Heeke, MJ Pishvaian, F Lynce, J Xiu… - JCO precision …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The prevalence of homologous recombination DNA damage repair (HR-DDR)
deficiencies among all tumor lineages is not well characterized. Therapy directed toward …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the ACMG/AMP variant classification guidelines as a Bayesian classification framework

SV Tavtigian, MS Greenblatt, SM Harrison… - Genetics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose We evaluated the American College of Medical Genetics and
Genomics/Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) variant pathogenicity …

[HTML][HTML] Gene-panel sequencing and the prediction of breast-cancer risk

DF Easton, PDP Pharoah, AC Antoniou… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
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[HTML][HTML] Inherited mutations in 17 breast cancer susceptibility genes among a large triple-negative breast cancer cohort unselected for family history of breast cancer

FJ Couch, SN Hart, P Sharma, AE Toland… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Recent advances in DNA sequencing have led to the development of breast cancer
susceptibility gene panels for germline genetic testing of patients. We assessed the …

Defining the disease liability of variants in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene

PR Sosnay, KR Siklosi, F Van Goor, K Kaniecki, H Yu… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Allelic heterogeneity in disease-causing genes presents a substantial challenge to the
translation of genomic variation into clinical practice. Few of the almost 2,000 variants in the …

Fitting a naturally scaled point system to the ACMG/AMP variant classification guidelines

SV Tavtigian, SM Harrison, KM Boucher… - Human …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, we demonstrated that the qualitative American College of Medical Genetics and
Genomics/Association for Medical Pathology (ACMG/AMP) guidelines for evaluation of …