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NARD: whole-genome reference panel of 1779 Northeast Asians improves imputation accuracy of rare and low-frequency variants.
Genome medicine - 22 Oct 2019
Yoo Seong-Keun, Kim Chang-Uk, Kim Hie Lim, Kim Sungjae, Shin Jong-Yeon, Kim Namcheol, Yang Joshua Sung Woo, Lo Kwok-Wai, Cho Belong, Matsuda Fumihiko, Schuster Stephan C, Kim Changhoon, Kim Jong-Il, Seo Jeong-Sun
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Here, we present the Northeast Asian Reference Database (NARD), including whole-genome sequencing data of 1779 individuals from Korea, Mongolia, Japan, China, and Hong Kong. NARD provides the genetic diversity of Korean (n = 850) and Mongolian (n = 384) ancestries that were not present in the 1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 (1KGP3). We combined and re-phased the genotypes from NARD and 1KGP3 to construct a union set...
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