<?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%">Khayat, Michael M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, He</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chander, Varuna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hu, Jianhong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hansen, Adam W</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Shoudong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traynelis, Josh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shen, Hua</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weissenberger, George</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stossi, Fabio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Johnson, Hannah L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lupski, James R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Posey, Jennifer E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sabo, Aniko</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meng, Qingchang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murdock, David R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wangler, Michael</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%">Phenotypic and protein localization heterogeneity associated with AHDC1 pathogenic protein-truncating alleles in Xia-Gibbs syndrome.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mutat</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mutat</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 May</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">42</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">577-591</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Xia-Gibbs syndrome (XGS) is a rare Mendelian disease typically caused by de novo stop-gain or frameshift mutations in the AT-hook DNA binding motif containing 1 (AHDC1) gene. Patients usually present in early infancy with hypotonia and developmental delay and later exhibit intellectual disability (ID). The overall presentation is variable, however, and the emerging clinical picture is still evolving. A detailed phenotypic analysis of 34 XGS individuals revealed five core phenotypes (delayed motor milestones, speech delay, low muscle tone, ID, and hypotonia) in more than 80% of individuals and an additional 12 features that occurred more variably. Seizures and scoliosis were more frequently associated with truncations that arise before the midpoint of the protein although the occurrence of most features could not be predicted by the mutation position. Transient expression of wild type and different patient truncated AHDC1 protein forms in human cell lines revealed abnormal patterns of nuclear localization including a diffuse distribution of a short truncated form and nucleolar aggregation in mid-protein truncated forms. Overall, both the occurrence of variable phenotypes and the different distribution of the expressed protein reflect the heterogeneity of this syndrome.&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/33644933?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%">Ilumäe, Anne-Mai</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Post, Helen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flores, Rodrigo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karmin, Monika</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sahakyan, Hovhannes</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mondal, Mayukh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Montinaro, Francesco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saag, Lauri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bormans, Concetta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanchez, Luisa Fernanda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ameur, Adam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gyllensten, Ulf</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kals, Mart</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mägi, Reedik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pagani, Luca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Behar, Doron M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rootsi, Siiri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Villems, Richard</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phylogenetic history of patrilineages rare in northern and eastern Europe from large-scale re-sequencing of human Y-chromosomes.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eur J Hum Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eur J Hum Genet</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 May 07</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;The most frequent Y-chromosomal (chrY) haplogroups in northern and eastern Europe (NEE) are well-known and thoroughly characterised. Yet a considerable number of men in every population carry rare paternal lineages with estimated frequencies around 5%. So far, limited sample-sizes and insufficient resolution of genotyping have obstructed a truly comprehensive look into the variety of rare paternal lineages segregating within populations and potential signals of population history that such lineages might convey. Here we harness the power of massive re-sequencing of human Y chromosomes to identify previously unknown population-specific clusters among rare paternal lineages in NEE. We construct dated phylogenies for haplogroups E2-M215, J2-M172, G-M201 and Q-M242 on the basis of 421 (of them 282 novel) high-coverage chrY sequences collected from large-scale databases focusing on populations of NEE. Within these otherwise rare haplogroups we disclose lineages that began to radiate ~1-3 thousand years ago in Estonia and Sweden and reveal male phylogenetic patterns testifying of comparatively recent local demographic expansions. Conversely, haplogroup Q lineages bear evidence of ancient Siberian influence lingering in the modern paternal gene pool of northern Europe. We assess the possible direction of influx of ancestral carriers for some of these male lineages. In addition, we demonstrate the congruency of paternal haplogroup composition of our dataset with two independent population-based cohorts from Estonia and Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33958743?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%">Grenn, Francis P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kim, Jonggeol J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Makarious, Mary B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iwaki, Hirotaka</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Illarionova, Anastasia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brolin, Kajsa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kluss, Jillian H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schumacher-Schuh, Artur F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leonard, Hampton</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Faghri, Faraz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Billingsley, Kimberley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krohn, Lynne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hall, Ashley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diez-Fairen, Monica</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Periñán, Maria Teresa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Foo, Jia Nee</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sandor, Cynthia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Webber, Caleb</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fiske, Brian K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibbs, J Raphael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nalls, Mike A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Singleton, Andrew B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bandres-Ciga, Sara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reed, Xylena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blauwendraat, Cornelis</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC)</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Parkinson's Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Locus Browser.