Article
Evolutionary constraint facilitates interpretation of genetic variation in resequenced human genomes.
Genome research - 1 Mar 2010
Goode David L, Cooper Gregory M, Schmutz Jeremy, Dickson Mark, Gonzales Eidelyn, Tsai Ming, Karra Kalpana, Davydov Eugene, Batzoglou Serafim, Myers Richard M, Sidow Arend
Abstract excerpt
Here, we demonstrate how comparative sequence analysis facilitates genome-wide base-pair-level interpretation of individual genetic variation and address two questions of importance for human personal genomics: first, whether an individual's functional variation comes mostly from noncoding or coding polymorphisms; and, second, whether population-specific or globally-present polymorphisms contribute more to...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Testing
- Genetic Variation
- Genome
- Genome, Human
- Genomics
