<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yun, Taedong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Helen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chang, Pi-Chuan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lin, Michael F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carroll, Andrew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McLean, Cory Y</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Accurate, scalable cohort variant calls using DeepVariant and GLnexus.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bioinformatics</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bioinformatics</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021 Jan 05</style></date></pub-dates></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MOTIVATION: &lt;/b&gt;Population-scale sequenced cohorts are foundational resources for genetic analyses, but processing raw reads into analysis-ready cohort-level variants remains challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;We introduce an open-source cohort-calling method that uses the highly-accurate caller DeepVariant and scalable merging tool GLnexus. Using callset quality metrics based on variant recall and precision in benchmark samples and Mendelian consistency in father-mother-child trios, we optimized the method across a range of cohort sizes, sequencing methods, and sequencing depths. The resulting callsets show consistent quality improvements over those generated using existing best practices with reduced cost. We further evaluate our pipeline in the deeply sequenced 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP) samples and show superior callset quality metrics and imputation reference panel performance compared to an independently-generated GATK Best Practices pipeline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: &lt;/b&gt;We publicly release the 1KGP individual-level variant calls and cohort callset (https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/brain-genomics-public/research/cohort/1KGP) to foster additional development and evaluation of cohort merging methods as well as broad studies of genetic variation. Both DeepVariant (https://github.com/google/deepvariant) and GLnexus (https://github.com/dnanexus-rnd/GLnexus) are open-sourced, and the optimized GLnexus setup discovered in this study is also integrated into GLnexus public releases v1.2.2 and later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: &lt;/b&gt;Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33399819?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emdin, Connor A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Haas, Mary</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ajmera, Veeral</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Simon, Tracey G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Homburger, Julian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neben, Cynthia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jiang, Lan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wei, Wei-Qi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feng, Qiping</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhou, Alicia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Denny, Joshua</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Corey, Kathleen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Loomba, Rohit</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kathiresan, Sekar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khera, Amit V</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Association of Genetic Variation With Cirrhosis: A Multi-Trait Genome-Wide Association and Gene-Environment Interaction Study.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gastroenterology</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gastroenterology</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021 Apr</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">160</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1620-1633.e13</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;BACKGROUND &amp; AIMS: &lt;/b&gt;In contrast to most other common diseases, few genetic variants have been identified that impact risk of cirrhosis. We aimed to identify new genetic variants that predispose to cirrhosis, to test whether such variants, aggregated into a polygenic score, enable genomic risk stratification, and to test whether alcohol intake or body mass index interacts with polygenic predisposition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;We conducted a multi-trait genome-wide association study combining cirrhosis and alanine aminotransferase levels performed in 5 discovery studies (UK Biobank, Vanderbilt BioVU, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, and 2 case-control studies including 4829 individuals with cirrhosis and 72,705 controls and 362,539 individuals with alanine aminotransferase levels). Identified variants were replicated in 3 studies (Partners HealthCare Biobank, FinnGen, and Biobank Japan including 3554 individuals with cirrhosis and 343,826 controls). A polygenic score was tested in Partners HealthCare Biobank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;Five previously reported and 7 newly identified genetic variants were associated with cirrhosis in both the discovery studies multi-trait genome-wide association study (P &lt; 5 × 10) and the replication studies (P &lt; .05), including a missense variant in the APOE gene and a noncoding variant near EFN1A. These 12 variants were used to generate a polygenic score. Among Partners HealthCare Biobank individuals, high polygenic score-defined as the top quintile of the distribution-was associated with significantly increased risk of cirrhosis (odds ratio, 2.26; P &lt; .001) and related comorbidities compared with the lowest quintile. Risk was even more pronounced among those with extreme polygenic risk (top 1% of the distribution, odds ratio, 3.16; P &lt; .001). The impact of extreme polygenic risk was substantially more pronounced in those with elevated alcohol consumption or body mass index. Modeled as risk by age 75 years, probability of cirrhosis with extreme polygenic risk was 13.7%, 20.1%, and 48.2% among individuals with no or modest, moderate, and increased alcohol consumption, respectively (P &lt; .001). Similarly, probability among those with extreme polygenic risk was 6.5%, 10.3%, and 19.5% among individuals with normal weight, overweight, and obesity, respectively (P &lt; .001).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSIONS: &lt;/b&gt;Twelve independent genetic variants, 7 of which are newly identified in this study, conferred risk for cirrhosis. Aggregated into a polygenic score, these variants identified a subset of the population at substantially increased risk who are most susceptible to the hepatotoxic effects of excess alcohol consumption or obesity.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33310085?