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mov Disord</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mov Disord</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Age of Onset</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Predisposition to Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-Wide Association Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurodegenerative Diseases</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parkinson Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</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 11</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">35</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2056-2067</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;Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with an often complex component identifiable by genome-wide association studies. The most recent large-scale PD genome-wide association studies have identified more than 90 independent risk variants for PD risk and progression across more than 80 genomic regions. One major challenge in current genomics is the identification of the causal gene(s) and variant(s) at each genome-wide association study locus. The objective of the current study was to create a tool that would display data for relevant PD risk loci and provide guidance with the prioritization of causal genes and potential mechanisms at each locus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;We included all significant genome-wide signals from multiple recent PD genome-wide association studies including themost recent PD risk genome-wide association study, age-at-onset genome-wide association study, progression genome-wide association study, and Asian population PD risk genome-wide association study. We gathered data for all genes 1 Mb up and downstream of each variant to allow users to assess which gene(s) are most associated with the variant of interest based on a set of self-ranked criteria. Multiple databases were queried for each gene to collect additional causal data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;We created a PD genome-wide association study browser tool (https://pdgenetics.shinyapps.io/GWASBrowser/) to assist the PD research community with the prioritization of genes for follow-up functional studies to identify potential therapeutic targets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSIONS: &lt;/b&gt;Our PD genome-wide association study browser tool provides users with a useful method of identifying potential causal genes at all known PD risk loci from large-scale PD genome-wide association studies. We plan to update this tool with new relevant data as sample sizes increase and new PD risk loci are discovered. © 2020 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864809?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%">Zarate, Samantha</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carroll, Andrew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mahmoud, Medhat</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krasheninina, Olga</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jun, Goo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salerno, William J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schatz, Michael C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boerwinkle, Eric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibbs, Richard A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parliament2: Accurate structural variant calling at scale.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gigascience</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gigascience</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 12 21</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><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;Structural variants (SVs) are critical contributors to genetic diversity and genomic disease. To predict the phenotypic impact of SVs, there is a need for better estimates of both the occurrence and frequency of SVs, preferably from large, ethnically diverse cohorts. Thus, the current standard approach requires the use of short paired-end reads, which remain challenging to detect, especially at the scale of hundreds to thousands of samples.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;FINDINGS: &lt;/b&gt;We present Parliament2, a consensus SV framework that leverages multiple best-in-class methods to identify high-quality SVs from short-read DNA sequence data at scale. Parliament2 incorporates pre-installed SV callers that are optimized for efficient execution in parallel to reduce the overall runtime and costs. We demonstrate the accuracy of Parliament2 when applied to data from NovaSeq and HiSeq X platforms with the Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) SV call set across all size classes. The reported quality score per SV is calibrated across different SV types and size classes. Parliament2 has the highest F1 score (74.27%) measured across the independent gold standard from GIAB. We illustrate the compute performance by processing all 1000 Genomes samples (2,691 samples) in &lt;1 day on GRCH38. Parliament2 improves the runtime performance of individual methods and is open source (https://github.com/slzarate/parliament2), and a Docker image, as well as a WDL implementation, is available.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSION: &lt;/b&gt;Parliament2 provides both a highly accurate single-sample SV call set from short-read DNA sequence data and enables cost-efficient application over cloud or cluster environments, processing thousands of samples.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33347570?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%">Majidian, Sina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedlazeck, Fritz J</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PhaseME: Automatic rapid assessment of phasing quality and phasing improvement.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gigascience</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gigascience</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 07 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><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;The detection of which mutations are occurring on the same DNA molecule is essential to predict their consequences. This can be achieved by phasing the genomic variations. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art haplotype phasing is currently a black box in which the accuracy and quality of the reconstructed haplotypes are hard to assess.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;FINDINGS: &lt;/b&gt;Here we present PhaseME, a versatile method to provide insights into and improvement of sample phasing results based on linkage data. We showcase the performance and the importance of PhaseME by comparing phasing information obtained from Pacific Biosciences including both continuous long reads and high-quality consensus reads, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 10x Genomics, and Illumina sequencing technologies. We found that 10x Genomics and Oxford Nanopore phasing can be significantly improved while retaining a high N50 and completeness of phase blocks. PhaseME generates reports and summary plots to provide insights into phasing performance and correctness. We observed unique phasing issues for each of the sequencing technologies, highlighting the necessity of quality assessments. PhaseME is able to decrease the Hamming error rate significantly by 22.4% on average across all 5 technologies. Additionally, a significant improvement is obtained in the reduction of long switch errors. Especially for high-quality consensus reads, the improvement is 54.6% in return for only a 5% decrease in phase block N50 length.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSIONS: &lt;/b&gt;PhaseME is a universal method to assess the phasing quality and accuracy and improves the quality of phasing using linkage information. The package is freely available at https://github.com/smajidian/phaseme.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32706368?