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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2016

A Whole-Genome Analysis Framework for Effective Identification of Pathogenic Regulatory Variants in Mendelian Disease.

Damian Smedley, Max Schubach, Julius O B Jacobsen, Sebastian Köhler, Tomasz Zemojtel, Malte Spielmann, Marten Jäger, Harry Hochheiser, Nicole L Washington, Julie A McMurry and 6 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 178 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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178citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
31.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

178 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 292 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 11 institutions in 6 countries.

Damian SmedleyQueen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK; Genomics England Ltd., London EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Max SchubachInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Julius O B JacobsenSkarnes Faculty Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
Sebastian KöhlerInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Tomasz ZemojtelInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.
Malte SpielmannInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestr. 63-73, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Marten JägerInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Harry HochheiserDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA.
Nicole L WashingtonDivision of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Julie A McMurryDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Melissa A HaendelDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Christopher J MungallDivision of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Suzanna E LewisDivision of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Tudor GrozaKinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia.
Giorgio ValentiniAnacleto Lab Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via Comelico, 20135 Milan, Italy.
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestr. 63-73, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: peter.robinson@jax.org.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USBerlin-Brandenburger Centrum für Regenerative Therapien · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEOregon Health & Science University · USGarvan Institute of Medical Research · AUInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences · PLMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics · DEQueen Mary University of London · GBUniversity of Milan · ITUniversity of Pittsburgh · USWellcome Sanger Institute · GB

Funding

Mouse Phenotyping Informatics Infrastructure - MP12UM1HG006370 · NHGRI · EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · PI Pilar Cacheiro Martinez, Helen Elizabeth Parkinson · 2016 to 2026
$20.4M
The Monarch Initiative: Linking Diseases to Model Organism ResourcesR24OD011883 · OD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HAENDEL, MELISSA A, MUNGALL, CHRISTOPHER J · 2012 to 2024
$16.0M
Mouse Phenotyping Informatics Infrastruture - MP12U54HG006370 · NHGRI · EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · PI BROWN, STEVE, FLICEK, PAUL · 2011 to 2015
$11.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG006370NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG006370NIH HHS R24 OD011883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interpretation of non-coding variants still constitutes a major challenge in the application of whole-genome sequencing in Mendelian disease, especially for single-nucleotide and other small non-coding variants. Here we present Genomiser, an analysis framework that is able not only to score the relevance of variation in the non-coding genome, but also to associate regulatory variants to specific Mendelian diseases. Genomiser scores variants through either existing methods such as CADD or a bespoke machine learning method and combines these with allele frequency, regulatory sequences, chromosomal topological domains, and phenotypic relevance to discover variants associated to specific Mendelian disorders. Overall, Genomiser is able to identify causal regulatory variants as the top candidate in 77% of simulated whole genomes, allowing effective detection and discovery of regulatory variants in Mendelian disease.

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AlgorithmsGene FrequencyGenetic Diseases, InbornGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMachine LearningMutationOpen Reading FramesPhenotypePoint Mutation

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PMID27569544
PMCPMC5011059
OpenAlexW2510298658

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