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Lei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abel, Haley J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Das, Indraniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Larson, David E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ganel, Liron</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kanchi, Krishna L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Regier, Allison A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young, Erica P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kang, Chul Joo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scott, Alexandra J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chiang, Colby</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Xinxin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lu, Shuangjia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Christ, Ryan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Service, Susan K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chiang, Charleston W K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Havulinna, Aki S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kuusisto, Johanna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boehnke, Michael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Laakso, Markku</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Palotie, Aarno</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ripatti, Samuli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Freimer, Nelson B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Locke, Adam E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stitziel, Nathan O</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hall, Ira M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Association of structural variation with cardiometabolic traits in Finns.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Hum Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Hum Genet</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alleles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardiovascular Diseases</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cholesterol</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA Copy Number Variations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Finland</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome, Human</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genomic Structural Variation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genotype</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mitochondrial Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Promoter Regions, Genetic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)-Phosphatase</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pyruvic Acid</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Serum Albumin, Human</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021 04 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">108</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">583-596</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The contribution of genome structural variation (SV) to quantitative traits associated with cardiometabolic diseases remains largely unknown. Here, we present the results of a study examining genetic association between SVs and cardiometabolic traits in the Finnish population. We used sensitive methods to identify and genotype 129,166 high-confidence SVs from deep whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of 4,848 individuals. We tested the 64,572 common and low-frequency SVs for association with 116 quantitative traits and tested candidate associations using exome sequencing and array genotype data from an additional 15,205 individuals. We discovered 31 genome-wide significant associations at 15 loci, including 2 loci at which SVs have strong phenotypic effects: (1) a deletion of the ALB promoter that is greatly enriched in the Finnish population and causes decreased serum albumin level in carriers (p = 1.47 × 10) and is also associated with increased levels of total cholesterol (p = 1.22 × 10) and 14 additional cholesterol-related traits, and (2) a multi-allelic copy number variant (CNV) at PDPR that is strongly associated with pyruvate (p = 4.81 × 10) and alanine (p = 6.14 × 10) levels and resides within a structurally complex genomic region that has accumulated many rearrangements over evolutionary time. We also confirmed six previously reported associations, including five led by stronger signals in single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and one linking recurrent HP gene deletion and cholesterol levels (p = 6.24 × 10), which was also found to be strongly associated with increased glycoprotein level (p = 3.53 × 10). Our study confirms that integrating SVs in trait-mapping studies will expand our knowledge of genetic factors underlying disease risk.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33798444?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pirruccello, James P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bick, Alexander</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Minxian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chaffin, Mark</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Friedman, Samuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yao, Jie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guo, Xiuqing</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Venkatesh, Bharath Ambale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Taylor, Kent D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Post, Wendy S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rich, Stephen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lima, Joao A C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rotter, Jerome I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philippakis, Anthony</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lubitz, Steven A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ellinor, Patrick T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khera, Amit V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kathiresan, Sekar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aragam, Krishna G</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Commun</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Commun</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardiomyopathy, Dilated</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-Wide Association Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heart</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magnetic Resonance Imaging</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myocardium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 05 07</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2254</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of heart failure and the leading indication for heart transplantation. Many rare genetic variants have been associated with DCM, but common variant studies of the disease have yielded few associated loci. As structural changes in the heart are a defining feature of DCM, we report a genome-wide association study of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived left ventricular measurements in 36,041 UK Biobank participants, with replication in 2184 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. We identify 45 previously unreported loci associated with cardiac structure and function, many near well-established genes for Mendelian cardiomyopathies. A polygenic score of MRI-derived left ventricular end systolic volume strongly associates with incident DCM in the general population. Even among carriers of TTN truncating mutations, this polygenic score influences the size and function of the human heart. These results further implicate common genetic polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of DCM.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382064?