The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study: JACC Focus Seminar 3/8

JD Wright, AR Folsom, J Coresh, AR Sharrett… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
Abstract ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) initiated community-based
surveillance in 1987 for myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence …

[HTML][HTML] The next-generation sequencing revolution and its impact on genomics

DC Koboldt, KM Steinberg, DE Larson, RK Wilson… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Genomics is a relatively new scientific discipline, having DNA sequencing as its core
technology. As technology has improved the cost and scale of genome characterization over …

Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes

JA Tennessen, AW Bigham, TD O'connor, W Fu… - science, 2012 - science.org
As a first step toward understanding how rare variants contribute to risk for complex
diseases, we sequenced 15,585 human protein-coding genes to an average median depth …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants

W Fu, TD O'connor, G Jun, HM Kang, G Abecasis… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Establishing the age of each mutation segregating in contemporary human populations is
important to fully understand our evolutionary history, and will help to facilitate the …

Where genotype is not predictive of phenotype: towards an understanding of the molecular basis of reduced penetrance in human inherited disease

DN Cooper, M Krawczak, C Polychronakos… - Human genetics, 2013 - Springer
Some individuals with a particular disease-causing mutation or genotype fail to express
most if not all features of the disease in question, a phenomenon that is known as 'reduced …

Improving the accuracy and efficiency of identity-by-descent detection in population data

BL Browning, SR Browning - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Segments of indentity-by-descent (IBD) detected from high-density genetic data are useful
for many applications, including long-range phase determination, phasing family data …

An abundance of rare functional variants in 202 drug target genes sequenced in 14,002 people

MR Nelson, D Wegmann, MG Ehm, D Kessner… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Rare genetic variants contribute to complex disease risk; however, the abundance of rare
variants in human populations remains unknown. We explored this spectrum of variation by …

Accurate non-parametric estimation of recent effective population size from segments of identity by descent

SR Browning, BL Browning - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Existing methods for estimating historical effective population size from genetic data have
been unable to accurately estimate effective population size during the most recent past. We …

Demographic history and rare allele sharing among human populations

S Gravel, BM Henn, RN Gutenkunst… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
High-throughput sequencing technology enables population-level surveys of human
genomic variation. Here, we examine the joint allele frequency distributions across …

Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants

A Keinan, AG Clark - science, 2012 - science.org
Human populations have experienced recent explosive growth, expanding by at least three
orders of magnitude over the past 400 generations. This departure from equilibrium skews …