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Integrated model of de novo and inherited genetic variants yields greater power to identify risk genes.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
He Xin, Sanders Stephan J, Liu Li, De Rubeis Silvia, Lim Elaine T, Sutcliffe James S, Schellenberg Gerard D, Gibbs Richard A, Daly Mark J, Buxbaum Joseph D, State Matthew W, Devlin Bernie, Roeder Kathryn
Abstract excerpt
De novo mutations affect risk for many diseases and disorders, especially those with early-onset. An example is autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Four recent whole-exome sequencing (WES) studies of ASD families revealed a handful of novel risk genes, based on independent de novo loss-of-function (...
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