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patel, Aniruddh P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Minxian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fahed, Akl C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mason-Suares, Heather</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brockman, Deanna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pelletier, Renee</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amr, Sami</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Machini, Kalotina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hawley, Megan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Witkowski, Leora</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Koch, Christopher</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philippakis, Anthony</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cassa, Christopher A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ellinor, Patrick T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kathiresan, Sekar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ng, Kenney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lebo, Matthew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khera, Amit V</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Association of Rare Pathogenic DNA Variants for Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, and Lynch Syndrome With Disease Risk in Adults According to Family History.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JAMA Netw Open</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JAMA Netw Open</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohort Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Predisposition to Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heterozygote</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Middle Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pedigree</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proportional Hazards Models</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">United Kingdom</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Whole Exome Sequencing</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 04 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e203959</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Importance: &lt;/b&gt;Pathogenic DNA variants associated with familial hypercholesterolemia, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, and Lynch syndrome are widely recognized as clinically important and actionable when identified, leading some clinicians to recommend population-wide genomic screening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Objectives: &lt;/b&gt;To assess the prevalence and clinical importance of pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants associated with each of 3 genomic conditions (familial hypercholesterolemia, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, and Lynch syndrome) within the context of contemporary clinical care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Design, Setting, and Participants: &lt;/b&gt;This cohort study used gene-sequencing data from 49 738 participants in the UK Biobank who were recruited from 22 sites across the UK between March 21, 2006, and October 1, 2010. Inpatient hospital data date back to 1977; cancer registry data, to 1957; and death registry data, to 2006. Statistical analysis was performed from July 22, 2019, to November 15, 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exposures: &lt;/b&gt;Pathogenic or likely pathogenic DNA variants classified by a clinical laboratory geneticist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Outcomes and Measures: &lt;/b&gt;Composite end point specific to each genomic condition based on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events for familial hypercholesterolemia, breast or ovarian cancer for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, and colorectal or uterine cancer for Lynch syndrome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Results: &lt;/b&gt;Among 49 738 participants (mean [SD] age, 57 [8] years; 27 144 female [55%]), 441 (0.9%) harbored a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant associated with any of 3 genomic conditions, including 131 (0.3%) for familial hypercholesterolemia, 235 (0.5%) for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, and 76 (0.2%) for Lynch syndrome. Presence of these variants was associated with increased risk of disease: for familial hypercholesterolemia, 28 of 131 carriers (21.4%) vs 4663 of 49 607 noncarriers (9.4%) developed atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease; for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, 32 of 116 female carriers (27.6%) vs 2080 of 27 028 female noncarriers (7.7%) developed associated cancers; and for Lynch syndrome, 17 of 76 carriers (22.4%) vs 929 of 49 662 noncarriers (1.9%) developed colorectal or uterine cancer. The predicted probability of disease at age 75 years despite contemporary clinical care was 45.3% for carriers of familial hypercholesterolemia, 41.1% for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, and 38.3% for Lynch syndrome. Across the 3 conditions, 39.7% (175 of 441) of the carriers reported a family history of disease vs 23.2% (34 517 of 148 772) of noncarriers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conclusions and Relevance: &lt;/b&gt;The findings suggest that approximately 1% of the middle-aged adult population in the UK Biobank harbored a pathogenic variant associated with any of 3 genomic conditions. These variants were associated with an increased risk of disease despite contemporary clinical care and were not reliably detected by family history.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32347951?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flex, Elisabetta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martinelli, Simone</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Dijck, Anke</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ciolfi, Andrea</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cecchetti, Serena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coluzzi, Elisa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pannone, Luca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andreoli, Cristina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Radio, Francesca Clementina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pizzi, Simone</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carpentieri, Giovanna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bruselles, Alessandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Catanzaro, Giuseppina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pedace, Lucia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miele, Evelina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carcarino, Elena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ge, Xiaoyan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chijiwa, Chieko</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lewis, M E Suzanne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meuwissen, Marije</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kenis, Sandra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van der Aa, Nathalie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Larson, Austin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brown, Kathleen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wasserstein, Melissa P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Skotko, Brian