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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

Significant abundance of cis configurations of coding variants in diploid human genomes.

Margret R Hoehe, Ralf Herwig, Qing Mao, Brock A Peters, Radoje Drmanac, George M Church, Thomas Huebsch

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Margret R HoeheDepartment of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Ralf HerwigDepartment of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Qing MaoComplete Genomics, Inc., San Jose, CA 95112, USA.
Brock A PetersComplete Genomics, Inc., San Jose, CA 95112, USA.
Radoje DrmanacComplete Genomics, Inc., San Jose, CA 95112, USA.
George M ChurchDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Thomas HuebschDepartment of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

To fully understand human genetic variation and its functional consequences, the specific distribution of variants between the two chromosomal homologues of genes must be known. The 'phase' of variants can significantly impact gene function and phenotype. To assess patterns of phase at large scale, we have analyzed 18 121 autosomal genes in 1092 statistically phased genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project and 184 experimentally phased genomes from the Personal Genome Project. Here we show that genes with cis-configurations of coding variants are more frequent than genes with trans-configurations in a genome, with global cis/trans ratios of ∼60:40. Significant cis-abundance was observed in virtually all genomes in all populations. Moreover, we identified a large group of genes exhibiting cis-configurations of protein-changing variants in excess, so-called 'cis-abundant genes', and a smaller group of 'trans-abundant genes'. These two gene categories were functionally distinguishable, and exhibited strikingly different distributional patterns of protein-changing variants. Underlying these phenomena was a shared set of phase-sensitive genes of importance for adaptation and evolution. This work establishes common patterns of phase as key characteristics of diploid human exomes and provides evidence for their functional significance, highlighting the importance of phase for the interpretation of protein-coding genetic variation and gene function.

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DiploidyExomeGenetic VariationGenome, HumanHaplotypesHumansOpen Reading FramesPolymorphism, Single NucleotideQuantitative Trait Loci

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