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%">Montenegro-Garreaud, Ximena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hansen, Adam W</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khayat, Michael M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chander, Varuna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grochowski, Christopher M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jiang, Yunyun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, He</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mitani, Tadahiro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kessler, Elena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jayaseelan, Joy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shen, Hua</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gezdirici, Alper</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pehlivan, Davut</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meng, Qingchang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rosenfeld, Jill A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jhangiani, Shalini N</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Madan-Khetarpal, Suneeta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scott, Daryl A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abarca-Barriga, Hugo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trubnykova, Milana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gingras, Marie-Claude</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Muzny, Donna M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Posey, Jennifer E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liu, Pengfei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lupski, James R</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%">Phenotypic expansion in KIF1A-related dominant disorders: A description of novel variants and review of published cases.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mutat</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mutat</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020 12</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2094-2104</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;KIF1A is a molecular motor for membrane-bound cargo important to the development and survival of sensory neurons. KIF1A dysfunction has been associated with several Mendelian disorders with a spectrum of overlapping phenotypes, ranging from spastic paraplegia to intellectual disability. We present a novel pathogenic in-frame deletion in the KIF1A molecular motor domain inherited by two affected siblings from an unaffected mother with apparent germline mosaicism. We identified eight additional cases with heterozygous, pathogenic KIF1A variants ascertained from a local data lake. Our data provide evidence for the expansion of KIF1A-associated phenotypes to include hip subluxation and dystonia as well as phenotypes observed in only a single case: gelastic cataplexy, coxa valga, and double collecting system. We review the literature and suggest that KIF1A dysfunction is better understood as a single neuromuscular disorder with variable involvement of other organ systems than a set of discrete disorders converging at a single locus.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32935419?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%">Fahed, Akl C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Minxian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Homburger, Julian R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patel, Aniruddh P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bick, Alexander G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neben, Cynthia L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lai, Carmen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brockman, Deanna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philippakis, Anthony</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ellinor, Patrick T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cassa, Christopher A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lebo, Matthew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ng, Kenney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lander, Eric S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhou, Alicia Y</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%">Polygenic background modifies penetrance of monogenic variants for tier 1 genomic conditions.</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%">Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Breast Neoplasms</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case-Control Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Colorectal Neoplasms</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%">Genetic Predisposition to Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome, Human</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%">Middle Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multifactorial Inheritance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Odds Ratio</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penetrance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</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 08 20</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3635</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Genetic variation can predispose to disease both through (i) monogenic risk variants that disrupt a physiologic pathway with large effect on disease and (ii) polygenic risk that involves many variants of small effect in different pathways. Few studies have explored the interplay between monogenic and polygenic risk. Here, we study 80,928 individuals to examine whether polygenic background can modify penetrance of disease in tier 1 genomic conditions - familial hypercholesterolemia, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and Lynch syndrome. Among carriers of a monogenic risk variant, we estimate substantial gradients in disease risk based on polygenic background - the probability of disease by age 75 years ranged from 17% to 78% for coronary artery disease, 13% to 76% for breast cancer, and 11% to 80% for colon cancer. We propose that accounting for polygenic background is likely to increase accuracy of risk estimation for individuals who inherit a monogenic risk variant.&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/32820175?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%">Bryen, Samantha J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joshi, Himanshu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evesson, Frances J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Girard, Cyrille</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghaoui, Roula</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waddell, Leigh B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Testa, Alison C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cummings, Beryl</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arbuckle, Susan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Graf, Nicole</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Webster, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MacArthur, Daniel G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Laing, Nigel G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Davis, Mark R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lührmann, Reinhard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cooper, Sandra T</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pathogenic Abnormal Splicing Due to Intronic Deletions that Induce Biophysical Space Constraint for Spliceosome Assembly.</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%">573-587</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;A precise genetic diagnosis is the single most important step for families with genetic disorders to enable personalized and preventative medicine. In addition to genetic variants in coding regions (exons) that can change a protein sequence, abnormal pre-mRNA splicing can be devastating for the encoded protein, inducing a frameshift or in-frame deletion/insertion of multiple residues. Non-coding variants that disrupt splicing are extremely challenging to identify. Stemming from an initial clinical discovery in two index Australian families, we define 25 families with genetic disorders caused by a class of pathogenic non-coding splice variant due to intronic deletions. These pathogenic intronic deletions spare all consensus splice motifs, though they critically shorten the minimal distance between the 5' splice-site (5'SS) and branchpoint. The mechanistic basis for abnormal splicing is due to biophysical constraint precluding U1/U2 spliceosome assembly, which stalls in A-complexes (that bridge the 5'SS and branchpoint). Substitution of deleted nucleotides with non-specific sequences restores spliceosome assembly and normal splicing, arguing against loss of an intronic element as the primary causal basis. Incremental lengthening of 5'SS-branchpoint length in our index EMD case subject defines 45-47 nt as the critical elongation enabling (inefficient) spliceosome assembly for EMD intron 5. The 5'SS-branchpoint space constraint mechanism, not currently factored by genomic informatics pipelines, is relevant to diagnosis and precision medicine across the breadth of Mendelian disorders and cancer genomics.