G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Begtrup, Amber</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Person, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karayiorgou, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roos, J Louw</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Gassen, Koen L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Koopmans, Marije</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bijlsma, Emilia K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santen, Gijs W E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barge-Schaapveld, Daniela Q C M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruivenkamp, Claudia A L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hoffer, Mariette J V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lalani, Seema R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Streff, Haley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Craigen, William J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Graham, Brett H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">van den Elzen, Annette P M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kamphuis, Daan J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Õunap, Katrin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reinson, Karit</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pajusalu, Sander</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wojcik, Monica H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Viberti, Clara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Di Gaetano, Cornelia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bertini, Enrico</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Petrucci, Simona</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Luca, Alessandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rota, Rossella</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ferretti, Elisabetta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matullo, Giuseppe</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dallapiccola, Bruno</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sgura, Antonella</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walkiewicz, Magdalena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kooy, R Frank</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tartaglia, Marco</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aberrant Function of the C-Terminal Tail of HIST1H1E Accelerates Cellular Senescence and Causes Premature Aging.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Hum Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am. J. Hum. Genet.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019 Sep 05</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">105</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">493-508</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Histones mediate dynamic packaging of nuclear DNA in chromatin, a process that is precisely controlled to guarantee efficient compaction of the genome and proper chromosomal segregation during cell division and to accomplish DNA replication, transcription, and repair. Due to the important structural and regulatory roles played by histones, it is not surprising that histone functional dysregulation or aberrant levels of histones can have severe consequences for multiple cellular processes and ultimately might affect development or contribute to cell transformation. Recently, germline frameshift mutations involving the C-terminal tail of HIST1H1E, which is a widely expressed member of the linker histone family and facilitates higher-order chromatin folding, have been causally linked to an as-yet poorly defined syndrome that includes intellectual disability. We report that these mutations result in stable proteins that reside in the nucleus, bind to chromatin, disrupt proper compaction of DNA, and are associated with a specific methylation pattern. Cells expressing these mutant proteins have a dramatically reduced proliferation rate and competence, hardly enter into the S phase, and undergo accelerated senescence. Remarkably, clinical assessment of a relatively large cohort of subjects sharing these mutations revealed a premature aging phenotype as a previously unrecognized feature of the disorder. Our findings identify a direct link between aberrant chromatin remodeling, cellular senescence, and accelerated aging.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31447100?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liu, Yaowu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Sixing</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Zilin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morrison, Alanna C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boerwinkle, Eric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lin, Xihong</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ACAT: A Fast and Powerful p Value Combination Method for Rare-Variant Analysis in Sequencing Studies.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Hum Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am. J. Hum. Genet.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019 Mar 07</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">104</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">410-421</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Set-based analysis that jointly tests the association of variants in a group has emerged as a popular tool for analyzing rare and low-frequency variants in sequencing studies. The existing set-based tests can suffer significant power loss when only a small proportion of variants are causal, and their powers can be sensitive to the number, effect sizes, and effect directions of the causal variants and the choices of weights. Here we propose an aggregated Cauchy association test (ACAT), a general, powerful, and computationally efficient p value combination method for boosting power in sequencing studies. First, by combining variant-level p values, we use ACAT to construct a set-based test (ACAT-V) that is particularly powerful in the presence of only a small number of causal variants in a variant set. Second, by combining different variant-set-level p values, we use ACAT to construct an omnibus test (ACAT-O) that combines the strength of multiple complimentary set-based tests, including the burden test, sequence kernel association test (SKAT), and ACAT-V. Through analysis of extensively simulated data and the whole-genome sequencing data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we demonstrate that ACAT-V complements the SKAT and the burden test, and that ACAT-O has a substantially more robust and higher power than those of the alternative tests.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849328?