Publication Date:
2012-02-22
Description:
Genome-sequencing studies indicate that all humans carry many genetic variants predicted to cause loss of function (LoF) of protein-coding genes, suggesting unexpected redundancy in the human genome. Here we apply stringent filters to 2951 putative LoF variants obtained from 185 human genomes to determine their true prevalence and properties. We estimate that human genomes typically contain ~100 genuine LoF variants with ~20 genes completely inactivated. We identify rare and likely deleterious LoF alleles, including 26 known and 21 predicted severe disease-causing variants, as well as common LoF variants in nonessential genes. We describe functional and evolutionary differences between LoF-tolerant and recessive disease genes and a method for using these differences to prioritize candidate genes found in clinical sequencing studies.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299548/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299548/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacArthur, Daniel G -- Balasubramanian, Suganthi -- Frankish, Adam -- Huang, Ni -- Morris, James -- Walter, Klaudia -- Jostins, Luke -- Habegger, Lukas -- Pickrell, Joseph K -- Montgomery, Stephen B -- Albers, Cornelis A -- Zhang, Zhengdong D -- Conrad, Donald F -- Lunter, Gerton -- Zheng, Hancheng -- Ayub, Qasim -- DePristo, Mark A -- Banks, Eric -- Hu, Min -- Handsaker, Robert E -- Rosenfeld, Jeffrey A -- Fromer, Menachem -- Jin, Mike -- Mu, Xinmeng Jasmine -- Khurana, Ekta -- Ye, Kai -- Kay, Mike -- Saunders, Gary Ian -- Suner, Marie-Marthe -- Hunt, Toby -- Barnes, If H A -- Amid, Clara -- Carvalho-Silva, Denise R -- Bignell, Alexandra H -- Snow, Catherine -- Yngvadottir, Bryndis -- Bumpstead, Suzannah -- Cooper, David N -- Xue, Yali -- Romero, Irene Gallego -- 1000 Genomes Project Consortium -- Wang, Jun -- Li, Yingrui -- Gibbs, Richard A -- McCarroll, Steven A -- Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T -- Pritchard, Jonathan K -- Barrett, Jeffrey C -- Harrow, Jennifer -- Hurles, Matthew E -- Gerstein, Mark B -- Tyler-Smith, Chris -- 085532/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 090532/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 090532/Z/09/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 098051/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- BB/I02593X/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- RG/09/012/28096/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- U54 HG003273/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 17;335(6070):823-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1215040.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK. macarthur@atgu.mgh.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22344438" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Disease/genetics
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Gene Expression
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Gene Frequency
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*Genetic Variation
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*Genome, Human
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Humans
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Phenotype
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Proteins/*genetics
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Selection, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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