&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/31447096?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%">Pinard, Amélie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guey, Stéphanie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guo, Dongchuan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cecchi, Alana C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kharas, Natasha</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wallace, Stephanie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Regalado, Ellen S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hostetler, Ellen M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sharrief, Anjail Z</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bergametti, Françoise</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kossorotoff, Manoelle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hervé, Dominique</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kraemer, Markus</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bamshad, Michael J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nickerson, Deborah A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smith, Edward R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tournier-Lasserve, Elisabeth</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milewicz, Dianna M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The pleiotropy associated with de novo variants in CHD4, CNOT3, and SETD5 extends to moyamoya angiopathy.</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 02</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;PURPOSE: &lt;/b&gt;Moyamoya angiopathy (MMA) is a cerebrovascular disease characterized by occlusion of large arteries, which leads to strokes starting in childhood. Twelve altered genes predispose to MMA but the majority of cases of European descent do not have an identified genetic trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;Exome sequencing from 39 trios were analyzed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;We identified four de novo variants in three genes not previously associated with MMA: CHD4, CNOT3, and SETD5. Identification of additional rare variants in these genes in 158 unrelated MMA probands provided further support that rare pathogenic variants in CHD4 and CNOT3 predispose to MMA. Previous studies identified de novo variants in these genes in children with developmental disorders (DD), intellectual disability, and congenital heart disease.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSION: &lt;/b&gt;These genes encode proteins involved in chromatin remodeling, and taken together with previously reported genes leading to MMA-like cerebrovascular occlusive disease (YY1AP1, SMARCAL1), implicate disrupted chromatin remodeling as a molecular pathway predisposing to early onset, large artery occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Furthermore, these data expand the spectrum of phenotypic pleiotropy due to alterations of CHD4, CNOT3, and SETD5 beyond DD to later onset disease in the cerebrovascular arteries and emphasize the need to assess clinical complications into adulthood for genes associated with DD.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31474762?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%">Jiang, Yunyun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wangler, Michael F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McGuire, Amy L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lupski, James R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Posey, Jennifer E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khayat, Michael M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murdock, David R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanchez-Pulido, Luis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ponting, Chris P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Xia, Fan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hunter, Jill V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meng, Qingchang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murugan, Mullai</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%">The phenotypic spectrum of Xia-Gibbs syndrome.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Med Genet A</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am. J. Med. Genet. A</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018 06</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">176</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1315-1326</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Xia-Gibbs syndrome (XGS: OMIM # 615829) results from de novo truncating mutations within the AT-Hook DNA Binding Motif Containing 1 gene (AHDC1). To further define the phenotypic and molecular spectrum of this disorder, we established an XGS Registry and recruited patients from a worldwide pool of approximately 60 probands. Additional de novo truncating mutations were observed among 25 individuals, extending both the known number of mutation sites and the range of positions within the coding region that were sensitive to alteration. Detailed phenotypic examination of 20 of these patients via clinical records review and data collection from additional surveys showed a wider age range than previously described. Data from developmental milestones showed evidence for delayed speech and that males were more severely affected. Neuroimaging from six available patients showed an associated thinning of the corpus callosum and posterior fossa cysts. An increased risk of both scoliosis and seizures relative to the population burden was also observed. Data from a modified autism screening tool revealed that XGS shares significant overlap with autism spectrum disorders. These details of the phenotypic heterogeneity of XGS implicate specific genotype/phenotype correlations and suggest potential clinical management guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29696776?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%">Natarajan, Pradeep</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young, Robin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stitziel, Nathan O</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Padmanabhan, Sandosh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baber, Usman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mehran, Roxana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sartori, Samantha</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuster, Valentin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reilly, Dermot F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Butterworth, Adam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rader, Daniel J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ford, Ian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sattar, Naveed</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%">Polygenic Risk Score Identifies Subgroup With Higher Burden of Atherosclerosis and Greater Relative Benefit From Statin Therapy in the Primary Prevention Setting.