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wenger, Aaron M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peluso, Paul</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rowell, William J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chang, Pi-Chuan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hall, Richard J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Concepcion, Gregory T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ebler, Jana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fungtammasan, Arkarachai</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kolesnikov, Alexey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Olson, Nathan D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Töpfer, Armin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alonge, Michael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mahmoud, Medhat</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qian, Yufeng</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chin, Chen-Shan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phillippy, Adam M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schatz, Michael C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myers, Gene</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DePristo, Mark A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruan, Jue</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marschall, Tobias</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zook, Justin M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Heng</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Koren, Sergey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carroll, Andrew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rank, David R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hunkapiller, Michael W</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Biotechnol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat. Biotechnol.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019 Oct</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">37</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1155-1162</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The DNA sequencing technologies in use today produce either highly accurate short reads or less-accurate long reads. We report the optimization of circular consensus sequencing (CCS) to improve the accuracy of single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing (PacBio) and generate highly accurate (99.8%) long high-fidelity (HiFi) reads with an average length of 13.5 kilobases (kb). We applied our approach to sequence the well-characterized human HG002/NA24385 genome and obtained precision and recall rates of at least 99.91% for single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), 95.98% for insertions and deletions &lt;50 bp (indels) and 95.99% for structural variants. Our CCS method matches or exceeds the ability of short-read sequencing to detect small variants and structural variants. We estimate that 2,434 discordances are correctable mistakes in the 'genome in a bottle' (GIAB) benchmark set. Nearly all (99.64%) variants can be phased into haplotypes, further improving variant detection. De novo genome assembly using CCS reads alone produced a contiguous and accurate genome with a contig N50 of &gt;15 megabases (Mb) and concordance of 99.997%, substantially outperforming assembly with less-accurate long reads.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406327?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tusso, Sergio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nieuwenhuis, Bart P S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Davey, John W</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jeffares, Daniel C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wolf, Jochen B W</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ancestral Admixture Is the Main Determinant of Global Biodiversity in Fission Yeast.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mol Biol Evol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mol. Biol. Evol.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019 09 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">36</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1975-1989</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Mutation and recombination are key evolutionary processes governing phenotypic variation and reproductive isolation. We here demonstrate that biodiversity within all globally known strains of Schizosaccharomyces pombe arose through admixture between two divergent ancestral lineages. Initial hybridization was inferred to have occurred ∼20-60 sexual outcrossing generations ago consistent with recent, human-induced migration at the onset of intensified transcontinental trade. Species-wide heritable phenotypic variation was explained near-exclusively by strain-specific arrangements of alternating ancestry components with evidence for transgressive segregation. Reproductive compatibility between strains was likewise predicted by the degree of shared ancestry. To assess the genetic determinants of ancestry block distribution across the genome, we characterized the type, frequency, and position of structural genomic variation using nanopore and single-molecule real-time sequencing. Despite being associated with double-strand break initiation points, over 800 segregating structural variants exerted overall little influence on the introgression landscape or on reproductive compatibility between strains. In contrast, we found strong ancestry disequilibrium consistent with negative epistatic selection shaping genomic ancestry combinations during the course of hybridization. This study provides a detailed, experimentally tractable example that genomes of natural populations are mosaics reflecting different evolutionary histories. Exploiting genome-wide heterogeneity in the history of ancestral recombination and lineage-specific mutations sheds new light on the population history of S. pombe and highlights the importance of hybridization as a creative force in generating biodiversity.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31225876?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chiang, Theodore</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liu, Xiuping</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wu, Tsung-Jung</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hu, Jianhong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">White, Simon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schaid, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrade, Mariza de</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jarvik, Gail P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crosslin, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanaway, Ian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carrell, David S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Connolly, John J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hakonarson, Hakon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Groopman, Emily E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gharavi, Ali G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fedotov, Alexander</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bi, Weimin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leduc, Magalie S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murdock, David R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jiang, Yunyun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meng, Linyan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eng, Christine M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wen, Shu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yang, Yaping</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Muzny, Donna M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boerwinkle, Eric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salerno, William</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Venner, Eric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibbs, Richard A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Atlas-CNV: a validated approach to call single-exon CNVs in the eMERGESeq gene panel.