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ArticleNature communications2016

Quantifying unobserved protein-coding variants in human populations provides a roadmap for large-scale sequencing projects.

James Zou, Gregory Valiant, Paul Valiant, Konrad Karczewski, Siu On Chan, Kaitlin Samocha, Monkol Lek, Shamil Sunyaev, Mark Daly, Daniel G MacArthur

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Article in Nature communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

James ZouDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, USA.
Gregory ValiantComputer Science Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, USA.
Paul ValiantComputer Science Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
Konrad KarczewskiAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Siu On ChanComputer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kaitlin SamochaAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Monkol LekAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Shamil SunyaevBroad Institute or MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Mark DalyAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0949-8752
Daniel G MacArthurAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

Funding

Computational resources for genomic interpretation of type 2 diabetesU54DK105566 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI MACARTHUR, DANIEL G, NEALE, BENJAMIN MICHAEL · 2014 to 2017
$8.6M
Annotation and interpretation of loss-of-function polymorphisms in human genomesR01GM104371 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MACARTHUR, DANIEL G · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS U54 DK105566NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As new proposals aim to sequence ever larger collection of humans, it is critical to have a quantitative framework to evaluate the statistical power of these projects. We developed a new algorithm, UnseenEst, and applied it to the exomes of 60,706 individuals to estimate the frequency distribution of all protein-coding variants, including rare variants that have not been observed yet in the current cohorts. Our results quantified the number of new variants that we expect to identify as sequencing cohorts reach hundreds of thousands of individuals. With 500K individuals, we find that we expect to capture 7.5% of all possible loss-of-function variants and 12% of all possible missense variants. We also estimate that 2,900 genes have loss-of-function frequency of <0.00001 in healthy humans, consistent with very strong intolerance to gene inactivation.

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Computational BiologyMutation, MissenseSequence Analysis, DNAAlgorithmsAllelesCohort StudiesCpG IslandsExomeGene FrequencyGenetic VariationGenome, HumanHumansLinear ModelsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProteinsProteins

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PMID27796292
PMCPMC5095512

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