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Circulation</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Circulation</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adolescent</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adult</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aged, 80 and over</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Atherosclerosis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohort Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cost of Illness</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%">Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors</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%">Multifactorial Inheritance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Primary Prevention</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young Adult</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 May 30</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">135</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2091-2101</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;Relative risk reduction with statin therapy has been consistent across nearly all subgroups studied to date. However, in analyses of 2 randomized controlled primary prevention trials (ASCOT [Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Lipid-Lowering Arm] and JUPITER [Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin]), statin therapy led to a greater relative risk reduction among a subgroup at high genetic risk. Here, we aimed to confirm this observation in a third primary prevention randomized controlled trial. In addition, we assessed whether those at high genetic risk had a greater burden of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS: &lt;/b&gt;We studied participants from a randomized controlled trial of primary prevention with statin therapy (WOSCOPS [West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study]; n=4910) and 2 observational cohort studies (CARDIA [Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults] and BioImage; n=1154 and 4392, respectively). For each participant, we calculated a polygenic risk score derived from up to 57 common DNA sequence variants previously associated with coronary heart disease. We compared the relative efficacy of statin therapy in those at high genetic risk (top quintile of polygenic risk score) versus all others (WOSCOPS), as well as the association between the polygenic risk score and coronary artery calcification (CARDIA) and carotid artery plaque burden (BioImage).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS: &lt;/b&gt;Among WOSCOPS trial participants at high genetic risk, statin therapy was associated with a relative risk reduction of 44% (95% confidence interval [CI], 22-60; &lt;0.001), whereas in all others, the relative risk reduction was 24% (95% CI, 8-37; =0.004) despite similar low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering. In a study-level meta-analysis across the WOSCOPS, ASCOT, and JUPITER primary prevention, relative risk reduction in those at high genetic risk was 46% versus 26% in all others ( for heterogeneity=0.05). Across all 3 studies, the absolute risk reduction with statin therapy was 3.6% (95% CI, 2.0-5.1) among those in the high genetic risk group and 1.3% (95% CI, 0.6-1.9) in all others. Each 1-SD increase in the polygenic risk score was associated with 1.32-fold (95% CI, 1.04-1.68) greater likelihood of having coronary artery calcification and 9.7% higher (95% CI, 2.2-17.8) burden of carotid plaque.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSIONS: &lt;/b&gt;Those at high genetic risk have a greater burden of subclinical atherosclerosis and derive greater relative and absolute benefit from statin therapy to prevent a first coronary heart disease event.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: &lt;/b&gt;URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifiers: NCT00738725 (BioImage) and NCT00005130 (CARDIA). WOSCOPS was carried out and completed before the requirement for clinical trial registration.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">22</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28223407?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%">Morrison, Alanna C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Huang, Zhuoyi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yu, Bing</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Metcalf, Ginger</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liu, Xiaoming</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ballantyne, Christie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coresh, Josef</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yu, Fuli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Muzny, Donna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feofanova, Elena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rustagi, Navin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibbs, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boerwinkle, Eric</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Practical Approaches for Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Heart- and Blood-Related Traits.</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%">Black or African American</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">C-Reactive Protein</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cholesterol, HDL</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cholesterol, LDL</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gene Frequency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome, Human</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-Wide Association Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genomics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hemoglobins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Introns</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leukocyte Count</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lipoprotein(a)</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magnesium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natriuretic Peptide, Brain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neutrophils</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peptide Fragments</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phosphorus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Platelet Count</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantitative Trait Loci</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Troponin T</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">White People</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 Feb 02</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">100</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">205-215</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) allows for a comprehensive view of the sequence of the human genome. We present and apply integrated methodologic steps for interrogating WGS data to characterize the genetic architecture of 10 heart- and blood-related traits in a sample of 1,860 African Americans. In order to evaluate the contribution of regulatory and non-protein coding regions of the genome, we conducted aggregate tests of rare variation across the entire genomic landscape using a sliding window, complemented by an annotation-based assessment of the genome using predefined regulatory elements and within the first intron of all genes. These tests were performed treating all variants equally as well as with individual variants weighted by a measure of predicted functional consequence. Significant findings were assessed in 1,705 individuals of European ancestry. After these steps, we identified and replicated components of the genomic landscape significantly associated with heart- and blood-related traits. For two traits, lipoprotein(a) levels and neutrophil count, aggregate tests of low-frequency and rare variation were significantly associated across multiple motifs. For a third trait, cardiac troponin T, investigation of regulatory domains identified a locus on chromosome 9. These practical approaches for WGS analysis led to the identification of informative genomic regions and also showed that defined non-coding regions, such as first introns of genes and regulatory domains, are associated with important risk factor phenotypes. This study illustrates the tractable nature of WGS data and outlines an approach for characterizing the genetic architecture of complex traits.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28089252?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>