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genet Med</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genet. Med.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019 Sep</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2135-2144</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;PURPOSE: &lt;/b&gt;To provide a validated method to confidently identify exon-containing copy-number variants (CNVs), with a low false discovery rate (FDR), in targeted sequencing data from a clinical laboratory with particular focus on single-exon CNVs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;DNA sequence coverage data are normalized within each sample and subsequently exonic CNVs are identified in a batch of samples, when the target log ratio of the sample to the batch median exceeds defined thresholds. The quality of exonic CNV calls is assessed by C-scores (Z-like scores) using thresholds derived from gold standard samples and simulation studies. We integrate an ExonQC threshold to lower FDR and compare performance with alternate software (VisCap).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;Thirteen CNVs were used as a truth set to validate Atlas-CNV and compared with VisCap. We demonstrated FDR reduction in validation, simulation, and 10,926 eMERGESeq samples without sensitivity loss. Sixty-four multiexon and 29 single-exon CNVs with high C-scores were assessed by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSION: &lt;/b&gt;Atlas-CNV is validated as a method to identify exonic CNVs in targeted sequencing data generated in the clinical laboratory. The ExonQC and C-score assignment can reduce FDR (identification of targets with high variance) and improve calling accuracy of single-exon CNVs respectively. We propose guidelines and criteria to identify high confidence single-exon CNVs.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30890783?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rescheneder, Philipp</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smolka, Moritz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fang, Han</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nattestad, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">von Haeseler, Arndt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schatz, Michael C</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Accurate detection of complex structural variations using single-molecule sequencing.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Methods</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Methods</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA Mutational Analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome, Human</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genomics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sequence Analysis, DNA</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018 Jun</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">15</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">461-468</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Structural variations are the greatest source of genetic variation, but they remain poorly understood because of technological limitations. Single-molecule long-read sequencing has the potential to dramatically advance the field, although high error rates are a challenge with existing methods. Addressing this need, we introduce open-source methods for long-read alignment (NGMLR; https://github.com/philres/ngmlr ) and structural variant identification (Sniffles; https://github.com/fritzsedlazeck/Sniffles ) that provide unprecedented sensitivity and precision for variant detection, even in repeat-rich regions and for complex nested events that can have substantial effects on human health. In several long-read datasets, including healthy and cancerous human genomes, we discovered thousands of novel variants and categorized systematic errors in short-read approaches. NGMLR and Sniffles can automatically filter false events and operate on low-coverage data, thereby reducing the high costs that have hindered the application of long reads in clinical and research settings.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713083?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emdin, Connor A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khera, Amit V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chaffin, Mark</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Klarin, Derek</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natarajan, Pradeep</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aragam, Krishna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Haas, Mary</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bick, Alexander</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zekavat, Seyedeh M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nomura, Akihiro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ardissino, Diego</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wilson, James G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schunkert, Heribert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McPherson, Ruth</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Watkins, Hugh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elosua, Roberto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bown, Matthew J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Samani, Nilesh J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baber, Usman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erdmann, Jeanette</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gupta, Namrata</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Danesh, John</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chasman, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ridker, Paul</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Denny, Joshua</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bastarache, Lisa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lichtman, Judith H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">D'Onofrio, Gail</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mattera, Jennifer</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spertus, John A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sheu, Wayne H-H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Taylor, Kent D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Psaty, Bruce M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rich, Stephen S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Post, Wendy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rotter, Jerome I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Yii-Der Ida</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krumholz, Harlan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saleheen, Danish</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gabriel, Stacey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kathiresan, Sekar</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Analysis of predicted loss-of-function variants in UK Biobank identifies variants protective for disease.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Commun</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Commun</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Databases, Genetic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gene Frequency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Testing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Variation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Obesity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phenotype</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Respiratory Hypersensitivity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">United Kingdom</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018 Apr 24</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1613</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Less than 3% of protein-coding genetic variants are predicted to result in loss of protein function through the introduction of a stop codon, frameshift, or the disruption of an essential splice site; however, such predicted loss-of-function (pLOF) variants provide insight into effector transcript and direction of biological effect. In &gt;400,000 UK Biobank participants, we conduct association analyses of 3759 pLOF variants with six metabolic traits, six cardiometabolic diseases, and twelve additional diseases. We identified 18 new low-frequency or rare (allele frequency &lt; 5%) pLOF variant-phenotype associations. pLOF variants in the gene GPR151 protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes, in the gene IL33 against asthma and allergic disease, and in the gene IFIH1 against hypothyroidism. In the gene PDE3B, pLOF variants associate with elevated height, improved body fat distribution and protection from coronary artery disease. Our findings prioritize genes for which pharmacologic mimics of pLOF variants may lower risk for disease.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29691411?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stitziel, Nathan O</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khera, Amit V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Xiao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bierhals, Andrew J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vourakis, A Christina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sperry, Alexandra E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natarajan, Pradeep</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Klarin, Derek</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emdin, Connor A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zekavat, Seyedeh M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nomura, Akihiro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erdmann, Jeanette</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schunkert, Heribert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Samani, Nilesh J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kraus, William E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shah, Svati H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yu, Bing</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boerwinkle, Eric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rader, Daniel J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gupta, Namrata</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Frossard, Philippe M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rasheed, Asif</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Danesh, John</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lander, Eric S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gabriel, Stacey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saleheen, Danish</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Musunuru, Kiran</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kathiresan, Sekar</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PROMIS and Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium Investigators</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ANGPTL3 Deficiency and Protection Against Coronary Artery Disease.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Am Coll Cardiol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Am Coll Cardiol</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adult</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Angiopoietin-Like Protein 3</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Angiopoietin-like Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Angiopoietins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Atherosclerosis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case-Control Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coronary Artery Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lipids</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mice, Inbred C57BL</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mice, Knockout</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Middle Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mutation, Missense</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myocardial Infarction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017 Apr 25</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">69</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2054-2063</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;BACKGROUND: &lt;/b&gt;Familial combined hypolipidemia, a Mendelian condition characterized by substantial reductions in all 3 major lipid fractions, is caused by mutations that inactivate the gene angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3). Whether ANGPTL3 deficiency reduces risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;OBJECTIVES: &lt;/b&gt;The study goal was to leverage 3 distinct lines of evidence-a family that included individuals with complete (compound heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, a population based-study of humans with partial (heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, and biomarker levels in patients with myocardial infarction (MI)-to test whether ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with lower risk for CAD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;We assessed coronary atherosclerotic burden in 3 individuals with complete ANGPTL3 deficiency and 3 wild-type first-degree relatives using computed tomography angiography. In the population, ANGPTL3 loss-of-function (LOF) mutations were ascertained in up to 21,980 people with CAD and 158,200 control subjects. LOF mutations were defined as nonsense, frameshift, and splice-site variants, along with missense variants resulting in &lt;25% of wild-type ANGPTL3 activity in a mouse model. In a biomarker study, circulating ANGPTL3 concentration was measured in 1,493 people who presented with MI and 3,232 control subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;The 3 individuals with complete ANGPTL3 deficiency showed no evidence of coronary atherosclerotic plaque. ANGPTL3 gene sequencing demonstrated that approximately 1 in 309 people was a heterozygous carrier for an LOF mutation. Compared with those without mutation, heterozygous carriers of ANGPTL3 LOF mutations demonstrated a 17% reduction in circulating triglycerides and a 12% reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Carrier status was associated with a 34% reduction in odds of CAD (odds ratio: 0.66; 95% confidence interval: 0.44 to 0.98; p = 0.04). Individuals in the lowest tertile of circulating ANGPTL3 concentrations, compared with the highest, had reduced odds of MI (adjusted odds ratio: 0.65; 95% confidence interval: 0.55 to 0.77; p &lt; 0.001).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSIONS: &lt;/b&gt;ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with protection from CAD.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28385496?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>